Petr Kužel

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Petr Kužel's research focuses on the history of modern Czech and French philosophy and political thought. He is the author of The Philosophy of Louis Althusser (2014). He has also prepared for publication a collective monograph The Thought and Work of Egon Bondy (2018). Together with the orientalist Jiří Holba he edited Bondy's books: Indian Philosophy, Notes on the History of Philosophy I (2021) and The Buddha (2022). Among the books by other authors we can mention the edition of György Lukács' book Lenin A Study on the Unity of His Thought; and/or (together with the historian Stanislav Holubec) the edition of the French historian Pierre Broué's The Bolsheviks. A History of the Victory and Defeat of the Russian Revolution (2023). More detailed biography here.

Work position: research fellow

Research Field of Interest

• Czech and French philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries.

• Marxism and Post-Marxism

• Non-substantial ontology

• State socialism

Publications

• monographs

• research articles

• chapters

• popularization

Research grants

2024-2026 – “Ideas of Emancipation in the Borderlands of East-Central Europe”. Bilateral cooperation of the Institute of Philosophy of the CAS and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
2024 – “The evolution of social mobility in Central and Eastern Europe from the 1970s to the present: a principle of dynamic equilibrium?” GAČR.
2023-2028 – “Beyond security: the role of conflict in building resilience” (CoRe).
2020 – “Europe and its relationship with the non-European tradition”. Programme “Europe and the State” of the AV 21 Strategy.
2020 – “Changes in the Reception of Indian Philosophy in Czech Philosophy and Oriental Studies in 1948-1989”, Programme “Forms and Functions of Communication”, Strategy AV 21 (co-investigator).
2016-2018 “Envisioning Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia: Varieties of State Socialist Modernity” GAČR..
2011-2013 “Marx's Method and French Marxism”. Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK) (PI).

Research stays

2022: Princeton University, USA

2012–2013: Université Paris X Nanterre – La Défense, France

Awards

2018 – Award for Popularization of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

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