Having received academic training in philosophy at the University of Leipzig, Nedić taught at the Belgrade Higher School beginning in 1885, after having defended his doctorate thesis on Sir William Hamilton's logic.

His criticisms were controversial during his time and targeted many highly respected Serbian writers such as Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Laza Kostić and Milan Milićević.

[1] Soon after completing his doctorate, Nedić obtained a professorship at the Belgrade Higher School grande école,[2] with the support of Minister of Education Alimpije Vasiljević.

Also, according to Žunjić, he did not fully commit to either position, but he did at times describe his understanding of logic as broader than Hamilton's formal and "purely extensional" perspective.

[1] During the late 1880s, Nedić would go on to publish a few works of popular philosophy such as O hipnotizmu (On Hypnotism), O snu i snovima (On Sleep and Dreams) in 1888 and O sofizmima (On Sophisms) in 1889.

[2][3] Losing interest in teaching philosophy, in some part because of his progressing illness, Nedić ventured more deeply into literary criticism and politics.

His stern belief in objective aesthetic norms, as well as his hard-line social and political conservatism, led to Nedić publishing a sharp critique of highly lauded Serbian writers, such as Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Laza Kostić, Ljubomir Nenadović and Milan Milićević.

[2] Jovan Skerlić applauded Nedić as a brave, intelligent and unrelenting critic who worked to tear down established norms and strived for a Serbian literature up to par with its European contemporaries.

[2] Jovan Deretić was mostly in agreement with this view, and was particularly critical of Nedić's analysis of Zmaj, which he had claimed was particularly under the influence of the two's opposing political ideologies.