Predrag Finci

Predrag Finci

Born	August 5, 1946 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Era	20th- / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Neo-Marxism, Phenomenology
Main interests	Aesthetics, Ontology
Influenced Plato, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Dostoyevsky, Rilke, Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Wittgenstein

Predrag Finci (born 5 August 1946 in Sarajevo) is a philosopher, author, and essayist. His work is best known for its combination of erudition, philosophical and aesthetical insights, and personal experience.^[1] Finci writes extensively in his native language and also in English. A great number of articles and reviews^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} of Finci’s books have been published in Bosnia and Croatia.

Biography

Predrag Finci started his career as an actor.^[8] In 1968 Finci played the role of Gavrilo Princip in the film Sarajevski atentat ^[9] directed by Fadil Hadžić. He went on to complete his studies of philosophy and aesthetics. He studied philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of Paris X: Nanterre (under Mikel Dufrenne). He was a visiting researcher at the Freiburg University (under Werner Marx). He completed his MA in 1977 and PhD in philosophy in 1981. He was a professor of aesthetics at the University of Sarajevo until 1993 when, during the Bosnian war, he left Sarajevo for London. He has lived there since, and worked as a freelance interpreter and writer until his retirement in 2011.

He was an honorary visiting fellow at the University College London from 1999 to 2013. Predrag Finci is a member of Exiled Writers Ink! ^[10] in London. He is a founder-member of Bosnian P.E.N.^[11] He received the Svjetlost Publisher Award in 1980 and the Veselin Maslesa Publisher Award in 1986.^[12] In 2011 he received the Science Award for his book Imaginacija (Imagination) at the 23rd International Book Fair, Sarajevo.^[13]

Books

Published in Bosnia:

• Govor prepiski (Discourse of Correspondence), Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1980,
• Umjetnost i iskustvo egzistencije (Art and Experience of Existence), Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1986,
• Ishodište pitanja (The Source of Question), Glas, Banja Luka, 1987, OCLC 23869495
• O nekim sporednim stvarima (On some Secondary Matters), Veselin Maslesa, Sarajevo,1990,ISBN 9788621004249
• Sarajevski zapisi (Sarajevo’s Notes), Buybook, Sarajevo 2004, ISBN 9789958630323
• Poetozofski eseji (Poetosophic Essays), Medjunarodni centar za mir, Sarajevo, 2004, ISBN 9789958480430
• O kolodvoru i putniku (About Stations and Travellers), Motrišta, Mostar, 2013, ISSN 1512-5475

Published in Croatia:

• Umjetnost uništenog: estetika, rat i Holokaust (The Arts of the Destroyed. The Arts, the War and the Holocaust), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2005, ISBN 9532490000
• Priroda umjetnosti (The Nature of the Arts), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2006, ISBN 9789532490121
• Tekst o tuđini (The Text on Exile) illustrated by Mersad Berber, Demetra, Zagreb, 2007, ISBN 9789532250883, OCLC 444656056
• Djelo i nedjelo: umjetnost, etika i politika (On the Arts, Ethics and Politics), Demetra, Zagreb, 2008, ISBN 9789532250916
• Imaginacija (Imagination), Zagreb, Izdanja Antibarbarus, 2009, ISBN 9789532490916
• Osobno kao tekst, (Personal as Text), Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2011, ISBN 9789532491081

Published in English:

• Applause, and then Silence, with Introduction by Moris Farhi, Style Writers Now, 2012, ISBN 9781476487908
• Why I Killed Franz Ferdinand and Other Essays, with Introduction by Cathi Unsworth, Style Writers Now, 2014, ISBN 9781310175367

Sources

• Interview with Predrag Finci 2012(Bosnian)
• Interview with Predrag Finci, 2012(Bosnian)
• Predrag Finci about Exile, 2012(Italian)
• Interview with Predrag Finci 2013(Croatian)

External links

• Exiled Writers Inc!(English)
• P. E. N. Bosnia and Herzegovina(Bosnian)(English)
• El Mundo Sefarad(Bosnian)(English)
• Smrt čitatelja(The Death of the Reader) by Predrag Finci, 2005(Bosnian)
• Il libro dell'esilio (The Text on Exile) translated by Angelo Floramo, 2007 (Italian)
• The Terrorism of the Cultural Column by Predrag Finci(English)
• Antisemitizam u umjetnosti (Antisemitism in Art), a series of texts by Predrag Finci, 2013(Bosnian)
• O kolodvoru i putniku (About Stations and Travelers) by Predrag Finci, pages 87-144, 2013 (Croatian)

References