Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order.  Albany, N.Y.: State  University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 360 + xxi.

 

 

Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel. New York & London: The Guilford Press, 1993. Pp. 329 +xxii..

Review article: "TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL POLITICS: A Conversation with Martin Matustik"

New Edition, 2013 by New Critical Theory (an independent publisher)

 

GENERAL CO-EDITOR OF THE BOOK SERIES

New Critical Theory, Co-Editor of the book series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1998-2008. Seventeen books have been published.  

Afterword to Radislav Matustik:  Jan Mathe - Seeker of The Good (Bratislava, 2010).

“Becoming Human, Becoming Sober.” Continental Philosophy Review 42 (2009) 249-274.

“Dangerous Memory of Hope.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination 23/4 (2009): 350-363. This is an article-length response to the critical discussion of my Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope (2008) by John Stuhr (328-339) and Patrick Burke (340-449).

”More Than All the Others: Meditation on Responsibility."  Critical Horizons: A Journal of  Philosophy and Social Theory 8 (1) (August 2007) 47-60. Republished In Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion.  Eds. Aaron Simmons and David Wood. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008, 244-256.

”Between Hope and Terror: Derrida and Habermas Plead for the Im/Possible,” Epoche 9:1 (2004) 1-18. In Lasse A. Thomassen, ed. The Derrida-Habermas Reader. Edinburgh UP, 2006, 278-296.

"Violence and Secularization, Evil and Redemption." In Modernity and the Problem of Evil. Ed. Alan Schrift. Indiana UP, 2005, 39-50.

"Habermas, Jürgen" / "Jürgen Habermas” The Encyclopedia Britannica, online article, 2009. Revised from the 2002 printed version in The Encyclopedia Britannica.

“Identity or Roots, Idol or Icon? Towards a New Critical Theory of Race,” commentary on Lucius Outlaw’s work. Radical Philosophy Review 9/1 (2006) 65-77.

"Singular Existence and Critical Theory.” Radical Philosophy Review.  8/2 (2005) 211-223. Major statement on Habermas’s Kyoto Award speech in November 2004.  This paper is part of the Review Forum on my Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile , with two preceding papers by David S. Owen, "Critical Theory and Learning from History" (187-195) and Max Pensky, "Jürgen Habermas: Existential Hero?" (192-209).

“Habermas’ Turn?” Philosophy & Social Criticism 32/1 (2006) 21-36. Major statement on

Habermas’s work since September 11, 2001.

Interview with Calvin O. Schrag." A series of interviews with prominent U.S. Continental philosophers. Symposium 8/1 (2004) 117-133.

"Existence and the Communicatively Competent Self." Philosophy and Social Criticism 25/3 (May 1999) 93-120.

"Havel and Habermas On Identity and Revolution." Praxis International 10/3-4 (October 1990-January 1991) 261-277.

"Jan Patočka and His Promise." Essay on Edward F. Findlay’s Caring for The Soul in a Postmodern Age: Politics and Phenomenology in the Thought of Jan Patočka. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2002.

 OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF GENERAL AND SCHOLARLY INTEREST

Literární noviny is a Czech intellectual weekly published in Prague. From 2004, all articles are available on-line at http://www.literarky.cz/ or by clicking on the active links below.

“Where do people go? Reflections on Václav Havel’s Leaving.” December 25, 2011. Online publication on the occasion of  President’s Havel’s death.

 "Velvet Revolution in Iran?"  Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture (Winter 2006)./ "Sametová demokracie v Iránu?" Literární noviny (November 13, 2006). Comparative analysis of dissident prodemocracy movements and civil societies in Iran and pre-1989 Eastern Europe . The article was plugged on Arts & Letters Daily www.aldaily.com run by the Chronicle of Higher Education and reprinted in The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law (an online quart. devoted to civil society, NGOs, philanthropy & the law.

Sametová demokracie a jiné změny režimů." (English title: "From 'velvet revolution' to 'velvet jihad?' Literární noviny, November 15, 2004. / The English version, Open democracy, November 18, 2004.

“Jedinec a generace” (“Individual and Generation”). Literární noviny, August 16, 2004. Article on the anniversary of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

“Nesnesitelná lehkost začátků” (“Unbearable Lightness of Beginnings”). Literární noviny, July 12, 2004. Article about memorials, memory work, and truth commissions.

“Modlitba pro Ameriku” (“America’s Prayer”). Literární noviny, May 17, 2004. Article about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse. The English version, Open democracy, June 3, 2004.

SELECTED RECENT AND FORTHCOMING LECTURES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

June 12–18. Ljubljana, Slovenia.  

November 8-9. ASU

Reading from my unpublished book ms. Out of Silence; organizer and program chair of the symposium on Memory and Countermemory: For an Open Future

2011

November 6. ASU

“Midrash on How the Pasts Will Have Remembered their Futures.” Organizer and program chair with an introductionto the Symposium on Memory and  Countermemory: Memorialization of an Open Future (ASU, November 6).

May 6. The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia.

”Where Do People Go? Postsecular Meditations on Vaclav Havel's Leaving.“ The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, after-performance symposium on Havel’s legacy (May 30).          

FORTHCOMING 

“Stages, States, and Modes of Existence in Integral Critical Theory." In Esbjörn-Hargens, S. & M. Schwartz, Eds. 

Dancing with Sophia: Integral Philosophy on the Verge. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

“The Consolations of Philosophy After 1989.” Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L.  McBride, 2013, The Lexington Press, Inc., 2013.

“Conversation with Gabriele M. Schwab on Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma” (co-edited with G. Schwab and editors of the book).  In Monica Casper and Eric Wertheimer, Eds. Within Trauma: Poetics, Politics, Praxis. Under review.

Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel.  New Critical Theory, the

second edition with a new Preface, 2013. © 1993.

UNPUBLISHED

Out of Silence: A Memoir of Survival. Book length manuscript.

“I was born with an impossible urgency to repair the irreparable, but I became the child of a Holocaust survivor when I was forty years old and learned that family members perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau and surviving relatives had managed to leave Czechoslovakia in 1946.”

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the author returns from his adopted U.S. home to his native Czechoslovakia only to discover that his mother’s literary and personal archive, that he inherited at 14 upon her death and then hid in Prague on the night before his escape at 19, contains life-altering secrets. On a self-transformative journey to discover his past, the author, who is a professor of philosophy, religious studies, and literature, takes us through an untold personal story spanning three generations and four continents impacted by the Holocaust, Communism, and the fall of Soviet dominance in Central Europe. This memoir of literary nonfiction offers a self-exploration by an author who searches with his spirit and intellect to define himself in a tumultuously changing world at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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