Trojka s filozofske: spisi o Vebru, Bartolu in Jugu

France Veber, the most important Slovene philosopher before 1945, was also a very influential and successful professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He mentored 23 PhD students, the majority of them becoming prominent figures of Slovene intellectual and cultural life. Two salient personalities in this respect were Veber’s favourite student Klement Jug, the founder of Slovene extreme alpinism, and fiction writer Vladimir Bartol, who gained a wide international recognition with his best-selling novel Alamut.

Separate chapters of this book discuss various topics connected to the works of Veber, Bartol and Jug, particularly their intersections. They deal with the myth of Jug as an outstanding philosopher; with his ethical philosophy–designed as opposition to Veber’s–as opposed to Scheler’s; with the philosophical dispute between Veber and Bartol that started with Bartol’s PhD thesis and continued on several other occasions; with elements of Veber’s philosophy (and personality) in Bartol’s fiction; with misogyny in Bartol’s fiction, partly influenced by Jug’s views; and with issues, regarding Bartol’s political engagement. In sum, the book offers a thorough insight in the important section of Slovene intellectual history between the two world wars.