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Agon Hamza (born 1984) is a philosopher and a political theorist fromKosovo.[1] Influenced by Žižek and his readings ofGerman Idealism, Marx and Marxist tradition in general; his work develops further the Hegelian-Marxist concepts ofstate,religion andpolitics. He is the author ofAlthusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism and Film (2016) and the co-author ofReading Marx (2018) andReading Hegel (2021) alongsideSlavoj Žižek andFrank Ruda, as well asFrom Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo (2013) withSlavoj Žižek.
He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international journal of political thought and philosophyCrisis and Critique.[2][3]
Hamza is an Assistant professor of political philosophy at Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, inSkopje,North Macedonia.[4] He briefly served as political advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo,Albin Kurti, in 2020.[5] He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), under the supervision ofJelica Šumič on the work of the FrenchMarxist philosopherLouis Althusser. He is a regular contributor to a daily newspaper in Kosovo,[6] and contributed from 2020 to 2021 to thePhilosophical Salon in a monthly feature, "The R-Files” (short for “The Review Files”), with Frank Ruda.[7] He has written forAl-Jazeera,[8] Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).[9]