Peter Verovšek
@pjv.bsky.social
Political theorist (University of Groningen), BJJ🥋& father from 🇸🇮
Author of Memory and the Future of Europe (Manchester 2020), Engaged Critical Theory: Jürgen Habermas as Public Intellectual (Columbia, forthcoming)
Book reviews editor CPT
Author of Memory and the Future of Europe (Manchester 2020), Engaged Critical Theory: Jürgen Habermas as Public Intellectual (Columbia, forthcoming)
Book reviews editor CPT
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 […]
aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de
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
cup.columbia.edu
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...
www.tandfonline.com
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
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
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
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
#AcademicSky
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
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
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
#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...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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
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...
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
It is a nice précis of some arguments from my book, forthcoming with Columbia University Press
Habermas the Freelance Journalist: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Habermas’s Early Career
Although Jürgen Habermas is one of postwar Europe’s leading philosophers and public intellectuals, the secondary literature often portrays him as an apolitical thinker with little interest in “real po...
read.dukeupress.edu
August 5, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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
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...
www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers for a Special Issue: “Critical Theories of History and Memory” - Memory Studies Association
Call for Papers for a Special Issue:
“Critical Theories of History and Memory”
Journal of Social and Political Philosophy
Deadline for Submissions: September 30th, 2024
Guest editors: Javier Bur...
www.memorystudiesassociation.org
July 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM
📢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...
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”
June 9, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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!
If you are eligible, go vote!
June 6, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Me with my enormous Dutch ballot for the European Parliament elections today.
If you are eligible, go vote!
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. 😅
It comes in at just under 170,000 words (including all references) and just over 500 pages. 😅
May 31, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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. 😅
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Collective Memory and the Stalling of European Integration: Generational Dynamics and the Crisis of European Leadership
The project of European integration has been battered by repeated crises since the turn of the second millennium. However, in contrast to earlier periods in its history, when it responded to difficul....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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/...
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
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
March 7, 2024 at 10:19 AM
🚨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
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