Filip Erceg

Filip Erceg (born 1979) is a Croatian writer, journalist and political scientist.

Erceg was born in Slavonski Brod, but lived his childhood in Bjelovar. He graduated in politology at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.[1] As a student, he co-edited Hrvatska ljevica and was a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour Party (and later also the Vice-President of the party[2]). He was a member of the editorial board of the philosophical journal 11. teza ("Thesis Eleven") and is on the executive committee of August Cesarec Foundation. Filip Erceg is also a member of the editorial board of a left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.[3] and is credited with inventing the term "altermodernism" as a contemporary reinvention or recalibration of modernism.[4] He has also been publicly outspoken on what he perceives as the retrograde historical phenomena associated with far Right clericalism.[5]

  1. ^ "PROLJEĆE FILIPA GALOVICZA". 2008. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008.
  2. ^ "SRP promijenio ime u Socijalistička partija, umjesto S. Šuvara novi predsjednik Ivan Plješa - Vijesti.net - Index.hr". ndex.hr (in Croatian). April 6, 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  3. ^ O Novom Plamenu Archived 2012-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Martin Herbert, Sifting defunct modernism in search of something useful, Tate etc., Issue 15, Spring 2009
  5. ^ "Politika Crkvu pomaže materijalno i moralno, a s oltara se poziva da se glasuje za HDZ", Index.hr, 25.4.2008