Aleš Erjavec

Aleš Erjavec (30 September 1951 – 3 January 2026) was a Slovenian philosopher and aesthetician. He was professor of aesthetics at the University of Ljubljana, and separately at the University of Primorska, in Koper, Slovenia. He wrote extensively on aesthetics and on the post-modern avant-garde movement.

Early years He was born in 1951 in Ljubljana, into an academic family: his father, Franc Erjavec, was a medical pharmacologist and professor emeritus, and his mother, Marija Erjavec (née Bren), was a neonatologist. Aleš Erjavec attended schools in Ljubljana and Bethesda, Maryland before graduating from Poljane Grammar School in 1969.