Assoc. Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.
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Associate professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, research Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
peter.klepec@zrc-sazu.si
Education:
- 1992 BA in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- 1995 MA in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- 1998 PhD in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Teaching activities:
- 1999-2000 Visiting Lecturer at University of Maribor
- 2000-2002 Visiting Lecturer at University of Primorska
- 1999-2004 Visiting Lecturer at ISH Ljubljana
- 2008-2012 Visiting Lecturer at University of Nova Gorica
- 2006-Today Assistant Professor and from 2015 Associate professor at Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU
Employment:
- 1998-Today Assistant, from 1999 Researcher, from 2006 Research Assistant, and from 2011 Research Advisor at Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana
Research interests:
- Contemporary philosophy,
- psychoanalysis,
- political philosophy,
- German Idealism
Lectures abroad:
- Public in the making? : a philosophical point of view : key-note speaker at the conference “Public in the Making”, Istanbul Technical University, Carigrad (Turčija), 19. oCt. 2018
- Encountering the real : lecture at conference “LACK 2016 : Psychoanalysis and freedom”, Colorado College, Colorado Springs (USA), 22. apr. 2016
- What kind of domination is the ongoing economic crisis bringing to the fore? : lecture at Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Modern Languages, Cardiff (Great Britain), 4. apr. 2016
- How neoliberalism survived the crisis? : key-note speaker at the conference “Thinking Beyond Capitalism”, University of Belgrade (Serbia), 26. jun. 2015
Editorial work:
- 2004- Editor-in-Chief Filozofski vestnik, member of editorial board from 1996
- 1993- member of editorial board Problemi
- 2013- member of international editorial board Filozofija i društvo, Belgrade, Serbia
Supervision:
- succesfully completed Ph.D supervisions: 3
- succesfully completed Ph.D co-supervisions: 3
- ongoing Ph.D supervisions: 2
- ongoing Ph.D co-supervisions: 1
- mentorships of young researchers: 1
Research activities:
- Current research program: Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy III (2015-2021)
- Current research projects: Europe as Philosophical Idea and as Political Project (2017-2020)
- Previous research programs: Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy II (2009-2015); Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy I (2003-2009); Problems and Conditions of Contemporary Philosophy (1998-2003)
- Previous research projects: Reconfigurations of Ontology (2014-2017); The Philosophy of Crisis: Economy – Politics – Ecology (2013–2016; as leader); Problem of Aisthesis in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Politics (2011-2014); Art Practices of the 20th and 21st Century and the Political (2008-2011); Antropological Machines, Biopolitics, Production and Genealogy of (bare) Life (2007-2009); Europe and Politics of Translation (2007-2009); Philosophical Problems of Ethics (2004-2007); Virtual and Aesthetic Constitution of (post)Modern Subject and its Politico-Philosophical and Epistemological Implications (2001-2004); The Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in Postmodern (1998-2003); Philosophical Problems of Contingency and Infinity (2000-2002); Socio-philosophical Interpretation of State and Institutionalization and Monopolization of Violence (1995-1998)
International collaboration:
- Postdoc at Université Paris VIII, France, januar to june 1999 (Rancière, Badiou), shorter periods of collaboration with the same institution in 2000, 2001, 2005
- Collaboration with National Library of Serbia (Svetlana Gavrilović) and Institute for philosophy and Social Theory Belgrade, Serbia 2007-2012
- Leadership of Slovene-serbina bilateral project »Diskontinuity, radicality and violence« BI-SR/10-11-017 (together with dr. Petar Bojanić), 2010-2011. Co-organization within this frame of three international conferences: “Europe in the emerging world order searching for a new paradigm”, Belgrade 24-26. mar. 2010, “Violence, guerre et État chez Deleuze”, Belgrade 3-5. mar. 2011 and “De la terreur à l’extrême violence”, Belgrade, 8-10. dec. 2011
- Coorganization of international conference Thinking of(f) the Crisis, organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and Cardiff University, Great Britain, 1. & 2. june 2016
- Coorganization of international conference “The end(s) of political theology”, organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and Lancaster, University Great Britain, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 5. & 6. june 2018
Selected publications:
- Matrice podrejanja. Kapitalizem in perverzija 2. [Matrices of Subjection. Capitalism and Perversion 2], DTP, Ljubljana 2019
- Kapitalizam i perverzija. 1, Profitabilne strasti [Capitalism and Perversion 1. Profitable Passions], Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Novi Sad 2016
- Dobičkonosne strasti. Kapitalizem in perverzija 1. [Profitable Passions. Capitalism and Perversion 1], DTP, Ljubljana 2008
- Vznik subjekta [On the Emergence of the Subject], Založba ZRC, Ljubljana 2004
- Tips and tricks : remarks on the debate between Badiou and Cassin on ʼSophisticsʼ. In: Johnston, Adrian (ed.), Nedoh, Boštjan (), Zupančič, Alenka (ed.). Objective fictions : philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 124-143
- Sadizem, Schadenfreude in krutost [Sadism, Schadenfreude and cruelty]. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 155–201
- World? Which world? : on some pitfalls of a concept. In: BENČIN, Rok (ed.). The concept of world in contemporary philosophy. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021. Filozofski vestnik, 42, No. 2, pp. 45-69
- Covid 19, das Unheimliche in nočna mora [Covid 19, the Uncanny and nighmare]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2020, Vol. 58, No. 9/10, pp. 111-139
- On “the Idea” in Badiou. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2019, Vol. 57, No. 11/12, pp. 275-300
- Crisis, Europe. In: Šumič-Riha, Jelica (ed.). Rethinking the idea of Europe. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. Letn. 40, No. 2, pp. 117-136
- On Lacanʼs The Triumph of Religion and related matters. Filozofski vestnik, 2019, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 139-162
- O zastavkih Badioujeve Imanence resnic [On Stakes of Badiou’s Immanence of Truths]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2019, Vol. 57, No. 3/4, pp. 107-132
- On the touch of swear words : swearing and the Lacanian real. In: Komel, Mirt (ed.). The language of touch : philosophical examinations in linguistics and haptic studies. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, str. 121-135
- Od strukturalizma strasti do spleta afektov [From Structuralism of Passions to the Web of Affects]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2018, Vol. 56, No. 3/4, pp. 189-235
- Badioujev Platon [Badiou’s Plato]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2017, Vol. 55, št. 5/6, pp. 145-183
- For another Lacan-Deleuze encounter. In: Nedoh, Boštjan (ed.), Zevnik, Andreja (ed.). Lacan and Deleuze : a disjunctive synthesis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 13-31
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Formation of the Concepts
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Psychoanalysis and the social bond
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