Critical Theory Lecture. Alenka Zupančič. After the End of Art: Hegel with Francis Bacon.

Yale Critical Theory Initiative

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist. She received her PhD from the University of Ljubljana and from Université Paris VIII. She works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. She is also professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Notable for her work on the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis, she is the author of numerous articles and books, including Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan; The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two; Why Psychoanalysis: Three Interventions; The Odd One In: On Comedy; and, most recently, What is Sex?

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This event is supported by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.