Brian Milstein

Phone No: 061 - 2024800

Email: brian.milstein@ul.ie

 

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Brian Milstein, AB (Vassar), MA & PhD (New School for Social Research), is a Lecturer in Political Theory. Before coming to UL in Fall 2021, he held postdoctoral positions in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Paris, and was a Research Associate at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt's Research Centre “Normative Orders.” His research centers on critical and democratic theory, theories of crisis, capitalism, and cosmopolitanism. His publications include the book, Commercium: Critical Theory from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, as well as articles in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Political Theory, and European Journal of Philosophy.

 

Research Profile

 

Selected Publications 

1. (monograph) Commercium: Critical Theory from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015)

2. (peer-review article) “Justification Crisis: Brexit, Trump, and Deliberative Breakdown,” Political Theory 49, no. 4 (2021)

3. (peer-review article) “Security versus Democratic Equality,” Contemporary Political Theory 20, no. 4 (2021)

4. (peer-review article) “A Tale of Two Demoi: Boundaries and Democracy beyond the Sovereign Point of View,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 43, no. 7 (2017)

5. (peer-review article) “Thinking Politically about Crisis: A Pragmatist Perspective,” European Journal of Political Theory 14, no. 2 (2015)

6. (peer-review article) “Kantian Cosmopolitanism beyond ‘Perpetual Peace’: Commercium, Critique, and the Cosmopolitan Problematic,” European Journal of Philosophy 21, no. 1 (2013

7. (book chapter) “Capitalism and Democracy: Complementarity, Complicity, Conflict, Compatibility,” in James Chamberlain and Albena Azmanova (eds), Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates (Cham: Springer, forthcoming)

8. (book chapter) “What Does a Legitimation Crisis Mean Today? Financialized Capitalism and the Crisis of Crisis Consciousness,” in Boris Vormann and Michael D. Weinman (eds), The Emergence of Illiberalism: Understanding a Global Phenomenon (London: Routledge, 2020)