Božidar Debenjak

Božidar Debenjak (born 7 May 1935) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, social theorist and translator.

[1] For 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.

[2][3] He was one of the first scholars to introduce the thought of the Frankfurt school in the curricula of Yugoslav universities.

[3] 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.

He also translated Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind and Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (together with his wife and son), and co-authored one of the most comprehensive Slovene-German dictionaries.