Alenka Zupančič

Alenka Zupančič (born 1 April 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 and a visiting professor at the European Graduate School. Zupančič belongs to the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, which is known for its predominantly Lacanian foundations. Her philosophy was strongly influenced by Slovenian Lacanian scholars, especially Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Žižek.

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

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, [in:] 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).
• Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions (Aarhus University Press, 2008)

External links

• Alenka Zupančič Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography.
• Alenka Zupančič Profile at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography and bibliography.
• Steven Michels. 'Nietzsche, Interrupted: A review of Alenka Zupancic, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two'. In: Lacan.com.
• Adam Atkinson. The Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupančič. In: Media Culture Reviews.