Notes on Authors
Ian Angus is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of nine books, five edited or co-edited collections, and many essays in philosophy and the humanities. His 2009 book on the university appeared in Spanish translation as Amar las preguntas. Acerca de la universidad y la educación (Buenos Aires: Wolkowicz Editores, 2019). His most recent book is Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World (Lexington Books, 2021). He has also published the book The Undiscovered Country: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture (Athabasca University Press, 2013). His website is at
Siyaves Azeri is a professor of philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen in Tyumen, Siberia, Russian Federation. He is also an associate of the Thesis Twelve: Mardin Value-form Circle. Azeri has written on a large gamut of subjects in several international journals and books. His areas of interest include Humeâs empiricism, Kantâs transcendentalism, Marxian materialism, the problem of consciousness and the critique of epistemology. Recent publications of his have appeared in Social Epistemology, Theory and Psychology, Critique, Socialism & Democracy, and Science & Society.
VÃt BartoÅ¡ is Assistant Professor at the Technical University in Liberec, Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education, Department of Philosophy. He studies the philosophical problems of modern natural sciences and cognitive philosophy. His general philosophical approach is associated with Whiteheadian metaphysics and the philosophy of nature. He is also interested in Czech Marxist philosophy. His many articles include âEgon Bondy aneb kouzlo pábitelské metafyzikyâ, âCo je význam?â and âBiological and Artificial Machinesâ.
Jan Äerný is Assistant Professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové. He has published the book Jevenà a spása. Subjektivita v materiálnà fenomenologii Michela Henryho (Filosofia, 2019) and articles on phenomenology, political philosophy and modern Czech philosophy, including âA Too-Future Eschatology? The Limits of the Phenomenology of Liturgy in Jean-Yves Lacosteâ (Open Theology 5, no. 1, 2019).
Joseph Grim Feinberg is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His work focuses on political and aesthetic theory, Czech and Central European Marxism, nationalism and internationalism. He is author of The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) and editor of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.
Diana Fuentes is Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is the author of various articles on Marxism in Mexico. She is a founding member of the Asociación Gramsci México.
Gabriella Fusi graduated in Theoretical Philosophy at Milan University under Professor Enzo Paciâs direction, with a thesis on KosÃk and Richta: Philosophical Positions and their Political Implications. She maintained contact with twentieth-century Czech and Yugoslav philosophers such as Karel KosÃk, Jan PatoÄka and Gajo PetroviÄ. She edited the book Gajo PetroviÄ: Socialism and Philosophy (Feltrinelli, 1976). She co-edited with Francesco Tava Karel KosÃk. Un filosofo in tempi di farsa e di tragedia [Karel KosÃk: A Philosopher in Times of Farce and Tragedy] (Mimesis, 2013). She was among the authors of Praxis â DruÅ¡tvena kritika i humanistiÄki socijalizam [Praxis â Social Criticism and Humanist Socialism] (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2012), with an essay entitled âTalijanski intelektualci na KorÄuli: izmeÄu filozofije i politikeâ [Italian Intellectuals at KorÄula: Between Philosophy and Politics]. She contributed to the publications aut aut, Lâottavo giorno, Marx 101 and Il Manifesto. She passed away in 2020.
Tomáš Hermann is Assistant Professor in the Department of the Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, and is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is author or co-author of various articles and edited volumes on intellectual history and the history of science, esp. biology, in the Czech lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, e.g. T. Hermann and A. MarkoÅ¡ (eds.), Emanuel Rádl â vÄdec a filosof (OIKOYMENH, 2004). He recently published (with M. Zelenka) an annotated edition of Roman Jakobsonâs book Moudrost staryÌch ÄechuÌ (1943) including texts from the exile controversy and an extensive study (Pavel Mervart and ÃSD, 2015), and the chapter âDisent a filosofieâ, in J. Suk et al., Å est kapitol o disentu (ÃSD, 2017).
Tomáš HÅÃbek is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He works on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science (biology), ethics (bioethics) and aesthetics. To date, he has published three monographs: on psychological externalism; on phenomenal consciousness; and on the ethics of assisted dying, respectively. His recent publications in English include chapters in the volumes The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia (Springer, 2019) and Ernst Mach â Life, Work, Influence (Springer, 2019).
Xiaohan Huang is Professor at the Peking University School of Marxism. Her work focuses on Marxism and the philosophy of science. She has published several books and papers on systems theory and Western Marxism.
Peter Hudis is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Oakton Community College. His current work in philosophy covers engagement in social and political theory as well as their sources in classical dialectic philosophy. He has published extensively on Marxist theory and is author of Marxâs Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015); he is also General Editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
Petr Kužel is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He specialises in theories of the subject, Marxism, Egon Bondy and Louis Althusser. Kužel is author of Filosofie Louise Althussera. O filosofii, která chtÄla zmÄnit svÄt (Filosofia, 2014), and editor of MyÅ¡lenà a tvorba Egona Bondyho (Filosofia, 2018). He is a member of the editorial collective of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.
Ivan Landa is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, where he is head of the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy. His research focuses on Czechoslovak and East-Central European Marxism and dissident thought, as well as on the history of Hegelianism. Landa has published articles on Marxâs philosophical anthropology, technology and politics, and Hegelâs speculative theology. He is a member of the editorial collective of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.
Michael Löwy is a sociologist and philosopher, whose main focus lies in analysis and interpretation of Marxist theories. His research aim is part of his lectures at the Ãcole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His monograph The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (Brill, 2003) has been translated into many languages.
Jan Mervart is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is predominantly devoted to modern Czech and Slovak intellectual and cultural history. He has published two monographs on the role of the Writersâ Union in the Czechoslovak reform process and on the normalisation of the cultural sphere in Czechoslovakia after 1968, and he has published several studies on Czechoslovak Marxism and Marxist intellectuals (e.g. âCzechoslovak Marxist Humanism and the Revolutionâ, Studies in East European Thought 69, no. 1). He is a member of the editorial collective of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought.
Anselm K. Min was Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, specialising in philosophy of religion and theology. In addition to over 80 articles on many areas of contemporary philosophy and systematic theology, he published four books, on Korean Catholicism, liberation theology, postmodernism, and the theology of Thomas Aquinas. He developed a systematic theology to address the challenges of a globalising world such as capitalism, imperialism, oppression, ecology and intercultural and interreligious relations. He passed away in 2020.
Tom Rockmore is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duquesne University and Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University. He has published studies and books on the history of philosophy, mainly on Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lukács and Heidegger. In 2018, his monograph Marxâs Dream: From Capitalism to Communism was published (University of Chicago Press).
Francesco Tava is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He specialises in moral and political philosophy, phenomenology and the history of philosophy. His publications include Phenomenology and the Idea of Europe (Routledge, 2018) and Thinking after Europe: Jan PatoÄka and Politics (co-editor; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016).
Xinruo Zhang received her PhD from Peking University and now works at the executive office of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Formerly she was a researcher at the Research Center of Marxism in the Shanghai Administration Institute. Her work focuses on Marxism, especially Western Marxism. She has undertaken a National Social Science Foundation project called âResearch on the Contradiction of Modernity in Chinaâ, completed in September 2018. She has also published several papers on Marxism, including an English review, published in Science & Society, of Sean Sayersâ book Marx and Alienation.