@pjv
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
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Some shots from my first book launch for Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist at Leiden University in Den Haag yesterday. Thanks so much to everyone for coming!
A flyer with a discount code is attached if anyone is interested in ordering the book
Me too! So sad we won’t get to hang out afterwards
Author copies just arrived! The book officially comes out on March 24, but now I have the first printed examples in hand for my presentation in The Hague tomorrow afternoon as part of the Radical Readings of the Philosophical Canon workshop
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!
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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
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!
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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
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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
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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!
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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!
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🌟 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.
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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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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 ✊
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!
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Many thanks to @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social @javierburdman.bsky.social among others
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