Predrag Finci

Predrag Finci
Born August 5, 1946
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Residence London, United Kingdom
Era 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Neo-Marxism, Phenomenology
Main interests
 Aesthetics, Ontology

Predrag Finci (born 5 August 1946 in Sarajevo) is a philosopher, author, and essayist. His work is best known for its combination of erudition, philosophical and aesthetical insights, and personal experience.[1] Finci writes extensively in his native language and also in English. A great number of articles and reviews[2][3][4][5][6][7] of Finci’s books have been published in Bosnia and Croatia.

Biography

Predrag Finci started his career as an actor.[8] In 1968 Finci played the role of Gavrilo Princip in the film Sarajevski atentat [9] directed by Fadil Hadžić. He went on to complete his studies of philosophy and aesthetics. He studied philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of Paris X: Nanterre (under Mikel Dufrenne). He was a visiting researcher at the Freiburg University (under Werner Marx). He completed his MA in 1977 and PhD in philosophy in 1981. He was a professor of aesthetics at the University of Sarajevo until 1993 when, during the Bosnian war, he left Sarajevo for London. He has lived there since, and worked as a freelance interpreter and writer until his retirement in 2011.

He was an honorary visiting fellow at the University College London from 1999 to 2013. Predrag Finci is a member of Exiled Writers Ink! [10] in London. He is a founder-member of Bosnian P.E.N.[11] He is a member of the Croatian Philosophical Society.[12] He received the Svjetlost Publisher Award in 1980 and the Veselin Maslesa Publisher Award in 1986.[13] In 2011 he received the Science Award for his book Imaginacija (Imagination) at the 23rd International Book Fair, Sarajevo.[14]

Books

Published in Bosnia:


Published in Croatia:


Published in English:

Sources

References

  1. ↑ http://makabijada.com/finci.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.odjek.ba/?broj=27&id=26
  3. ↑ http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/sulejman-bosto:predrag-finci-priroda-umjetnosti
  4. ↑ http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/muharem-bazdulj-lirika-itake
  5. ↑ http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/slobodan-snajder-pisac-je-uvijek-emigrant
  6. ↑ http://elmundosefarad.wikidot.com/holokaust-i-umjetnost
  7. ↑ http://libreto.net/2014/07/sporedne-stvari-predraga-fincija/
  8. ↑ http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0277479/filmotype/actor
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063545/
  10. ↑ http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/writers.shtml#Finci
  11. ↑ http://www.penbih.ba/kojeko/finci.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.hrfd.hr/o-hfd-u/
  13. ↑ http://www.penbih.ba/kojeko/finci.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.antibarbarus.hr/?lang=hr&section=novosti&mjesec=4&godina=2011&id=39
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