Rada Iveković

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region = Comparative Philosophers
era = 20th-century philosophy
(Contemporary Philosophy)
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name = Rada Ivekovic
birth = 1945 (Zagreb, Yugoslavia)
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school_tradition = Buddhist Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
main_interests = Political philosophy, Feminist Philosophy| influences =
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notable_ideas = "Le partage de la raison"

Rada Iveković, born in 1945 in Zagreb, Croatia is a professor, philosopher, Indologist, and writer.

Research

Among Ivekovic’s numerous research interests, the most prominent are Comparative Philosophy (Asian Philosophy, particularly Indian, and Western), Feminist Theory and Feminist Philosophy as well as Political Philosophy.
In particular, the following aspects have been of intellectual inspiration for Ivekovic’s work: Contemporary European Philosophy, Postmodern Philosophy, Orientalism in (Western) Philosophy, the Feminine in Philosophy, issues of nation, state und citizenship, problems of nationalism, of violence and war, European identity issues, and democracy.
Ivekovic’s other interests include: Literary Theory and Literary Criticism, Religion and Mythology, Gender Studies und Women Writers, Anthropology, and Contemporary French Philosophy in particular.

Political positioning

Ivekovic holds that the inequality of the sexes (Inégalité des sexes) and other alterities, inequalities, exclusions, subordinating inclusions (e.g. through discrimination by Gender, national citizenship, Ethnicity, Colonization) leads to a fatal partitioning of reason ("Le partage de la raison"). On the war events on the territory of Yugolslavia she takes an explicitly anti-patrirarchal, anti-racist and non-nationalist stance.
In 1997 Ivekovic published an acclaimed study on gender/sex in philosophy, taking issue with Jean-Francois Lyotard.

Curriculum vitae

since 2004 Program Director at [http://www.ciph.org Collège international de philosophie (Paris)]

since 2003 Professor in the Department of Sociology at [http://portail.univ-st-etienne.fr University Jean Monnet - St.Etienne]

1998-2003 Professor at [http://www.univ-paris8.fr Paris VIII]

1993 Habilitation on the philosophical anthropology of difference, [http://www.univ-paris8.fr Paris VIII]

1991/1992 Ivekovic leaves Zagreb

1987 Sabbatical at the Faculty of Philosophy at [http://www.bhu.ac.in Banaras Hindu University] , Benares

From 1975 to 1991/1992 Lecturer in the History of Asian Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy at [http://www.unizg.hr Zagreb University]

1972 PhD on Buddhist Philosophy, [http://www.du.ac.in Delhi University]

At [http://www.unizg.hr Zagreb University] , Indology, Philosophy and English Studies, also at [http://www.bg.ac.yu Belgrade University] , and ,1970-1973, Buddhist Philosophy at der [http://www.du.ac.in Delhi University] . Holds degrees in Indology and English from [http://www.unizg.hr Zagreb University] , 1969.

Growing up mostly in Zagreb and Belgrade, with A-Levels 1964 (Primary school partly at French school in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany). Ivekovic lived mostly in Zagreb, from 1963 until leaving Croatia for exile in 1991/1992 by which she meant to protest against nationalism.

Most recent publications by Ivekovic in English

*2005: "The Fiction of Gender Constructing the Fiction of Nation: On How Fictions Are Normative, and Norms Produce Exceptions". Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures 2005 (Gender and Nation in South Eastern Europe), 19-38.
*2005: : [http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/war/abstract_Rada.htm "Borders and Partitions : Exception as Space and Time"] (Abstract for the conference "Polemos, Stasis ... War, Civil War", 24-27 June 2005, [http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/ National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Theory)] .
*2004: "COMMENTARY - The Veil in France: Secularism, Nation, Women". [http://www.epw.org.in Economic and political weekly: a Sameeksha Trust publication] . Vol. 39, 11, 1117-1119.

[http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/war/Rada_CV.htm Publications originally in Serbocroat]
[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rada_Ivekovic Publications originally in French]
[http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/war/Rada_CV.htm Publications originally in Italian]
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rada_Ivekovic Publications in German]

On Ivekovic in English

2007 (to appear) Margret Grebowicz: Gender after Lyotard. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. (Source: [http://www.worldcat.org WorldCat] )

Sources

* [http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/war/Rada_CV.htm Most comprehensive CV, until 2004, in English]
* [http://www-gewi.uni-graz.at/nabl/intercity/ivekovic.htm Short portrait in German with photo, 1997]
* [http://www.worldsocialagenda.org/archivio/04%20Ivekovic.htm Short portrait in Italian for the "world social agenda 2000-2003 per una democrazia parcetipativa" in Veneto]
* [http://www.ci-philo.asso.fr/C-direct.asp Discussion topic Ivekovic offers at CIPH Paris, in French]