Simo Elaković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Симо Елаковић; born 1940 in

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– 10 July 2016) was a Serbian philosopher and Professor at

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac- ...

Faculty of Philosophy.

Biography

After earning his degree in philosophy from the University of Belgrade, he has continued further specialization in Germany. He has worked as professor at a gymnasium in

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranea ...

and in

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. He has been elected as assistant at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

Faculty of Economics. He worked as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy, then he moved to Belgrade, where he reaches a Professor of Philosophy title. He was acting for head Department of Philosophy and simultaneously was a longtime Head of the History Department in the Philosophy Faculty, Belgrade. He also was a president of Serbian Philosophy Society. He is the author of books including: ''Filozofija kao kritika društva'' (Philosophy as a Critic of Society), ''Sociologija slobodnog vremena i turizma – Fragmenti kritike svakodnevlja'' (Sociology of Free Time and Tourism – Fragments of Daily Critics), ''Pravci i smisao kretanja savremene filozofije'' (Directions & Sense of Contemporary Philosophy Motion), ''Sociokulturne promjene pod uticajem turizma na Jadranskom području'' (Social–Cultural Shifts Influenced by Tourism in the Adriatic Area), ''Rasprave o Evropi i filozofiji na kraju XX veka'' (Debates about Europe & Philosophy in the end of 20th century),'' Poslovna etika i komuniciranje'' (Business Ethics and Communication) and studies and debates in the field of classical German idealism, as well as

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and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...

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Simo Elaković
at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economy

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