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Books by Fellows

Books By Fellows

A major intellectual activity at the IWM is writing books. These include not only books by internationally renowned scholars but also many a first monograph by junior visiting fellows.

Below, please see a selection of books written by our fellows.

If you are a former fellow and would like to include your book in this list, please contact: publications@iwm.at with details.

	Title	Author	Discipline	Publishing house	Year
	Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death	Krzysztof Michalski	Philosophie / Philosophy Religion / Theology	Kurhaus Publishing	2014	Read more	Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Kurhaus Publishing, 2014 Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death Essays About God and Death [Eseje o Bogu i śmierci] is a collection of Krzysztof Michalski’s last essays. They were written over a period of a few years and inspired by the passing of three important and close people: Józef Tischner, Leszek Kołakowski and John Paul II. Read more
Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Kurhaus Publishing, 2014 Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death Essays About God and Death [Eseje o Bogu i śmierci] is a collection of Krzysztof Michalski’s last essays. They were written over a period of a few years and inspired by the passing of three important and close people: Józef Tischner, Leszek Kołakowski and John Paul II. Read more
	The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights	Kristina Stoeckl	Religion / Theology	Routledge	2014	Read more	Authors: Kristina Stoeckl Published: Routledge, 2014 The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church’s views on human rights. Read more
Authors: Kristina Stoeckl Published: Routledge, 2014 The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church’s views on human rights. Read more
	Boundaries of Toleration	Charles Taylor	Religion / Theology	Columbia University Press	2014	Read more	Authors: Charles Taylor Published: Columbia University Press, 2014 Boundaries of Toleration How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we think beyond them to mutual respect. Read more
Authors: Charles Taylor Published: Columbia University Press, 2014 Boundaries of Toleration How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume, contributors explore the limits of toleration and suggest we think beyond them to mutual respect. Read more
	Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit. Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart	Cornelia Klinger	Architektur, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte / Architecture, Art and Art History Soziologie + Anthropologie / Sociology + Anthropology	Akademie Verlag	2014	Read more	Authors: Cornelia Klinger Published: Akademie Verlag, 2014 Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit. Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart Wiener Reihe. Themen der Philosophie, hg. von Herta Nagl-Docekal, Cornelia Klinger, Ludwig Nagl und Alexander Somek, Bd. 16. Was ist der Ort der Künste in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart? Auf der Suche nach Antworten richtet sich der Blick ins 20. Jh. Read more
Authors: Cornelia Klinger Published: Akademie Verlag, 2014 Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit. Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart Wiener Reihe. Themen der Philosophie, hg. von Herta Nagl-Docekal, Cornelia Klinger, Ludwig Nagl und Alexander Somek, Bd. 16. Was ist der Ort der Künste in der Gesellschaft der Gegenwart? Auf der Suche nach Antworten richtet sich der Blick ins 20. Jh. Read more
	The Taste of Ashes. The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe	Marci Shore	Geschichte / History	Crown Publishing	2014	Read more	Authors: Marci Shore Published: Crown Publishing, 2014 The Taste of Ashes. The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. Read more

	Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion	Thomas Carroll	Philosophie / Philosophy	Palgrave Macmillan UK	2014	Read more	Authors: Thomas Carroll Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014 Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. Read more

	Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953	Timothy Snyder	Geschichte / History	Oxford University Press	2014	Read more	Authors: Timothy Snyder Published: Oxford University Press, 2014 Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Read more

	Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest	Ivan Krastev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	University of Pennsylvania Press	2014	Read more	Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the “Occupy” movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukrai Read more
Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the “Occupy” movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukrai Read more
	Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond. Transnational Media During and After Socialism			Berghahn	2013	Read more	Authors: Published: Berghahn, 2013 Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond. Transnational Media During and After Socialism In many ways what is identified today as “cultural globalization” in Eastern Europe has its root Read more

	Phenomenologies of Violence	Michael Staudigl	Philosophie / Philosophy	Brill	2013	Read more	Authors: Michael Staudigl Published: Brill, 2013 Phenomenologies of Violence Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Vol. 9, edited by Michael Staudigl. Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. Read more