Biography - Laušević Savo

Dr Savo Laušević was born on May 6, 1953 in Žabljak, on the foothills of Durmitor. He graduated from grammar school in Pljevlja in 1971, and from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1975. At the same faculty, he completed his postgraduate studies with the defence of the M.A. thesis The Genesis of Lukács's Philosophy. He defended his Ph.D. thesis Critique and Revolution in Marx's Thought at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1990.

He started his career in 1975 as a grammar school teacher of philosophy in Konjic, and in 1979 he continued his work at the Faculty of Philosophy of Montenegro, where he is still employed as a full professor of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics.

In the undergraduate studies, he teaches contemporary philosophy, introduction to philosophy, phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, political philosophy, and aesthetics, and he is also a lecturer in the master and doctoral studies of the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić and the Faculty of Musical Arts in Cetinje.

Apart from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Montenegro, he used to teach as a visiting professor at the University of Kosovska Mitrovica, and he currently teaches at the University of East Sarajevo.

In his university career so far, Laušević has occupied and still occupies important scientific and professional functions. He was a member of the Senate of the University of Montenegro, member of the University Publishing Board and editor of publications in the humanities. He served as Head of the Department of Philosophy, and he is currently Director of the Study Programme in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro, member of the Ph.D. Studies Board at the Faculty of Philosophy. He was the supervisor of a number of Ph.D. theses, member of multiple Ph.D. thesis defence boards, supervisor and board member for a number of M.A. theses.

From 1986 to 1992 he successfully managed the work of the Society of Philosophers of Montenegro. From 1986 to 1988 he presided over the Association of Philosophical Societies of Yugoslavia. In that capacity, he organised the First Congress of Philosophers of Yugoslavia in Herceg Novi in May 1988. He is a member of the Board of Philosophy of the Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Serbian Philosophical Society in Belgrade.

In 1989, in cooperation with colleagues from Belgrade, sarajevo, Zagreb and Nikšić, Professor Laušević founded an international school of philosophy and social theory, “The Budva Dialogues,” when he was appointed chairman of the Executive Board of this institution. Laušević is a long-time member of the editorial board of the Luča philosophical journal, he was a member of the editorial board of the Annals of the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić. He is a contributor to a number of Yugoslav scientific and professional journals. He has taken part in many international and domestic philosophical conferences, symposia and seminars with notable presentations.

Colleague Laušević's scholarship and research are characterised by a thematic diversity, as well as by a pronounced interest in aesthetical and contemporary political matters. So far, he has published three books on philosophy (The Philosophical Concept of Critique, 1995; Language, Personality, Responsibility, 1999; Thinking, Witnessing, 2001), a highschool textbook in philosophy, a philosophy teaching manual and over 60 scientific papers. A monograph on political philosophy is forthcoming. His papers have been translated into English.