Mirt Komel (born 21 August 1980) is a

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philosopher, novelist, sociologist, playwright,

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and translator. Komel is currently employed as assistant professor in philosophy at the

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( Faculty of Social Sciences, Department and Chair of Cultural Studies) and researcher at the Center of Cultural and Religious Studies (University of Ljubljana, Institute for Social Sciences). He has published numerous scientific texts in political theory,

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, and theoretical

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in international and Slovenian scholarly journals (e.g. ''Problems'', ''Journal for the Critique of Science''), as well as several scientific monographs. Three of them (Attempt of a Touch/Poskus nekega dotika, 2008, Discourse and Violence/Diskurz in nasilje, 2012, Socratic Touches/Sokratski dotiki, 2015) hinge on the main axis of his research: an attempt at a philosophical reconceptualization of touch and tactility informed with insights from the contemporary humanities and

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s. Komel is also a writer of prose, plays, and essays. His essayistic contributions appear in ''

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'', ''Delo'', ''Mediawatch'', and ''Tribuna''. He is an active participant of many civil initiatives and movements. He is co-founder and active member of the International Hegelian Society Aufhebung. He is also co-founder of the Society of Humanists of Goriška (Društvo humanistov Goriške), co-founder (and vice-president in 2006–2009) of the Youth Club of the Society of Slovenian Writers (Društvo slovenskih pisateljev), co-founder (and member in 2010–2013) of the Likej Association.

Education

Komel attended Nova Gorica High School. In 2005, he received a BA in

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from the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on the Mythologics of the Social Contract. In 2010, he was awarded a PhD in

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from the University of Ljubljana, having written his dissertation on The Philosophical Aspects of the Relationship between Discourse and Violence (advisors: philosopher Dr. Mladen Dolar, sociologist Dr. Mitja Velikonja, anthropologist Dr. Karmen Šterk). In 2008, he was visiting scholar at the

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(Faculty of Political Science).http://www.kultco.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103:predstavitev-knjige-mirta-komela-sarajevski-dnevnik&catid=35:clanki

Selected bibliography

Books

* Sokratski dotiki/Socratic touches. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences Publishers (Skodelica kave), 2015. . * Diskurz in nasilje/Discourse and Violence. Ljubljana: Association for theoretical psychoanalysis (Analecta/Problemi, vol. 50, 7/8), 2012. . * Twin Peaks in postmodernizem: kava, pita, sova, škrat/Twin Peaks and postmodernism: coffee, pie, owl, -and dwarf. Ljubljana: Slovenska kinoteka (Imago series), 2012. . * Poskus nekega dotika/Attempt of a Touch. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences Publishers (Kiosk), 2008. .; E-book version. 2011; .

Editor

* Utopije demokracije: zbornik/Utopias of Democracy (Nova Gorica: Čitalnica Babel, Zavod neinstitucionalne kulture Masovna, 2005). * avne in zasebne vojne/Public and Private Wars (Ljubljana: Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Študentska založba, 2006). * Post-daytonska Bosna in Hercegovina/Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ljubljana: Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Študentska založba, 2011). * Izguba sveta/Loss of the World (Ljubljana: Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Študentska založba, 2012).

Essays

* Sarajevski dnevnik/The Sarajevo Journal (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2009). * Kahirske kaheksije/Cahirian cahexions (Ljubljana: Kultipraktik, 2011).

Plays

* Mes(t)ne drame/Carnal Plays (Nova Gorica: Ma-No, 2006). * Luciferjev padec/The Fall of Lucifer (Nova Gorica: Ma-No, 2008).

References

Sources

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