Scientific monograph published within the 'Sophia Studies of Cross-cultural Philosophies and Cultures’ series of Springer. This work deals with the problem of philosophy and ethics where the genealogiy of breath and spirituality is in the forefront. This is an original work on the ethics of intersubjectivty and ethics of proximity, dealing with key philosophical thinkers such as Schelling, Feuerbach, Mead, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas and Irigaray. This monograph is an innovative elaboration on current intercultural and transcultural contexts. The book has been endorsed by Professors Kevin Hart (University of Virginia), Rolf Elberfeld (Universitat Hildesheim) and Prof. Emer. Tadashi Ogawa (Kyoto University).
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537324996
This book on classical and contemporary American philosophy has been published at one of the leading US publishing houses for philosophy - Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman&Littelfield Publ.). The book deals with an original interpretation of American pragmatism and feminism (Luce Irigaray) - both in ethical sense with a particular focus on intersubjectivity and interculturality. On the back cover leading philosopher Luce Irigaray and Eduardo Mendieta praise the book for its originality and importance
COBISS.SI-ID: 2205395
The final decades of the twentieth century have seen the emergence of a Muslim intelligentsia exploring new and creative ways of engaging with the Islamic heritage. Drawing on advances made in the Western human sciences and understanding Islam in comprehensive terms as a civilisation rather than restricting it to religion in a conventional sense, their ideas often cause controversy, even inviting accusations of heresy. Cosmopolitans and Heretics examines three of these new Muslim intellectuals who combine a solid grounding in the Islamic tradition with an equally intimate familiarity with the latest achievements of Western scholarship in religion. This cosmopolitan attitude challenges existing stereotypes and makes these thinkers difficult to categorise. This is the first book of its kind and a welcome addition to the intellectual history of the modern Muslim world.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2212051
This book – published with an international leading publisher of philosophy of philosoph (Palgrave MacMillan) – critically examines different interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. The author illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of philosophy of religion, and the differing perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, the book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of philosophy in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2048576522
Scientific monograph (edited volume) coedited by L. Škof. This edited volume deals with the question of borders and their debordering within politial, ethical and social aspects. The main topics deals with topologies of place, borders, hospitality and migrations. This edited volume brings chapters from renowned thinkers such as Ed Casey (one of the key world thinkers of philosophy of place) and Eduardo Mendieta. Volume also brings insight into contemproary inter- and crosscultural dimensions of borders, with case studies from contemporary Myanmar and China. This book is recommended on the back cover by world leading philosopher of space Jeff Malpas, and two other leading philosophers in their field, Kelly Oliver in Santiago Zabala.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1540277956
The monograph Unaccompanied children in European migration and asylum practices : in whose best interests?,, was published in 2018 together with Prof. Birgit Sauer, a main Austrian researcher in the field of politology from the University of Vienna and Dr. Barbara Gornik. The book is the first to address the situation of unaccompanied minors in an European perspective with a focus on the best interest of children. An in-depth analysis of the issues concerning the principle of best interests of children expose the complexity of children's rights through a sociological, political and legal perspective. The originality of the approach to these theme and in-depth and comprehensive review of the situation of unaccompanied minors represents an important contribution to the knowledge of this vulnerable group of migrants. The book also presents an important basis for further development of policies and practices in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants, as it exposes key gaps throughout the whole process from their arrival to the new country to their non/inclusion in host society. The results from the book were used by the British House of Lords to understand the situation of underage unaccompanied migrants in Europe. Due to the actuality and relevance, the book will be reproduced in a soft-bound version in 2019 monographs.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35027549
In cooperation with the English researcher Sarah Walker and Zorana Medarić, the book Children's voices: studies of interethnic conflict and violence in European schools was published in the Routledge Publishing house (2014). the book tackles the less-researched field of peer violence on ethnic base in Europe. It is one of the few books that deals with the theme, which is in today's society of extreme ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, extremely relevant. The specificity of the book is that it is based on empirical quantitative and qualitative research among children and thus brings an in-depth insight into peer-to-peer interethnic dynamics in several European countries. As such is an important complement to the current knowledge in this area.
COBISS.SI-ID: 54570082
Lenart Škof and Barbara Gornik have coedited this special issue of Slovenian national journal Poligrafi. Both Škof and Gornik are the authors of introduction and chapters in this issue. The issue inaugurates a paper by the renowned American philosopher of humanism and its feminist issues Kelly Oliver, followed by other members of this programme, such as Nadja Furlan Štante and Maja Bjelica. Poligrafi are indexed in Scopus database.
COBISS.SI-ID: 298198016
The monograph in the broader context addresses the issue of the cosmology of sensibility and hospitality, which stems from theological ethics of ecofeminism. In narrower context, issue of alienation of human from nature and prejudices attached along the Cartesian dualist paradigm: body / spirit, female / male; nature / culture, are analized. Within the paradigmatical and hermeneutical key of theological ecofeminism, the issue of transformation of patriarchal unilateral mancentered images of God as immanent and separated from world, is also discussed. It presents a conceptual feminnity of Goddess and the necessity of transformation of symbolic descriptions of God in Western culture. In this segment monograph presents the cosmology of hospitality in the light of interconnectedness and interdependence of all people and nature in the web of life, and highlights the criticism of mencentered theological paradigm and the consequent loss of compassion.
COBISS.SI-ID: 278240000
In 1992, after the dissolution of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Slovenian government unlawfully erased 25,671 individuals—ethnically mainly Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Roma—from the Register of Permanent Residents of Slovenia. The aim of this article is to analyze the logic of the governmental rationalities that served as a basis for the politics of the erasure. The article begins by refuting claims that the erasure was a tactic for achieving ethnocultural homogeneity and continues by explaining the mindset involved in this particular practice of government, resting upon Foucault’s notions of raison d’état, governmentality, and sovereign power. Highlighting the prominence of the individual’s political opinion and loyalty to the newly established state, the article discusses the principles of nationalism, which reinforce the very common-sense exclusionary politics related to political loyalty implied in citizenship and ethnic identity. Finally, the article deliberates on the effects of the contemporary diagram of power of the nation-state, which legitimizes the exclusion of individuals from the national polity and thus immobilizes universal respect of human rights.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2545619