Mario Kopić
Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a philosopher, author and translator. His main areas of interest include: the history of ideas, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of culture, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion. Kopić is influenced by and writes extensively on Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, Reiner Schürmann and Dušan Pirjevec.
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Mario Kopić

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- Name
- Mario Kopić
- Born
- 13 March 1965
- Birthplace
- Dubrovnik, Croatia, former Yugoslavia
- Nationality
- Croatia
- Occupation
- philosopher · essayist · translator · writer · opinion journalist
- Education
- Freie Universität Berlin · Sapienza University of Rome · University of Ljubljana · University of Zagreb
- Languages
- French · Croatian · Italian
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Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a philosopher, author and translator. His main areas of interest include: the history of ideas, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of culture, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion. Kopić is influenced by and writes extensively on Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, Reiner Schürmann and Dušan Pirjevec.
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Mario Kopić (born 1965) is an essayist, opinion journalist and philosopher, among other activities, of Croatian nationality. The essayist was born in Dubrovnik. Mario Kopić was educated at Freie Universität Berlin, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Ljubljana, among others. Languages used include Croatian, French and Italian.
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He also translated works by Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On the Genealogy of Morality), Giorgio Agamben, Gianni Vattimo, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Dušan Pirjevec into Croatian.
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• Region — Western Philosophy • Era — 21st-century philosophy • Name — Mario Kopić • Born — 13 March 1965 • Birthplace — Dubrovnik, Croatia, former Yugoslavia • School Tradition — Continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology • Main Interests — Ethics, religion, culture
Life and work
Life and work
Mario Kopić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, former Yugoslavia. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Zagreb; phenomenology and anthropology at the University of Ljubljana; the history of ideas at the Institute Friedrich Meinecke at the Free University of Berlin (under the mentorship of Ernst Nolte); and comparative religion and anthropology of religion at the Sapienza University of Rome (under the mentorship of Ida Magli). Mario Kopić's philosophical work is under the influence of the Italian philosophical approach known as pensiero debole or "weak thought", the political thought of Arendt, and the ethical-political thought of late Derrida. In his latest works The Unhealable Wound of the World, The Challenges of the Post-metaphysics, Sextant and The Beats of the Other Kopić developed a kind of onto-politics of liberal-conservative postmodernism and the post-anthropocentric humanism. For him the world is the space of being as event, and only then the arena of national and social or political conflict. The world, or existence, is our ontological responsibility, which precedes political, judicial and moral responsibility. Kopić appears in Igor Ivanov Izi's 1995 film N.E.P.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Mario Kopic. His recorded languages were French, Croatian, Italian and German.
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1965
Mario Kopić born at Dubrovnik.
Published books
• Art and Philosophy: An Anthology (Filozofija i umjetnost - Antologija), Delo 11-12 /1990, Belgrade 1990. • Experiencing the Margins of the Sense (Iskušavanje rubova smisla: pabirci iz estetike), Dubrovnik 1991. • With Nietzsche on Europe (S Nietzscheom o Europi), Zagreb 2001. • Nietzsche and Evola: The Thought as Destiny (Nietzsche e Evola: il pensiero come destino), Rome 2001. • A Trial to the West (Proces Zapadu), Dubrovnik 2003. • The Challenges of the Post-Metaphysics (Izazovi post-metafizike), Sremski Karlovci - Novi Sad 2007. • The Unhealable Wound of the World (Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta), Zagreb 2007. • Gianni Vattimo Reader (Ed.),(Gianni Vattimo: Čitanka (Ur.)), Zagreb 2008. • Dušan Pirjevec, Death and Nothing (ed.), (Smrt i niština, (Ur.)) Zagreb 2009. • Sextant: The Outlines of the Spiritual Foundations of the World (Sekstant: Skice o duhovnim temeljima svijeta), Belgrade 2010. • The Beats of the Other (Otkucaji drugoga), Belgrade 2013. • The Windows: Essays on Art and Literature (Prozori: Ogledi o umjetnosti), Dubrovnik 2015. • Darkness in the Pupil of the Sun: Philosophical Essays (Tama u zjenici sunca: Filozofski ogledi), Dubrovnik 2018 • Desire and Striving (Žudnja i stremljenje), Zagreb 2018 • Against the Obvious (Protiv samorazumljivosti), With Vedran Salvia, Dubrovnik 2020. • The Otherworld according to Dante Alighieri (Prekogroblje po Danteu), Zagreb 2021. • The Incurable Sight of Words (Neizlječivi pogled riječi), Dubrovnik 2023. • Etudes about Love and Death. Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, Derrida, Belgrade 2023. • Return to Wonder (Povratište čuđenju), Belgrade 2024. • Incidentals (Usputice), Dubrovnik 2025.
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- 1.Zarez.
- 2.http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/vikend/knjiga_danas/ili_cemo_naci_smisao_ili_cemo_se_izgubiti
- 3.Biblioteka Tvrđa Nova knjiga Marija Kopića - O nama - Hrvatsko Društvo Pisaca. www.hrvatskodrustvopisaca.hr.
- 4.ODJEK - Revija za umjetnost, nauku i društvena pitanja.
- 5.Hannah Arendt: Lijevo ili desno?. 2 October 2011.
- 6.Mišljenje bez sjaja slave. 2 December 2010.
- 7.Mislilac nove etičnosti. 11 August 2013.
- 8.Archived copy.
- 9.ODJEK - Review for art, science and society's matters.
- 10.http://zlaticahoke.blogspot.hr/2016/01/internet-and-philosophy.html/
- 11.Mario Kopic. IMDb.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Interview with Mario Kopić, Zarez, 2008
- Interview with Mario Kopić, Danas, 2010
- Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2011
- Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2015
- Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta
- 2011 article by Mario Kopić about Hannah Arendt
- 2012 article by Mario Kopić about Heidegger
- 2013 article by Mario Kopić about Derrida
- 2015 article by Mario Kopić about Reiner Schürmann
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