Born in Belgrade in 1964. Upon completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Belgrade, he continued his studies of philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and defended his doctoral thesis entitled “(Last) War and the Institution of Philosophy,” at Paris Nanterre University in 2003. His main interests of study are political philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of right, philosophy of architecture and the city, social ontology, and the Jewish political tradition. Bojanić has held positions at Cornell University, University of Aberdeen, University of Belgrade, University of Macerata, the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg. From 2011 until 2019, he was Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. Since 2009, he has headed the Center for Ethics, Law, and Applied Philosophy (CELAP), since 2013, the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeast Europe of the University of Rijeka (CAS SEE), and as of 2020 he is the president of the Institute for Democratic Engagement Southeast Europe (IDESE). His work has been translated into English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Hungarian, Portuguese.
Titles authored: Friend-Enemy. Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida, 1995; Violence. Figures of Sovereignty, 2007; Provocations. Provocatio: Vocative, Ius, Revolution, 2008; Frontier, Knowledge, Sacrifice. On the Last War, 2009; Homeopathies: Horror Autotoxicus. On Violence and Hypochondria: Kant, Hegel, Rosenzweig, Levinas, Derrida, 2009; Violence and Messianism, 2012 (translations into French 2014, Russian 2017, English 2018); On Institutional Acting. How to Correctly Work, Write, Walk, Breathe, Live Together, 2016.