Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, lecturing on the topic of emotions and law.
Renata Salecl
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- Renata Salecl
- Born
- 1962
- Birthplace
- Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
- Nationality
- Slovenia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Occupation
- philosopher · sociologist · writer · university teacher
- Education
- University of Ljubljana
- Languages
- Slovene · English · German
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Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, lecturing on the topic of emotions and law.
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Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a philosopher, sociologist and university teacher, among other activities, of Slovenian and Yugoslav nationality. The philosopher was born in Slovenj Gradec.
Renata Salecl was educated at University of Ljubljana. The philosopher worked for London School of Economics and Political Science and is a member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Languages used include English, German and Slovene.
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Biography
Biography
Every year she lectures at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York), on Psychoanalysis and Law, and she has also been teaching courses on neuroscience and law. Since 2012 she has been a visiting professor at the Department of Social Science, Heath and Medicine at King's College London. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. In 2017, she was elected as a member of the Slovene Academy of Science.

Renata Salecl na petkovem protivladnem protestu v Ljubljani 8. 4. 2022
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Key facts
• Region — Western philosophy • Era — 20th- / 21st-century philosophy • Name — Renata Salecl • Born — 1962 • Birthplace — Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, Yugoslavia • School Tradition — Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, Critical legal studies • Main Interests — Legal theory, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy
Life and civic activism
Life and civic activism
In the 1980s Salecl became associated with the intellectual circle known as the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, which combined the study of Lacanian psychoanalysis with the philosophic legacy of German idealism and critical theory. In the late 1980s she became active in the left liberal opposition to the ruling Slovenian Communist party. In the first democratic elections in Slovenia in April 1990 she unsuccessfully ran for the Slovenian Parliament on the list of the Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia - Liberal Party. After 1990 she left party politics but remained active in public life, especially as a commentator. She was married to the Slovenian Marxist–Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. They have one son.
Work
Work
She studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, graduating with a thesis on Michel Foucault's theory of power under the supervision of the Marxist philosopher Božidar Debenjak. From 1986, she started working as a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, In 1991, she obtained a PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Drago Braco Rotar. Her work focuses on bringing together law, criminology and psychoanalysis. She has worked on the theories of punishment, and on the analysis of the relation between late capitalist insistence on choice and the increased feelings of anxiety and guilt in post-modern subjects. The book also analyses how matters of choice apply to law and criminology. Salecl is associated with the critical legal studies movement. She was a Centennial Professor at the department of law at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is now a visiting professor at the LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, and holds a full professorship at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. She often teaches as visiting professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York. She has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (1997/8), visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, visiting humanities professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and visiting professor at Duke University. She also writes columns in various European newspapers, including Delo (Ljubljana) and La Vanguardia (Barcelona).
In English
In English
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In Slovene
In Slovene
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Chapters in books
• Salecl, Renata (2001), "Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art", in Ahmed, Sara, Stacey, Jackie, Thinking Through the Skin, London: Routledge, pp.21-35,. *
Awards
• In 2010, she was awarded the title of "Slovenian woman scientist of the year". In December of the same year, she was a candidate for a "Slovenian person of the year" by the daily newspaper Delo. • In 2011, she was named the most successful woman in Slovenia and got the title ONA 365 by the women magazine Ona (English: SHE magazine).
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- 1.Biographical details, School of Law, Birkbeck College, 13 February 2013, Accessed: 2013-05-24. (Archived by the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20130926143218/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-staff/ft-academic/renata-salecl/biographical-details )
- 2.Visiting international faculty, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Accessed: 2013-05-24. (Archived by the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20141129072021/http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/visiting-international-faculty-and-scholars )
- 3.Course Number 7338: Neuroscience and law, 15 January to 20 May 2013, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Accessed: 2013-05-24. (Archived by the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20140820200944/http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/courses/neuroscience-and-law )
- 4.About the Debate Club 89 (Debatni klub 89) , quoting from Museum of Slovenian History ("Muzej novejše zgodovine Slovenije"), 2008, Ljubljana.
- 5.Announcing candidacy before 1990 elections
- 6.Zajc, Tjaša. Dr. Renata Salecl, filozofinja in sociologinja. MLADINA. 29 July 2010. 1580-5352.
- 7.MMC RTV Slovenija. Slovenska znanstvenica leta je Renata Salecl: Z analizo družbenih pojavov skuša razumeti sodobni svet. 14 October 2010.
- 8.Merljak, Sonja. RENATA SALECL: Glas razuma. DELO (Work). Delo, d.d. 16 December 2010.
- 9.Petek, Barbara. ONA 365 je postala dr. Renata Salecl. DELO (Work). Delo, d.d. 7 March 2011.
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