Dr. Ugo Vlaisavljevic is full professor of philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, where he teaches epistemology of social sciences and theories of identity construction. Editor-in-chief of the journal of philosophy and social sciences Dialogue, Sarajevo (2006-2013), member of editorial board of the international journal Transeuropéennes, Paris (2000-2011), president of PEN Centre B&H (2006-2009), member of International advisory board of the journal of phenomenology and hermeneutics Phainomena, Ljubljana (2015 - present). He has written widely on phenomenology, poststructuralism, semiotics, and political philosophy (particularly on ethnicity and nationalism, gender equality, rebirth of religion, peace and reconciliation issues). He has published numerous articles in English, French, German, Italian and Hungarian journals and book collections. Among twelve books published in his country are: Ontology and Its Legacy (1995), The Phenomenological Constitution of the European Community (A Re-Reading of the Vienna Lecture) (1996), The Origin of Geometry and the Transcendental Phenomenology of History (2003), Lepoglava and University. Essays in Political Epistemology (2003), Merleau-Ponty’s semiotics of perception.
The phenomenological Way into Deconstruction (2004). Ethnopolitics and Citizenship (2006), War – the Greatest Cultural Event. A Contribution to Semiotics of Ethnonationalism (2007), The Domestication of Nationalism (2007), A Ghostly Reality of the Narrative Politics (2012), The Aporias of Coexistence (2018).