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'''Taras Kermauner''' (13 April 1930 – 11 June 2008) was a [[Slovenia]]n [[literary history|literary historian]], [[critic]], [[philosopher]], [[essayist]], [[playwright]] and [[translator]].
 
== Life ==
Taras Kermauner was born in [[Ljubljana]] as the son of the [[Communist Party of Slovenia|Slovene communist]] politician and intellectual [[Dušan Kermauner]]. His younger brother, was [[Aleš Kermauner]], was a poet and avantguarde artist. Taras Kermauner attended the [[Poljane Grammar School|Ljubljana Classical Lyceum]] and later studied [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Ljubljana]], where he graduated in 1954. BetweenFrom 1957 and 1958-58 he studied in [[Paris]] under the supervision of [[Henri Lefebvre]].{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}▼
 
During his college years, Kermauner started collaborating with a group of Slovene intellectuals and artists who became known as the [[Critical generation]]. They published several magazines, such as ''[[Revija 57]]'' and ''[[Perspektive]]'', which challenged the cultural policies of the [[Titoist]] system in the [[Socialist Republic of Slovenia]]. Among Kermauner's closest collaborators during this period were the writer and playwright [[Dominik Smole]], poet [[Dane Zajc]], essayist and playwright [[Primož Kozak]], literary historian [[Janko Kos]], and sociologist and dissident [[Jože Pučnik]].{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}▼
▲Taras Kermauner was born in [[Ljubljana]] as the son of the [[Communist Party of Slovenia|Slovene communist]] politician and intellectual [[Dušan Kermauner]]. His younger brother was [[Aleš Kermauner]], a poet and avantguarde artist. Taras attended the [[Poljane Grammar School|Ljubljana Classical Lyceum]] and later studied [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Ljubljana]], where he graduated in 1954. Between 1957 and 1958 he studied in [[Paris]] under the supervision of [[Henri Lefebvre]].
 
In the early 1960s, Kermauner started a long personal friendship with philosopher and literary theoretician [[Dušan Pirjevec]], who strongly influenced Kermauner's intellectual development. After the mid-1970s, Kermauner grew closer to [[Christianity]] and in the mid-1980s he converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] and left public life. {{citation needed|date=September 2017}}
▲During his college years, Kermauner started collaborating with a group of Slovene intellectuals and artists who became known as the [[Critical generation]]. They published several magazines, such as ''[[Revija 57]]'' and ''[[Perspektive]]'', which challenged the cultural policies of the [[Titoist]] system in the [[Socialist Republic of Slovenia]]. Among Kermauner's closest collaborators during this period were the writer and playwright [[Dominik Smole]], poet [[Dane Zajc]], essayist and playwright [[Primož Kozak]], literary historian [[Janko Kos]], and sociologist and dissident [[Jože Pučnik]].
 
In the early 1960s, Kermauner started a long personal friendship with philosopher and literary theoretician [[Dušan Pirjevec]], who strongly influenced Kermauner's intellectual development. After the mid-1970s, Kermauner grew closer to [[Christianity]] and in the mid-1980s he converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] and left public life. He spent his last twenty years in a small village in the [[KrasKarst Plateau|Karst]] region of the [[Slovene Littoral]], dedicating his time to writing and study. He obtained his PhD at the [[University of Sarajevo]] in 1981 with a thesis on the plays of [[Ivan Cankar]]. He dedicated most of his later study to the development of Slovenian theatre and dramatic works, in which he looked for deeper ideological and existential elements. During the same period, he expanded his intellectual interests to the sociological works of [[Raymond Aron]], [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Jean Baudrillard]].{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}
 
He returned to public life shortly before his death in early 2008. Among other things, he publicly supported the newly founded social liberal party ''[[Zares]]''. He died in Ljubljana in the spring of the same year.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}
 
He was married to the writer [[Alenka Goljevšček]]. Their daughter is the poet [[Aksinja Kermauner]]. Taras Kermauner was also the father of [[Matjaž Hanžek]], political activist, poet and Slovenian [[ombudsmannOmbudsman]] between(2001–07).{{citation 2001needed|date=September and 2007.2017}}
 
== Work ==
Kermauner was considered the greatest researcher and expert on [[Slovene language|Slovene]] [[drama]]. His life work was a series of [[monograph]]s, published under the common title ''Reconstruction and/or reinterpretation of Slovene drama'', in which he analyzed all Slovene plays.
 
He also trandlatedtranslated several works by [[György Lukács]], and [[Tzvetan Todorov]]'s book ''The Spirit of Enlightenment''.
 
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