LIBERALISM HAS RUN OUT OF BREATH? WHAT ARE THE SOCIAL ANSWERS? INTERVIEW WITH MAREK HRUBEC
Peter Dinuš
Studia Politica Slovaca, 2025, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 85-94
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SPS.2025-1.5
Abstract
Marek Hrubec focuses on political philosophy and theory, and global studies. Since 2001, he has led research teams at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he founded the Centre of Global Studies in 2006 and served as its director until 2021. He also led an interdisciplinary strategy team on global conflicts at the CAS. Meanwhile, from 2014 to 2015, he was the Rector of a new African university in a conflict zone on the borders of Burundi, Rwanda and DR Congo. He has undertaken numerous research fellowships in the EU, the USA, China, Brazil and other countries. In 2022, he was elected to the board of the Global Studies Association of North America, where he has also served as a Senior Research Fellow. Among his recent books, it is possible to mention Basic Income in the World, which he co-authored with M. Brabec and M. Minarova: in Spanish (Santiago de Chile: Ariadna 2024), Czech and English (Prague: Epocha 2022). The most recent published book is his social and political theory Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics, which has just been published in English (Boston and Leiden: Brill), in Spanish (Santiago de Chile: Ariadna) and in Czech (Prague: Filosofia). In this interview, we ask him in particular about his research on political theory and practice in the USA and Latin America.
Keywords
liberalism, social, critique, political philosophy, political theory
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