Agon Hamza (born 1984) is a philosopher and a political theorist from

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

. Influenced by Žižek and his readings of

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

, Marx and Marxist tradition in general; his work develops further the Hegelian-Marxist concepts of

state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

and

politics Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

. He is the author of ''Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism and Film'' (2016). and the co-author of ''Reading Marx'' (2018) with

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New Y ...

and

Frank Ruda Frank Ruda is a German philosopher. He is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Professor at the European G ...

and ''From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo'' (2013) with

. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international journal of political thought and philosophy
Crisis and Critique
'.

Life

Hamza is an Assistant professor of political philosophy at Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, in

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

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. He (has served) and continues to serve as political advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo,

Albin Kurti Albin Kurti (; born 24 March 1975) is a Kosovar Albanian politician and activist, serving as the Prime Minister of Kosovo since 22 March 2021, having previously served in that role between February and June 2020. He came to prominence in 1997 a ...

. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), under the supervision of Jelica Šumič on the work of the French

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

philosopher

Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser ...

. He is a regular contributor to a daily newspaper in Kosova, as well as the Philosophical Salon in a monthly feature, "The R-Files” (short for “The Review Files”), with Frank Ruda. He has written for

Al-Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).

Works

*''Repeating Žižek''. Durham: Duke University Press. 2015 *''Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism''. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. 2016 (with Frank Ruda) *''Althusser and Theology: Religion, Politics and Philosophy''. Leiden, Brill, 2016 *''Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film.'' Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. 2016/2018 *''Reading Marx''. (with Slavoj Žižek and Frank Ruda) London, Polity Press, 2018. *''Reading Hegel''. (with Slavoj Žižek and Frank Ruda) London, Polity Press, 2021.

References

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