Mladen Dolar

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

Dr. Mladen DOLAR

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(Maribor, 29. 1. 1951)
Po maturi se je leta 1969 vpisal na Filozofsko fakulteto, kjer je leta 1978 diplomiral iz filozofije in francoščine. V letih 1980–82 je bil stažist na Oddelku za filozofijo FF, nato od leta 1984 asistent. V šolskem letu 1979/80 je bil na podiplomskem študijskem izpopolnjevanju v Parizu (Université Paris VIII), v letu 1989/90 pa v Londonu (University of Westminster). Doktoriral je leta 1992 s tezo Heglova Fenomenologija duha, Dialektika zavesti in samozavedanja. Od leta 1992 je bil docent za nemško klasično filozofijo, od leta 1996 pa je izredni profesor za filozofijo in teoretsko psihoanalizo. Na Oddelku za filozofijo predava nemško klasično filozofijo ter strukturalizem in psihoanalizo.
Član uredniškega odbora revije Problemi (v osemdesetih letih je bil mnoga leta njen glavni in odgovorni urednik) in knjižne zbirke Analecta. Je soustanovitelj in mnogoletni podpredsednik Društva za teoretsko psihoanalizo in soustanovitelj Društva za kulturološke raziskave.
Glavna dela: Struktura fašističnega gospostva, Ljubljana 1982; Heglova Fenomenologija duha I., Ljubljana 1990; Samozavedanje, Heglova Fenomenologija duha II., Ljubljana 1992; I shall be with you on your wedding-night, Lacan and the uncanny, October 58/1991, str. 2–24; Beyond interpellation, Qui parle 2/1993, str. 75–96; The phrenology of spirit, v: Copjec (ur.), Supposing the subject, London: Verso 1994, str. 64–83; At first sight, v: Salecl & Žižek (ur.), Gaze and voice as love objects, Duke UP, Durham/London 1996, str. 129–153; The object voice, v: Salecl & Žižek (ur.), Gaze and voice as love objects, Duke UP, Durham/London 1996, str. 7–31; Woher kommt die Macht?, v: Liepold-Mosser (ur.), Sprache der Politik, Politik der Sprache, Turia & Kant, Dunaj 1996, str. 184–205.

A Voice and Nothing More

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Mladen Dolar

Table of Contents and Sample Chapters

Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the difficult task that philosopher Mladen Dolar relentlessly pursues in this seminal work.

The voice did not figure as a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. In A Voice and Nothing More Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object (objet a). Dolar proposes that, apart from the two commonly understood uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a third level of understanding: the voice as an object that can be seen as the lever of thought. He investigates the object voice on a number of different levels—the linguistics of the voice, the metaphysics of the voice, the ethics of the voice (with the voice of conscience), the paradoxical relation between the voice and the body, the politics of the voice—and he scrutinizes the uses of the voice in Freud and Kafka. With this foundational work, Dolar gives us a philosophically grounded theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause.

About the Author

Mladen Dolar taught for 20 years in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he now works as a Senior Research Fellow. He is the author of a number of books, most recently (with Slavoj Zizek) Opera’s Second Death.

Mladen Dolar: Hegel and Freud