This article is a translation of the original entry on :sl:Mirt Komel|Mirt Komel in Slovenian Mirt Komel is a Slovenian philosopher, novelist, sociologist, playwright, essayist and translator. Komel is currently employed as assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and researcher at the Center of Cultural and Religious Studies. He has published numerous scientific texts in political theory, social anthropology, and theoretical psychoanalysis in international and Slovenian scholarly journals, as well as several scientific monographs. Three of them 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 social sciences. Komel is also a prolific writer, known to the local and international public for his prose, plays, and essays. His essayistic contributions appear in Mladina, 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, co-founder of the Youth Club of the Society of Slovenian Writers, co-founder of the Likej Association.
Education
Komel attended the Nova Gorica High School. In 2005, he received a BA in sociology from the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on the Mythologics of the Social Contract. In 2010, he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana, having written his dissertation on The Philosophical Aspects of the Relationship between Discourse and Violence. In 2008, he was visiting scholar at the University of Sarajevo.
Diskurz in nasilje/Discourse and Violence. Ljubljana: Association for theoretical psychoanalysis, 2012..
Twin Peaks in postmodernizem: kava, pita, sova, škrat/Twin Peaks and postmodernism: coffee, pie, owl, -and dwarf. Ljubljana: Slovenska kinoteka, 2012..
Poskus nekega dotika/Attempt of a Touch. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences Publishers, 2008..; E-book version. 2011;.
Editor
• Utopije demokracije: zbornik/Utopias of Democracy. • Javne in zasebne vojne/Public and Private Wars. • Post-daytonska Bosna in Hercegovina/Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. • Izguba sveta/Loss of the World.
Essays
• Sarajevski dnevnik/The Sarajevo Journal. • Kahirske kaheksije/Cahirian cahexions.
Plays
• Mesne drame/Carnal Plays. • Luciferjev padec/The Fall of Lucifer.
