Danko Grlić
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Danko Grlić (18 September 1923 - 1 March 1984) was Marxist humanist, member of the Praxis school of the former Yugoslavia.
He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb. From 1950 to 1955 Grlić has studied philosophy at the University of Zagreb. In 1959 he accepted the offer of Miroslav Krleža to work at the Yugoslav Lexicographic Agency. In 1965 he is one of the founding members of the Praxis journal. From 1966 to 1968 Grlić was president of the Croatian Philosophy Society. In 1969 he has earned the PhD degree with the thesis “The Founding Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche”.
Grlić started his academic career in 1962 teaching aesthetics at the Academia of Arts in Zagreb. He taught there until 1968, when he was forbidden to teach at this institution. He continued his academic career in 1971, when he was elected for professor at the Belgrade University, and in 1974 he moved to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he was head of the department of aesthetics until his death in 1984.
His Selected Works in four volumes were published in 1988, and in 1989 a collection of articles in his honour were published in Zagreb, titled The Art and the Revolution.
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Grlić represented critical Marxist positions typical for the whole Praxis school. After Marx, Grlić’s most liked author was Friedrich Nietzsche. He wanted to overcome the negative image of Nietzsche in the Marxist cycles, claiming that the Nazi’s version of Nietzsche’s thoughts wasn’t the essence of his thought.
The major field of scientific interest of Grlić is aesthetics. He is author of four-volume study of aesthetics, published in the period 1974-1979.
The other Grlić’s works are the following:
- Dictionary of Philosophers (1968)
- Contra Dogmaticos (1971)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1981)
- The Challenge of the Negative: to the aesthetics of Theodor Adorno (1986, posthumnus)
