Michael Hauser

Michael Hauser (born 30 March 1972) is a Czech philosopher, educator, poet, and translator. He founded the educational association [https://sok.bz/ Socialist Circle], of which he was chairman until 2014 and has been a member of the leadership since 2020. He is a member of the [https://suturepress.com/prague-axiomatic-circle Prague Axiomatic Circle]. He is a member of the committee of the [https://www.festivalfilozofie.cz/ European Philosophy Festival]. He focuses on transdisciplinary connections among social and political philosophy, ontology, cultural theory, and radical theology as a path to a comprehensive understanding of the present world and its possible directions. He also deals with the principles of a new socialist movement that will respond to the phenomenon of oligarchization and social and environmental crises. He draws primarily on the work of Theodor Adorno and other representatives of the Frankfurt School, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek and the Czech critical philosophers Karel Kosík, Milan Machovec and others. He is the head of the [https://kovf.pedf.cuni.cz/en/ Department of Civic Education and Philosophy] at the [https://pedf.cuni.cz/PEDFEN-1.html Faculty of Education of Charles University]. He researches at the [https://www.flu.cas.cz/en/ Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences] in the [https://oskf.flu.cas.cz/en/home-english Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy]. He was a member of the [https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/english/the-czech-television-council/ Czech Television Council] in 2014-2020. Provided by Wikipedia