Dr. Rok Benčin's research interests revolve around the relations between aesthetics, ontology and politics in contemporary philosophy. He focuses on contemporary French philosophy (Rancière, Badiou, Deleuze), critical theory (especially Adorno) and contemporary perspectives on modern philosophy (currently Leibniz’s metaphysics and Hegel’s aesthetics). In his work, he often explores modern literature (especially Proust) and cinema. He also works on research ethics and integrity.
Monographs
Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Okna brez monad: estetika od Heideggerja do Rancièra [Monadless Windows: Aesthetics from Heidegger to Rancière]. Ljubljana: ZRC Publishing House 2015.
Articles
Art between fetishism and melancholy in Adorno’s Aesthetic theory. Estudios de Filosofía. 2023, no. 68, str. 31-43. DOI
Distant Immediacy: Badiou and Rancière on May ʼ68 and its Consequences. European Review, 2021, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 714–724. DOI
Worlds as transcendental and political fictions. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 221–243. DOI
Rethinking Representation in Ontology and Aesthetics via Badiou and Rancière. Theory, Culture & Society, 2019, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 95–112. DOI
L'affettività dell'apparenza estetica tra sofferenza e indifferenza. Psiche: rivista di cultura psicoanalitica, 2019, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 79–94. DOI
Proustian Developments: The World and Object of Photography. Substance: a review of theory and literary criticism, 2017, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 16–30. JSTOR
Chapters
Adornos Monadologie. In: Unversöhnlichkeiten: Einübungen in Adornos Minima Moralia, eds. P. Buhlmann, T. Nikolaus Klass and P. Nolz, 168–187. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2023.
Benčin, R. (2022). Verso un materialismo stilistico. In: Sulla soglia delle forme: genealogia, estetica, politica della materia, ed. A. Montebugnoli, 91–106. Milano: Meltemi, 2022.
Form and Affect: Artistic Truth in Adorno and Badiou. In: Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy, ed. J. Völker: 197–216. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Editorial Work
The Concept of World in Contemporary Philosophy. Special Issue, Filozofski vestnik, 2021, 42(2).
- GRACE (international research project • January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021)
- SATORI - Stakeholders Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation (framework program • January 1, 2014 - September 30, 2017)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ethics, integrity and gender equality in the research area of Slovenia: between policies and their implementation (applied research project • September 1, 2021 - December 31, 2023)
- 2016–, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, module “Transformation of Modern Thought - Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture” at the postgraduate programme “Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures”, course “Contemporary Philosophy and Modern Literature”.
- 2023–, University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, course “Art Theory”
- 2022 (November), University of Applied Arts Vienna, block seminar The Concept of World between Loss and Multiplication
- 2022, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, course “Social Philosophy”
- 2019 (November), Université Paris 8, course Les objets monadiques
- 2018–2019, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, course “What is Enlightenment?”
- Université Paris 8, Paris, Invited Professor (November 2019)
- Université Paris 8, Paris, Erasmus scholarship (2010)
- Université Paris 8, Paris, French government scholarship (2009)
- 2022–, Member of The Research Committee on Literary Theory of the International Comparative Literature Association