Main areas of research are French contemporary philosophy, German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, critique of ideology. Published numerous papers on Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou, Foucault, Rancière, Lyotard, Lefort, Habermas, Negri, Agamben, Laclau etc., and two books in Slovene: The Emergence of the Subject (In Slovene: Vznik subjekta), (Philosophica, Series Moderna). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2004. 336 p. ISBN 961-6500-70-8; Capitalism and Perversion, 1. Profitable Passions (In Slovene: Kapitalizem in perverzija. 1, Dobičkonosne strasti, (Zbirka Analecta). 1. natis. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2008. 297 p. ISBN 978-961-6376-40-2. (Reedition in Serbian 2016); Kapitalizem in perverzija 2: Matrice podrejanja, (Zbirka Analecta). 1. natis. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2019. 243 str. ISBN 978-961-6376-89.
Selected publications
- Sadizem, Schadenfreude in krutost. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, letn. 42, št. 3, str. 155–201. DOI: 10.3986/fv.42.3.08. [COBISS.SI-ID 97366531]
- World? Which world?: on some pitfalls of a concept. V: BENČIN, Rok (ur.). The concept of world in contemporary philosophy. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, 2. ISBN 978-961-05-0603-4. ISSN 0353-4510, letn. 42, št. 2, str. 45–69. DOI: 10.3986/fv.42.2.03. [COBISS.SI-ID 97153539]
- Tips and tricks: remarks on the debate between Badiou and Cassin on ʼSophisticsʼ. V: JOHNSTON, Adrian (ur.), NEDOH, Boštjan (ur.), ZUPANČIČ ŽERDIN, Alenka (ur.). Objective fictions: philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, cop. 2022. Str. 124–143. ISBN 978-1-4744-8932-4. [COBISS.SI-ID 94520579]
- Covid 19, das Unheimliche in nočna mora. Problemi, ISSN 0555-2419, 2020, letn. 58, 9/10, str. 111-139 [COBISS.SI-ID 50029827]
- On »the idea« in Badiou. Problemi ISSN 0555-2419, 2019, letn. 57, št. 11/12, str. 275-300 [COBISS.SI-ID 45397549]
- Crisis, Europe. V: Šumič-Riha, Jelica (ur.). Rethinking the idea of Europe, Filozofski vestnik, 2. ISBN 978-961-05-0251-7. ISSN 0353-4510, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. Letn. 40, 2, str. 117-136
- Kaj je sploh to - oktobrska revolucija?. V: AVSENIK NABERGOJ, Irena (ur.). Oktobrska revolucija: 1917-2017: med izkušnjo, interpretacijo in poetizacijo. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. str. 9-24. Zbirka Življenja in dela, 20, Kulturnozgodovinske študije, 5. ISBN 978-961-05-0174-9. ISSN 1855-9360. [COBISS.SI-ID 44516141]
- On Lacanʼs The Triumph of Religion and related matters. Filozofski vestnik, ISSN 0353-4510, 2019, letn. 40, 1, str. 139-162 [COBISS.SI-ID 46096173]
- O zastavkih Badioujeve Imanence resnic. Problemi, ISSN 0555-2419, 2019, letn. 57, št. 3/4, str. 107-132 [COBISS.SI-ID 69766498]
- On the touch of swear words: swearing and the Lacanian real. V: Komel, Mirt (ur.). The language of touch: philosophical examinations in linguistics and haptic studies. ISBN 1-3500-5926-9. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, str. 121-135 [COBISS.SI-ID 44287533]
- Od strukturalizma strasti do spleta afektov. Problemi, ISSN 0555-2419, 2018, letn. 56, 3/4, str. 189-235[COBISS.SI-ID 44019501]
- Badioujev Platon. Problemi, ISSN 0555-2419. 2017, letn. 55, 5/6, str. 145-183 [COBISS.SI-ID 65312866]
- For another Lacan-Deleuze encounter. V: Nedoh, Boštjan (ur.), Zevnik, Andreja (ur.). Lacan and Deleuze: a disjunctive synthesis. ISBN 978-1-4744-0829-5. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, str. 13-31 [COBISS.SI-ID 40711213]
Selected projects
- 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)
- 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)
Other
Teaching
- 1999-2000, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
- 2000-2002, University of Primorska (Koper), Slovenia.
- 1999-2004, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2003-2006, Worker’s & Punker’s University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2008-2014, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
- 2014-, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, module “Transformation of modern thought – philosophy, psychoanalysis, culture” at Postgraduate program Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures, course “Psychoanalysis and Social Bond” (together with Professor Alenka Zupančič Žerdin; since 2006).
- 1998-1999, Slovenian Fundation for Science (Slovenska znanstvena fundacija), Université Vincennes-Saint-Dénis, Paris VIII.
- Member (since 1990) of editorial board of Slovene Lacanian revue Problemi (ISSN 0555-2419) and editor-in-chief (since 2004) of Filozofski vestnik (ISSN 0353-4510).
Keywords
sodobna filozofija
nemška klasična filozofija
teoretska psihoanaliza