CEU Press Perspectives
Gray is Beautiful: Confronting the Retreat of Democracy from the Radical Center
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Goldfarb
January 19, 2026
With “the age of democracy” apparently coming to an end, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb offers hope against hopelessness, turning away from the canned political perspectives of the left, right, and center to recognize the beauty of the less than perfect and to emphasize the centrality of free public life. In ...
Biopolitics from Below: Crisis, Conjuncture, Rupture
1st Edition
By Ranabir Samaddar
April 11, 2025
The current social turmoil enveloping the world has produced knee jerk reactions and a plethora of policy declarations. At the same time, the scenario is marked with response of those with low socioeconomic status to the worldwide chaos and precarious living conditions. In this context, how do we ...
Pandemic Power: The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy - A Liberal Critique
1st Edition
By Muriel Blaive
April 02, 2025
Pandemic Power is a thought-provoking exploration of how the response to the Covid pandemic has undermined our understanding of science, freedom, and democracy. It delivers a searing critique of policies and narratives that have, in fact, fueled the rise of the extreme right in many countries....
State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race: Illiberal France and Beyond
1st Edition
By Éric Fassin
March 20, 2024
Eric Fassin examines the trend of State anti-intellectualism in France using the nation as a case study to demonstrate that this tendency is not limited to ostensibly illiberal regimes. He argues that today’s world requires an examination of this phenomenon beyond Cold War geopolitical divisions ...
The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics
1st Edition
By Mark Qvortrup
March 20, 2024
We have politics on our mind—or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader on a whistle stop tour through the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of neuropolitics; the discipline that combines neuroscience and ...
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism
1st Edition
By Achim Klüppelberg
March 20, 2024
The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and ...