Contact
+386 1 2411 110
simon.hajdini@ff.uni-lj.si
Office hours
Once a week via zoom. Appointment scheduling via e-mail.
Cabinet
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Sr. Res. Assoc. Dr. Simon Hajdini
BA Courses
Political Philosophy (Winter)
Practical Philosophy (Winter)
Social Philosophy (Summer)
Philosophy of History (Summer)
MA Courses
Practical Ethics (Winter)
Contemporary Political Philosophy (Summer)
Academic appointments
• 2021— Senior Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• Spring 2021 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago (USA)
• 2017-2020 Visiting Scholar, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago (USA)
• 2016-2017 Fulbright Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago (USA)
• 2016-2021 Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• 2016— Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• 2014-2016 Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Education
• Ph.D. University of Ljubljana (Philosophy), 2012
• B.A. University of Ljubljana (Philosophy), 2004
• B.A. University of Ljubljana (Comparative Literature), 2004
Research grants
|
PROJECT TITLE |
FUNDING SOURCE |
PERIOD |
ROLE |
STATUS |
|
Names at the Tip of the Nose: Naming, Smell and Truth |
Slovenian Research Agency |
10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025 |
PI with research team |
Ongoing |
|
Structure and Genealogy of Indifference: Logic—Epistemology—Ideology |
Slovenian Research Agency |
5/1/2017 – 4/30/2021 |
PI with research team |
Completed |
|
Varieties of Negation: Philosophy—Psychoanalysis—Literature |
Slovenian Research Agency |
1/1/2018 – 12/31/2019 |
Co-PI (with Eric Santner) with research team |
Completed |
|
Antinomies of Rest: A Philosophical Investigation into the Political-Theological and Ontological Status of Rest in Modernity |
Fulbright Program |
11/1/2016 – 5/31/2017 |
PI (Postdoc) |
Completed |
|
The (Mis)uses of Laziness. The Figure of the Idler in Philosophy, Theology, and Political Economy |
Slovenian Research Agency |
7/1/2014 – 6/30/2016 |
PI (Postdoc) |
Completed |
Professional memberships and affiliations
• 2015— Editorial Board of Borec
• 2014— Editorial Board of Problemi
• 2014— Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2013— Central European Research Institute of Søren Kierkegaard
Language proficiency
• Slovenian (Native)
• English (Fluent)
• German (Fluent)
Full list of publications
Books
• 2024 What's That Smell: A Philosophy of the Olfactory (The MIT Press, March 5, 2024)
• 2016 Kaj je ta duh? K filozofiji voha (Ljubljana: Analecta)
• 2012 Na kratko o dolgčasu, lenobi in počitku (On Boredom, Laziness, and Rest; Ljubljana: Analecta)
Articles
• 2022 ‘Živel antispecizem? Primer mrtvega psa (in mačk)’ [Long Live Anti-Speciesism?] in Problemi 60 (9-10): 199-239.
• 2022 ‘Okultizem voha: od Fliessa in Freuda do Rilkeja in Süskinda’ [The Occultism of Smell] in Problemi 60 (7-8): 141-170.
• 2021 ‘Ste slišali tistega o Benjaminu?’ [Did you hear the one about Benjamin?] in Problemi 59 (9-10): 135-158.
• 2021 ‘Imena na konici nosu ’, Amfiteater 9 (2): 56-69.
• 2021 ‘Marx and Spinoza? ’, Cultural Critique, No. 112 (DOI: 10.5749/culturalcritique.112.2021.0103).
• 2020 ‘Names at the Tip of the Nose’, Filozofski vestnik 41 (3): 159-176 (DOI: 10.3986/FV.41.3.04).
• 2020 ‘Govorica blag’ [The Language of Commodities] in Problemi 58 (1-2): 95-128.
• 2020 ‘Ne splača se: spremna študija’ [Not Worth it] in Robert Pfaller, Zakaj se splača živeti?, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis.
• 2020 ‘Prepozno za prihodnost’ [No Future: On Contemporary Fatalism] in Frank Ruda, Ukinjanje svobode [Abolishing Freedom], Ljubljana: Maska.
