Mathias Thaler

Professor of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh

Publications

Monographs

2022

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Thaler, Mathias. No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030250.

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The book has been the object of an author meets critics-workshop at the University of Edinburgh in November 2022. Another book launch took place in December 2022 at the University of Durham. A third panel happened in 2024 at the University of Exeter. The book has also been discussed in an International Political Theory Master class at the University of St. Andrews, in November 2023. No Other Planet was shortlisted for the PSA’s WJM Mackenzie Prize 2023 and the ECPR’s Onora O’Neill Prize 2026.

2018

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Thaler, Mathias. Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism. New Directions in Critical Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7312/thal18814.

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The book has also been the object of an author meets critics-workshop at the University of Copenhagen in May 2019. A second book panel took place at Oxford University, in January 2020.

2008

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Thaler, Mathias. Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? Eine Analyse aktueller Debatten zur internationalen Gerechtigkeit. Campus Forschung 933. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2008. https://campus.de/wissenschaft/philosophie/moralische-politik-oder-politische-moral/CAM38769?srsltid=AfmBOoqDlSDe6yKCX6fD1FaIdojzLPwGGbvVqRbtFghI4WlAHykLeCEc.

Reviewed in:

  • ZPol: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
  • Die Furche
  • Die Presse (Spectrum)
  • Das Argument

Edited Books

2020

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Thaler, Mathias, and Mihaela Mihai, eds. Political Violence and the Imagination: Complicity, Memory and Resistance. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054245.

2014 

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Mihai, Mihaela, and Mathias Thaler, eds. On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies. Rhetoric, Politics and Society 1. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137343727.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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Tschakert, Petra, David Schlosberg, Danielle Celermajer, Lauren Rickards, Christine Winter, Mathias Thaler, Makere Stewart‐Harawira, and Blanche Verlie. “Multispecies Justice: Climate-Just Futures with, for and beyond Humans.” WIREs Climate Change 12, no. 2 (2021): e699. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.699.
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Celermajer, Danielle, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Mathias Thaler, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, and Christine Winter. “Multispecies Justice: Theories, Challenges, and a Research Agenda for Environmental Politics.” Environmental Politics 30, no. 1–2 (2021): 119–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608.
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Thaler, Mathias. “Bleak Dreams, Not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope.” Constellations 26, no. 4 (2019): 607–22. https://doi.org/10/gft37p.
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Mihai, Mihaela, and Mathias Thaler. “Political Violence and the Imagination: An Introduction.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22, no. 5 (2019): 497–503. https://doi.org/10/ggvmp9.
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Thaler, Mathias. “Unhinged Frames: Assessing Thought Experiments in Normative Political Theory.” British Journal of Political Science 48, no. 4 (2018): 1119–41. https://doi.org/10/gd9cqf.
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Thaler, Mathias. “Political Imagination and the Crime of Crimes: Coming to Terms with ‘Genocide’ and ‘Genocide Blindness.’” Contemporary Political Theory 13, no. 4 (2014): 358–79. https://doi.org/10/f6kwkc.
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Thaler, Mathias. “Neo-Grotian Predicaments: On Larry May’s Theory of International Criminal Law.” Journal of International Political Theory 10, no. 3 (2014): 345–60. https://doi.org/10/ggdxfb.
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Thaler, Mathias. “Just Pretending: Political Apologies for Historical Injustice and Vice’s Tribute to Virtue.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 15, no. 3 (2012): 259–78. https://doi.org/10/cpd2zn.
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Thaler, Mathias. “The Illusion of Purity: Chantal Mouffe’s Realist Critique of Cosmopolitanism.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 36, no. 7 (2010): 785–800. https://doi.org/10/fpwf6h.
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Thaler, Mathias. “From Public Reason to Reasonable Accommodation: Negotiating the Place of Religion in the Public Sphere.” Diacrítica: Revista Do Centro de Estudos Humanísticos Da Universidade de Minho 23, no. 2 (2009): 249–70. http://ceh.ilch.uminho.pt/publicacoes/diacritica23-2.htm.
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