ŽIVOTOPIS

Marie-Élise Zovko, originally Deslattes, born July 1, 1959 in Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., attended school in Bethesda and Rockville, Maryland (Thomas Wootton High School, Valedictorian, Class of 1977); B.A. in Philosophy and Religion, with minors in English and German at James Madison University, Virginia (Valedictorian, Class of 1981); M.A. in Philosophy /German philolology under PD Dr. Michael Elsässer , 1985 (summa cum laude, "Mit Auszeichnung"; thesis: Der Zeitbegriff bei Heidegger und Plotin), PhD. in Philosophy/German philology/Classical philology, mentor PD Dr. Michael Elsässer († 1990) and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rang, 1992 (magna cum laude; thesis Natur und Gott: Das wirkungsgeschichtliche Verhältnis Schellings und Baaders) Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg i. Br. Employed at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb since 1991. From 1991-1996, research assistant: The Problem of World in Philosophy; 1996-2000, research project director: The Neoplatonist Tradition and Mysticism, 2002-2006; Plato and Platonism in the European Philosophical Tradition; Platonism and Forms of Intelligence, 2006-present. Academic lecturer and mentor, Department of philosophy, Studia Croatica, University of Zagreb, 1992-present ; Ass. professor for history of philosophy 2008-present. Areas of specialisation: Ancient Greek philosophy, Spinoza, Kant and German Idealism, the philosophy of Platonism, metaphysics and theory of mind.

Awards/Fellowships:

Fulbright Fellowship to Germany / ITT International Fellowship 1981-1982. Phi Kappa Phi First Year Graduate Fellow 1982-1983. Graduate Fellowship, Begabtenförderung Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, 1983-1985 (Magisterförderung); 1985-1989 (Promotionsförderung). Summer Scholar, Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Washington, D.C. June-August 1999.

DAAD-Studienreise to Berlin and Münster (Director, in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and University of Münster), October 18-30, 2009; Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center, 2010/2011.

Publications

Books:

Heideggerovo i Plotinovo Poimanje Vremena. Zagreb: Filozofska Istraživanja 1991.

Natur und Gott: Das wirkungsgeschichtliche Verhältnis Schellings und Baaders. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1996.

reviewed in:

Franz, Albert. Marie-Elise Zovko. Natur und Gott. Das wirkungsgeschichtliche Verhältnis Schellings und Baaders, Würzburg 1996, S. 323. Theologische Revue 94/1998, Heft 6, S. 696-698.

Pöggeler, Otto. "Idealismus und Romantik. Bemerkungen zu Ernst Behler und Marie-Elise Zovko." U: Hegel-Studien 34 (1999) 135-157. 

Schreier, Josef. "Schelling als Religionsphilosoph. Zu einigen Neuerscheinungen über Schellings Spätphilosophie." U: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 52/2 (April-Juni 1999), 187-201.

Tilliette, Xavier. "Compte Rendus: Marie-Élise Zovko. Natur und Gott: Das wirkungsgeschichtliche Verhältnis Schellings und Baaders. Epistemata, Philosophie Bd. 201. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 1996, 324 p." U: Archives de Philosophie 61/1 (janvier-mars 1998), 61.

Anthologies

Dillon, John & Zovko, Marie-Élise, eds. Platonism and Forms of Intelligence. Introduction by Marie-Élise Zovko. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2008.

Blažetić, Laura; Bralo, Marijana; Kroschel, Renate; Lilek, Željka, Mađor Božinović, Andrea; Resanović, Kristina; Zovko, Marie-Élise. Project Stohrenschule. Essays and Activities for Children and Philosophers on Virtue, Beauty and Happiness.

 

Articles

"Plotinovo učenje o duši." In: Filozofska istraživanja 38/39 (1990), 1461-1473.

"Zeit als Rettungsanstalt: Die Zeittheorie Franz von Baaders." Synthesis Philosophica 12, (1991): 485-493.

"Zur Diskussion: Gottesbegriff und Geschichtsphilosophie in der Sicht Schellings, von Wilhelm G. Jacobs." Studia Hermeneutica 1/1 (1995): 117-130.

"Religious Ontology and Ontology of Religion in the Later Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling and Fr. v. Baader", in: Archivio di Filosofia (Proceedings of the International Enrico-Castelli Colloquium) 1996: 683-699.

"The Renaissance of Jacob Böhme in German Romantic Philosophy: Franz von Baader's 'Natural Philosophy of Christianity,'" in: Studia Hermeneutica 2, (1996): 115-135.

"Die Spätphilosophie Schellings und die Kehre im Denken Martin Heideggers." Jahrbuch für Philosophie des Instituts für Philosophie Hannover (1998): 135-173.

"The Open-Ended Universe: Liberating Time." Studia hermeneutica 4 (1998): 133-169.

"Hegel und die Grenzen der Dialektik." Hegel Jahrbuch (2001): 53-61.

"Plato's Heracliteanism Reconsidered." Dionysius, 20 (2002): 23-50.

"Die Analogie des Lebens und der Erkenntnis: Franz von Baader und das neue Denken der Naturwissenschaft," Aufgang. Jahrbuch für Denken, Dichten und Musik, Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln: Kohlhammer 1 (2004).

"Bologna and Beyond: A Critical Reflection on the Ends and Means of the Bologna Process," Fortschritt? Studia Philosophica Iaderensia. Hrsg. v. Andreas Arndt und Jure Zovko (Hannover: Wehrhahn 2011); 195-232.