• 2018 ‘Varieties of Negation: From Drizzle and Decaf to the Anti-Semitic Figure of the Jew’ in Lacanian Ink, 51: 108-125 (Spring 2018).
• 2017 ‘Comedy From a to Z: On the Subject-Matter of Ideological Interpellation’ in Problemi International, 1, 1: 129-158.
• 2016 ‘Dialectic at Its Impures’ in Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism, eds. Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda (New York: Palgrave), 85-99.
• 2015 ‘What’s the Difference? Kant and Lacan’, Filozofski vestnik, 36, 2, 87-108.
• 2015 ‘The Comedy of the Great Depression: On Chaplin’s Modern Times’, Crisis and Critique, 2, 1, 194-215.
• 2014 ‘“I, Ideology, Speak.” in (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy, eds. Jernej Habjan and Jessica Whyte (Basingstoke & NY: Palgrave), 162-77.
• 2014 ‘Capitalism and Repetition: Marx and Lacan’, Crisis and Critique, 1, 3, 223-44.
• 2014 ‘Prozopopeja ideologije v luči Žižkove fetišistične sekvence’ [Prosopopoeia of Ideology], Problemi 52 (3-4): 143-68.
• 2013 ‘Znova nič novega: Adorno, Deleuze, Beckett’ [Nothing New Anew: Adorno, Deleuze, Beckett], Filozofski vestnik 34 (3): 179-95.
• 2012 ‘Zakaj nezavedno ne pozna časa? Pogled s (Kantove) strani’ [Why the Unconscious Doesn’t Know Time], Problemi 50 (5-6): 171-215.
• 2012 ‘Kafkov gladovalec’ [Kafka’s Hunger Artist], Problemi 50 (3-4): 105-42.
• 2006 ‘Dolgčas med “Kritiko” in “Antropologijo”’ [Boredom Between ‘Critique’ and ‘Anthropology’], Problemi 44 (5-6): 137-163.
• 2006 ‘K filozofiji dolgčasa’ [On the Philosophy of Boredom], Problemi 44 (1-2): 23-71.
• 2005 ‘Narcizem, magija in vsemoč misli’ [Narcissism, Magic, and the Omnipotence of Thought], Problemi 43 (1-2): 159-92.
Edited books
• 2021 Eric L. Santner, Politična ekonomija mesa [Political Economy of the Flesh], trans. and ed. Lidija Šumah and Simon Hajdini, Ljubljana: Analecta.
• 2016 To Think a Sin: Book of Abstracts, Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press.
• 2015 Frank Ruda, Heglova drhal [Hegels Pöbel], trans. A. Leskovec, Ljubljana: Sophia.
• 2013 Prvotna akumulacija med zgodovino in konceptom [Primitive Accumulation between History and Concept], Ljubljana: Institute for Worker’s Studies.
• 2013 Michael Heinrich, Kritika politične ekonomije: uvod [Kritik der politischen Ökonomie: Eine Einführung], trans. M. Dobnikar, Ljubljana: Sophia.
• 2012 Robert Burton, Anatomija melanholije [The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy], trans. L. Šumah, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis.
• 2012 Sigmund Freud, Metapsihološki spisi [Metapsychological Writings], trans. E. Bahovec et al., Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis.
• 2007 Sigmund Freud, Spisi o družbi in religiji [Writings on Society and Religion], trans. S. Hajdini et al., Ljubljana: Analecta.
• 2005 Sigmund Freud, Pet analiz [Five Psycho-Analyses], trans. E. Bahovec et al., Ljubljana: Analecta & Studia humanitatis.
• 2002 Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Študije o histeriji [Studien über Hysterie], trans. S. Hajdini et al., Ljubljana: Delta.
Edited journal issues
• 2022 Problemi International, 5, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis
• 2019 Problemi International, 3, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis.
• 2018 Problemi International, 2, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis.
• 2017 Problemi International, 1, Ljubljana: Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis.
