- Monographs
- Edited Books
- Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
- Journal Articles and Book Chapters without Peer Review
- Special Journal Issues
- Book Reviews
- Dictionary Entry
- Working Paper
- Newspaper and Magazine Articles
- Theses (in German)
- Translations (from English to German)
- Other Publications
Monographs
2022 No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Reviewed in:
2018 Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism. New Directions in Critical Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Reviewed in:
- Contemporary Political Theory (Christopher Finlay)
- Perspectives on Politics (Jessica Whyte)
- Genocide Studies International (Maureen S. Hiebert)
- Humanity (Christof Royer)
- Political Theory (Charlotte Epstein)
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 Moralische Politik oder politische Moral? Eine Analyse aktueller Debatten zur internationalen Gerechtigkeit. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2008. [Moral Politics or Political Morality? Analyzing Contemporary Debates on Global Justice].
Reviewed in: ZPol: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Die Furche, Die Presse (Spectrum), Das Argument.
Edited Books
2020 Political Violence and the Imagination: Complicity, Memory and Resistance. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2020. (edited with Mihaela Mihai).
2014 On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (edited with Mihaela Mihai).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2023 “Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism.” Forthcoming in American Political Science Review.
2023 “Environmental Commemoration: Guiding Principles and Real-World Cases.” Forthcoming in Memory Studies. (co-authored with Mihaela Mihai)
2022 “Warning through Extrapolation: On the Practical Aims of Dystopia.” Utopian Studies 33, no. 1 (2022): 90–106.
2022 “What If: Multispecies Justice as the Expression of Utopian Desire.” Environmental Politics 31, no. 2 (2022): 258–76.
2021 “Multispecies Justice: Climate-Just Futures with, for and beyond Humans.” WIREs Climate Change 12, no. 2 (2021): e699. (co-authored with Petra Tschakert, David Schlosberg, Danielle Celermajer, Lauren Rickards, Christine Winter, Makere Stewart‐Harawira, and Blanche Verlie)
2021 “Multispecies Justice: Theories, Challenges, and a Research Agenda for Environmental Politics.” Environmental Politics 30, no. 1–2 (2021): 119–40. (co-authored with Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Petra Tschakert, Blanche Verlie, and Christine Winter)
2019 “Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism.” Perspectives on Politics 17, no. 4 (2019): 1003–18.”
2019 “Bleak Dreams, Not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope.” Constellations 26, no. 4 (2019): 607–22.
2019 “Political Violence and the Imagination: An Introduction.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22, no. 5 (2019): 497–503. (co-authored with Mihaela Mihai)
2018 “Unhinged Frames: Assessing Thought Experiments in Normative Political Theory.” British Journal of Political Science 48, no. 4 (2018): 1119–41.
2018 “Hope Abjuring Hope: On the Place of Utopia in Realist Political Theory.“ Political Theory 46, no. 5 (2018): 671–97.
2018 “Reconciliation through Estrangement.” The Review of Politics 80, no. 4 (2018): 649–73.
2016 “A Pragmatist Defence of the Ban on Torture: From Moral Absolutes to Constitutive Rules of Reasoning.” Political Studies 64, no. 3 (2016): 765–81.
2014 “On Time in Just War Theory: From Chronos to Kairos.” Polity 46, no. 4 (2014): 520–546.
2014 “Political Imagination and the Crime of Crimes: Coming to Terms with ‘Genocide’ and ‘Genocide Blindness’.” Contemporary Political Theory 13, no. 4 (2014), 358-379.
2014 “Neo-Grotian Predicaments: On Larry May’s Theory of International Criminal Law.” Journal of International Political Theory 10, no. 3 (2014): 345–60.
2012 “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): 259–278.
2011 “Political Judgment Beyond Paralysis and Heroism: Deliberation, Decision and the Crisis in Darfur.” European Journal of Political Theory 10, no. 2 (2011): 225–253. (winner of the Gulbenkian Award 2012).
