Michael Hauser

Hauser studied philosophy at Charles University in Prague, and completed his dissertation, entitled Modernity and Negativity. Adorno's Perspective, in 2004. His primary fields of interest are critical theory, Western Marxism and Post-Marxism, and their relation to contemporary thought. He mostly deals with materialistic theory of the subject, ideas and universalism, praxis, concepts of transition and the theory of spectacular categories (or materialist hauntology). He is a fellow at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Arts of the Czech Republic), and also teaches at the Faculty of Education (Charles University). Since 2005, Hauser has published several academic books.{{cite web|url=http://oskf.flu.cas.cz/cz/lide/michael-hauser|title=Michael Hauser|website=OSKF.flu.cas.cz|access-date=22 November 2014}}

Hauser has made several translations into Czech, including The Ticklish Subject by Slavoj Žižek,{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/170838/nepolapitelny-subjekt|title=Nepolapitelný subjekt {{!}} Slavoj Žižek|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}} and Dialectic of the Enlightenment.{{cite web|url=http://www.oikoymenh.cz/adorno-t-horkheimer/dialektika-osvicenstvi/|title=Oikomenyh: Dialektika osvícenství - 295Kč|website=Oikoymenh|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}} He published a number of articles, both academic (in Filosofický časopis, Décalages, An Althusser Studies Journal) and popular (Právo, A2, Literární noviny, A2larm{{cite web|title=Autor: Michael Hauser|url=http://a2larm.cz/author/michael-hauser/|website=A2larm|access-date=14 March 2017|language=cs}} and Deník referendum{{cite web|title=Michael Hauser|work=Deník referendum|url=http://denikreferendum.cz/autor/37-michael-hauser|access-date=14 March 2017|language=cs}}). In 2004, he founded Socialist Circle (later renamed as SOK – Association for Leftist Theory), an organization that seeks to reflect and promote contemporary leftist theory in the Czech environment and establish a common basis for interaction between philosophy, sociology, economy and art theory. The association held a number of conferences and public seminars, many of which included Hauser as a speaker, and also published translations of the works of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière or Slavoj Žižek. Alongside the focus on European philosophy, the association also concentrates on the Czech and Slovak leftist scene (Karel Kosík, Egon Bondy, Milan Machovec). In 2006, Hauser was among the leading figures of the Jsme občané! (We Are Citizens!) initiative,{{cite web|url=http://obcan.ecn.cz/index.shtml?apc=rj--1-&w=z&s=n&x=1960025|title=Obansk spolenost - informan server|website=Obcan.ecn.cz|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}} a critical public reflection of the shortcomings of liberal democracy in the Czech Republic.

Hauser was one of the subjects of the Czech documentary feature, Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy ({{Langx|cs|Hauser a Žižek: teoretikové postmarxistické filosofie}}) by Helena Všetečková.{{cite web|url=http://dl.avu.cz/lang/cz-cs/2009/03/hauser-zizek-teoretikove-postmarxisticke-filosofie/|title=Hauser & Žižek: Teoretikové Postmarxistické Filosofie|website=dl.avu.cz|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}

• Adorno: moderna a negativita ({{Lit|Adorno: Modernity and Negativity}}), Prague: Filosofia, 2005.{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/129769/adorno-moderna-a-negativita/|title=Adorno: moderna a negativita|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}
• Prolegomena k filosofii současnosti (Prolegomena to Contemporary Philosophy), Prague: Filosofia, 2007.{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/139077/prolegomena-k-filosofii-soucasnosti/|title=Prolegomena k filosofii současnosti|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}
• Sociální stát a kapitalismus ({{Lit|Welfare State and Capitalism}}), Prague: Svoboda servis, 2007.{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/134074/socialni-stat-a-kapitalismus/|title=Sociální stát a kapitalismus|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}
• Humanismus nestačí. Rozhovor se Slavojem Žižkem ({{Lit|Humanism is Not Enough: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek}}), Prague: Rybka Publishers, 2008.{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/143397/humanismus-nestaci/|title=Humanismus nestačí|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}
• Cesty z postmodernismu. Filosofická reflexe doby přechodu ({{Lit|Ways out of Postmodernism. A Philosophical Reflection of the Era of Transition}}), Prague: Rybka Publishers, 2012.{{cite book|url=https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/177779/cesty-z-postmodernismu/|title=Cesty z postmodernismu|publisher=Kosmas|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}
• Kapitalismus jako zombie. Proč žijeme ve světě přízraků ({{Lit|Capitalism as a Zombie. Why Do We Live in the World of Spectres}}), Prague: Filosofia, 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.rybkapub.cz/rybka/eshop/11-1-Novinky/0/5/141-Michael-Hauser-Kapitalismus-jako-zombie|title=Novinky - Michael Hauser: Kapitalismus jako zombie|publisher=Rybka Publishers|access-date=22 November 2014|language=cs}}

• Fromm, E.: Marx's Concept of Man ({{Langx|cs|Obraz člověka u Marxe}}), Luboš Marek, Brno 2004.
• Fabre, C.: Social Rights Under the Constitution: Government and the Decent Life ({{Langx|cs|Ústavní zakotvení sociálních práv}}), Filosofia, Prague 2004.
• Žižek, S.: The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology ({{Langx|cs|Nepolapitelný subjekt. Chybějící střed politické ontologie}}), Brno: Luboš Marek 2007.
• Adorno, Th. W. – Horkheimer, M.: Dialektik der Aufklärung ({{Langx|cs|Dialektika osvícenství}}) (with M. Váňa), Oikomenyh, Prague 2009.
• Adorno, T., Horkheimer, M.: Das Schema der Massenkultur, Kulturindustrie (Schéma masové kultury), Oikomenyh, Prague 2009.

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• [http://scholar.oxy.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=decalages Michael Hausers’s essay on the decline of liberal democracy]
• [http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/211/310 (excerpt) Humanism is Not Enough: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek]
• [http://blisty.cz/art/32268.html Declaration of the Jsme občané! initiative] {{In lang|cs}}

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