Filip Erceg (born 1979) is a Croatian

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and political scientist. Erceg was born in

Slavonski Brod Slavonski Brod (), commonly shortened to simply Brod, is a city in eastern Croatia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Being one of the principal cities in the historical regions of Slavonia and Posavina, Slavonski Brod was the 7th large ...

, but lived his childhood in

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. He graduated in

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at the Faculty of Political Sciences,

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. As a student, he co-edited ''

Hrvatska ljevica ''Hrvatska ljevica'' ( en, Croatian Left) was a left-wing monthly magazine in Croatia issued from 1994 to 2005. It was published by the independent publishing house Razlog. It was discontinued following the death of its main editor and owner, Stip ...

'' and was a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour Party (and later also the Vice-President of the party). He was a member of the

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of the philosophical journal '' 11. teza'' ("Thesis Eleven") and is on the executive committee of

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. Filip Erceg is also a member of the editorial board of a left-wing magazine ''

Novi Plamen ''Novi Plamen'' ( en, New Flame) was a left-wing journal for political, social and cultural issues primarily aimed at intellectual audiences in the former Yugoslavia and the related diaspora. It was a leading publication of its kind in the region, ...

''. Erceg is credited with inventing the term "altermodernism" as a contemporary reinvention or recalibration of modernism. He has also been publicly outspoken on what he perceives as the retrograde historical phenomena associated with far Right clericalism.

Works

His first book is ''Krvav povoj rane'' (2006) . He has also written a book of political essays ''Od socijalizma do pesimizma'', published in 2008 by the Demokratska misao publishing house. Erceg contributed articles for Hrvatska književna enciklopedija (The Croatian Literary Encyclopaedia). He also published poetry, essays and

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in several magazines including the leading Croatian literary journal '' Književna republika'',See for instance Erceg, F. (2008). Stoljeće Markete Samsove. Književna republika, časopis za književnost, (08-09-10), 314-318. Balkan Literary Herald Balkanski književni glasnik etc., and articles in ''

Večernji list ''Večernji list'' (also known as ''Večernjak''; ) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb. History and profile ''Večernji list'' was started in Zagreb in 1959. Its ancestor ''Večernji vjesnik'' ("Evening Courier") appeared for the ...

'', ''

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'', '' Novosti'', '' Objektiv'', ''

'', ''

'' etc.

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1979 births People from Slavonski Brod Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian writers Croatian journalists Croatian essayists Croatian male writers Male essayists Living people {{Croatia-writer-stub

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