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Heda Festini

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Heda Festini (born 1928 in Osijek, Croatia) is a Croatian philosopher who specializes in analytic philosophy and the history of Croatian philosophy.

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Academic career

She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1952 and received her Ph.D. in 1965. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Zadar where she taught theoretical philosophy, logic and methodology (1967–92). She is the author of books on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nicola Abbagnano, Antun Petrić and Juraj Politeo, as well as numerous articles on the philosophy of language, philosophy of science and the history of philosophy. She is also translator of works by Nicola Abbagnano and John Dewey into Croatian. Since 2013, she has been writing political comentaries for the portal alter.

Personal life

She has two grandchildren, Berislav Marušić and Sanja Dembić, who are both philosophers.

Translations

  • Nicola Abbagnano, Mogućnost i sloboda. Beograd: Nolit, 1967. (Translation of "Possibilità e Libertà", from Italian into Croatian)
  • John Dewey, Liberalizam i društvena akcija. Zagreb: Kruzak, 2004. (Translation of "Liberalism and Social Action", from English into Croatian)
  • References

    Heda Festini Wikipedia


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