Background
He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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Bozidar Debenjak
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Career
In 1961, he became professor at the University of Ljubljana. Foreign more than thirty years, he taught Marxist theory and history of philosophy at the Ljubljana University. Many renowned Slovenian philosophers and sociologists were among his pupils, including Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Rastko Močnik, Renata Salecl and Tonči Kuzmanić.
He has written several books, mostly on Marxist theory, including a monograph on the thought of Friedrich Engels (Friedrich Engels: History and Alienation, 1970), in which he portrayed Engels as a "subtler historical materialist than Marx", who "managed to establish a clearer dividing line between history and nature".
He also translated several works, mostly from German, including several works by Karl Marx (especially young Marx), Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Korsch, Lenin, Jürgen Habermas and Martin Luther.
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He was one of the first scholars to introduce the thought of the Frankfurt school in the curricula of Yugoslav universities. His Introduction to Marxist Philosophy (1977) was published in 4 editions, and was one of the most influential synthesis of Marxist thought in Slovenia. He also translated Hegel"s Phenomenology of the Mind, and co-authored one of the most comprehensive Slovene-German dictionaries.
