Dr Marisa Žele's research focuses on the philosophical examination of concepts, imaginaries, problems and ruptures within the history of ideas that may occur outside philosophy but have a significant impact on the modification of its concepts and on the thinking of its own conditions. In particular, she examines how particular ideas are related to their historical and epistemological conditions. Her research is characterised by a theoretical examination of the emergence of ideas in the history of European thought, with the Middle Ages and all its offshoots at the centre of her research, which she traces up to our contemporality. The topics she explores often touch on interdisciplinary research, such as the concept of the end, mediaeval eschatology, the history of the natural sciences, literature (especially the genre of science fiction) and the history of monstrosity, with a particular interest in European conceptions of the Other. Her main areas of interest are the epistemology of the mediaeval and early modern period, the history of ideas, post-structuralism and theoretical psychoanalysis. Her current research focusses on the concept of trickery.
Articles
The Case of Euphonia: The Voice of "The Wonderful Talking Machine" and the Horror of the Artificial Man, Filozofski vestnik, 2024, Vol. 45, No. 2, str. 377-399.
Siren Song to the Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Loss of the World, Filozofski vestnik, 2022, Vol. 43, No. 2, str. 153-172, 229.
Izumrtje in Ponovljivost konca: Wells, Cuvier, Nietzsche [Extinction and Repeatability of the End: Wells, Cuvier, Nietzsche], Filozofski vestnik, 2021, Vol. 42, No.3, str. 77-96, 265-266.
About the Original Event: The Antichrist's Trickery and Oblivion in the Biblical Ontology, Lamella, 2021, vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 11-31.
Besede in zobje - varljiva govorica, kanibalizem in solze v primeru srednjeveške pošastne rase Donester [The Words and Teeth – The Deceptive Speech, Cannibalism and Tears in the Case of the Medieval Monstrous Race of Donestre], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2019, Vol. 57, No. 9/10, str. 97-122.
Antikrist in izvorna pozaba – varljivec v biblijski ontologiji [The Antichrist and the Originary Oblivion – The Trickster in Biblical Ontology], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2017, Vol. LV, No. 9/10, str. 109-135.
Utelesitev sveta v alegoričnem subjektu [Embodiment of the World in the Allegorical Subject], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2016, Vol. 54, No. 1/2, str. 147-178.
Monographs and chapters in monographs
Urhorde [The Primal Horde], V: Nolte, Tobias (ur.), Rugenstein, Kai (ur.). 365 x Freud: Ein Lesebuch für jeden Tag. 3 Aufl. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2023, pp. 38.
Vergessen [On Forgetting], V: Nolte, Tobias (ur.), Rugenstein, Kai (ur.). 365 x Freud: Ein Lesebuch für jeden Tag. 3 Aufl. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2023, pp. 351.
- Structure and Genealogy of Perversion in Contemporary Philosophy, Politics, and Art (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
- Reality, Illusion, Fiction, Truth: A Preliminary Study (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - March 31, 2026)
- Conceptualizing the End: its Temporality, Dialectics, and Affective Dimension (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2026)
- 2013 –, Prešeren Award (Dean's Award), Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana – for a bachelor’s thesis "The Freedom of Sad(e)istic Society"
- 2024 – today, member of the Scientific Council of The Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU
- 2024 – today, member of the Editorial Board of Filozofski vestnik