Martin Beck Matuštík

Curriculum vitae

      

                               

 

"Velvet Revolution in Iran?" = "Sametová demokracie v Iránu?" Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture (Fall 2006)= Literární noviny  (November 13, 2006) November 17, 2009 - the 20th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution
"From “the Velvet Revolution” to “a Velvet Jihad”?" =  Sametová demokracie a jiné změny režimů" opendemocracy.com (November 18, 2004) = Literární noviny (November 15, 2004)    Vladimir Tismaneanu response to Matustik	A scene from “No One Knows About Persian Cats,” which is banned in Iran, about the country's underground music scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av6KQpjT_4c

 

Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope:  Postsecular Meditations

Indiana University Press, 2008

Book cover image © by AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI:  A bird sits on a tree during a solar eclipse in Islamabad, 29 March 2006. The umbra was tracking eastward at dizzying speed across Africa and parts of the Middle East before expiring in Asia where it was to end at 1148 GMT, covering a distance of 14,500 kilometres (9,000 miles).

 

Book selected for one of Current Research sessions,

Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy

Washington, D.C., October 29, 2009.

 

 

 

RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

"Evil and Progress." In Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell	With response by Drucilla Cornell. Ed. Renee Heberle and Benjamin Pryor. New York: SUNY Press, 2008, 161-172.
“Becoming Human, Becoming Sober”	Continental Philosophy Review, 2010.
“The God Who Refuses to Appear on Philosophy's Terms"	Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology. Ed. B. Keith Putt. Fordham UP, 2009.
"Habermas, Jürgen" / "Jürgen Habermas”	C                  The Encyclopedia Britannica, online article, 2009. Revised from the 2002 printed version in The Encyclopedia Britannica.
"'More Than All the Others': Meditation on Responsibility"  Center for Theoretical Study of Charles University & Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 22-28 April 2007 International Conference on the occasion of Patočka's centennial of birth and thirty year anniversary of his death. Jan Patočka  (June 1, 1907 - March 13, 1977)   "Charta 77" (January 1, 1977 -  thirty year anniversary)	Published in:  Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion.  Eds. Aaron Simmons and David Wood. Indiana University Press, 2008, 244-256. Mysleni Jana Patocky ocima dnesni fenomenologie. (Sbornik textu z konference k 100. vyroci narozeni Jana Patocky.). [The Thought of Jan Patocka from the Perspective of Contemporary Phenomenology.  To the Centennial of Birth of Jan Patocka.] Ed. Ivan Chvatik.  Praha, FILOSOFIA, 2008.

RECENT & FORTHCOMING PRESENTATIONS 

"The Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations on Radical Evil"	The Gannon Lecture,  Fordham University, October 9, 2007 & Keynote address,     Penn State University, April 17, 2009
“Reading ‘Kierkegaard’ as a Drama.”	Kierkegaard and Culture Group, AAR, Montreal, Nov. 7.
"The Unforgivable: The Possibility of Redemptive Critical Theory."	Plenary presentation at the international Conference on Philosophy of Social Science. Prague, Czech Republic, May 13-17.
Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope:  Postsecular Meditations Indiana University Press, 2008	Book selected for one of Current Research sessions, Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy Washington, D.C., October 29, 2009

OTHER EVENTS

New  Critical Theory co-editor of the book series for  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Fall 2007: Drucilla Cornell Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory

HABERMAS'S SILENCE? the above statement is in response to Jorgen Busche, ”Hat Habermas die Wahrheit verschluckt?” (Has Habermas Swallowed the Truth?)

Jürgen HABERMAS @ Purdue October 15, 2004

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