Alenka Zupančič
Alenka Zupančič (born April 1, 1966 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia ) is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist whose work is focused on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy .
Life
Zupančič completed her PH.D. 1990 at the University of Ljubljana and is currently a member of the "Ljubljan School of Psychoanalysis". She has a research position at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
The basis for Alenka Zupančič's philosophical work was primarily influenced by Slovene- Lacanian scholars such as Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek ; But it also uses tools and methods from classical philosophers, such as those of Immanuel Kant , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , and Henri Bergson . She is a specialist on Friedrich Nietzsche and Lacan and has written a lot in the field of ethics , literature and psychoanalysis, written works on comedy , love and duty , and commented on Kant, Hegel and Alain Badiou .
Fonts (selection)
- Ethics of the real. Kant, Lacan . Turia + Kant, Vienna 1995
- The real of an illusion . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2001
- The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003
- Odd One In: On Comedy . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2008
- Why psychoanalysis? Diaphanes, Zurich 2009
- The spirit of comedy . Übers., Nachw. Frank Ruda, Jan Völker. Merve, Berlin 2014
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What is sex Psychoanalysis and Ontology . Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-85132-962-9 .
- Review by Larissa Kunert: Sex is just a three-letter-word, Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 49, December 5, 2019, p. 6f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alenka Zupančič in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Alenka Zupančič in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Alenka Zupančič ( Memento from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), profile at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Biography and bibliography.
- Steven Michels. Nietzsche, Interrupted: A review of Alenka Zupancic, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two . In: Lacan.com.
- Adam Atkinson: The Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupančič . In: Media Culture Reviews.
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SURNAME | Zupančič, Alenka |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian philosopher and social theorist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ljubljana , Yugoslavia |