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.
Editorial Work
Dolar, Mladen (urednik), Moder, Gregor (urednik), Bunta, Aleš (urednik), Ličer, Matjaž (urednik), Dolenc, Sašo (urednik). The Structure of the Void. Filozofski vestnik, 2013.
- 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)
- 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)
- 2015–, Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU, modul »Transformacija moderne misli – filozofija, psihoanaliza, kultura« na podiplomskem programu »Primerjalni študij idej in kultur«, predmet »Oblikovanje pojmov«.
- Visiting researcher at Aalborg Univeristy, Department of Learning and Philosophy, Danska.
- 2015–, Member of the Editorial Board of a philosophical journal Filozofski vestnik.