Michael Hauser is a Czech philosopher, political theoretician and the founder of the educational association Socialist Circle (Socialistický kruh, SOK ), which develops left-wing thinking and culture through contact between philosophers, historians, sociologists, economists, and artists.
He works at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy and lectures at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. He acts as the chairman of the doctoral board of Philosophy of Education. He heads the Department of Civic Education and Philosophy. In addition to his scientific and pedagogical work, he also engages in popularization of philosophy. He co-organized several major international conferences with the participation of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar, and other leading thinkers.
His research fields are Critical Theory, Marxism, Postmodernism, and the contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Alain Badiou. He seeks to relate philosophy to the challenges of the contemporary world. He has been elaborating a coherent theory of the society, politics, art, economy, and religion in times of interregnum. Hauser proposes ontological, political and ethical concepts in relation to the vision of a new social movement that will confront the oligarchic power, class inequalities, the climate crisis, AI and other threats of today.
Selected bibliography:
Badiou´s Ontology of the Present. Society, Economy and Culture in Transition. Bloomsbury, London-New York 2025.
Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God, Modern Theology, 42, 2026, 1, p. 187-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.70007
Manifesto of the Socialist Movement. Transform! Europe, 2025.
Metapopulistická demokracie. Politika doby přechodu (Metapopulist Democracy. Politics of the Age of Transition), Filosofia, Praha 2024.
Pražské jaro. Logika nového světa (The Prague Spring. The Logic of the New World), ed., Filosofia, Praha 2022.
Politika jednoty ve světě proměn (The Politics of Unity in a World of Change, with Joseph G. Feinberg and Jakub Ort), Filosofia, Prague 2021.
Cesty z postmodernismu (Paths Out of Postmodernism), Filosofia, Praha 2012.
Humanism Is Not Enough. An Interview with Slavoj Žižek, International Journal of Zizek Studies, 3, 2009, 3.
Prolegomena k filosofii současnosti (Prolegomena to the Philosophy of the Present), Filosofia, Praha 2007.
Adorno: moderna a negativita (Adorno: Modernity and Negativity), Filosofia, Praha 2005.
