Mario Kopić

Mario Kopić

Full name	Mario Kopić
Born	March 13, 1965 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	continental philosophy, phenomenology
Main interests	Ethics, Religion, Culture
Influenced by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Vattimo

Mario Kopić (born 13 March 1965) is a philosopher, author and translator. His main areas of interest include: History of Political Ideas, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Culture, Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion.

Mario Kopić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Zagreb; Phenomenology and Political Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana; Political History and History of Ideas at the Institute Friedrich Meinecke at the Free University of Berlin (under the mentorship of Ernst Nolte); and Comparative Religiology 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", and the ethical-political thought of late Derrida.

Mario Kopić's translation (into Croatian language) of Nietzsche's philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra was published in Zagreb in 2009.

Works

• Art and Philosophy - Anthology (Filozofija i umjetnost - Antologija), Delo 11-12 /1990, Belgrade 1990.
• Experiencing the Margins of Sense (Iskušavanje rubova smisla: pabirci iz estetike), Dubrovnik 1991.
• With Nietzsche About Europe (S Nietzscheom 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-metaphysic (Izazovi post-metafizike), Sremski Karlovci - Novi Sad 2007.
• The Unhealable Wound of the World (Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta), Zagreb 2007.
• Gianni Vattimo Reader (Ed.),(Citanka Gianni Vattimo (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.

Sources

• Interview with Mario Kopić, Zarez, 2008(Croatian)
• Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta (Croatian)
• www.hdpisaca.org (Croatian)

External links

• Comments on Jacques Derrida's Les Spectres de Marx by Mario Kopić
• Kafka and Nationalism by Mario Kopić
• M. Kopić Slaba misao- talijanski put u metafiziku 2008.(Croatian)
• M. Kopić Pravo moći ili moć prava 2006. (Croatian)
• M. Kopić Paul Ricoeur – filozof čitanja 2005. (Croatian)
• M. Kopić Derridini putevi, Derridine postaje 2005. (Croatian)
• M. Kopić Japanska postmoderna filozofija 2002. (Croatian)

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Name	Kopic, Mario
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Date of birth	March 13, 1965
Place of birth	Dubrovnik, Croatia
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