Sulejman Bosto

Sulejman Bosto was born on 20 February 1950 in Bugojno. He studied philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, where he also obtained his doctorate. He is a full professor at the faculty’s Department of Philosophy and Sociology. His fields are ontology, phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics and the philosophy of language, art and culture.

He is the author of the books Hermeneutička teorija jezika (Hermeneutic Theory of Language, 1986) and Svijet i kontingencija (World and Contingency, 1997). He has translated works by Hegel, Habermas, Spaemann and others from German, including Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Ästhetik des Performativen (2009). He is a member of PEN Centre Bosnia and Herzegovina.