Description of activity

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.

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).

Editorial work

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).

Employment

• 1998, Institute of Philosophy, Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.
• 1992-1998 Young researcher at Institute of Philosophy, Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (Mentor: Professor Rado Riha).
• 1987-1992, Journalist and redactor of “Redaction for society and theory” (1989-92), Radio Student, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Studies

• PhD in Contemporary Philosophy, 1998, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Thesis title: “Contemporary French Philosophy Between Immanence and Contingency”; Mentor: Professor Slavoj Žižek).
• MA in German Idealism, 1995, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  (Title: “The Finite and The Infinite in German Idealism”; Mentor: Professor Slavoj Žižek).
• BA on Kant, “Ideal of pure Reason”, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  (Mentor: Professor Mladen Dolar).
• 1986-1992, studied philosophy at Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Scholarships

• 1998-1999, Slovenian Fundation for Science (Slovenska znanstvena fundacija), Université Vincennes-Saint-Dénis, Paris VIII.

Languages

• Mother tongue: Slovenian.
• Active: English, French, Serbian, Croatian.
• Passive: German.