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Community after Totalitarianism: The Russian Orthodox Intellectual Tradition and the Philosophical Discourse of Political Modernity

Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-3631579367, 199 S.

Starting with a definition of political modernity from the perspective of its greatest trial - totalitarianism - this study asks the question how community is conceptualized in the contemporary Western philosophical discourse and in the Russian Orthodox intellectual tradition. Contemporary philosophical and theological approaches in Russia develop alternative perspectives on community and on the human subject. This study analyzes them historically and philosophically and compares them with liberal, postmodern and communitarian philosophies of community in the West. Contents: Totalitarianism and the question of community in political philosophy - The interpretative space of political modernity - The Russian Orthodox intellectual tradition in the twentieth century - Contingencies and alternatives in political modernity - Three elements for a post-totalitarian philosophy of community.

"Kristina Stoeckl’s thesis [...] is a tour de force of intellectual control, organisation and insight. It deals with tradition in general, and Russian Orthodox tradition in particular, understood not in contrast to modernity but in constant dialogue with a modernity whose foundations have been shaken by an inherent potential for totalitarianism." David Martin in Journal of Contemporary Religion.

More reviews of this work: see below

Politics, culture and religion in the postsecular world
Russian-Italian Workshop

12-13 May 2011 (Faenza)

This workshop was the first of two Italian-Russian academic meetings on the topic “Politics, culture and religion in the postsecular world”. Its aim was to discuss the topic of postsecularity from different religious, political and cultural standpoints within the Russian and the Italian context and to set the research agenda for a follow-up conference in February 2012 in Moscow. The event took place in the framework of the Italian-Russian Year of Culture and was sponsored by Fondazione Roma and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Section Humanities. The papers are published on PECOB, the Portal for East Central and Balkan Europe.

The workshop was coordinated by Kristina Stoeckl (CSPS) and Stefano Bianchini (IECOB).

Politik, Religion und Markt: 
Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne

Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, Kristina Stöckl (Hg.)

Band 4 
ISBN: 978-3-902719-14-0  
brosch., 276 Seiten
2009, innsbruck university press • iup
Preis: 21,90 Euro

Band 4 gibt einen Überblick über zentrale Problemstellungen in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Verhältnis von Religion und Sozialwissenschaften einerseits, und den spannungsreichen Beziehungen zwischen Religion, Politik, Wirtschaft und struktureller wie offener Gewalt andererseits. Die Aufsatzsammlung empfiehlt sich als Einführung für Studierende in gleichem Maße wie für ein interessiertes Fachpublikum. Mit Beiträgen von Frank Adloff, Emil Brix, José Casanova, Andreas Exenberger, Wilhelm Guggenberger, Gerhard Larcher, Walter Reese-Schäfer, Dietmar Regensburger, Harald Stelzer, Kristina Stöckl, Evert van der Zweerde, Harald Wydra.

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Governance and Religion
Second Obergurgl Governance Symposium

20.-22. November 2008

Read the conference-report and listen to recordings of the presentations by Valerie Amiraux, Tine Stein, Allan Janik, Arpad Szakolczai, Harald Wydra, Roberto Farneti, Kristina Stoeckl, Karin Bischof and Karin Stoegner and other contributors.

„Modern Trajectories in Eastern European Orthodoxy: Responses to the Post-totalitarian and Post-Cold War Constellation”, in:

DOMAINS AND DIVISIONS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY

Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Nathalie Doyle.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010, pages 40-57.

The progress of historical sociology has led to more active interest in the identities, structures and boundaries of historical formations, geocultural as well as geopolitical. The main emphasis of this book is on the multiple but interrelated divisions that have shaped the course of European history and crystallized in different patterns during successive phases. [...] The book lays a particular stress on one region, Central or East Central Europe, and the debates that have developed around it.
With contributions by: Peter Wagner, Kristina Stöckl, Irmline Veit-Brause, Stefan Troebst, M. B. B. Biskupski, Michael G. Müller, Miroslav Hroch, Johann P. Arnason, Paul Blokker, Marko Pavlyshyn, Bo Strath, Natalie J. Doyle.

"Community after Totalitarianism". Alexander Gungov in Sofia Philosophical Review, Issue 2, Vol. III (2009).

"Community after Totalitarianism". Joachim Willems Theologische Literaturzeitung 134 (2009) 10

"Community after Totalitarianism". P. B. Serzhantov in Voprosy Filosofii, 03.09.2010, >> link <<

"Aufgeklärte Apokalyptik". Evert van der Zweerde in Religion, State and Society 38/2 (2010), 187-190.