Gorazd Kocijančič is a freelance Slovenephilosopher, poet and translator. Kocijančič is well known for his translation of the entire corpus of Plato's work into Slovene.
Selected publications
Kocijančič has published over 360 works, since 1987.
Notable works
Mediations, 1996
Between the East and the West: Four Contributions to the Ecstatics, 2004
To Those Outside: Exoteric Writings 1990-2003, 2004
The breaking. Seven radical essays, 2009
Erotics, politics etc. Three essays about soul, 2011
Books
In his book Mediations, Kocijančič expressed his understanding of a contemporary Christian philosophy stemming from the idea of a radical apophatic thought. In his book Between the East and the West: Four Contributions to the Ecstatics he formulated his understanding of the relationship between different spiritual traditions and the metaontology, gnoseology, ethics and ecclesiology of the supraconfessional, Eastern-Western Christianity. His work To Those Outside: Exoteric Writings 1990-2003, is a collection of short newspaper articles, columns and book reviews published in various journals and newspapers, in which he comments on current events, newly published books and artistic events from the perspective of his anarchicphilosophy of culture. For this work he received the Rožanc Award the same year it was published.
Translations
Kocijančič has translated into Slovene a Pre-Socratic verse composition from Ancient Greek by the poet and thinker Parmenides and The Elements of Theology by Proclus. He translated and commented upon complete works of Plato. He has also worked on the New standard translation of the Bible into Slovene by providing translation of and commentary to the Gospels and certain deuterocanonical books of Old Testament and the revision of the entire New Testament, and translated and annotated numerous patristic works such as Thoughts of the Greek Fathers on Prayer, The Wisdom of the Desert, Apostolic Fathers, Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Macrina, Dialogue On the Soul and Resurrection, Logos in Defence of the Truth: Selected Writings by the Early Christian Apologists, Maximus the Confessor: Selected Works. His last work is translation of the complete works of Dionysius the Areopagite and Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. With others he also edited and translated Meister Eckhart's Sermons and Treatises and edited the translation of a series of books on history of medieval philosophy.
Poetry
His collection of poetryYour names was published bilingually with an English translation. His other three collections are Thirty steps and We’re gone, Certamen spirituale and Primož Trubar is leaving Ljubljana. Many of his poems are translated in various languages and included in anthologies of Slovene poetry.
Other interests
His other interests include nineteenth-century thought; for example he translated V. Solovyov's Spiritual foundations of life, and provided an introduction to it titled "The Subject and the Doctrine and contemporary currents of philosophical thought". He also translated E. Lévinas Time and the Other, and wrote an introduction to it with the title "Other time? Different Other? Phenomenology as a hermeneutical problem". Besides translating philosophical and theological texts and writing poetry, he has also been involved in literary translation. He has translated from Hebrew a selection of poems by the most renowned Hebrew poets of the Middle Ages; Judah ben Samuel Halevi's: Selected Poems, Solomon ibn Gabirol's Crown of the Kingdom. From German he has translated Rilke's Marienleben und Stundenbuch, and with Vid Snoj poems by Angelus Silesius and Paul Celan. From French he has translated Paul Claudel's Cent phrases pour l’eventail and Charles Peguy. He also edited and translated an anthology of Christian Greek poetryAthos - The Dividing Line Between Heaven and the Earth. In 1997 he edited the journal "Tretji dan" and contributed to it until 2000, he was also an editor of its book collection. Later he founded the international multilingual electronic journal for culture and spirituality "Logos" Currently he is working on his own philosophical system: the first, ontological part, was published under title Razbitje. Sedem radikalnih esejev, and the second under title Erotics, politics etc. Three essays on the soul.
