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Alenka Zupančič Žerdin, PhD

Date of Birth: 1 April 1966
Education: Doctorate
Research Title: Principal Research Associate
University Title: Professor

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alenka.zupancic@zrc-sazu.si


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Teaching Engagements:

  • Professor, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
  • Professor, The European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland

Invited lectures (selection):

  • “Return to the Inanimate: Freud and the death drive”, Brown University, USA, 19 April 2016
  • “To Infinity and Beyond”, Forum for European Philosophy, London School for Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 7 March 2017
  • “Love thy neighbour as you love thyself?”, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 6 November 2018
  • “After the End of Art: Hegel with Francis Bacon”, Yale University, USA, 27 March 2019
  • “Stand Up for Comedy”, Freud Museum, London, UK, 12 May 2019
  • “Antigone”, RITCS School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 27 Janurary 2020

Publications (A Selection):

  • Konec [The End], Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, Ljubljana, 2019
  • What is Sex?, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA & London, 2017
  • “The apocalypse is (still) disappointing”, S: journal of the circle for Lacanian ideology critique, Vol. 11, 2018
  • “The end of ideology, the ideology of the end”, The South Atlantic quarterly, Vol. 119, No 4, 2020
  • “Kratka razprava o teorijah zarote [A short essay on conspiracy theories]”, Filozofski vestnik, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2020.
Structure and Genealogy of Perversion in Contemporary Philosophy, Politics, and Art (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
The problem of objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2021)
Europe as a Philosophical Idea and Political Subject (fundamental research project • May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
Reconfigurations of Ontology (fundamental research project • July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017)
The Philosophy of Crisis: Economy - Politics - Ecology (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 - July 31, 2016)
New Definition of Public. The Concept of Public Between Enlightenment, German Idealism and Modernity (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy IV (research programme • January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy III (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2019)
Keywords
Psychoanalysis
German classical philosophy