Husnija Kamberović u članku „POLITIČKA (NE)PODOBNOST NA UNIVERZITETU U VRIJEME SOCIJALIZMA. Primjer (ne)izbora Muhameda Filipovića u zvanje vanrednog profesora 1968. godine“ na temelju arhivskih izvora i literature pokazuje na koji način je politička elita, koristeći akademsku zajednicu, pokušala onemogućiti izbor Muhameda Filipovića u zvanje vanrednog profesora na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu. Pokazan je kontekst u kojem se to odvijalo, tok diskusija na Vijeću nastavnika Filozofskog fakulteta 1968. godine, te na kraju iznosi teza da je ovaj primjer samo pokazatelj šireg odnosa politike i intelektualaca u vrijeme socijalizma.
This paper, based on archival sources and literature, shows the way in which the political elite, using academic community, tried to prevent the appointment of Muhamed Filipović to the position of Associate Professor at the University of Sarajevo. The context in which this all happened was described, alongside the course of discussion at the Professors’ Council of the Faculty of Philosophy of Sarajevo and, finally, the thesis is proposed that this example indicates the broader relations between politics and intellectuals in the socialist era.
When by mid-1967 a vacancy was announced for the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, with Muhamed Filipović as the only candidate, who had already been working at the same Faculty, a Commission was formed, which first wrote a positive opinion about his candidacy, however, shortly after that a discussion was opened about the political aptitude of Filipović for this position at the Faculty. After lengthy discussions at the University, starting from those held at the Department of Sociology, followed by the Professors’ Council of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Commission for Election of Candidates for the professorial positions at the University of Sarajevo, and then at the Council of University, it became crystal-clear that the appointment of Muhamed Filipović to the position of Associate Professor in 1968 was disputed for political reasons, or else because his views expressed in several texts published at the beginning of 1967 were deemed as politically unacceptable. In order to cover up this political background for the hindrance of his appointment, a ”scandal” was fabricated by some members of the Commission, among others. Those were the same members of the Commission who had first written the positive opinion, and then, in separate letters, found various reasons to water down their original stances. At the session of the Professors’ Council of the Faculty of Philosophy, when discussion was opened about this issue, some discussants, like historian Milorad Ekmečić, claimed that Filipović met all the conditions for promotion, while they did not hold Filipović responsible for the unacceptable views they had found in his texts, but they blamed those who stood politically behind Filipović. Therefore, this case evidently reflected a much deeper struggle within the then ruling political elite of which we still do not have sufficient reliable sources to be able to offer a detailed clarification of all the nuances of those clashes.
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