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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
	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

	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

	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
	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

	Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society 1949-56	Katherine Lebow	Geschichte / History	Cornell University Press	2013	Read more	Authors: Katherine Lebow Published: Cornell University Press, 2013 Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society 1949-56 Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland’s “first socialist city” by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. Read more
Authors: Katherine Lebow Published: Cornell University Press, 2013 Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society 1949-56 Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland’s “first socialist city” by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. Read more
	In Mistrust We Trust. Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders?	Ivan Krastev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	TED Books	2013	Read more	Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: TED Books, 2013 In Mistrust We Trust. Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? A recent Gallup poll listed the least-trusted professions in America. At the bottom of the list: car salesmen and members of Congress. It’s not hard to understand why our politicians rate so poorly — scandals, myopia, obstinacy, party loyalty over common good, fiscal cliffs. Read more
Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: TED Books, 2013 In Mistrust We Trust. Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders? A recent Gallup poll listed the least-trusted professions in America. At the bottom of the list: car salesmen and members of Congress. It’s not hard to understand why our politicians rate so poorly — scandals, myopia, obstinacy, party loyalty over common good, fiscal cliffs. Read more
	The Lost Decade. Потерянное десятилетие	Vladislav Inozemtsev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science Wirtschaft / Economics	Moscow School of Political Science	2013	Read more	Authors: Vladislav Inozemtsev Published: Moscow School of Political Science, 2013 The Lost Decade. Потерянное десятилетие The new book by Vladislav Inozemtsev, School’s expert and well-known economist and political writer is now out, published by Moscow School. The book consists of the articles published along 2002 – 2011. Read more
Authors: Vladislav Inozemtsev Published: Moscow School of Political Science, 2013 The Lost Decade. Потерянное десятилетие The new book by Vladislav Inozemtsev, School’s expert and well-known economist and political writer is now out, published by Moscow School. The book consists of the articles published along 2002 – 2011. Read more
	The Flame of Eternity	Krzysztof Michalski	Philosophie / Philosophy	Princeton University Press	2013	Read more	Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Princeton University Press, 2013 The Flame of Eternity An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thought Translated by Benjamin Paloff The Flame of Eternity provides a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and his concepts of eternity and time to which his reflections on human life are inextricably linked to. Read more
Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Princeton University Press, 2013 The Flame of Eternity An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thought Translated by Benjamin Paloff The Flame of Eternity provides a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and his concepts of eternity and time to which his reflections on human life are inextricably linked to. 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

	Hegels Ästhetik als Theorie der Moderne	Cornelia Klinger	Philosophie / Philosophy	Akademie Verlag	2013	Read more	Authors: Cornelia Klinger Published: Akademie Verlag, 2013 Hegels Ästhetik als Theorie der Moderne A. Gethmann-Siefert, E. Rózsa, E. Weisser-Lohmann, H. Nagl-Docekal. Vol. 17 of the Series "Wiener Reihe. Themen der Philosophie", editors: Herta Nagl-Docekal, Cornelia Klinger, Ludwig Nagl and Alexander Somek. Read more