Rado Riha (born 8 October 1948) is a Slovene philosopher. He is a senior research fellow and currently the head of the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coordinator of the philosophy module at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica.
Born in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, he studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. In the 1980s, he was part of what was known as the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was member of the League of Communists of Slovenia. He left the party in October 1988, together with 32 other left wing intellectuals, as a protest against the arrest by Yugoslav military intelligence of the dissident Janez JanÃ
¡a and three other journalists critical of the regime. During the so-called JBTZ trial in 1988, he was an active member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the largest non-Communist civil society platform in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
Riha's research topics include ethics, epistemology, contemporary French philosophy, the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. From 1996 to 2003 he has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Filozofski vestnik, and since 1993 a member of its editorial board.
He is married to the philosopher Jelica Ã
 umiàRiha.
Books
- Filozofija v znanosti : prispevki k razrednemu znaÃÂaju marksistiÃÂne teorije, (Analecta). Ljubljana: Univerzum, 1982.
- Problemi teorije fetiÃ
¡izma, (Filozofija skozi psihoanalizo, 2), (Analecta). Ljubljana: Univerzum, 1985 (with Slavoj Ã
½iÃ
¾ek).
- Pravo in razsodna moÃÂ : od avtoritete brez jamstva do pravila brez opore, Ljubljana: Ã
 tudentska organizacija Univerze, 1993 (with Jelica Ã
 umiàRiha), .
- Reale Geschehnisse der Freiheit : zur Kritik der Urteilskraft in Lacanscher Absicht, (Wo es war, 3). Wien: Turia & Kant, 1993, .
- Kant in drugi kopernikaÃ
Âski obrat v filozofiji. Ljubljana: ZaloÃ
¾ba ZRC, 2012, .
- Kant in Lacan'scher Ansicht : die kopernikanische Wende und das Reale. Wien, Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2018, .
Selected articles
- âÂÂPlurale Subjekte als konkrete Endlichkeiten : oder Wie Laclau mit Kant gelesen werden kannâÂÂ, in: Oliver Marchart (ed.), Judith Butler, Das Undarstellbare der Politik : Zur Hegemonietheorie Ernesto Laclaus. Wien: Turia + Kant, 1998.
- âÂÂKritika razsodne moÃÂi kot zadnja Kantova kritikaâÂÂ, in: Immanuel Kant. Kritika razsodne moÃÂi, (Philosophica, Series Classica). Ljubljana: ZaloÃ
¾ba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 1999.
- âÂÂDie Romantik im Gefecht des Symbolischen, Imaginären und RealenâÂÂ, in: Wolfgang Müller-Funk, (ed.), Franz Schuh, (ed.). Nationalismus und Romantik. Wien: Turia + Kant, 1999.
- âÂÂLa philosophie comme noeud de l'universel, du singulier et du sujetâÂÂ, in: Jelica Ã
 umiÃÂ-Riha (ed.), Universel, singulier, sujet, (Collection "Philosophie - épistémologie"). Paris: ÃÂditions Kimé, 2000.
- âÂÂPolitics as the real of philosophyâÂÂ, in: Simon Critchley, (ed.), Oliver Marchart (ed.), Laclau: a critical reader. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
- "Kommunismus als Gemeinschaft 'für alle'", in: Indeterminate! Kommunismus: Texte zu ÃÂkonomie, Politik und Kultur, Münster: Unrast, 2005 (with J. Ã
 umiàRiha)
- âÂÂKantova moralna filozofija za naÃ
¡ ÃÂasâÂÂ: introductory study. In: Immanuel Kant, Utemeljitev metafizike nravi, (Philosophica, Series Classica). Ljubljana: ZaloÃ
¾ba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2005.
- âÂÂUm v zgodovini: introductory studyâÂÂ, in: Immanuel Kant, Zgodovinsko-politiÃÂni spisi, (Philosophica, Series Classica). Ljubljana: ZaloÃ
¾ba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2006.
- âÂÂLa polÃÂtica como lo real de la filosofÃÂaâÂÂ, in: Simon Critchley (ed.), Oliver Marchart (ed.), Laclau : aproximaciones crÃÂticas a su obra. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008.
- "Does science think?", in: Frank Ruda (ed.), Jan Voelker (ed.), Science and Thought. Ljubljana: Filozofski vestnik, 2010.
- "Kant und die Frage des Realismus", Ljubljana: Filozofski vestnik, no. 3, 2018.
- "Europa als Fall der Idee", in: Jelica Ã
 umiÃÂ-Riha (ed.), "Rethinking the idea of Europe". Ljubljana: ZaloÃ
¾ba ZRC, 2019. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 40, no. 2.
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