Peter Verovšek

Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP

I don't have an exact publication date yet, but my Habermas biography now has a page on the Columbia University Press website!

Working through the page proofs and creating the index for my book on Habermas as a public intellectual. This is finally becoming a reality!

The roots of liberal and illiberal democracy: political theory, collective memory and conflicting visions of sovereignty in Europe The fall of communism in 1989 ended the division the European continent, allowing the states previously trapped behind the iron curtain to ‘return’ to Europe. Following the accession of the first p...

🚨Publication alert!
In my new piece in JCES I link the rise of illiberal democracy in Central Europe to the republican tradition in political theory and draw on Habermas to suggest ways that the West can engage in immanent critique of these developments

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Habemus operculum libri!

My book on Habermas as a public intellectual does not have a website or a publication date yet (it's looking like early 2026), but it does have a cover! Many thanks to Talal Nayer for creating the cover image for me.

Well, that’s a new one. I just got the student discount on my lunch because my server was a student in my big lecture course last year.

Rebuilding the Frankfurt School's Bridge From Theory to Practice: Jürgen Habermas's Rehabilitation of Critical Theory Click on the article title to read more.

My latest piece on how Jürgen Habermas has rebuilt the Frankfurt School's link between theory and practice as a public intellectual is up early view in Constellations. If you are interested and have the opportunity to read the piece I would love to know what you think! #AcademicSky #PolTheory

Chilling at the “Micky Mouse Cafe” at the European Parliament before my talk at the “From War to Occupation: Europe’s Divided Victory in 1945” conference

A nice review of Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life, highlighting my contribution to an edited collection I recently contributed to.
#AcademicSky

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PhD in Union Politics: Organized Labor in Democracy (1.0 FTE) Applications are in

Unfortunately, these are great positions that are becoming ever rarer, so this is a wonderful opportunity. The project is at the nexus of political theory and history. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Colleagues - please send us your students!

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...

My colleague, Jason Resnikoff, and I are excited to announce a call for a well-paid, four-year PhD position to work on an interdisciplinary project focused on the transnational role of unions in the modern democratic public sphere!

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🌟 Scholar Spotlight: Peter J. Verovšek 🌟

@pjv.bsky.social examines how generational shifts shape European integration, explaining why progress has stalled and what the future may hold.

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Superpower Europe in one of the most important areas - life!

My spotlight of four books on Habermas and the Institute for Social Research published in 2024 is up on the EJPT's website. Will be of interest to anyone working on critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. Happy reading! #AcademicSky #PolTheory
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On vacation in Vietnam, but posting a couple of photos from the wonderful workshop on the future of liberal democracy at Yale-NUS hosted by the wonderful @bas2181.bsky.social that brought me to SEA in the first place

Can’t be there, but solidarity ✊

The first day of our workshop on the new structural transformation of the digital public sphere was a great success with much constructive and occasionally agonistic debate. If you are in the area you can still join us for tomorrow’s sessions!

great overview of online archives

My article was just published in the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social Check it out!

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Many thanks to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social @javierburdman.bsky.social among others

Habermas the Freelance Journalist: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Habermas’s Early Career Although Jürgen Habermas is one of postwar Europe’s leading philosophers and public intellectuals, the secondary literature often portrays him as an apolitical thinker with little interest in “real po...

So happy to see my latest piece on Habermas's career as a freelance journalist between 1954-56 come out in New German Critique, one of the key outlets for the reception of the Frankfurt School in English!
It is a nice précis of some arguments from my book, forthcoming with Columbia University Press

Call for Papers for a Special Issue: “Critical Theories of History and Memory” - Memory Studies Association Call for Papers for a Special Issue: “Critical Theories of History and Memory” Journal of Social and Political Philosophy Deadline for Submissions: September 30th, 2024 Guest editors: Javier Bur...

📢Call for papers!🚨 @javierburdman.bsky.social, Aline Sierp and I are co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy on "Critical Theories of History and Memory." See the call for more details - all submissions welcome!
www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

I was invited to Habermas’s house yesterday “zu einer Tasse Kaffee.“ I am still processing the whole experience (we talked for over six hours!), but it is surreal to have sat with Habermas in Starnberg under Günther Fruhtrunk’s painting “Wiesengrund”

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Me with my enormous Dutch ballot for the European Parliament elections today.

If you are eligible, go vote!

I still often feel that I am in over my head!

Thanks Jen. It’s only proper that a book on Habermas have a Habermasian length

Not sure yet, but it should hopefully be out with Columbia UP sometime in mid-2025

I won’t submit it until the end of June, but I just put all the chapters together in one file, so my book on Habermas as a public intellectual is finally a reality!

It comes in at just under 170,000 words (including all references) and just over 500 pages. 😅

Collective Memory and the Stalling of European Integration: Generational Dynamics and the Crisis of European Leadership The project of European integration has been battered by repeated crises since the turn of the second millennium. However, in contrast to earlier periods in its history, when it responded to difficul....

My latest piece is finally up online. It is an attempt to sum up and push the implications from my book on memory and the EU a bit further. The fact that has come out in JCMS - a journal that has been on my bucket list for a while - makes it even better.
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🚨New publication💥

I recently contributed to a wonderful new volume on the Cold War in American life. The book arrived a few days ago and it is even better than advertised!

muse.jhu.edu/book/111696