Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

author In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work exists in written, graphic, visual, or recorded form. The act of creating such a work is referred to as authorship. Therefore, a sculpt ...

and

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

. His main areas of interest include: the history of ideas, the philosophy of art, the

philosophy of culture Philosophy of culture is a branch of philosophy that examines the essence and meaning of culture. It focuses on how human creativity, rationality, and collective experiences shape cultural identities. It traces the development of cultural thought ...

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839� ...

and the

philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known Text (literary theo ...

. Kopić is influenced by and writes extensively on

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theory, political theorists of the twentieth century. Her work ...

, Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, Reiner Schürmann and Dušan Pirjevec. He also translated works by Nietzsche ('' Thus Spoke Zarathustra'', '' On the Genealogy of Morality''),

Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben ( ; ; born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and '' homo sacer''. The concept of biopolitic ...

, Gianni Vattimo, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Dušan Pirjevec into Croatian.

Life and work

Mario Kopić was born in

Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, historically known as Ragusa, is a city in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, by the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, a Port, seaport and the centre of the Dubrovni ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

, former

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

. He studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

comparative literature Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...

at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

;

and

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

; the history of ideas at the ''Institute Friedrich Meinecke'' at the Free University of Berlin (under the mentorship of Ernst Nolte); and comparative religion and anthropology of religion at the

Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

(under the mentorship of Ida Magli). Mario Kopić's philosophical work is under the influence of the Italian philosophical approach known as ''pensiero debole'' or "weak thought", the

political Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

thought of Arendt, and the

ethical Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied e ...

-political thought of late Derrida. In his latest works ''The Unhealable Wound of the World'', ''The Challenges of the Post-metaphysics'', ''Sextant'' and ''The Beats of the Other'' Kopić developed a kind of onto-politics of liberal-conservative

postmodernism Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

and the post- anthropocentric

humanism Humanism is a philosophy, philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and Agency (philosophy), agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The me ...

. For him the world is the

space Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless ...

being Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one do ...

as event, and only then the arena of national and social or political conflict. The world, or

existence Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one does ...

, is our ontological responsibility, which precedes

judicial The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...

and

moral responsibility In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morality, morally desert (philosophy), deserving praise, blame, reward (psychology), reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. Deciding what (if ...

.http://zlaticahoke.blogspot.hr/2016/01/internet-and-philosophy.html/ Kopić appears in Igor Ivanov Izi's 1995 film N.E.P.

Published books

* Art and Philosophy: An Anthology (''Filozofija i umjetnost - Antologija''), Delo 11-12 /1990,

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

1990. * Experiencing the Margins of the Sense (''Iskušavanje rubova smisla: pabirci iz estetike''), Dubrovnik 1991. * With Nietzsche on Europe (''S Nietzscheom o Europi''),

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

2001. * Nietzsche and Evola: The Thought as Destiny (''Nietzsche e Evola: il pensiero come destino''),

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

2001. * A Trial to the West (''Proces Zapadu''), Dubrovnik 2003. * The Challenges of the Post-Metaphysics (''Izazovi post-metafizike''), Sremski Karlovci -

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

2007. * The Unhealable Wound of the World (''Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta''), Zagreb 2007. * Gianni Vattimo Reader (Ed.),(''Gianni Vattimo: Čitanka (Ur.)''), Zagreb 2008. * Dušan Pirjevec, Death and Nothing (ed.), (''Smrt i niština, (Ur.)'') Zagreb 2009. * Sextant: The Outlines of the Spiritual Foundations of the World (''Sekstant: Skice o duhovnim temeljima svijeta''), Belgrade 2010. * The Beats of the Other (''Otkucaji drugoga''), Belgrade 2013. * The Windows: Essays on Art and Literature (''Prozori: Ogledi o umjetnosti''), Dubrovnik 2015. * Darkness in the Pupil of the Sun: Philosophical Essays (''Tama u zjenici sunca: Filozofski ogledi''), Dubrovnik 2018 * Desire and Striving (''Žudnja i stremljenje''), Zagreb 2018 * Against the Obvious (''Protiv samorazumljivosti''), With Vedran Salvia, Dubrovnik 2020. * The Otherworld according to

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

(''Prekogroblje po Danteu''), Zagreb 2021. * The Incurable Sight of Words (''Neizlječivi pogled riječi''), Dubrovnik 2023. * Etudes about Love and Death. Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, Derrida, Belgrade 2023. * Return to Wonder (''Povratište čuđenju''), Belgrade 2024. * Incidentals (''Usputice''), Dubrovnik 2025.

References

Sources

Interview with Mario Kopić, Zarez, 2008

Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2011

Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2015

2011 article by Mario Kopić about Hannah Arendt

2012 article by Mario Kopić about Heidegger

2013 article by Mario Kopić about Derrida

2015 article by Mario Kopić about Reiner Schürmann

External links

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20131012015421/http://www.odjek.ba/eng/index.php?broj=02&id=06 Kafka and Nationalism by Mario Kopićbr>M. Kopić Heideggers Wiederholungsverständnis 2013.

M. Kopić Le peuple, la nation et l'(im)pouvoir 2012.

M. Kopić Paul Ricoeur – filozof čitanja 2005.
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Published books

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