Rüdiger Dannemann
is President of the International Georg Lukács Society. He studied philosophy, German and history in Bochum and Frankfurt/Main. He received his doctorate in Rotterdam for Das Prinzip Verdinglichung. His numerous publications cover social philosophy and political philosophy, especially on Lukács, Western Marxism and Critical Theory, as well as on literary studies and music aesthetics. He is editor of the Lukács Yearbook (since 2012) and the Lukács selection of works in individual volumes (at Aisthesis). Selected Publications include Georg Lukács – Jenseits der Polemiken (ed., Sendler Verlag, 1986); Das Prinzip Verdinglichung (Sendler Verlag, 1987); Georg Lukács zur Einführung (Panorama Verlag, 2005; Junius Verlag, 1997); Lukács-Schule (in HKWM 8/II (2015) (with Michael Löwy); Lukács and 1968. Eine Spurensuche (ed., Aisthesis Verlag, 2009); Zur Aktualität von Georg Lukács (forthcoming in 2020); and Staat und Politik bei Georg Lukács (ed., together with H.E. Schiller, forthcoming).
Frank Engster
wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the subject of time, money and measure and was subsequently a junior fellow at the Post-Wachstumskolleg (Degrow-College) in Jena. He works for several political institutions and foundations and is active in political groups in Berlin. His areas of interest lie in the different readings of Marx’s critique of political economy and especially money as a technic and its connection with measurement, quantification, time and (natural) science. Some publications are available on academia.edu.
Andrew Feenberg
served as Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he continues to direct the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. His books include The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School, (Verso Press, 2014), Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (Harvard University Press, 2017), and Technology, Modernity, and Democracy, co-edited with Eduardo Beira (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg, edited by D. Arnold and A. Michel, appeared with Palgrave Macmillan (2017).
Joseph Grim Feinberg
is a research fellow at the Philosophy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His current research involves the history of critical social thought in
Andraž Jež
is a Ljubljana-based literary historian. He received his Ph.D. (2015) from the Postgraduate School of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), his thesis dealing with questions of dissemination of (proto)nationalism in Vörmarz Habsburg Monarchy by analyzing work of Slovenian-Croatian poet Stanko Vraz (1810–1851) on whom he also wrote a book published by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). Jež works as a Research Fellow of the ZRC SAZU’s Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies and as a Teaching Assistant of the Department of Slovenian Studies at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts (FF UL). His articles have appeared in numerous academic publications such as the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ed. Joep Leerssen, Amsterdam University Press, 2018). He is currently researching social, political and economic history of the 19th and 20th century literature and arts. He is also an experimental jazz musician.
Christian Lotz
is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, working in critical theory and Post-Kantian continental philosophy. He is the author of, among other books, The Capitalist Schema. Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction (Lexington Books, 2014); Karl Marx: Das Maschinenfragment (Laika, 2014); and From Affectivity to Subjectivity. Revisiting Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). In addition, he co-edited a volume on critical theory, reification, and Heidegger entitled Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der Kritischen Theorie (Fink, 2012). His current research interests are in contemporary European political philosophy, Marx’s critique of political economy, phenomenology, and philosophical anthropology.
Csaba Olay
studied philosophy, mathematics, and physics at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy at Freiburg University (Germany). He has been teaching at Eötvös Loránd University since 2001 and is currently Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, where he was appointed as full professor in 2015. His main research areas are 19th–20th
Tom Rockmore
is the Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor and Professor of Philosophy in the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University and was formerly a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor at Duquesne University. He is the author of numerous books.
Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker
holds graduate degrees in history, philosophy, and political science. He has taught in the City University of New York system and currently teaches at Rutgers University where he is pursuing his Ph.D. in political science. His most recently published edited books include The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources (Hackett, 2017) and (with Michael J. Thompson) Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy (Prometheus, 2018). He is co-editor of An Inheritance for Our Time: The Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism (OR Books, 2020) and editor of Jonas Mekas: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2020).
Mariana Teixeira
is Associate Researcher at Cebrap (Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning) and Scientific Coordinator of Mecila (Merian Centre for Advanced Studies: Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America). She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Campinas, Brazil, and was a Visiting Researcher at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Mariana Teixeira was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of São Paulo and at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and is Managing Editor of Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal. She has published on critical theory, Marxism, post-/decolonial studies, and feminism.
Michael J. Thompson
is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, William Paterson University. He is the author of The Politics of Inequality (Columbia University Press, 2007), The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) as well as the forthcoming The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment (SUNY Press, 2020).
studied philosophy in Amsterdam and Berlin and finished his research masters in political philosophy at KU Leuven with a thesis on Foucault’s and Adorno’s modes of critique. He is preparing a Ph.D. proposal enquiring into the dynamics of repolitization by combining Lukács’s focus on intersubjectivity and late Foucault’s conceptualization of subjectivation. He is an editor at De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books) and the editorial secretary at Krisis – Journal for Contemporary Philosophy.
Richard Westerman
is the author of Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He has published extensively on Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and philosophical aesthetics.
Sean Winkler
completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium and currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Russia. He specializes in early modern philosophy and the sociology of science/technology, with competences in 20th-century French philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy, phenomenology and Russian philosophy. His main publications include “‘The Bartleby Effect’: Deleuze’s Critical-Clinical and Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener” (in: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, ed. David Henderson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), “Self-Identity in Spinoza’s Account of Finite Individuals” (Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39(1), 2018), “Practice and Ideology in Boris Hessen’s Newton Paper” (Telos 190(Spring), 2020). He was the invited editor and contributor for a recently released special issue of Societate si politica entitled Boris Hessen and the Dialectics of Natural Science (Societate si politica 13(1), 2019).