2010 “How (not What) Shall We Think about Human Rights and Religious Arguments: Public Reasoning and Beyond.” e-cadernos CES, no. 9 (2010): 115–133.
2010 “The Illusion of Purity: Chantal Mouffe’s Realist Critique of Cosmopolitanism.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 36, no. 7 (2010): 785–800.
2009 “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): 249–270.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
- 2016 “Norms, Stories and Ideologies: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Secularism.” In Multireligious Society: Dealing with Religious Diversity in Theory and Practice, edited by Francisco Colom González and Gianni D’Amato, 29–41. New York: Routledge, 2016. Pre-Print/Pre-Proofread
- 2014 “Introduction.” In On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies, edited by Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler, 1–9. Rhetoric, Politics and Society 1. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (with Mihaela Mihai). Pre-Print/Pre-Proofread.
- 2012 “Deep Contextualism and Radical Criticism: The Argument for a Division of Labor in Contemporary Political Theory.” In Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics, edited by José Maria Castro Caldas and Vítor Neves, 138–157. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- 2012 “Filosofia Política.” In Filosofia: Uma Introdução por Disciplinas, edited by Pedro Galvão, 175–213. Extra Coleção 155. Lisbon: Edições 70, 2012. (with João Cardoso Rosas and Iñigo González)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters without Peer Review
- 2017 Mihai, Mihaela, Lois McNay, Oliver Marchart, Aletta Norval, Vassilios Paipais, Sergei Prozorov, and Mathias Thaler. “Democracy, Critique and the Ontological Turn.” Contemporary Political Theory 16, no. 4 (2017): 501–31.
- 2017 “A Dialectical View of Prague.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 43, no. 3 (2017): 343–44.
- 2012 “Zwei Begründungsmuster für interkulturelles Philosophieren.” In Perspektiven interkulturellen Philosophierens: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Methodik von Polylogen, edited by Franz Gmainer-Pranzl and Anke Graness, 38–44. Vienna: Facultas, 2012.
- 2011 “Comment on Wilfried Hinsch: Ideal Justice and Rational Dissent: A Critique of Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice.” Analyse & Kritik 33, no. 2 (2011): 387–393.
- 2011 “Was zeichnet ein politisches Fehlurteil aus? Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Wahrheit und Politik.” In Urteil und Fehlurteil, edited by Sandra Lehmann and Sophie Loidolt, 269–282. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2011.
- 2005 “Accounting for Humanitarian Intervention.” IWM Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conferences, no. 18 (2005).
- 2004 “Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and Interculturality.” Historische Sozialkunde. Geschichte – Fachdidaktik – Politische Bildung (Sondernummer: Human Rights) 1 (2004): 5–12.
- 2004 “Menschenrechte, Kulturrelativismus und Interkulturalität.” Menschenrechte im Kulturvergleich (IWK-Mitteilungen) 59, no. 1–2 (2004): 3–11.
Special Journal Issues
- 2019 “Political Violence and the Imagination.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22, no. 5 (2019). Contributions from Maria-Alina Asavei, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Eliza Garnsey, Bronwyn Leebaw, Mihaela Mihai, Jade Schiff and Shari Stone-Mediatore.
- 2011 “Secularismos hoje.” e-cadernos CES, no. 13 (2011). (edited with Teresa Toldy).
- 2007 “Gerechter Krieg?” polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, no. 16 (2007). (edited with Hans Schelkshorn).
- 2006 “Menschenrechte zwischen Wirtschaft, Recht und Ethik.” polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, no. 14 (2006). (edited with Franz M. Wimmer).
Book Reviews
- 2022 Review of Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021), by S. D. Chrostowska. The Review of Politics, September 13, 2022 (online first), 1–3.
- 2020 Review of Between Specters of War and Visions of Peace: Dialogic Political Theory and the Challenges of Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), by Gerald M. Mara. Perspectives on Politics 18, no. 1 (2020): 253–55. PDF.
