Education
Vujić graduated from the University of Zagreb"s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with major in philosophy and sociology. In 1985 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Vujić graduated from the University of Zagreb"s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with major in philosophy and sociology. In 1985 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
In 1967 he founded Omladinski tjednik, first Croatian underground magazine. In the post-Croatian Spring purges in 1972 Vujić was branded a "nationalist, liberal and anarcho-syndicalist" and lost his employment, but was recruited by Miroslav Krleža two years later to work in the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute. In 1994 SDH merged with the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (Social Democratic Party), led by Ivica Račan, and Vujić soon became one of Social Democratic Party"s most prominent members.
After his term ended in December 2003 he was elected to the parliament at the 2003 and 2007 elections.
Vujić contributes articles of political analysis to various magazines, he wrote encyclopedic articles and papers covering philosophy and liberal arts, and he contributed to comprehensive lexicons and encyclopedias. From 2005 to 2009 he was the editor-in-chief of Proleksis Encyclopedia.
Since 2012, he is the director of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography.
In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the centre-left political party Social Democrats of Croatia (SDH), and ran at the 1992 presidential elections, coming in 8th with 0.70 percent of the votes.
He was a member of Croatian Parliament and Minister of Culture in the Croatian Government from January 2000 to December 2003. Additionally, he is the director of the social-democratic political academy Novo društvo, and a member of the advisory board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.