Filip Kovačević was born in the Montenegrin town of Kotor on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
[2] Kovačević has been invited to lecture on contemporary psychoanalytic and critical social theory at the universities in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Serbia and the United States.
Since his return to Montenegro, Kovačević has been one of the leading intellectual figures campaigning for democratic reforms, the rule of law, and the protection of human rights.
[3] He has been sharply critical of the ruling oligarchy, its abuse of Montenegrin state resources and persecution of political opponents as well as its servile foreign policy.
[10] The Montenegrin sociologist and writer Milan N. Popović has made Kovačević into one of the main protagonists in his novel Ibrahim 2044-1994: Kratki roman o čovjeku i Bogu.
[12] The New Zealand sociologist Chamsy el-Ojeili wrote a detailed review of Kovačević's book for the journal of academic sociology Thesis Eleven.