Zovko, Jure; Zovko, Marie-Élise. "The Aura of the Work of Art in Benjamin's Philosophy" Identität? Hermeneutische Erkundungen / Hufnagel, Erwin ; Zovko, Jure (ur.). Berlin: Parerga, 2008. 145-156.

"Platonism and Forms of Intelligence. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Hvar, 2006." In: Platonism and Forms of Intelligence. Ed. Marie-Élise Zovko, John Dillon. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008: 11-22.

"The Way Up and the Way Back are the Same. The Ascent of Cognition in Plato's Analogies of the Sun, the Line and the Cave and the Path Intelligence Takes," in: Platonism and Forms of Intelligence. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008: 313-341.

"Der systematische Zusammenhang der Philosophie in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft. 'Zweite Aufmerksamkeit' und Analogie der ästhetischen und teleologischen Urteilskraft." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (2010), 4: 629-645.

 

Translations

Beierwaltes, Werner. "Nous: Unity in Difference," trans. by Marie-Élise Zovko, in: Platonism and Forms of Intelligence. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008: 231-245.

Gavran, Miro. Nora in Our Time. In: Journal Kazaliste (21/22) 2005; ITI, Zagreb; Plays. Zagreb: ITG 2007.

 

Works in progress

The Geometric Manner: Spinoza and the Philosophy of Platonism (book)

Fortuitous Purposiveness: Kant Critique of Judgement and the Future of Metaphysics (book)

Project Stohrenschule. Essays and Activities for Children and Philosophers on Virtue, Beauty and Happiness (anthology)

"Did Plato Pass This Way? Plato's Adriatic and Sicilian Voyages and the Analogies of the Sun, the Line and the Cave" (article)

Zaninović, Marin, "The Ancient Greeks on the Croatian Adria," (translation)

 

Projects and Initiatives

Croatian-American Theatre Project – Hvar Theatre Project, Hvar 2006 (director). Sponsored by: American Embassy in Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia. In cooperation with: Rockville Little Theatre (Rockville, U.S.A.), Hvar Theatre, Hvar Heritage Museum, City of Hvar, City of Jelsa, Stari Grad Cultural Centre.

International Symposium of the Institute of Philosophy: Platonism and Forms of Intelligence, Hvar 2006 (chair, organizing committee). Under the official patronage of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Stipe Mesić, the Croatian Committee for UNESCO, and the City of Hvar.  In cooperation with the Croatian Hegel Society, Plato-Society of Croatia, Studia Croatica/ University of Zagreb, Society for the Advancement of Philosophy/Zagreb, Matica Hrvatska, Hvar Heritage Museum. Sponsored by: Istituto italiano di Cultura, Zagreb; Royal Netherlands Embassy, Zagreb

Initiative to found an International Research Consortium: Philosophical Dialogue in a Knowledge-Based Society, Zagreb; 2006.

Initiative to found theUniversity of Zagreb Writing Project – Projekt akademskog pisanja 2007-present.

Stohrenschule Project: Philosophical and pedagogical Dialogues on Virtue, Beauty and Happiness, (a project on philosophizing with children), 2007– present . Directed by: Renate Kroschel (Münstertal/Freiburg i. Br.), Marie-Élise Zovko (Zagreb): In cooperation with: Stohrenschule (Münstertal), Deutsche-internationale-Schule, and others.

Saving the Natural and Cultural Treasures of the Pelegrin Peninsula, petition, by Prof. Marin Zaninović and Dr. Marie-Élise Zovko, (deactivated December 16, 2007); Stop Development Plans on Pelegrin Peninsula, petition,
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-development-plans-on-pelegrin-peninsula-hvar-croatia.html (Croatian: Zaustavite gradnju na poluotoku Pelegrinu:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/11862.html ), closed on September 11, 2009.

Zagreb New School of Philosophical Discourse (initiator and founder, 2008). 

DAAD Studienreise (organizer and director): "Wissen, Glauben und aesthetisches Urteilsvermögen im deutschen Idealismus und in der nachidealistischen Gesellschaftstheorie Adornos" ( Knowledge, Belief, and Aesthetic Judgment in German Idealism and in Adorno's Postidealist Social Theory, (12-day study visit to Münster and Berlin, in cooperation with the University of Münster and the Free University of Berlin, with participation of 10 diploma and doctoral students from the University of Zagreb), October 18-30, 2009.

 

Teaching

Since 1993, academic lecturer and mentor, Department of Philosophy, Studia Croatica, University of Zagreb. Courses taught (undergraduate and graduate, in Croatian, English and German):

·         Introduction to Greek Philosophy (Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle)

·         Introduction to Modern Philosophy (Renaissance, Rationalism, Empiricism, Kant) 

·         Spinoza; Spinoza and German Idealism

·         Kant and British Empiricism (English and German)

·         Mind & Brain

·         Freedom and Causality (graduate)

·         Critical Philosophy and the Ends of Knowledge, Morality and Art: Kant's Critiques and the Project of Philosophy (graduate)

·         Kant and German Idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel)

·         Idealism and Phenomenology (German Idealism and Romantic , Heidegger)

·         Platonism and Idealism (Plato, Middle Platonism, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Platonism, influence of Platonism on German Idealism and Romanticism)

·         Ancient Greek Philosophy (seminar, Plato, Aristotle, selected topics, such as: "The Controversy Regarding   Plato's 'Unwritten Doctrines')"

·         Platonism on Being and Mind

·         Dialectic from Platonism to Idealism

·         Justice from Plato to Rawls

·         Nature and Knowledge from Cusanus to Kant 

·         Ancient Greek for Students of Philosophy

·         Principles of Metaphysics (graduate)

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