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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.
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| Violence and the Gift. Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion | Ludger Hagedorn |
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JCRT | 2015 | Authors: Ludger Hagedorn
Published: JCRT, 2015
Violence and the Gift. Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion
The collection of papers in this special issue began at the conference “Violence and the Gift: Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion,” which took place on April 25-26 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
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| Demokracja: Przepraszamy za usterki | Ivan Krastev |
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Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej | 2015 | Authors: Ivan Krastev
Published: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2015
Demokracja: Przepraszamy za usterki
Poczucie kryzysu demokracji wydaje się dziś powszechne – kłopoty integracji Unii Europejskiej, oligarchizacja polityki w USA, efektywność gospodarcza reżimów autorytarnych i rosnąca niechęć do tradycyjnych partii, liderów politycznych i samych państw sprzyjają wizjom schyłku świata jaki znamy.
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| The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIV, A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patocka, | James Dodd |
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Routledge | 2015 | Authors: James Dodd
Published: Routledge, 2015
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIV, A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patocka,
This volume comprises a number of studies on Patočka’s philosophical oeuvre, completed by two remarkable and hitherto unpublished English translations of his own essays: “Time, Myth, Faith,” written in the 1950’s, is one of his earliest and most explicit reflections on religion and historicity.
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| Student Politics in Communist PolandGenerations of Consent and Dissent | Tom Junes |
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| Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe | Milos Vec |
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Oxford University Press | 2015 | Authors: Milos Vec
Published: Oxford University Press, 2015
Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe
‘Peace’ is often simplistically assumed to be war’s opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked.
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| The Taste of Ashes. The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe | Marci Shore |
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Crown Publishing | 2014 | 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.
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| Blindheit und Hellsichtigkeit. Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart | Cornelia Klinger |
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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.
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| Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 | Timothy Snyder |
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Oxford University Press | 2014 | 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.
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| The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights | Kristina Stoeckl |
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Routledge | 2014 | 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.
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| Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest | Ivan Krastev |
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University of Pennsylvania Press | 2014 | 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 Ukraine.
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