E-mail: stojanovic@sac.org.yu; svetozar.stojanovic@Eunet.rs
Retired professor of the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and retired director of its Institute for Philosophy and Social theory.
Founder and president of the Serbian-American Centre (now called Centre for National Strategy) and of its Forum for Serbian-American Dialogue and Cooperation.
Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for Inquiry International, Buffalo, NY.
Since 1977 elected member of the Institut International de Philosophie, Paris, whose members among others are: H. G. Gadamer, K. O. Apel, J. Habermas, J. A. Passmore, H. Putnam, W. V. Quine, J. Hintika, G. H. von Wright, M. A. E Dummett, P. F. Strawson i L. Kolakowski.
Since 1986 elected member and Humanistic Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism, Buffalo, USA, whose members among others are: Isaiah Berlin, Arthur C. Clarke, Umberto Eco, Johan Galtung, Sergei Kapitza, Jürgen Habermas, Georgy Konrad, Adam Michnik, John Passmore, Richard Rorty, Carl Sagan, Wole Soyinka, Peter Ustinov, Mario Vargas Losa, Simone Veil, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonegut, Jr
Since 1991 elected member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK
Since 1996 elected member, Academy of Humanities Research, Moscow
He was member of the editorial board of the journal Praxis (1964-1974), Zagreb, and along with Seyla Benhabib editor-in-chief of the journal Praxis International (Oxford) (1987-1990).
He was 1985-86 guest fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.
He was 1985-87 co-president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the Hague,
As one of the leading dissidents, together with 7 other professors from the so called Praxis-group, at Tito’s request was expelled by the Government from the University of Belgrade in January 1975 (where he had held junior and senior positions 1957-1974).. After Tito’s death the whole group, including him, founded 1981 The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, whose professor and director he was until retirement..
He was a long-time critic of Slobodan Milosevic, and one of the protagonists of the Serbian democratic revolution against him and his regime 5/6 October 2000.
Since 2005 elected member of the Board of governors of the Radio Broadcast Agency of Serbia.
Member of the Council for Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Serbia
His publications include 7 books, 4 brochures and about 130 journal articles translated into 14 languages. His selected works (7 books) were paublished in Serbian 2006 in Belgrade. Books in English: "Between Ideals and Reality", Oxford University Press, 1973; "In Search of Democracy in Socialism", Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, 1981; "From Marxism and Bolshevism to Gorbachev", Prometheus Books, 1988; "The Fall of Yugoslavia: Why Communism Failed", Prometheus Books, 1997; and “Serbia: The Democratic Revolution.”, Humanity Books, Amherst, NY, 2003.
His biography is included in “Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers”, Routledge, New York and London, 1996.
"The Democratic Revolution" reviewed in Foreign Affairs