Peter Verovšek
@pjv.bsky.social
Political theorist (University of Groningen), BJJ🥋& father from 🇸🇮
Author of Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist (Columbia, 2026); Memory and the Future of Europe (Manchester 2020)
Book reviews editor @CPT
Author of Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist (Columbia, 2026); Memory and the Future of Europe (Manchester 2020)
Book reviews editor @CPT
My latest publication - this time examining how Arendt (not Habermas!) - acts as a public intellectual was just published ahead of print by Philosophy & Social Criticism. Check it out and let me know what you think!
The Political Theorist in the Public Realm: The Place of Theory in Arendt’s Pluralistic Politics of ‘Words and Deeds’ - Peter J. Verovšek, 2026
Political theorists are in the midst of a debate on their role in public policy and politics. Despite this growing literature, there is little scholarship on Ar...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:32 PM
My latest publication - this time examining how Arendt (not Habermas!) - acts as a public intellectual was just published ahead of print by Philosophy & Social Criticism. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Reposted by Peter Verovšek
Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social
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Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press
Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP
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November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social
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This is a fully-funded, 4 year position with a living wage and full benefits (pension, healthcare, etc). Happy to answer any questions
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is a fully-funded, 4 year position with a living wage and full benefits (pension, healthcare, etc). Happy to answer any questions
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...
Please send us your students interested in strikes, unions and labor politics!
werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd...
PhD in International Union Politics: Organized Labor in Democratic Life - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
werkenbij.rug.nl
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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...
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!)
New Insights into Jürgen Habermas’ Intellectual Contributions | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Deutsche Version Renowned Frankfurt philosopher and sociologist hands over the second part of his preliminary legacy to University Library Frankfurt For decades, he has been regarded as one of the […]
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November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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!
Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press
Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP
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October 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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!
October 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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....
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....
The roots of liberal and illiberal democracy: political theory, collective memory and conflicting visions of sovereignty in Europe
The fall of communism in 1989 ended the division the European continent, allowing the states previously trapped behind the iron curtain to ‘return’ to Europe. Following the accession of the first p...
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September 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
🚨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....
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.
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.
July 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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.
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.
June 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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
Rebuilding the Frankfurt School's Bridge From Theory to Practice: Jürgen Habermas's Rehabilitation of Critical Theory
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June 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
May 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
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#AcademicSky
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April 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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
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#AcademicSky
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Unfortunately, these are great positions that are becoming ever rarer, so this is a wonderful opportunity. The project is at the nexus of political theory and history. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Colleagues - please send us your students!
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...
Colleagues - please send us your students!
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...
PhD in Union Politics: Organized Labor in Democracy (1.0 FTE)
Applications are in
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April 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Unfortunately, these are great positions that are becoming ever rarer, so this is a wonderful opportunity. The project is at the nexus of political theory and history. Please get in touch if you have any questions.
Colleagues - please send us your students!
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...
Colleagues - please send us your students!
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...
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...
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Vacatures bij de RUG
www.rug.nl
April 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Reposted by Peter Verovšek
🌟 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/...
@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/...
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🌟 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/...
@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!
February 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
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December 10, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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....
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
December 9, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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
Can’t be there, but solidarity ✊
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Can’t be there, but solidarity ✊
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!
October 17, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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!
Reposted by Peter Verovšek
great overview of online archives
September 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM
great overview of online archives
My article was just published in the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social Check it out!
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August 13, 2024 at 12:16 PM
My article was just published in the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social Check it out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Many thanks to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social @javierburdman.bsky.social among others
August 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Many thanks to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social @javierburdman.bsky.social among others