Mathias Thaler

Professor of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh

Category: News and Events

  • Book launch in Edinburgh

    There will be a launch of my new book No Other Planet on November 23, 2022, at 3pm in the Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh. More information on this event can be found here:

  • New Book Out Now!

    My book No Other Planet has now finally been published, after some lengthy delays. Check out the publisher’s website: www.cambridge.org/9781009015653 For a 20% discount, enter the following code at the checkout: THALER22

  • Review of Utopia in the Age of Survival

    My review of S. D. Chrostowska’s new book Utopia in the Age of Survival has just appeared (online first) in the Review of Politics. You can find the link to the text here.

  • Personal News

    I have been promoted to Full Professor (Chair of Political Theory) by the University of Edinburgh.

  • Essay on Kim Stanley Robinson for Das Tagebuch (in German)

    I have just had an essay published in the excellent Austrian magazine Das Tagebuch. The link is here: https://tagebuch.at/2022/05/visionen-fuer-einen-kaputten-planeten/

  • First Review of No Other Planet

    Prof Duncan Bell (Cambridge) has just published a review of my book No Other Planet. You can find it here: https://csgs.kcl.ac.uk/book-review/mathias-thaler-no-other-planet-utopian-visions-for-a-climate-changed-world-cambridge-university-press-2022/ A short excerpt from the generous and insightful review: “The extensive analysis of the meanings of utopianism in No Other Planet is the most illuminating that I have come across in political theory. This is in…

  • Essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books

    I have just had an essay published in LARB. You can find it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rescuing-utopianism-in-a-climate-changed-world/

  • Essay for Die Presse

    My short essay for the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, on “minor utopias”, has just been published. You can find it here (behind paywall). A print-off is here.

  • Paper Shortlisted for Best Article Award

    My co-authored piece “Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics” has been shortlisted for the 2021 Best Article of the Year award in Environmental Politics.

  • Upcoming Workshop: 17th & 18th of March 2022

    Together with Davina Cooper, I am organizing an informal workshop entitled “Fail Again, Fail Better? Utopia, Memory, Radical Politics, and Radical Research“. This is a key output of my ongoing Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The schedule and description are below. If you want to participate, please email me (mathias.thaler (at) ed.ac.uk) and Davina Cooper (davina.cooper (at)…