Alenka Zupančič

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian thinker known for her Lacanian approach to philosophy, ethics, and psychoanalysis, and is especially recognized for her Nietzsche studies.

Alenka Zupančič (born 1966, Ljubljana, Slovenia, former Yugoslavia) is a social scientist specializing in philosophy and its connections to ethics, literature, comedy, and love.

She is a faculty member at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a visiting professor at the European Graduate School.

She is recognized as part of the Lacanian school along with fellow Slovenians Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.

Her work engages critically with texts by Kant, Hegel, Bergson, and Badiou. Internationally, she is especially known as a Nietzsche scholar. Her works have been translated into many languages.

Works Translated into Turkish

• Comedy: The Physics of the Infinite (2011, Metis)
• Why Psychoanalysis? (2011, Metis)
• What is Sex? (2018, Metis)