Ferid Muhić ( mk, Ферид Мухиќ; born 1943 in
Zavidovići
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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) is President of the
Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts
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. He is a professor of
Philosophy at the
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje,
North Macedonia
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. He started his academic career as Assistant at the Institute for Sociological Research in
Skopje
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in 1970. He entered the Department of Philosophy as Assistant in 1974; Associate Professor 1976-1980; Full-time Professor 1980–present. Visiting Professor at
Sorbonne
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, New York's
Syracuse University,
Florida State University,
International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, and several universities in Southern-East Europe. Main professional specialties: contemporary philosophy, cultural anthropology,
aesthetics
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and
political philosophy
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.
Books
*''Methods of Criticism'', 1977
*''Revolutions and Class Struggles'', 1978;
*''Philosophy of Iconoclasm'', 1983,
*''BiH; Motivation and Meditation'', 1988;
*''The Shield of Gold'' 1988
** nine editions so far, translated in Macedonian, English, French, Albanian and Turkish
** first edition published in Yugoslavia;
*''Noumenology of the Body'', 1994
*''Soul's Rose'', 1994;
*''The Language of Philosophy'', 1995;
*''Macedonia: Catena Mundi'', 1995;
*''Sense and Virtue'', 1996;
*''Yugoslavia and After''
*''The Great Building and Other Conversations with the Unknown One'', 2001
*''Logos and Hierarchy'', 2001
Poetry
Ferid Muhić has also published three books of poetry:
*''Falco Peregrinus'', 1988;
*''A Hundred Steps Above'', 1994;
*''The Smoke From The Dream-ends'', 1996.
Online essays
Austrian Heads, short storyThe Tzar Bird essay
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1944 births
Living people
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims
20th-century philosophers
21st-century philosophers
Florida State University faculty
Syracuse University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Macedonian mountain climbers
Academic staff of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
Bosnia and Herzegovina philosophers
Bosnia and Herzegovina writers