Mladen Dolar

Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, film critic and expert in psychoanalysis.^[1]

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, where he graduated under the supervision of the renowned philosopher Božidar Debenjak. He later studied at the University of Paris VII and the University of Westminster.

Dolar was the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek and Rastko Močnik, of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of German idealism.

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, Maastricht, The Netherlands.^[2] His main fields of expertise are the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel (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 film critic.

Books in English

• Opera's Second Death (New York: Routledge, 2002), co-authored with Slavoj Žižek.
• A Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006).

References

1. ^ "dr. Mladen Dolar" (in Slovene). Zbornik ob 80-letnici, 1919-1999. Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani. 22 March 2001. http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/hp/ff/zbornik/o/DOLAR.html. Retrieved 23 September 2009. 
2. ^ http://www.janvaneyck.nl/4_4_cv/cv_t_dol.html

External links

• Portrait on Dolar in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in german)
• Jan van Eyck Academie Profile

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