Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst,

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and

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. Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

, under the supervision of the renowned philosopher

Božidar Debenjak Božidar Debenjak (born 7 May 1935) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, social theorist and translator. Biography He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1961, he became professor at the University of Ljubl ...

. He later studied at the

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and the

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. Dolar was the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek and

Rastko Močnik Rastko Močnik (born 27 August 1944) is a Slovenian sociologist, psychoanalyst, literary theorist, translator and political activist. Together with Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, he is considered one of the co-founders of the Ljubljana sch ...

, of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between

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psychoanalysis and the philosophy of

German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

. Dolar has taught at the University of Ljubljana since 1982. In 2010 Dolar began his tenure as an Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie,

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. His main fields of expertise are the philosophy of

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(on which he has written several books, including a two-volume interpretation of Hegel's '' Phenomenology of Mind'') and French structuralism. He is also a music theoretician and

. Dolar's ''A Voice and Nothing More'', a study of the

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in its linguistic, metaphysical, physical, ethical, and political dimensions, has been translated into six languages.

Bibliography

Mladen Dolar EGS Faculty Page (Biography & Works)

References

External links

Portrait on Dolar in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in german)

1951 births Living people University of Ljubljana alumni University of Paris alumni University of Ljubljana faculty 20th-century Slovenian philosophers Slovenian psychoanalysts Writers from Maribor Yugoslav expatriates in France 21st-century Slovenian philosophers {{Slovenia-writer-stub