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Lea Kuhar is a Slovenian philosopher, sociologist of culture and researcher, born 6th of January 1990.

Between 2016 and 2020 she worked as a young researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU. In 2020 she defended her PhD thesis at the Graduate School of ZRC SAZU, where she was a PhD student of the module Transformation of Modern Thought - Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture. She is the author of several scientific articles published in Slovenian and foreign journals. Her work focuses on Marxism, epistemology and contemporary political philosophy. She was a member of the Programme Committee of the Institute for Labour Studies, editor of the journal Borec and an independent researcher.

Philosophical studies
Her doctoral dissertation on "The Impossible Object of the Critique of Political Economy", entitled The Problem of Specific Objectivity in Marx's Critique of Political Economy, was prepared under the supervision of Prof. Rado Riha. She investigated the object of Karl Marx's philosophy or critical theory. Her research focused on two strands of Marxist and philosophical thought that emerged during the 1960s, but which took shape in different parts of Europe: one under the common name of Neue-Marx-Lektüre in Germany, and the other in France in the circles of Louis Althusser and his students, which now are the main representatives of contemporary French philosophy. In this work, she focused on objectivity and addressed the ontological and epistemological segments through analysis, to which she added a case study. As co-editor, she created Platform, a collection of students of the ZRC SAZU Graduate School. In 2020, she served as the chair of the committee for the selection of the best mentor within the Young Academy. In 2021, she was interviewed for the Meta PHoDcast on the role of philosophy in contemporary society and the divide between the political and scientific work of Marx. In 2021, she gave a lecture at the Mask Seminar, run by the performing arts journal Maska, on the melancholy of the left and ressentiment as an alternative to capitalist realism, which Mark Fisher discussed as the pervasive feeling that the capitalist mode of production is the best and precludes the possibility of an alternative. In 2021, she published an article entitled Who's Afraid of a Cultural Marxist in the professional online journal Alternator, which aims to link scientific research institutions more closely with each other. In the article, she discusses three features of the right that are established by the construction of the cultural Marxist, a conspiracy theory of the right that claims that the left is trying to destroy the values of Western Christian society through political correctness, identity struggles, feminism and support for migration.