After further studies under the direction of Bernhard Waldenfels and Klaus Held in Germany, he has obtained a PhD at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia). Dr. Komel is mainly dedicated to do research about philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of culture, philosophy of art, translation and philosophical terminology, identity and European cultural differences and interculturality.

Among his numerous publications these are some of the recent ones:

• “O materinjem jeziku” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, Vol. 1-2, N° 14, 2021, pp. 212-225)
• “Gedächtnis und Heideggers Frage » Was heißt Denken?” (In: Philosophоs Philotheos – Philoponоs, vol.65, N°9-12, 2021, pp. 581-592)
• “On Mother Tongue” (In: Phainomena, Vol. 30, N° 118, 2021, pp. 233-262)
• Totalitarium (Ljubljana, Inštitut Nove Revije, 2020)
• “El final del humanismo como lugar del pensar de Pirjevec” (En: Cuestiones de Filosofía, Vol. 6, N° 26, 2020, pp. 53-74)
• “Die Geschichtlichkeit Europas und die Schatten des Nihilismus” (In: Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, Vol. 40, N° 1, 2020, pp. 31-39)
• “Contemporality of the context of understanding as the basis of interdisciplinary humanities” (In: Annales-Anali za Istrske in Mediteranske Studije – Serie Historia et Sociologia, Vol. 29, N° 4, 2019, pp. 531-548)
• Freiheit und gerechtigkeit als herausforderung der humanwissenschaften: Freedom and justice as a challenge of the humanities (Ljubljana, Peter Lang AG, 2019)
• “Between explanations and clarifying” (In: Phainomena, Vol. 28, N° 108, 2019, pp. 473-489)
• “The great october and the merry december: On some issues of the october revolution and revolution in general” (In: Studia Historica Slovenica, Vol. 18, N° 3, 2018, pp. 737-754)
• “The Influence of Heidegger’s Thought on the Development of Philosophy in Ex-Yugoslav Countries” (In: Human Studies, Vol. 41, N° 4, 2018, pp. 643-660)
• The Influence of Heidegger’s Thought on the Development of Philosophy in Ex-Yugoslav Countries” (En: Human Studies, 2017, pp. 1-18)
• Obeležja smisla (Ljubljana, Nova revija, 2016)
• “Über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der interkulturellen Philosophie” (In: Synthesis philosophica, vol. 29, N°. 2, 2015, pp. 361-371)
• “Crisis as the Discrimen of Philosophy” (In: Phainomena, vol. 24, N°. 92/93, 2015, pp. 19–27)
• “Jože Pučnik: personal freedom, culture and politics; Jože Pučnik: Osebna svoba, kultura in politika” (In: Traditiones, vol. 43, N°. 1, 2014, pp.125-135)
• “Govorica kot prostor filozofije, filozofija kot kraj govorice” (In: Slavistična revija, vol. 62, N°. 3, 2014, pp.423 434)
• “Gadamer and Kierkegaard: on contemporaneity” (In: Filozofia, vol. 69, N°. 5, 2014, pp. 434-442)
• Kontemplationen: Entwürfe zur phänomenologischen Hermeneutik: Libri Nigri (Nordhausen, Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2014),
• “Multiculturalism and Interculturality” (In: Filozofia, vol. 67, N°. 8, 2012, pp. 677-688)
• Den Nihilismus verwinden: Ein slowenisches Postscript zum 20. Jahrhundert (Nordhausen, Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2012)
• Sodobnosti (Ljubljana, Nova Revija, 2011)
• Bivanja (Dob, Miš, 2011)
• Potikanja (Ljubljana, Apokalipsa, 2010)
• Intermundus: Hermeneutisch-Phänomenologische Entwürfe (Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2009)
• “Zur Erfahrung der Kunst: ein Versuch” (In: Phainomena, vol. 17, N°. 66/67, 2008, pp. 9-22)
• “Marginalije” (In: Phainomena, vol. 17, N°. 64/65, 2008, pp. 253-255)
• “Hermeneutics and the Historical Question of Philosophy” (In: The Proceedings of the Twenty First World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 12, N°. 1, 2007, pp. 51-55)
• “Philosophy in interculturality” (In: Phainomena, vol. 15, N°. 59, 2006, pp. 93-105)
• “O hermenevtičnem odnosu” (In: Phainomena, vol. 15, N°. 55/56, 2006, pp. 27-41)

He received the Zois Award by the Republic of Slovenia for his outstanding scientific achievements in 2003. He is also an initiator (1990) and president (1996) of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana and member of numerous philosophical societies, editorial councils and scientific journals of philosophy and culture such as: Phainomena, Nova Revija, Ampak, Prolegomena, Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Topos, Teoria, Analecta Hermeneutica, Magazzino di filosofía y Divinatio. He is a founding member of the Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Phenomenology and the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations. He is professor at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia) in the Faculty of Letters and also the head of the Department of Philosophy since 2002. Since 2005 he directs research activities at the Inštitut Nove Revije, Zavod za Humanistiko.

