Ivo Urbančič
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| Born | Ivan Urbančič 12 November 1930 Western Philosophy |
| School | Phenomenology |
Main interests | Ontology · Ethics · Technology · Systems theory |
Ivo Urbančič (12 November 1930 – 7 August 2016) was a Slovenian
Biography
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Born Ivan Urbančič in
They spent six years in the village of
After finishing the technical high school in Kranj, he attended a one-year course in communication technology in Belgrade. In 1960, Pučnik convinced him to enroll in the University of Ljubljana, where he studied philosophy. In his student years, he became involved with a group of young intellectuals, known as the "Critical generation". In 1970, he obtained his PhD at the University of Zagreb. Between 1969-70, he studied at the University of Vienna, and between 1971-72 in Cologne where he worked with the philosopher Karl-Heinz Volkmann-Schluck. In 1964, he became a researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.
In the late 1980s, he worked as an editor at the publishing house
Urbančič died in Ljubljana in 2016, aged 85.
Work
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Urbančič was one of the first who introduced the thought of Heidegger to Slovenia. He also wrote several monographies on Nietzsche. Urbančič wrote several works on the history of philosophy in the Slovene Lands.
Selected works
- Evropski nihilizem ("The European Nihilism". Ljubljana, 1971);
- Leninova "filozofija" ("Lenin's "Philosophy"". Maribor, 1971);
- Vprašanje umetnosti in estetike na prelomu sodobne epohe: estetska in filozofska misel Dušana Pirjevca ("The Question of Art and Esthetics at the Turning Point of Our Epoch: the Esthetic and Philosophic Thought of Dušan Pirjevec". Ljubljana: 1980);
- Uvod v vprašanje naroda ("Introduction on the Question of Nation". Maribor, 1981);
- Neosholastika na Slovenskem ("Neoscholasticism in the Slovene Lands". Ljubljana, 1983);
- Zaratustrovo izročilo I & II ("Zarathursta's Legacy I & II". Ljubljana, 1993 & 1996);
- Moč in oblast ("Power and Authority". Ljubljana, 2000);
- Nevarnost biti ("The Danger of Being". Ljubljana, 2003);
- Zgodovina nihilizma ("The History of Nihilism". Ljubljana, 2011).
- Povijest nihilizma ("The History of Nihilism". Zagreb, 2019).
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