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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
	Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe	Miloš Vec	Geschichte / History Recht / Law	Oxford University Press	2015	Read more	Authors: Miloš 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. Read more
Authors: Miloš 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. Read more
	Violence and the Gift. Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion	Ludger Hagedorn	Philosophie / Philosophy	JCRT	2015	Read more	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. Read more

	Demokracja: Przepraszamy za usterki	Ivan Krastev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej	2015	Read more	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 ś Read more
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 ś Read more
	The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIV, A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patočka	Ludger Hagedorn	Philosophie / Philosophy	Routledge	2015	Read more	Authors: Ludger Hagedorn Published: Routledge, 2015 The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIV, A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patočka 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 rel Read more
Authors: Ludger Hagedorn Published: Routledge, 2015 The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, vol. XIV, A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patočka 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 rel Read more
	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
	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
	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

	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

	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