Truth, Post-Truth, and the Problem of Evil in a Postmodern World

prof. Marci Shore (Department of History, Yale University) teaches modern European intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001; before coming to Yale, she taught at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is the translator of Michał Głowinski’s Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book project, a history of phenomenology in Central and Eastern Europe, tentatively titled ‘Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came About While Searching for Truth’. She is a regular contributor to the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. She is co-curator of the Eurozine public seminar/forum ‘On the pros and cons of historical comparisons for life’ (title stolen from Nietzsche): https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-last-time-i-saw-them-new-democracy-seminar-forum/

Selected Publications:

Ukraińska noc. Rewolucja jako doświadczenie, przeł. Marcin Szuster, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej 2018;

The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, Yale University Press 2017;

The Taste of Ashes, Crown Books/Random House 2013 (UK edition: Heinemann, German edition: Beck, Polish edition: Świat Książki);

Nowoczesność jako źródło cierpień, przeł. Marcin Szuster, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej 2012.

serdecznie zapraszam do udziału,

dr Magdalena Lachowicz