Asim Mujkić (born 11 May 1968) is a
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...
n philosopher and sociologist. Educated at the
University of Sarajevo, he works in the areas of ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, philosophy of identity, social and political theory and theories on ethnicity. He has written particularly extensively on ethnicity and identity, ethnic phenomenology, existentialism, and on the works and thought of
Richard Rorty and
John Rawls. He is a professor at the University of Sarajevo.
Biography
He studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Sarajevo where he graduated in 1991. He earned his post-graduate degree from the same institution in 1998 with a thesis on the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty. In 2002 he earned his PhD with a thesis on the antiessentialist character of the philosophy of pragmatism. He was named Centennial Professor and head of the department of philosophy at the
Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo, lecturing on the subjects of introductory philosophy, ethics and political ethics. He is the chairman of the Association of Bosnian political scientists, as well as the deputy editor-in-chief of the
Odjek journal for the arts and humanities. He is one of the founders of the
Open University of Sarajevo
The Open University of Sarajevo, ( bs, Otvoreni univerzitet Sarajevo / Отворени универзитет Сарајево) is a non-profit experimental school for interactive education, social activism and public debate. Themes that the sc ...
. In 2017, he has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry ...
and
Montenegrins.
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
Selected bibliography
* ''Neopragmatizam Richarda Rortyja'', University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 1999.
* ''Kratka povijest pragmatizma'', University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 2005.
* ''Mi, građani Etnopolisa'', University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 2007.
* ''Pravda i etnonacionalizam'', University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 2010.
References
External links
Asim Mujkić at fpn.unsa.ba
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University of Sarajevo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina philosophers
People from Brčko District
1968 births
Living people
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language