Una Blagojević, MA MA
Una Blagojević, MA MA
Affiliated Researcher
Una Blagojević is a doctoral candidate at Central European University and a researcher on the project “Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” at the Babeș-Bolyai University (EU’s NextGenerationEU and the Government of Romania). Her current doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia. The aim of her research is to reconstruct this dense stream of philosophical and political thought with a view to its regional and international embeddedness. She is broadly interested in the social, cultural, feminist, and art histories of East Central Europe and the history of modern philosophy. In addition, she interested in various theoretical and methodological approaches to history and the challenges of writing transnational, comparative, and global histories.
Selected Publications
- Blagojević, Una. “Phenomenology and existentialism in dialogue with Marxist humanism in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s.” In Studies in East European Thought 75, no. 3 (2023): 417-436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09513-x.
- Blagojević, Una. “The Journal Praxis and Women Intellectuals.” In Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought 4, no.2 (2020): 47–69.
- Blagojević, Una. “Worlds of Praxis: 1968, intellectuals, and an island in the Yugoslav Adriatic.” In Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe, edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai and Michał Przeperski. London and New York: Routledge, 2019.
Focus in the HERESSEE Project
- The Thaw.
- Political Resistance.
- The First Steps Towards “Normalization”.