Mario Kopić

Mario Kopić was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, former Yugoslavia. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Zagreb; phenomenology and anthropology at the University of Ljubljana; the history of ideas at the Institute Friedrich Meinecke at the Free University of Berlin (under the mentorship of Ernst Nolte); and comparative religion and anthropology of religion at the Sapienza University of Rome (under the mentorship of Ida Magli).[3]

Mario Kopić's philosophical work is under the influence of the Italian philosophical approach known as pensiero debole[4] or "weak thought", the political thought of Arendt,[5][6] and the ethical-political thought of late Derrida.[7]

In his latest works The Unhealable Wound of the World, The Challenges of the Post-metaphysics, Sextant and The Beats of the Other Kopić developed a kind of onto-politics of liberal-conservative postmodernism and the post-anthropocentric humanism.[8] For him the world is the space of being as event, and only then the arena of national and social or political conflict.[9] The world, or existence, is our ontological responsibility, which precedes political, judicial and moral responsibility.[10]

Kopić appears in Igor Ivanov Izi's 1995 film N.E.P.[11]

• Art and Philosophy: An Anthology (Filozofija i umjetnost - Antologija), Delo 11-12 /1990, Belgrade 1990.
• Experiencing the Margins of the Sense (Iskušavanje rubova smisla: pabirci iz estetike), Dubrovnik 1991.
• With Nietzsche on Europe (S Nietzscheom o Europi), Zagreb 2001.ISBN 953-222-016-X
• Nietzsche and Evola: The Thought as Destiny (Nietzsche e Evola: il pensiero come destino), Rome 2001.
• A Trial to the West (Proces Zapadu), Dubrovnik 2003. ISBN 953-7089-02-9
• The Challenges of the Post-Metaphysics (Izazovi post-metafizike), Sremski Karlovci - Novi Sad 2007. ISBN 978-86-7543-120-6
• The Unhealable Wound of the World (Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta), Zagreb 2007. ISBN 978-953-249-035-0
• Gianni Vattimo Reader (Ed.),(Gianni Vattimo: Čitanka (Ur.)), Zagreb 2008. ISBN 978-953-249-061-9
• Dušan Pirjevec, Death and Nothing (ed.), (Smrt i niština, (Ur.)) Zagreb 2009. ISBN 978-953-225-124-1
• Sextant: The Outlines of the Spiritual Foundations of the World (Sekstant: Skice o duhovnim temeljima svijeta), Belgrade 2010. ISBN 978-86-519-0449-6
• The Beats of the Other (Otkucaji drugoga), Belgrade 2013. ISBN 978-86-519-1721-2
• The Windows: Essays on Art and Literature (Prozori: Ogledi o umjetnosti), Dubrovnik 2015. ISBN 978-953-7835-24-8
• Darkness in the Pupil of the Sun: Philosophical Essays (Tama u zjenici sunca: Filozofski ogledi), Dubrovnik 2018 ISBN 978-953-7835-43-9
• Desire and Striving (Žudnja i stremljenje), Zagreb 2018 ISBN 978-953-341-117-0
• Against the Obvious (Protiv samorazumljivosti), With Vedran Salvia, Dubrovnik 2020. ISBN 978-953-7835-57-6
• The Otherworld according to Dante Alighieri (Prekogroblje po Danteu), Zagreb 2021. ISBN 978-953-341-219-1
• The Incurable Sight of Words (Neizlječivi pogled riječi), Dubrovnik 2023. ISBN 978-953-7835-74-3

• Continental philosophy
• Postmodern Christianity
• Ontotheology
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• Phenomenology of religion

• Interview with Mario Kopić, Zarez, 2008 (in Croatian)
• Interview with Mario Kopić, Danas, 2010 (in Serbian)
• Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2011 (in Croatian)
• Interview with Mario Kopić, Dubrovački list, 2015 (in Croatian)
• Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta (in Croatian)
• 2011 article by Mario Kopić about Hannah Arendt (in Croatian)
• 2012 article by Mario Kopić about Heidegger (in Croatian)
• 2013 article by Mario Kopić about Derrida (in Croatian)
• 2015 article by Mario Kopić about Reiner Schürmann (in Croatian)

• Comments on Jacques Derrida's Les Spectres de Marx by Mario Kopić
• Kafka and Nationalism by Mario Kopić
• M. Kopić Heideggers Wiederholungsverständnis 2013. (in German)
• M. Kopić Le peuple, la nation et l'(im)pouvoir 2012. (in French)
• M. Kopić Paul Ricoeur – filozof čitanja 2005. (in Croatian)