Igor Škamperle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Igor Škamperle

Slovenian sociologist, cultural theorist, novelist, essayist, mountaineer and translator

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1962

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Profession: writer, translator, sociologist, philosopher, mountaineer, essayist, linguist

Nationality: Italy, Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Igor Škamperle

  • Igor Škamperle (born 21 November 1962) is a Slovenian sociologist, cultural theorist, novelist, essayist, mountaineer and translator. He was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Trieste, Italy.
  • He studied comparative literature and cultural sociology at the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1990.
  • He continued his studies at the Universities of Bologna and Perugia, where he studied cultural and social changes in the Renaissance period and the cosmologic thought of Giordano Bruno.
  • Since 1999, he works as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. His field of interest is mostly the Renaissance culture and the theory of symbolic forms.
  • In his writings and translations, Škamperle introduced the thought of the Italian historical school (with Eugenio Garin and Federico Chabod as its main representatives) into the Slovene historiography.
  • He wrote treatises about Renaissance thinkers such as Pico della Mirandola and Nicholas of Cusa.
  • He was one of the first scholars of hermetism in Slovenia, as well as one of the first Slovene interpreters of Carl Gustav Jung.
  • Škamperle's most important work is Magicna renesansa ("The Magical Renaissance"), in which he analyzed the magical-mythological current in the European Renaissance and reflected on the reasons of its disappearance with the emergence of Classicism.
  • He studied and wrote about the political thought of Machiavelli, the historical epistemology of Alexandre Koyré and various religious manifestations such as shamanism.
  • He also published important studies on Eleazar M.
  • Meletinskii and Georges Dumézil. In his young years, Škamperle was a mountaineer.
  • He wrote several books on mountaineering which has an important influence in the Slovene mountaineer subculture.
  • His writing insert themselves in a long tradition of Slovene mountaineering essayistics, that goes from Julius Kugy to Tone Svetina and Dušan Jelincic. He also collaborated in productions for the Slovenian Television Broadcast.
  • The two most important were the film Epifanija zemlje in duha ("Epiphany of Earth and Spirit"), dedicated to the 80 years of the author Alojz Rebula, and a documentary on the Slovene philosopher Klement Jug. He regularly publishes essays reflecting on contemporary society in the journals Sodobnost and Nova revija.

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