Alenka Zupančič

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Alenka Zupančič (b. April 1, 1966) is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

Born in Ljubljana, Zupančič graduated at the University of Ljubljana in 1990. She is currently a full-time researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana. Zupančič belongs to the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, which is known for its predominantly Lacanian orientation, along with Mladen Dolar, Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, Rado Riha and others.

Zupančič has written on several topics including ethics, literature, comedy, love and other topics. She is most renowned as a Nietzsche scholar, but Kant, Hegel, Bergson and Badiou are also referenced in her work.

[edit] Works in English

• Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (London: Verso, 2000).
• The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, 2003). ISBN 9780-262-74026-5
• The Fifth Condition, Think Again. Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004).
• The Odd One In: on Comedy, preface by Slavoj Žižek (Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, 2007).

Persondata
NAME	Zupančič, Alenka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Slovenian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

[edit] References

• CV from the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts webpage