Blaženka Despot (January 1, 1930 in

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– February 18, 2001 in Zagreb) was a

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philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, socialist

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, and sociologist. After finishing high school in Zagreb in 1948 and studying

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, she received her PhD in

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in 1970 with a thesis on the humanity of the technological society. During the period 1956–64, she worked as a high school teacher and then as an assistant at the Department of Socialism at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 1974, she was appointed as an associate professor of sociology and

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, receiving full professorship in 1980 as a professor of

Marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

, socialism and socialist self-management at the Veterinary Faculty in Zagreb. Since 1989, she has been working as a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research at the

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. She published treatises and papers in journals '' Gledišta'' (1964–65, 1978, 1984), ''Praxis'' (1966–74), '' Kulturni radnik'' (1968, 1980, 1987), '' Naše teme'' (1968–70, 1982, 1984, 1988–90), '' Filozofija'' (1971–72), '' Revija za sociologiju'' (1972–73, 1989), '' Socijalizam'' (1978–81), '' Socijalizam u svetu'' (1978, 1981–82, 1984, 1986), '' Dometi'' (1980), '' Žena'' (1981–82), '' Filozofska istraživanja'' (1985 –86, 1990), '' Socijalna ekologija'' (1992) and others.

Works

* ''Humanitet tehničkog društva'', 1971, Zagreb * ''Ideologija proizvodnih snaga i proizvodna snaga ideologije'', 1976, Osijek * ''Plädoyer za dokolicu'', 1976, Beograd * ''Žensko pitanje i socijalističko samoupravljanje'', 1987, Zagreb * ''Emancipacija i novi socijalni pokreti'', 1989, Osijek

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Despot, Blazenka 20th-century Croatian philosophers Croatian sociologists Croatian women sociologists Croatian women philosophers Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Scientists from Zagreb Socialist feminists Croatian Marxists Women Marxists Marxist feminists 1930 births 2001 deaths