Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana, 1951) is a philosopher and theorist of culture, as well as film critic. Since 1984 he has been working at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana, where he still works as a professor and researcher. He is frequently lecturing at European and American universities. From 2010 to 2012 he was…
Mario De Caro teaches moral philosophy at Roma Tre University. Since 2000, he has been teaching regularly at Tufts Summer School. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He spent two years at MIT University as a visiting graduate student, and then one year at Harvard as a Fulbright…
Maeve Cooke is a professor of philosophy at University College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. In current research, she deals with the question of truth in social and political theory and with the issue of democratic disobedience, based on conscience. Among her works, we distinguish the following: Language and Reason: A…
Monique Canto-Sperber is the President of the Foundation Paris Sciences et Lettres. She studied at the École normale supérieure, is Professor of philosophy and was heading this institution from 2005 to 2012. Professor Canto-Sperber has been president of various research organizations and has organized numerous scientific conferences. Over the last fifteen or so years, her…
Judith Butler (Berkeley University of California) is a Maxine Eliot professor at the Department for Comparative Literature and at the Program for Critical Theory – which she is one of the founders of – at Berkeley University of California. She got her PhD in philosophy at the university of Yale in 1984. She is an author…
Erhard Busek is an influential Austrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Austria between 1991 and 1995, and then the Austrian government’s special representative for EU enlargement issues. Since 2002, Busek has served as special co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe. He is currently the Coordinator of the South East European Cooperation Initiative (SECI)…
Hauke Brunkhorst is a professor of sociology and a director of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Flensburg in Germany. His areas of specialitzation are European constitutionalism, political theory and European politics. He is an author of multiple studies among which are the books like: Critical Theory (1999), Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to…
Rodžer Brubejker je profesor sociologije i predsednik UCLA fondacije na Univerzitetu u Kaliforniji u Los Anđelesu. Naširoko je pisao o društvenoj teoriji, imigracijama, građanstvu, nacionalizmu i etnicitetu. Brubejker je predavao na UCLA od 1991-e. Pre dolaska na UCLA je bio mlađi kolega u Društvu kolega Univerziteta Harvard (1988-1991). Nagrađen je Mekartur stipendijom, (1994-99), Predsedničkom nagradom za…
Martin Brasser is assistant professor of economy and ethical enterprising at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, chief of master studies Philosophy-Managment, editor of Rosenzweig Yearbook and a member of editorial board of journals “Lamend” and “Judaica”. Main topics of his researches are XX century philosophy (phenomenology, philosophy of dialog and existentialism), philosophical…
Monika Belcer is a professor of the department for ethics and practical philosophy at LMU in Munich. After her PhD in classical German philosophy (1992) at LMU in Munich, Belcer worked for a year in a think-tank company in the European Commission in Brussels after which she was an assistant professor of philosophy at the…