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Agon Hamza
Agon Hamza, Ph.D. in philosophy, is Assistant
Professor of political philosophy at the graduate program of Institute. He is
the author of Reading Marx (Polity, 2018; with Frank Ruda and
Slavoj Žižek), Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016), and From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo (Kolektivi
Materializmi Dialektik, 2013; with Slavoj Žižek). In addition, he is the editor
of Althusser
and Theology: Religion, Politics and Philosophy (Brill, 2016)
and Repeating
Žižek (Duke University Press, 2015), as well as coeditor, with
Frank Ruda, of Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism (Palgrave Macmillan,
2016). He is founder and co-editor (with Frank Ruda) of the international
philosophy journal Crisis and Critique. Currently he is working on two
books, entitled Reading Hegel (with Slavoj Žižek and Frank Ruda,
forthcoming with Polity), and Slavoj Žižek and the Reconstruction of Marxism (forthcoming
with Palgrave Macmillan). Dr. Hamza was a political advisor to Albin Kurti,
former Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, and the leader of the political
party Vetëvendosje.