Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought
Contradictions assesses and creatively revives radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing them to bear on the historical present and bringing them into international discussions of emancipatory social change.
Skirting the disciplinary boundaries of political philosophy, social theory, and cultural analysis, we publish scholarly studies, theoretical essays, interviews, reviews, and annotated archival materials on the following themes:
1) underexamined or overlooked aspects of the history of radical left thought in Central and Eastern Europe (with attention both to historical significance and contemporary relevance);
2) related and parallel traditions of thought originating in other regions, which can be brought into conversation with the traditions of Central and Eastern Europe (taking into consideration questions of centrality and marginality or “Easternness” as questions of global concern);
3) the analysis of Soviet-type societies and their troubled relationship with historical and contemporary movements for social emancipation; and
4) the ideological assumptions and social conditions of what has come to be known as “post-communism.”
With these thematic problems in mind, we provide a place for original contributions to critical social theory that arise out of critical engagement with the complicated legacy of Central and Eastern European thought in its global context.
Contradictions is published once a year as a double issue in multilingual format, with one part in English and one part in Czech and Slovak. Submissions are welcome in any of these three languages (English, Czech, or Slovak).
Available for order from our publisher Filosofia; content of back issues online and archived in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
editorial collective
Kristina Andělová (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), Joseph Grim Feinberg (Philosophy Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences), Karolina Jesień, Ondřej Holub (Institute of Contemporary History), Ola Holubowicz, Petr Kužel (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences), Jan Mervart (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences), Jiří Růžička (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences), Šimon Svěrák (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences), Ondřej Slačálek (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), Eva Svatoňová, Dan Swain (Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague), Jan Šíma (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), Monika Woźniak (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
international advisory board
John Abromeit (Buffalo State University), Oliver Belcher (Durham University), Jana Beránková (Columbia University), Katarzyna Bielińska-Kowalewska (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Wojciech Burszta (1957-2021, in memoriam), Maria Chehonadskih (Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London), Barbora Černušáková (University of Manchester), Ľubomír Dunaj (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava), Elżbieta Durys (University of Łódź), Ingo Elbe (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg), Mariya Ivancheva (University of Strathclyde), Juraj Halas (Comenius University, Bratislava), Adela Hincu (Alexandru Dragomir Institue of Philosophy, Bucharest), Peter Hudis (Oakton Community College), Michael Löwy (CNRS, France), Moishe Postone (1942-2018, in memoriam), Nick Nesbitt (Princeton University), Petr Steiner (University of Pennsylvania), Michał Rauszer (University of Warsaw), Richard Sťahel (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava), Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; University of Wrocław), G. M. Tamás (1948-2023, in memoriam), Francesco Tava (UWE, Bristol, UK), Zhivka Valiavicharska (Pratt Institute, New York), Xinruo Zhang (Shanghai)
English copyediting and proofreading Greg Evans, Scott Alexander Jones, Darren Crown
Czech copyediting and proofreading Pavla Toráčová
Slovak copyediting and proofreading Silvia Ruppeldtová
Typesetting Martin Pokorný
Graphic design Markéta Jelenová
Web design Karel Klouda, Tomáš Lenikus
Finances Jana Mašková
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ISSN 2570-7485
