The journal Current History has just published a short piece of mine on climate pessimism: Thaler, Mathias. “For a Fearless, Stirring, and Loving Climate Pessimism.” Current History 125, no. 867 (2026): 35–37. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2026.125.867.35.

My new paper on Kierkegaard and the Anthropocene has just been published (online first) in Political Theory. The abstract is below and the paper can be accessed openly here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917251398784 Abstract One of the most perplexing aspects of life on a climate-changed planet concerns the status of human action. As Donna Haraway observes, we appear…

I have just had a paper accepted in the Journal of Politics. Its title is: “Acting Otherwise in the Face of Ecological Collapse: Günther Anders and the Politics of Infinite Delay”. After its publication, I will update this information. Meanwhile, the pre-print can be downloaded here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739296

Utopian Studies just published a generous and thought-provoking review of my book No Other Planet, by Ashley S. Moser (Tacoma Community College). Here is an excerpt: “What could easily become a heady, jumbled rush of theories and observations is kept in line by Thaler’s tight structure, leaving a monograph that is engaging to read while…

I have just had a short piece on climate pessimism published in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. You can read the text here: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000282701/das-gute-am-klimapessimismus

The journal Distinktion just published a piece bringing together four excellent readers of my book No Other Planet (CUP 2022). They also gave me an opportunity to respond to the generous and insightful comments from Ruth Kinna, Gerard Delanty and Marit Hammond, which was a real pleasure. Special thanks to Andy Schaap for bringing us…

I just came across a very insightful review of my book by Darrel Moellendorf in the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Here is a an excerpt with some praise, but the text also contains excellent objections to my ideas: “No Other Planet ist eine reichhaltige Quelle für utopische Theoriearbeit und eine faszinierende Diskussion der menschlichen Aussichten…

Political Theory has just published a very thoughtful and generous review of No Other Planet by Didier Zúñiga (University of Alberta). A short excerpt: “No Other Planet is path-breaking in the sense that it creates a space within political theory for new ideas to emerge and be played with—ideas that have the potential to deparochialize the…

My review of Darrel Moellendorf’s most recent book Mobilizing Hope has just appeared in the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. You can find the text here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/dzph-2024-0045/html

The Review of Politics has just published a review of No Other Planet, by Nicole Rogers (Bond University.) The link to the full text is here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670524000123 And here is a short excerpt: “Drawing upon the utopian trope as manifested in theory and fiction, Thaler tackles the difficult question of how we can shape a…