Dr. Aleš Bunta specialises in Nietzsche's philosophy, its relation to German Idealism, its echoes in contemporary philosophy and the wider relevance of Nietzsche's ideas and concepts. His extensive corpus of research is also devoted to the problem of the Cartesian cogito, in particular the question of so-called anticipations of the cogito in St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. He also addresses topics such as stupidity, perversion, life in the age of contemporary technologies, and comic art. His research is characterised by his involvement in interdisciplinary research: among others, he has worked with physicists on the perennial philosophical problem of the (non-)existence of the void, and has been involved in a project to assess the impact of neuroscientific discoveries in the field of law.
Articles
Nietzsche an Badiou: Event, Intervention, "God is dead". Filozofski vestnik, 2022, letn. 43, št. 2, str. 173-199, 230-231. DOI
Nietzsche, krutost, mazohizem, genealogija (Nietzsche, cruelty, masochism, genealogy). Filozofski vestnik, 2022, letn. 43, št. 1, str. 67-99, 212-213. DOI
Nietzscheʼs Critique of Objectivity and its "Tools" in Objective fictions : philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, str. 105-123. DOI
Misel večnega vračanja v Nietzschejevem zvezku M III. : začetki doktrine in sledi njenega molka (The Idea of Eternal Return in Nietzsche's volume M III : the Beginnings of a Doctrine and the Traces of its Silence). Filozofski vestnik, 2021, letn. 42, št. 3, str. 25-52, 263-264. DOI
In Times of "Chastity": An Inquiry into Some Recent Developments in the Field of Perversion. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, letn. 42, št. 1, str. 245-263, 275-276. DOI
Monographs and Chapters in Monographs
A-cogito. Ljubljana, Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2016.
Magnetizam gluposti : Platon, Erazmo Roterdamski, Alan Ford. Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak, 2012.
Magnetizem neumnosti : Platon, Erazem Rotterdamski, Alan Ford (The Magnetism of Stupidity : Plato, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Alan Ford). Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2010.
Uničiti nič? (To Annihilate Nothing?). Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2007.
Nevroznanost - pravo - filozofija. V: Salecl, Renata (ur.), et al. Možgani na zatožni klopi : nevroznanost, kazensko pravo in kriminologija (Neuroscience - Law - Philosophy. In: Salecl, Renata (ed.), et al. Brain On The Dock : Neuroscience, Criminal Law and Criminology). Ljubljana: GV založba, 2015. Str. 11-32.
Dolar, Mladen (urednik), Moder, Gregor (urednik), Bunta, Aleš (urednik), Ličer, Matjaž (urednik), Dolenc, Sašo (urednik). The Structure of the Void. Filozofski vestnik, 2013.
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)
Law and the Brain – Criminological, Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Findings on the Subject in the Era of Neuroscience (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
The Structure of the Void (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy IV (research programme • January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025)
Education
2007– PhD in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana, supervisor Dr. Rado Riha
2001– graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana, supervisor Dr. Tine Hribar
Employment and Titles
2001– 2007: Research Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana
2007– Research Associate, Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2016– Assistant Professor, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.
Prizes, Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships
– visiting researcher at Aalborg Univeristy, Department of Learning and Philosophy, Danska.
Teaching Engagements
2015–, Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU, modul »Transformacija moderne misli – filozofija, psihoanaliza, kultura« na podiplomskem programu »Primerjalni študij idej in kultur«, predmet »Oblikovanje pojmov«.
Selected Lectures and Conference Papers
The Internalisation of Cruelty: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Contemporary Hetaerae, lecture at the international conference: "Perversion and its Discontents", Ljubljana, 30 May 2023.
"Arificial Stupidity" druge generacije (Artificial Stupidity of a 2nd Generation), lecture at the symposium of Udesin Institute "Figure birokracije : aparat/aparatčik/aparature", Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana, 20. okt. 2017.
Štirje portreti oblasti (The Four Portraits of Power), invited lecture at the Institute for Labour Studies (IDŠ) Modri kot, Tovarna Rog, Ljubljana, 20. apr. 2017.
The Cartesian Cogito: Hintikka vs. St. Thomas; Harry Frankfurt vs. St. Augustine, lecture at the conference "It thinks", Aalborg University, Aalborg (Danska), 8. dec. 2017.
Biopolitics and Pornology I, invited lecture on the topic: "Philosophical analysis of culture", Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University (Danska), 28. mar. 2017.
Cogito Before Cogito : Cutting the Stone of Madness, invited lecture at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University (Danska), 16. dec. 2014.
Can the Void be Thought of Only Under the Postulate of its Inexistence? : [invited lecture at symposium "The structure of the void", atrij ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 26. feb. 2013]. Ljubljana, 2013.
Editorial Work
2015–, Member of the Editorial Board of a philosophical journal Filozofski vestnik.