Danko Grlić

Who was Danko Grlić?

Danko Grlić was Marxist humanist, member of the Praxis school of the former Yugoslavia.

He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb. During the Second World War he joined the anti-fascist struggle. He is above all appreciated the freedom, so due to its liberal expression, often coming into conflict with the environment, which ended very badly for him. Because of its wrong attitude toward the resolution of Cominform, he was sentenced to three months in prison camp Goli otok at 1948 Actually the point is that neither Danko did not accept the resolution, but for one part is held that its correct, - where it says that there is not enough democracy in the Yugoslav Communist Party. Upon returning from Goli otok he accepted any job just to survive; he translated, wrote, even under a false name. It still circulating the story that he wrote an essay for the book Franjo Tudjman The war against war. Tudjman, he was paid a fee, but it is not cited as the author.

From 1950 to 1955 Grlić studied philosophy at the University of Zagreb. In 1959 he accepted the offer of Miroslav Krleža to work at the Yugoslavian Lexicographic Agency. In 1965 he was one of the founding members of the Praxis journal. From 1966 to 1968 Grlić was president of the Croatian Philosophy Society. In 1969 he has earned the PhD degree with the thesis “The Founding Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche”.