Simo Elaković a PhD, is a Serbian philosopher and Professor at Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...

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He has graduated in Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and specialized further in Germany. He has worked as professor in gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 in Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

 and in Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in Serbia, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad...

. He has been elected as assistant in Zagreb Faculty of Economy

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

. In Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy he worked as a Professor of Sociology, then he moved to Belgrade, where he reaches a Professor of Philosophy title.

He was acting for head Department of Philosophy and simultaneously was a longtime Head of the History Department in the Philosophy Faculty, Belgrade. He also was a president of Serbian Philosophy Society.

He is the author of many notable books: Filozofija kao kritika društva (Philosophy as a Critic of Society), Sociologija slobodnog vremena i turizma – Fragmenti kritike svakodnevlja (Sociology of Free Time and Tourism – Fragments of Daily Critics), Pravci i smisao kretanja savremene filozofije (Directions & Sense of Contemporary Philosophy Motion), Sociokulturne promjene pod uticajem turizma na Jadranskom području (Social–Cultural Shifts Influenced by Tourism in the Adriatic Area), Rasprave o Evropi i filozofiji na kraju XX veka (Debates about Europe & Philosophy in the end of 20th century), Poslovna etika i komuniciranje (Business Ethics and Communication) and many studies and debates in the field of classical German idealism, as well as contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy....

 and sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

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External links

• Simo Elaković at University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economy
  University of Belgrade
  The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
  
  

Further reading

• VUKIĆEVIĆ, Danica (2006). Srpska porodična enciklopedija, knjiga 9 (Ek–Za). Narodna knjiga, Politika NM. ISBN 86-331-2738-5