Brian Milstein

Brian Milstein was post-doctoral at the Collège in 2014 and 2015 in the Nancy Fraser's chair Rethinking Social Justice.

He received his Ph.D. in Politics from the New School for Social Research in 2011, and he has held fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin’s J.F.K.-Institut and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt’s Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. His main areas of research include critical social theory, world politics, cosmopolitanism, American pragmatism, and the social and political thought of Immanuel Kant and Jürgen Habermas. 

Research Project 

A Critique of Crisis: Reconciling Objectivity and Normativity in the Global Age

Publications 

- Commercium: Critical Theory from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015) (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783482832/Commercium-Critical-Theory-From-a-Cosmopolitan-Point-of-View)
- “Thinking Politically about Crisis: A Pragmatist Perspective,“ European Journal of Political Theory 14(2): 141-60 (http://ept.sagepub.com/content/14/2/141)
- “Kantian Cosmopolitanism beyond ‘Perpetual Peace’: Commercium, Critique, and the Cosmopolitan Problematic,” European Journal of Philosophy 21(1): 118-43 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2010.00437.x/abstract )