Prof. Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl is a philosopher and sociologist. She is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Law at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

She has been Slovenian Woman of the year as well as Slovenian Woman Scientist of the year.

Her book Tyranny of Choice (Profile Books 2010) has been translated into 15 languages and was featured at TED Global. Her previous books include: The Spoils

of Freedom (Routledge 1994), (Per)versions of Love and Hate (Verso, 1998), and On Anxiety (Routledge 2004). Last book is A Passion for Ignorance: What we

choose not to know and why (Princeton UP, 2020) is soon coming out in eight languages. 

Her books On Anxiety, an Tyranny of Choice have been published in Turkish by Metis. And her book A Passion of Ignorance is going to be published by Timas.

*photo credit Miran Juršič