Srećko Horvat

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Biography

Srećko Horvat, born 1983 in Croatia, is a philosopher und author of books like After the Apocalypse (Polity Press, 2021), Poetry from the Future (Penguin, 2019), The Radicality of Love (Polity, 2015) or What does Europe Want? (with Slavoj Žižek, Columbia University Press, 2013). The German weekly newspaper Der Freitag called him “one of the most exciting voices of his generation“, and he was described as an “ardent voice of dissent in the post-Yugoslavian landscape”. His texts have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Al Jazeera and Jacobin. He belongs to the cofounders of the pan-European movement DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), the Progressive International and the Island School of Social Autonomy.

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