Dolar was born in
Maribor as the son of the literary critic
Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in
Philosophy and
French language at the
University of Ljubljana, under the supervision of the renowned philosopher
Božidar Debenjak. He later studied at the
University of Paris VII and the
University of Westminster. Dolar was the co-founder, together with
Slavoj Žižek and
Rastko Močnik, of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between
Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of
German idealism. Dolar has taught at the University of Ljubljana since 1982. In 2010 Dolar began his tenure as an Advising Researcher in theory at the
Jan Van Eyck Academie,
Maastricht,
The Netherlands. His main fields of expertise are the philosophy of
G. W. F. Hegel (on which he has written several books, including a two-volume interpretation of Hegel's
Phenomenology of Mind) and French
structuralism. He is also a
music theoretician and
film critic. Dolar's
A Voice and Nothing More, a study of the
voice in its linguistic, metaphysical, physical, ethical, and political dimensions, has been translated into six languages. == Bibliography ==