- 2020 Review of Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), by Minou Arjomand. Contemporary Political Theory 19, no. 2 (2020): 134–37. PDF.
- 2016 Review of The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), by Alessandro Ferrara. Political Theory 44, no. 3 (2016): 431–37. PDF.
- 2010 Review of The Politics of Official Apologies (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), by Melissa Nobles. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, no. 88 (2010): 241–43. PDF.
- 2010 Review of Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variation, 2008 by Peter L. Berger, Grace Davie and Effie Fokas, Religion & Society: Advances in Research 1, no. 1 (2010): 191–193.
- 2010 Review of Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, 2009 by Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood (eds.), Religion & Society: Advances in Research 1, no. 1 (2010): 191–193.
Dictionary Entry
- 2012 “Crise.” Dicionário das Crises e das Alternativas. Coimbra: Almedina, 2012.
Working Paper
- 2013 “Norms, Stories, and Ideologies: What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Secularism”. RECODE Working Paper Series. RECODE – Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada, 2013. PDF.
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
- 2022 “Visionen für einen kaputten Planeten.” Das Tagebuch, May 3, 2022. https://tagebuch.at/2022/05/visionen-fuer-einen-kaputten-planeten/.
- 2022 “Der Sinn von sozialem Träumen.” Falter Heureka, April 27, 2022. https://www.falter.at/heureka/20220427/der-sinn-von-sozialem-traeumen/_66f59f5b53.
- 2022 “Rescuing Utopianism in a Climate-Changed World.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 24, 2022. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rescuing-utopianism-in-a-climate-changed-world/.
- 2022 “Wessen Zukunft? Welcher Planet?” Die Presse, March 25, 2022, https://www.diepresse.com/6116987/wessen-zukunft-welcher-planet.
- 2010 “Ein eigener Säkularismus.” Die Gazette, 2010 (Fall): 40–44. PDF.
- 2009 “Die Krise als Chance?.” Die Furche, April 9, 2009: 13.
Theses (in German)
- 2006 Doctoral thesis (2006): Gründen, Fundieren, Rechtfertigen: Eine Untersuchung moralischer Argumente im Feld des Politischen.
- 2003 MA thesis (2003): Antworten auf den Kulturrelativismus: Eine philosophische Untersuchung aktueller Debatten zur Universalität der Menschenrechte. PDF published on: Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie.
Translations (from English to German)
- 2007 Walzer, Michael. “Die Debatte um humanitäre Interventionen.” polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, no. 16 (2007): 11–26.
- 2005 Barša, Pavel. “Krieg führen im Namen der Menschenrechte? Vierzehn Thesen über humanitäre Interventionen.” polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, no. 14 (2005): 7–25.
- 2000 Mouffe, Chantal. “Wittgenstein, Politische Theorie und Demokratie.” polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, no. 6 (2000): 53–61.
Other Publications
- 2021 “The Power of Utopia.” IAI News, November 5, 2021. https://iai.tv/articles/the-power-of-utopia-auid-1968.
- 2021 “‘We Are Going to Have to Imagine Our Way out of This!’: Utopian Thinking and Acting in the Climate Emergency.” Ideology Theory Practice (blog), September 13, 2021. ideology-theory-practice.org/1/post/2021/09/we-are-going-to-have-to-imagine-our-way-out-of-this-utopian-thinking-and-acting-in-the-climate-emergency.html.
- 2019 “Radicalizing the Critique of Just War Thinking.” Humanity (blog), August 21, 2019. http://humanityjournal.org/blog/radicalizing-the-critique-of-just-war-thinking/.
- 2018 “Picket Line Rules Miss the Point.” OpenDemocracy (blog), March 17, 2018. https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/mathias-thaler/picket-line-rules-miss-point.
- 2018 “Dead Bodies (Do Not) Matter.” Humanity Journal (blog), November 9, 2018. http://humanityjournal.org/blog/dead-bodies-do-not-matter/. (with Tobias Kelly and Nicola Perugini)
Mathias Thaler, Professor of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh 
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