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Milan Komar, also known as Emilio Komar (4 June 1921 – 20 January 2006) was a Slovene Argentine Catholic and .


Life
He was born in , , then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, to a family who had emigrated from the Italian-occupied . His father, Ludvik was a retired officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army. Milan spent his childhood in Ljubljana and Škofja Loka, and in 1939 he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana where he studied law. He specialized in and continued his studies at the University of Turin, where he graduated in 1942. He first developed an interest in philosophy in Ljubljana, under the supervision of the Slovenian thinker Aleš Ušeničnik and the Eugeni Vasilievitch Spektorsky (1875-1951), who thought philosophy of law at the University of Ljubljana. He further developed his philosophical knowledge in under the influence of Giuseppe Gemellaro and . In those years, he also discovered the thought of such as and . He was also influenced by the political writings of which were then circulating in the Catholic underground.

Already as a student in Ljubljana, he became involved in a youth group, organized within the Slovenian . This group, called Borci ("Fighters", after their internal journal, Mi mladi borci, that is "We, young fighters") had an ideology. To them, was the greatest danger to humanity; nevertheless, they insisted to fight it on a cultural, intellectual and artistic field, rejecting both direct political engagement and armed struggle.

After the Capitulation of Italy in September 1943, Komar returned to , which was then occupied by . In the Slovenian Littoral, he joined the Slovenian National Defense Corps ( Slovenski narodno varstveni zbor – SNVZ), a small militia, closely affiliated to the Slovene Home Guard, which fought against the partisan resistance in the . Until 1945, he worked in the section for propaganda and culture, and helped to establish several cultural institutions (journals, publishing houses, schools) throughout the Goriška region. In May 1945, he withdrew to the Allied-occupied Northern in order to escape persecution. From there he emigrated to in 1948.

He settled in , where he spent most of his later life. Initially, he worked as a manual worker in a glass factory, studying for the exam in philosophy and . In the late 1940s, he started teaching philosophy and classical languages in different high schools, and later philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1959, started teaching history of modern philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. From 1981 to 1982, he was dean of the Faculty for Philosophy at the same university. He retired from his teaching position in 1998.

During his time in , he started to publish essays in the local Slovenian, as well as -language press. Nevertheless, he became famous especially as a teacher and a pedagogue and the so-called "Komar School" developed around him. In 1992, pope John Paul II gave him the insignia of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He spent the last decades of his life in the town of Boulogne sur Mer in the Buenos Aires Province. He died at the age of 84 in the Argentine town of San Isidro and was buried in the Žale Cemetery in his native .

Komar was a polyglot: he was fluent in Slovenian, , , , , , and ; he read also in , and Portuguese.


Thought
He started as an expert on the Rationalist philosophy of Christian Wolff and later turned to and . He was an attentive critic of modern philosophy, which drew him closer to certain aspect of phenomenology, especially the current represented by . He was also strongly influenced by the thought of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and, to a lesser extent, Miguel de Unamuno. He later developed an interest in , particularly , to whom he kept a respectful disaccord, and .

He was also influenced by non-conformist Catholic thinkers such as G. K. Chesterton and , but he always remained connected to the Neo-Scholastic tradition, best exemplified by the thought of Étienne Gilson and . In the mid 1960s, he developed a strong intellectual and personal friendship with the Italian philosopher and political scientist Augusto Del Noce, whom he regarded as his "spiritual brother". Together with him and with the philosopher Stefan Swieżawski, he started to work on his uncompleted life project, namely the reperiodization of modern philosophy.

During the regime, all his writings were prohibited in ; they were first published in the early 1990s, but his influence is still stronger in , in and in than in his native country.


Major works
  • Pot iz mrtvila (Buenos Aires, 1965)
  • Apuntes filosóficos (Buenos Aires, 1973)
  • Juliette o iluminismo y moral (Buenos Aires, 1974)
  • Para una filosofía de la filiación (Buenos Aires, 1975)
  • Fe y cultura (Buenos Aires, 1986)
  • Partecipación: términos, etimologías, definiciones (Buenos Aires, 1986)
  • Modernidad y postmodernidad (Buenos Aires, 1989)
  • Orden y misterio (Buenos Aires, 1996)
  • Iz dolge vigilije (Ljubljana, 2002)


External links


Sources
  • Bojan Godeša, Kdor ni z nami, je proti nam: slovenski izobraženci med okupatorji, Osvobodilno fronto in protirevolucionarnim taborom (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1995).
  • Mitja Ogrin, "Milan Komar", preface to Milan Komar: Razmišljanja ob razgovorih (Ljubljana: Založba Družina, 2000)
  • Igor Senčar, "Milan Komar", afterword to Milan Komar: Pot iz mrtvila (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 1999)
  • Enrique María Serra, "Milan Komar - Maestro de realismo vivido", Huellas, n.4/2006 (1.4. 2006)

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