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Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also affiliated with the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights<\/a> and with the program in Capitalism Studies<\/a>. In 2023, he\u00a0founded the Philosophy and Critical Theory Lab (PaCT Lab<\/a>).<\/p>\n

His research ranges topically political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy; he also frequently engages fields like genocide studies, film theory, television studies, psychoanalysis, and various kinds of critical theory. In 2019, Shuster was Visiting Professor at the Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, and he’s also received support from Project Pericles, the Templeton Foundation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he was a visiting fellow in 2007-2008. In addition to his scholarly writing, Shuster frequently writes for public-facing venues (most recently, for example, The Jewish Forward, Aeon, The Montr\u00e9al Review,\u00a0<\/em>The LA Review of Books, <\/em>and\u00a0the Philosophical Salon). <\/em>He’s also been involved with teaching in prisons, both officially and as a volunteer.<\/p>\n

He is currently completing three books: Genocide and the State: An Alternative History of Modern Political Philosophy<\/em> ranges across several disciplines, most notably philosophy, Holocaust and genocide studies, ethnic thought, political and critical theory of various stripes. The book argues that conceptually embedded in the innermost core of the Western concept of the modern state is a homogenizing imperative that makes genocide a perpetual byproduct of the global state order. With Henry Pickford<\/a>, Shuster is completing the Oxford\u00a0<\/em>Handbook of Theodor W. Adorno,<\/em> under contract with Oxford University Press. Finally, under contract with Duke University Press in their “Practices<\/a>” series, Shuster is completing a book titled “Lifting.”<\/p>\n

In the near future, with Kathy Kiloh<\/a>, Henry Pickford<\/a>, and Surti Singh<\/a>, he will start work on the Oxford Handbook of the Frankfurt<\/em> School, under contract with Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

With Sandra Laugier<\/a> and Robert Sinnerbrink<\/a>, he edits the “TV-Philosophy<\/a>” book series at University of Exeter Press.<\/p>\n


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