Despot Branko, F.C.A.
Date of birth:
- 07/06/1942
Place of birth:
- Zagreb
Addresses:
- Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 11, 10000 Zagreb
Phones:
- Department of Social Sciences: +385 01 4895 169
Emails:
Despot Branko, F.C.A.
Academic titles:
- fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- doctor of Science
Institutions:
- Professor – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (1997. – …)
- Corresponding member – Academy of Sciences and Arts Bosnia and Herzegovina (12/18/2012 – …)
- professor emeritus – University of Zagreb (5/20/2014 – …)
Functions in Academy:
- deputy secretary – Department of Social Sciences
- member – Library Board of the CASA Library (2022 – …)
Membership in Academy:
- full member – Department of Social Sciences (05/20/2010 – …)
Biography
Branko Despot, Croatian philosopher, born in Zagreb on July 6, 1942. He graduated in philosophy and Greek in 1965 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he received his Doctorate in 1975. He has worked at the Institute of Philosophy since 1968, and at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb since 1971 (full professor since 1984, professor emeritus since 2014). He explores the history of philosophy, Greek philosophy, German classical and contemporary philosophy, Croatian contemporary thought. Despot’s philosophy is co-referential, an interpretive conversation with surrender, a search for a path to an experience of freedom, pure opinion and will. Full member of the Croatian academy of sciences and arts since 2010. Main works: Filozofija Gjure Arnolda (1970), Vidokrug apsoluta (1972), Filozofiranje Vladimira Dvornikovića (1975), Logički fragmenti (1978), Uvod u filozofiju (1988), Sitnice (1991), Filozofiranje? (1995), Filozofija kao sistem? (1999), Filozofija? (2000), Filozofijom kroz nefilozofiju (2010).