Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

Hi everyone, my colleague from contemporary history, Jason Resnikoff, and I are recruiting a PhD student for a position in International Union Politics. Please send us your students interested in strikes, unions and labor politics! werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd...

I got a chance to work with the first part of Habermas's Vorlass for my forthcoming biography. Hopefully I will have the chance to look at this more recent stuff as well at some point (given that I have corresponded with him in the period covered, I think that I should be in his papers as well!)

I don't have an exact publication date yet, but my Habermas biography now has a page on the Columbia University Press website!

Working through the page proofs and creating the index for my book on Habermas as a public intellectual. This is finally becoming a reality!

🚨Publication alert! In my new piece in JCES I link the rise of illiberal democracy in Central Europe to the republican tradition in political theory and draw on Habermas to suggest ways that the West can engage in immanent critique of these developments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Habemus operculum libri! My book on Habermas as a public intellectual does not have a website or a publication date yet (it's looking like early 2026), but it does have a cover! Many thanks to Talal Nayer for creating the cover image for me.

Well, that’s a new one. I just got the student discount on my lunch because my server was a student in my big lecture course last year.

My latest piece on how Jürgen Habermas has rebuilt the Frankfurt School's link between theory and practice as a public intellectual is up early view in Constellations. If you are interested and have the opportunity to read the piece I would love to know what you think! #AcademicSky #PolTheory

Chilling at the “Micky Mouse Cafe” at the European Parliament before my talk at the “From War to Occupation: Europe’s Divided Victory in 1945” conference

A nice review of Red Reckoning: The Cold War and the Transformation of American Life, highlighting my contribution to an edited collection I recently contributed to. #AcademicSky academic.oup.com/jah/article-...

My colleague, Jason Resnikoff, and I are excited to announce a call for a well-paid, four-year PhD position to work on an interdisciplinary project focused on the transnational role of unions in the modern democratic public sphere! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

🌟 Scholar Spotlight: Peter J. Verovšek 🌟 @pjv.bsky.social examines how generational shifts shape European integration, explaining why progress has stalled and what the future may hold. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Superpower Europe in one of the most important areas - life!

My spotlight of four books on Habermas and the Institute for Social Research published in 2024 is up on the EJPT's website. Will be of interest to anyone working on critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. Happy reading! #AcademicSky #PolTheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On vacation in Vietnam, but posting a couple of photos from the wonderful workshop on the future of liberal democracy at Yale-NUS hosted by the wonderful @bas2181.bsky.social that brought me to SEA in the first place

The first day of our workshop on the new structural transformation of the digital public sphere was a great success with much constructive and occasionally agonistic debate. If you are in the area you can still join us for tomorrow’s sessions!

great overview of online archives

My article was just published in the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social Check it out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So happy to see my latest piece on Habermas's career as a freelance journalist between 1954-56 come out in New German Critique, one of the key outlets for the reception of the Frankfurt School in English! It is a nice précis of some arguments from my book, forthcoming with Columbia University Press

📢Call for papers!🚨 @javierburdman.bsky.social, Aline Sierp and I are co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy on "Critical Theories of History and Memory." See the call for more details - all submissions welcome! www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

I was invited to Habermas’s house yesterday “zu einer Tasse Kaffee.“ I am still processing the whole experience (we talked for over six hours!), but it is surreal to have sat with Habermas in Starnberg under Günther Fruhtrunk’s painting “Wiesengrund”

Me with my enormous Dutch ballot for the European Parliament elections today. If you are eligible, go vote!

I won’t submit it until the end of June, but I just put all the chapters together in one file, so my book on Habermas as a public intellectual is finally a reality! It comes in at just under 170,000 words (including all references) and just over 500 pages. 😅

My latest piece is finally up online. It is an attempt to sum up and push the implications from my book on memory and the EU a bit further. The fact that has come out in JCMS - a journal that has been on my bucket list for a while - makes it even better. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New publication💥 I recently contributed to a wonderful new volume on the Cold War in American life. The book arrived a few days ago and it is even better than advertised! muse.jhu.edu/book/111696

Our two day political theory meeting continues today with our 6th annual workshop on Hannah Arendt!

