MICHAEL HAUSER

Doc. Michael Hauser, Ph.D. (1972) studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Since 1998 he has been working at the Institute of Philosophy of the CAS and since 2003 he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Education of Charles University.

Since 2020 he has been the chairman of the doctoral board of Philosophy of Education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. The doctoral studies are run in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the CAS. In addition to his scientific and pedagogical work, he also carries out popularization activities.

He is interested in contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Alain Badiou, Critical Theory with a focus on Theodor W. Adorno, political philosophy, cultural theory, radical theology and theoretical understanding of the contemporary historical period.

Curriculum vitae here.

Research interests:

Critical theory, Adorno, western marxism (Althusser, Lukács), postmarxism (Žižek, Badiou, Jameson), czech ciritical thinking

Selected publications:

Badiou´s Ontology of the Present. Society, Economy and Culture in Transitin. Bloomsbury, London-New York 2025.

Metapopulistická demokracie. Politika doby přechodu, Filosofia, Praha 2024.

Pražské jaro. Logikq nového světa Filosofia, Praha 2022 (editor).

Doba přechodu. Tranzitivní ontologie a dílo Alaina Badioua, Filosofia, Praha 2021.

Politika jednoty ve světě proměn, Filosofia, Praha 2021 (spolu s Josephem G. Feinbergem a Jakubem Ortem).

Cesty z postmodernismu, Filosofia, Praha 2012.

Humanismus nestačí. Rozhovor se Slavojem Žižkem, Filosofia, Praha 2008. 

Prolegomena k filosofii současnosti, Filosofia, Praha 2007.

Adorno: moderna a negativita, Filosofia, Praha 2005.

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