Aleš Debeljak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1639623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleš Debeljak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleš |
| FAMILY NAME | Debeljak |
| SIGNATURE | DEBELJAK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Europe
Durable Fiction
Europe Without Europeans
Holidays; The Robba Fountain; Under Your Window, Lili Novy
In Praise of the Republic of Letters
I'm a modern everyman. I make use of books to find for myself a dwelling place, if only a temporary one, within the pastiche of narratives and experiences, facts and fantasies. I leaf through the books, do not drink, and do not drive?I smoke and fly, through the tunnel under the city castle and over the main square, hovering for a second under the old plane tree before disappearing among the arcades of cajoling shop windows. For me, the geography…
Cosmopolitanism and National Tradition
Introduction to the Special Issue
European Forms of Belonging
The article questions collective identities of “imagined communities” involved in the process of European Union (EU) enlargement. Focusing on issues of citizenship, unity and diversity, nationalism, and patriotism, the author explores the process of EU enlargement from the viewpoint of the “other Europe” in general and Slovenia in particular. It presents the dilemmas of “new democracies” of Central and Eastern Europe and their reluctance to hand …
Reflections on Elusive “Common Dreams”
It is a hot summer afternoon, and crowds of tourists seek shelter in the shade the shining streets of the Umbrian town of Assisi. I push a stroller with a thirsty one-year-old baby in front of me; my fiveyear-old girl wants a sandwich and my three-year-old son would like to see the dragon on the door hook of the San Francesco Hotel from close up. So our family takes a turn to the hotel lobby; perspiring, in khaki shorts, with swollen bags of diap…
On the ruins of the historical avant‐garde
The focus of this theoretical paper is the analysis of the European historical avant‐garde as an excess of modernism. As such, its goal was two‐fold. First, it tried to transcend the institution of autonomous art and second, it attempted to integrate art into everyday life. In this light, the paper presents the contingencies of the genesis and main features of the historical avant‐garde's doctrine and practice. It further argues that the historic…
Anxious Moments
The disintegration of Yugoslavia
The contested country
European Forms of Belonging
The article questions collective identities of “imagined communities” involved in the process of European Union (EU) enlargement. Focusing on issues of citizenship, unity and diversity, nationalism, and patriotism, the author explores the process of EU enlargement from the viewpoint of the “other Europe” in general and Slovenia in particular. It presents the dilemmas of “new democracies” of Central and Eastern Europe and their reluctance to hand …
Cosmopolitanism and National Tradition
Reflections on Elusive “Common Dreams”
It is a hot summer afternoon, and crowds of tourists seek shelter in the shade the shining streets of the Umbrian town of Assisi. I push a stroller with a thirsty one-year-old baby in front of me; my fiveyear-old girl wants a sandwich and my three-year-old son would like to see the dragon on the door hook of the San Francesco Hotel from close up. So our family takes a turn to the hotel lobby; perspiring, in khaki shorts, with swollen bags of diap…
The disintegration of Yugoslavia
The contested country
The disintegration of Yugoslavia
Anxious Moments
On the ruins of the historical avant‐garde
The focus of this theoretical paper is the analysis of the European historical avant‐garde as an excess of modernism. As such, its goal was two‐fold. First, it tried to transcend the institution of autonomous art and second, it attempted to integrate art into everyday life. In this light, the paper presents the contingencies of the genesis and main features of the historical avant‐garde's doctrine and practice. It further argues that the historic…
Reflections on Elusive “Common Dreams”
It is a hot summer afternoon, and crowds of tourists seek shelter in the shade the shining streets of the Umbrian town of Assisi. I push a stroller with a thirsty one-year-old baby in front of me; my fiveyear-old girl wants a sandwich and my three-year-old son would like to see the dragon on the door hook of the San Francesco Hotel from close up. So our family takes a turn to the hotel lobby; perspiring, in khaki shorts, with swollen bags of diap…
Cosmopolitanism and National Tradition
Introduction to the Special Issue
European Forms of Belonging
The article questions collective identities of “imagined communities” involved in the process of European Union (EU) enlargement. Focusing on issues of citizenship, unity and diversity, nationalism, and patriotism, the author explores the process of EU enlargement from the viewpoint of the “other Europe” in general and Slovenia in particular. It presents the dilemmas of “new democracies” of Central and Eastern Europe and their reluctance to hand …
In Praise of the Republic of Letters
I'm a modern everyman. I make use of books to find for myself a dwelling place, if only a temporary one, within the pastiche of narratives and experiences, facts and fantasies. I leaf through the books, do not drink, and do not drive?I smoke and fly, through the tunnel under the city castle and over the main square, hovering for a second under the old plane tree before disappearing among the arcades of cajoling shop windows. For me, the geography…
Holidays; The Robba Fountain; Under Your Window, Lili Novy
Europe
Durable Fiction
Europe Without Europeans
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works)