Igor Škamperle

Igor Škamperle (born 21 November 1962) is a Slovenian sociologist, cultural theorist, novelist, essayist, mountaineer and translator.

In his writings and translations, Škamperle introduced the thought of the Italian historical school (with Eugenio Garin and Federico Chabod as its main representatives) into the Slovene historiography.

He studied and wrote about the political thought of Machiavelli, the historical epistemology of Alexandre Koyré and various religious manifestations such as shamanism.

His writing insert themselves in a long tradition of Slovene mountaineering essayistics, that goes from Julius Kugy to Tone Svetina and Dušan Jelinčič.

The two most important were the film Epifanija zemlje in duha ("Epiphany of Earth and Spirit"), dedicated to the 80 years of the author Alojz Rebula, and a documentary on the Slovene philosopher Klement Jug.