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

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

. Influenced by Žižek and his readings of

German Idealism German idealism is 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 most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

religion Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...

and

politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

. He is the author of ''Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism and Film'' (2016) and the co-author of ''Reading Marx'' (2018) and ''Reading Hegel'' (2021) alongside

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

and Frank Ruda, as well as ''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 ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

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. He briefly served as political advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo,

Albin Kurti Albin Kurti (; born 24March 1975) is a Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo Albanian politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Kosovo since 2021, having previously held the office from February to June 2020. He came to prominence in 1997 as the vi ...

, in 2020. 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 Riha Jelica Šumič Riha (born 1958) is a Slovenian philosopher, political theorist, and translator, associated with the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis. Biography Riha studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, graduating in 1983. Initial ...

on the work of the French

Marxist Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...

philosopher

Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser was a long-time member an ...

. He is a regular contributor to a daily newspaper in Kosovo, and contributed from 2020 to 2021 to 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 Media Network (AJMN; , ) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar. The network's flagship channels include Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, which pr ...

, 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.

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Life

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