Filip KovaÃÂeviÃÂ is a Montenegrin author, human rights activist, and university professor.
Filip KovaÃÂeviÃÂ was born in the Montenegrin town of Kotor on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated summa cum laude from the California State University, Hayward in 1997. He continued his education at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri receiving a PhD in political science in 2002. He taught at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the first liberal arts college in Russia from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he returned to Montenegro and was the first person to teach political psychology and psychoanalytic theory at the University of Montenegro and hold lectures on geopolitics and its key theoretical schools. KovaÃÂeviÃÂ has been invited to lecture on contemporary psychoanalytic and critical social theory at the universities in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Serbia and the United States. He writes geopolitical essays and commentaries for various print and digital media.
Since his return to Montenegro, KovaÃÂeviÃÂ has been one of the leading intellectual figures campaigning for democratic reforms, the rule of law, and the protection of human rights. He has been sharply critical of the ruling oligarchy, its abuse of Montenegrin state resources and persecution of political opponents as well as its servile foreign policy. The only Montenegrin independent political weekly Monitor frequently conducts interviews with KovaÃÂeviÃÂ on the issues of political and social importance. The Montenegrin daily newspaper Vijesti publishes KovaÃÂeviÃÂ's columns. The Viennese newspaper Die Presse published an article which examines Kovacevic's views of the Montenegrin democratic process. According to the article, KovaÃÂeviÃÂ believes that "in Montenegro, the wall of political repression has not yet fallen". He has also been cited as an expert on Montenegrin politics by the Southeastern European Times and Der Standard. He has frequently aired his views on TV. KovaÃÂeviÃÂ is seen as one of the key advocates of the Montenegrin military neutrality and against the entrance of Montenegro into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He is a close associate of the former foreign minister of Montenegro Miodrag LekiÃÂ, who was the leader of the Democratic Front, the main opposition political alliance in Montenegro. KovaÃÂeviÃÂ is the chairman of the Movement for Neutrality of Montenegro.
The Montenegrin sociologist and writer Milan N. PopoviÃÂ has made KovaÃÂeviÃÂ into one of the main protagonists in his novel Ibrahim 2044-1994: Kratki roman o ÃÂovjeku i Bogu.
The American author and university professor Ellie Ragland has stated that KovaÃÂeviÃÂ's book Liberating Oedipus? Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory presents "a compelling critique of liberation theories, starting with Freud and Marx and going up to Alain Badiou... This book is a tour de force and necessary reading for anyone engaged in the contemporary study of politics and critical theory. The New Zealand sociologist Chamsy el-Ojeili wrote a detailed review of KovaÃÂeviÃÂ's book for the journal of academic sociology Thesis Eleven. Liberating Oedipus? has also been cited in the master's and doctoral theses on psychoanalysis as critical, social theory.
The Croatian philosopher Lino Veljak has written that KovaÃÂeviÃÂ's study of the ideas of the French philosopher Michel Onfray represents "an important contribution to the affirmation of the values of the Enlightenment". This study was also positively reviewed by the theater director and art critic Zlatko PakoviÃÂ in the Serbian daily newspaper Danas. KovaÃÂeviÃÂ has also published three other books and a dozen of essays and articles. His works have been translated into English, German, French, Russian, Bulgarian, and Turkish. He is one of the few Montenegrin authors whose work can be found in the libraries of the best American universities.