Our 2nd annual radical readings workshop - this year on Marx - is now underway! Our 6th annual workshop on Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy is up in Leiden tomorrow

I am still recovering from my book manuscript workshop in Frankfurt last Friday, but I want to thank all the great scholars who came for helping me to improve my book on Habermas the public intellectual. Now I just have to figure out how to integrate all of wonderful the comments I received!

A short pilgrimage to a couple of sites related to the Frankfurt School before continuing my archival visit at the Habermas Vorlass today. My book manuscript workshop starts early tomorrow morning 😅

Four years after my initial visit in February-March 2020 was cut short by the outbreak of Covid-19, I am back in the archive at Habermas Vorlass chasing down a few details ahead of my book manuscript workshop on Friday. It’s amazing how far my work on Habermas as a public intellectual has come!

🚨Book Manuscript Workshop Announcement📢 Rainer Forst will be hosting a workshop on my book manuscript on Habermas as a public intellectual, tentatively entitled Engaged Critical Theory. Registration details below if you are in Frankfurt. If not, please DM me for a Zoom link.

Really happy to see this this Festschrift for my Doktormutter, Seyla Benhabib, our in the world. Honored to have been asked to contribute to it as well!

Happy New Year, everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that the Spotlight I edited based on our very popular panel on Archives in the History of Political Thought and Beyond has been published in the latest issue of PS: Political Science and Politics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Your regular reminder that we, your professors, LOVE IT when you email us after the fact to let us know what you're up to. Truly one of the most gratifying parts of this work.

Up today: Benjamin Carpenter reviews Heidegger in ruins: between philosophy and ideology by Richard Wolin link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New CPT Review: Matthew Benjamin Cole reads Return to Ecotopia?: No other planet: Utopian visions for a climate-changed world by Matthias Thaler link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A very courageous piece from Seyla Benhabib. @bonniehonig.bsky.social @renagamine.bsky.social @tatiroque.bsky.social @helenreflects.bsky.social medium.com/amor-mundi/a...

New review up on CPT's website: Christos Marneros reads Defensive relativism: The use of cultural relativism in international legal practice by Frederick Cowell link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Up now on the CPT website: @BrianMilstein reviews Cannibal capitalism: how our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet—and what we can do about it by Nancy Fraser! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now up on CPT's website: @onur_ulas_ince reviews Reconsidering reparations by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. Happy reading! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Welcome Dora Mila Verovšek, born on September 30 at 12.48 pm. Mommy and baby are both doing well, daddy is very proud 🥹 Hanah can’t wait to meet her little sister!

📢New publication🚨 "'One Would at Least Like to Be Asked': Habermas on Popular Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and German Unification" has just been published in German Politics and Society! doi.org/10.3167/gps....

My co-author, @javierburdman.bsky.social, is officially here as well!

🚨New Publication Alert📢 TCS has been on my bucket list forever and I am so happy to see this come out. I learned so much about Lyotard (& postmodernism) working on it with Javier Burdman. Doing this also helped me to see Habermas through a different lens. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Now up in the book reviews section of CPT's website: Nicholas Vrousalis reads Marx, revolution, and social democracy by Philip J. Kain link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My book in the wild may #UACES2023!

📢New publication alert🚨 My article, "‘The nation has conquered the state’: Arendtian insights on the internal contradictions of the nation-state," is now up Open Access at the Review of International Studies.

“Slovenia’s GDP per capita is on course to overtake the UK’s within a few years, followed not long after by Poland.” Well, that’s a stark conclusion https://on.ft.com/3siOqHj

Up now on CPT's website: Becky Proof reads The liberalism of care: community, philosophy, and ethics by Shawn C. Fraistat https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-023-00646-0