 

Scientist invited by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Marie Curie COFUND Fellow) 2010-2012 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Philosophy from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). He then obtained a Doctoral fellowship to study at the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD) and by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst DAAD (declined). He was a member of the advisory group for the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) in the project “La enseñanza de la Filosofía en Iberoamérica”. Focused on the study of Heidegger, Nietzsche and Horkheimer.

Some of his current publications are:

• “La perspectiva ética levinasiana: su sentido para la educación” (In: Praxis & Saber, Vol. 12, N°30, 2021, pp. 1-15).
• “Pensiero calcolante e nichilismo: il caso del linguaggio e la terra natale” (In: Phainomena (Ljubljana), Vol. 30, N° 118/119, 2021, pp. 207-231).
• “Koncept kulture: Heidegger onkraj Heideggera” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, N° 1-2, 2021, pp. 246-254).
• “Fondamento o abisso (Abgrund)? L’interpretazione heideggeriana del nichilismo nella filosofia di Nietzsche” (In: Teoría, Vol. 1, 2020, pp. 61-75).
• “Stimmlung und verstehen: implikationen einer wesentlichen beziehung”. (In: Phainomena, Vol. 28 N°108 /109, 2019, pp. 57-81).
• “Verità e linguaggio nella filosofia di Martin Heidegger” (In: Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, 1/2017, pp. 139-155)
• “Pathos de la distancia: un nuevo tipo de relación en la filosofía de Nietzsche” (In: Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, 2/2015, pp. 51-64)
• “Herbert Marcuse: entre filosofía y Psicología” (In: Límite. Revista interdisciplinaria de filosofía y psicología, vol. 9, N°. 30, 2014, pp. 25-34)
• “I Quaderni neri nel contesto della questione politica in Heidegger” (In: Fabris, Adriano. Metafisica e antisemitismo. I Quaderni neri di Heidegger tra filosofia e política, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2014, pp. 81-108)
• “Totalitarismus des Seins? Die Ethik bei Lévinas als Kritik am Heideggers Denken” (In: Römer, Inga. Affektivität und Ethik bei Kant und in der Phänomenologie, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 257-268)
• “Heidegger: ¿Introducción del nacionalsocialismo en la filosofía? Una reflexión en contravía” (In: Franciscanum, vol. LVI, N°. 162, 2014, pp. 19-49)
• Reflexiones en filosofía contemporánea (editor. Buenos Aires, Grama Ediciones, 2012)
• “Tierra natal: entre agonía y afirmación de la diferencia” (In: Revista de Filosofía, vol. 37, N°. 1, 2012, pp. 37-55)
• “El concepto de cultura: Heidegger más allá de Heidegger” (In: Rocha de la Torre, Alfredo. Reflexiones en filosofía contemporánea, Buenos Aires, Grama Ediciones 2012)
• Heidegger hoy: estudios y perspectivas (editor. Buenos Aires, Grama ediciones, 2011)
• “Heidegger: Ontología y olvido del hombre. La interpretación de Emmanuel Lévinas” (In: Rocha de la Torre, Alfredo. Heidegger hoy: estudios y perspectivas, Buenos Aires: Grama Ediciones, 2011)
• “Nietzsche: la razón como medio de enmascaramiento” (In: Xolocotzi, Ángel; Gibu, Ricardo; Godina, Célida y Santander, Rodolfo. La aventura de interpretar. Los impulsos filosóficos de Franco Volpi, México, Eón-BUAP, 2011, pp. 195-210)
• “Lenguaje y reconocimiento: una perspectiva heideggeriana” (In: Estudios de Filosofía, 2010 (41), pp. 155-180)
• Martin Heidegger: la experiencia del camino (editor. Barranquilla, Ediciones UniNorte, 2009)
• La responsabilidad del pensar. Homenaje a Guillermo Hoyos (editor. Barranquilla, Ediciones UniNorte, 2008)
• Zur Struktur der Sprache: die Möglichkeit der Anerkennung kultureller Verschiedenheit bei Heidegger (Würzburg, Königshausen und Neumann, 2008)
• “El concepto de cercanía en Martin Heidegger” (In: Revista Devenires, 2007 (15), pp. 88-125)

