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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
	Our Malady, Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary	Timothy Snyder	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Penguin Randomhouse	2020	Read more	Authors: Timothy Snyder Published: Penguin Randomhouse, 2020 Our Malady, Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Read more

	Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers	Ranabir Samaddar	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group	2020	Read more	Authors: Ranabir Samaddar Published: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020 Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers Migrant workers from different parts of India trekked back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home in the wake of the sudden announcement by the government of a complete lockd Read more
Authors: Ranabir Samaddar Published: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020 Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers Migrant workers from different parts of India trekked back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home in the wake of the sudden announcement by the government of a complete lockd Read more
	Mein Leben: oder Die Geschichte meiner Experimente mit der Wahrheit	Ilija Trojanow	Geschichte / History	C.H. Beck	2019	Read more	Authors: Ilija Trojanow Published: C.H. Beck, 2019 Mein Leben: oder Die Geschichte meiner Experimente mit der Wahrheit Der Name Gandhi ist zum Synonym für gewaltlosen Widerstand und zivilen Ungehorsam geworden. Read more

	The Light that Failed: A Reckoning	Ivan Krastev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Penguin Randomhouse	2019	Read more	Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: Penguin Randomhouse, 2019 The Light that Failed: A Reckoning Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. Read more

	Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy	Clemena Antonova	Architektur, Kunst und Kunstgeschichte / Architecture, Art and Art History	Routledge	2019	Read more	Authors: Clemena Antonova Published: Routledge, 2019 Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy This book considers a movement within Russian religious philosophy known as "full unity" (vseedinstvo), with a focus on one of its main representatives, Pavel Florensky (1882–1937). Read more

	Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges	Ruth Wodak	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Nordic Academic Press	2019	Read more	Authors: Ruth Wodak Published: Nordic Academic Press, 2019 Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes. Read more
Authors: Ruth Wodak Published: Nordic Academic Press, 2019 Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes. Read more
	Brave New Hungary	János Mátyás Kovács	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Rowman & Littlefield	2019	Read more	Authors: János Mátyás Kovács Published: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019 Brave New Hungary Edited by János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi. Read more

	Social Science at the Crossroads	Shalini Randeria	Soziologie + Anthropologie / Sociology + Anthropology	Brill	2019	Read more	Authors: Shalini Randeria Published: Brill, 2019 Social Science at the Crossroads The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? Read more
Authors: Shalini Randeria Published: Brill, 2019 Social Science at the Crossroads The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? Read more
	La città post-secolare. Il nuovo dibattito sulla secolarizzazione	Paolo Costa		Biblioteca di teologia contemporanea	2019	Read more	Authors: Paolo Costa Published: Biblioteca di teologia contemporanea, 2019 La città post-secolare. Il nuovo dibattito sulla secolarizzazione Per il concetto di “secolarizzazione” è tempo di bilanci. Read more

	The Balkans as Europe, 1821 - 1914	Katherine Younger	Geschichte / History	University of Rochester Press	2018	Read more	Authors: Katherine Younger Published: University of Rochester Press, 2018 The Balkans as Europe, 1821 - 1914 Focusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War I This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem Read more
Authors: Katherine Younger Published: University of Rochester Press, 2018 The Balkans as Europe, 1821 - 1914 Focusing on state formation and the identity-geopolitics relationship, makes the case that the Balkans were at the forefront of European history in the century before World War I This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem Read more