Dean Komel

Dean Komel

Dean Komel (born 7 June 1960) is a Slovenian philosopher.

He was born in the small village of Bilje in the Goriška region of Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

After finishing the Nova Gorica Grammar School, he studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. After further studies under Bernhard Waldenfels and Klaus Held in Germany, he obtained his PhD in 1995 on the theme of a hermeneutic critique of the anthropological orientation in contemporary philosophy. He is the professor of contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of culture at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. He is additionally president of the Phenomenological Society in Ljubljana and is on the editorial board of a number of journals for philosophy and culture, including Phainomena, Nova revija, Orbis Phaenomenologicus. Since 2005 he has also headed research activities at the Humanistic institute of Nova revija. He has lectured at numerous universities and international symposia. Hermeneutic questions of contemporary philosophy stand out in his philosophical works. Within this context he develops philosophical reflection on language, historicity, art, interculturality and humanistics.

Komel is considered one of the major exponents of the phenomenological current in Slovene philosophy, continuating the tradition of France Veber, Dušan Pirjevec Ahac, Ivan Urbančič and Tine Hribar. In 2003 he received the Zois Award of the Republic of Slovenia for top scientific achievements in the field of philosophy.

Major works

• Fenomenologija in vprašanje biti ("Phenomenology and the Question of Being"), Obzorja, Maribor 1993.
• Razprtost prebivanja ("Openness of Being," Ljubljana 1996).
• Diagrami bivanja ("Diagrammes of Existence", Ljubljana 1998).
• Osnutja ("Outlines"); Ljubljana 2001
• Uvod v filozofsko in kulturno hermenevtiko ("Introduction to Philosophical and Cultural Hermenetucs"), Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2003
• Identità e mediazione. Per un'ermeneutica dell' interculturalità, Edizioni Università, Trieste 2003
• Medpotja filozofije ("Between the Paths of Philosophy," Maribor 2004).
• Kunst und Sein ("Art and Being") ed.; Würzburg 2004.
• Tradition und Vermittlung. Der interkulturelle Sinn Europas ("Tradition and Mediation") Würzburg 2005.
• Humanistični pogovori ("Humanistic Dialogues," Dob 2007).
• Resnica in resničnost sodobnosti ("The Truth and Reality of Modernity," Ljubljana 2007).
• Smisao posredovanja ("The Sense of Mediation"), Zagreb 2008.
• Intermundus.Hermeneutisch-phänomenologische Entwürfe, K&N, Würzburg 2009
• Potikanja ("Ramblings") KUD Apokalipsa, Ljubljana 2010
• Sodobnosti ("Contemporaneities"), Nova revija, Ljunljana 2011
• Bivanja ("Existences"), Miš, Dob 2011
• Den Nihilismus verwinden, Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2012
• Kontemplationen. Entwürfe zur phänomenologischen Hermeneutik, Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2014

References

• Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana: Dean Komel