Ľubomír Dunaj, PhD.
Ľubomír Dunaj is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. His research lies at the intersection of social and political philosophy, social theory and ethics, which he approaches from the perspective of critical social theory, pragmatism and hermeneutics. He obtained his PhD. from Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) in 2013 and spent time as researcher at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), University of North Florida in Jacksonville (USA) and Fudan University, Shanghai (China). In 2019-2025 he worked as Post-Doc at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria). He is Editor-in-Chief of Pragmatism Today and member of the advisory board of Filozofia. Journal for Philosophy.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5513-3711
Academia.edu: https://cas-cz.academia.edu/ĽubomírDunaj
Position: researcher
Research Interests:
- Intercultural Dialogue, Civilizational Analysis
- Contemporary Chinese Political Philosophy
Selected Publications:
Ates, Murat – Dunaj, Ľubomír (eds.): Interkulturelle Phänomenologie. Georg Stengers Werk im Gespräch. Baden-Baden: Karl Alber, 2024, ISBN 978-3-495-99810-6.
Dunaj, Ľubomír – Smith, Jeremy. – Mertel, Kurt, C.M. (eds.). Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s Macro-Social Theory. London and New York: Routledge 2023, ISBN 978-1-032-21772-7.
Dunaj, Ľubomír. Revolution, Transformation, and the Role of the Subject. Critical Reflections on François Jullien’s Book The Silent Transformations. In: Hans Feger, Xie Dikun, Wang Ge (eds.): Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy, Volume 6 Issue 1, 2023, pp. 245-260. ISSN: 2196-5897.
Dunaj, Ľubomír. Jóhann Páll Árnason: A Pražák. In: International Journal of Social Imaginaries, Brill, 1/2023, pp. 137–156. ISSN: 2772-7866.
Dunaj, Ľubomír – Mertel, Kurt, C.M. (eds.). Hans-Herbert Kögler's Critical Hermeneutics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 9781350228634, 2022.
Publications:
- monographies
- articles
- chapters
- popularisation
Grants, research fellowships, scholarships and awards:
Aktion Österreich–Slowakei, Nr. 2021-10-15-003 „Slovak-Austrian Environmental and Intercultural Philosophy Network” (March 1/2022 – February 28/2023).
Member of the research team for the project Various forms of understanding of the notion of negative freedom in contemporary (liberal) political philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Matej Bel University, Slovakia (VEGA, No. 1/0496/18; 2018-2020).
Member of the research team for the project Strategy for the Transformation of Society in the Context of Civilizational analysis, Institute of Political Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA, No. 2/0072/15; 2015-2018).
Research Fellowship at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University in Shanghai (the Mobility Fellowship programme of the University of Vienna), Winter Semester 2023, 1 month.
Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL, 2019/2020, 5 months.
Research Fellowships at the Institute of Philosophy, Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main: Academic year 2013/2014, 10 months (German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD);
Summer semester 2012, 2 months (National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic);
Summer semester 2011, 3 months (German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD).
Scholarship of the Jan Hus Educational Foundation (2018).
Erasmus+ (staff mobility), Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague – March 2018.
Erasmus+ (staff mobility), Department of Political Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty of Arts of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic – November 2018.
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