Mihailo Marković

Mihailo Marković (Cyrillic: Михаило Марковић ) ( born February 24, 1923 in Belgrade, † February 7, 2010 ) was a Yugoslav and Serbian philosopher. In the 1960s and 1970s, he became known as a member of the practice group. As a Marxist, he joined in the 1990s, the PLC, but he was expelled in 1995 from this. Marković was one of the authors of the SANU Memorandum (1985).

Life

Marković was in 1940 a member of the youth organization of the CPY and 1944 a full member. He took part in the partisan movement part and was involved in the liberation of Yugoslavia from German occupation. He ended the war with the rank of captain first class.

Marković studied at the University of Belgrade in 1955 and got a PhD in philosophy. In 1956 he received his doctorate in addition to the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. He studied with Alfred Jules Ayer logic and wrote a thesis on the concept of logic. In 1963 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade, where he was dean from 1966 to 1967. 1960-1962 was Marković President of the Yugoslav Society for Philosophy. Marković was a strategist of the student riots in Belgrade in 1968. He was Director of the Institute of Philosophy in Belgrade, was expelled in 1975 for political reasons by the Faculty and was active as a dissident against the government of Josip Broz Tito. During the 1970s, he still taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Marković also Co - Chairman of the International Humanist and Ethical Union was ( 1975-1985 ). Since 1963 he was a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1983 and a full member of the Academy.

Marković was a founder and Vice President of Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and until 1995 their chief ideologue. During the trial of Milošević before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, he joined in 2004 as a defense witness on. He died on 7 February 2010 in Belgrade.

Writings

Monographs

• Revizija filozofskih osnova marksizma u Sovjetskom Savezu. ( The revision of the philosophical foundations of Marxism in the Soviet Union. ) 1952.
• Dijalektićka teorija znaćenja. 1961st English translation: Dialectical Theory of Meaning. 1984, ISBN 90-277-1596-3.
• Humanizam i dijalektika. 1967th German translation by Peter Urban: dialectics of practice. In 1968. 3rd edition 1971.
• Preispitivanja. ( Forschung. ) 1972. 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 86-7058-294-5.
• The contemporary Marx. Essays on humanist communism. 1974, ISBN 0-85124-084-4.
• From affluence to practice. Philosophy and social criticism. 1974, ISBN 0-472-06191-7.
• With Robert S. Cohen: Yugoslavia. The rise anf fall of socialist humanism; a history of the " practice " group. 1975, ISBN 0-85124-129-8.
• Filozofski osnovi Tweedledum. ( The philosophical foundations of science. ) 1981.
• Democratic socialism. Theory and practice. 1982, ISBN 0-7108-0387-7.
• Sloboda i praksa. ( Freedom and practice. ) 1997, ISBN 86-17-06073-5.
• Drustvena misao na granici milenijuma. (Social thinking on the border of the Millennium. ) 1999, ISBN 86-355-0438-0.
• Filozofski susreti. ( Philosophical encounters. ) 2003, ISBN 86-80001-30-9.
• (Ed.): Levica danas u Srbiji i svetu. (The Left nowadays in Serbia and the world. ) 2007, ISBN 978-86-83965-24-3.

In 1994 an edition of selected works in 8 volumes as Izabrana dela Mihaila Markovica.

Papers

• New forms of democracy under socialism. In: European Review. Vol 9, Issue 3, 1981, pp. 57-75.
• Yugoslavia and the European crisis. In: L 80 Issue 17, 1981, p 139-155.