Rudi Supek

Rudi Supek (

Supek earned his PhD from the Sorbonne in 1952 and started to work as a professor at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb. He founded the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1963. Supek became the first president of the Yugoslav Society of Psychologists, and for a period he was the president of the Yugoslav Society of Sociologists.

Supek was chief editor of the journal Pogledi (Viewpoints) which was published from 1952 to 1954. In 1964 Supek and several colleagues from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences founded the Praxis journal. Supek was co-editor of the journal from 1967 to 1973. He initiated and became president of the Management Board of the Korčula Summer School.

In 2004, the Croatian Sociological Association established the annual Rudi Supek Award for achievements in sociology in his honour.

Major works

Supek wrote many books and articles ranging from sociology to psychopathology, anthropology, and philosophy. His major works are:

• Existentialism and Decadence (1950)
• Sociology and Socialism (1962)
• Herbert Spencer and the Biologism in Sociology (1965)
• Humanist Intelligentsia and Politics (1969)
• Social Prejudices (1973)
• Participation, Workers’ Control and Self-management (1974)
• Living after History (1986)

External links

• Rudi Supek Archive at marxists.org
• "Marx and Revolution" (in Croatian)
• Ratko R. Božović "In memoriam" (in Serbian)