 

He translated the volume 38 of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe from German in to Spanish (Lógica como pregunta por la esencia del lenguaje). He is a member of the Heidegger-Gesellschaft, of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Heideggerianos SIEH (President from 2009-2011) and also of the Heidegger-Institut. He conducted his postdoctoral research with the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Germany): “Instrumentalisierung des Denkens: Martin Heidegger und Max Horkheimer im Vergleich”. He currently works as a professor for the Philosophy Department at the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) and cofunder and codirector of International Center of studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic).

Magister of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and PhD by the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His areas of research include German idealism, phenomenology and Heidegger’s hermeneutics.

Some of his recent publications are:

• “Anuario Heidegger Numero 1: Ser y Tiempo”( with Jose Ordoñez Garcia. Barcelona, Herder, 2022).
• “Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (Being and Time–Ser y Tiempo)” (Mit Juan José Garrido Periñán Meßkirch, 2018, pp. 15-21).
• Martin Heidegger / Karl Löwith. Briefwechsel 1919-1973 (Freiburg, Karl Alber, 2016)
• Martin Heidegger, Gelassenheit. Heideggers Meßkircher Rede von 1955 (with Holger Zaborowski. Freiburg, Karl Alber, 2014)
• “Heidegger’s correspondence” (In: Raffoul, Francois und Nelson, Erik. The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Londres, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, pp. 67-76)
• Heidegger und Nietzsche (with Babich, Babette und Zaborowski, Holger. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012)
• Unterwegs in Sein und Zeit: Einführung in Leben und Denken von Martin Heidegger (Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 2011)
• Heidegger und der Nationalsozialismus (with Zaborowski, Holger. Freiburg, Karl Alber, 2009)
• Heidegger und die Logik (with Zaborowski, Holger. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006)
• Martin Heidegger und seine Heimat (with Büchin, Elsbeth. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 2005)
• Heidegger und die Anfänge seines Denkens (with Zaborowski, Holger. Freiburg, Karl Alber, 2004)
• Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: New Critical Essays (with Vater, Michael. London, Humanity Books, 2003)
• Martin Heidegger – Bernhard Welte. Briefe und Begegnungen (with Zaborowski, Holger. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 2003)
• “Schelling – Fichte Briefwechsel” (In: Fichte-Studien, vol. 21, 2003, pp. 219-221)
• Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy (Publisher with Schalow, Frank. Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2002)
• “Martin Heidegger” (In: Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2001, pp. 275-322)
• Martin Heidegger – Heinrich Rickert. Briefe und Dokumente 1912-1933 (Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2001)
• “Martin Heidegger: Zwischen Herkunft und Zukunft: Die Anfänge seines Denkweges” (In: Studia Phaenomenologica, vol. 1, No. 3,4, 2001, pp. 272-322)
• “In den Fußstapfen Gottes” (In: Fichte-Studien, vol. 18, 2000, pp. 101-120)

 

He is Director of the Martin-Heidegger-Archiv (Meßkirch) and of the “Archivo Heidegger” by the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). He is co-editor of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesamtausgabe, founder and co-editor of the Heidegger-Jahrbuch, as well as founder and co-editor of the Martin-Heidegger-Briefausgabe and of the Anuario-Heidegger. Since 1997 he has been working on a three-volume biography of Martin Heidegger. In France he is currently the director of the Center of Philosophy and Art “Philo-Art”.

 

 

Laurea in Philosophy at the Università di Pisa with a thesis directed by Vittorio Sainati. He has completed his studies to perfect the philosophy at the Università di Genoa under the direction of Alberto Caracciolo. In 1982 he obtained a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) to study at the Universität Mannheim (Germany) and to participate in the courses of Hans-Georg Gadamer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research has been focused on phenomenology and hermeneutics (especially in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger), he has translated some volumes of the work of this philosopher and has written several books about him, as well as on the philosophy of religion he has undertaken research in the fundamentals of discipline, especially from contemporany works with Hebrew and Christian influences, and on the ethics of communication (he has specifically addressed the use of the new communication technologies).