Prof. E. van der Zweerde (Evert)

Professor - Philosophical ethics and political philosophy

Chair: Social and political philosophy

Contact

evert.vanderzweerde@ru.nl
024-3612315

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Having defended a PhD on philosophy in the former USSR, I have developed an expertise in political philosophy, focusing on the concepts of ideology, civil society, and democracy. Increaslingly, I have worked in the field of philosophical democratic theory, while maintaining my expertise in the field of Russian philosophy and, more broadly, comparative political philosophy.

Tags: democratic theory, civil society, ideology, philosophy in Russia / USSR, comparative political philosophy.

Publications

Key publications

Zweerde, E. van der (2024). Rebel Nun with a Cause : the Political Sophiology of St Mat' Mariia (Skobtsova). In H. Schelkshorn & H. Westerink (Eds.), Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics around 1945 (Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa, 3) (pp. 181-204). Paderborn: Brill / Schöningh doi: 10.30965/9783657794508_010 Full text
Zweerde, E. van der (2022). Russian Political Philosophy; Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy (Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History, 3). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Full text
Zweerde, E. van der (2018). Soviet Theory of the History of Philosophy as Capstone of Soviet Philosophical Culture. Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, 73 (2), 357-371.
Zweerde, E. van der (2017). Vzgliad so storony na istoriiu russkoi i sovetskoi filosofii [View from aside on the history of Russian and Soviet philosophy]. St Petersburg: Aleteiia
Agadjanian, A., Jödicke, A. & Zweerde, E. van der (Ed.). (2015). Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 59). London, New York: Routledge
Zweerde, E. van der (2013). The Rise of the People and the Political Philosophy of the Vekhi Authors. In R. Aizlewood & R. Coates (Eds.), Landmarks Revisited; The Vekhi Symposium 100 Years On (pp. 104-127). Boston: Academic Studies Press

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About

Evert van der Zweerde is a political philosopher who conducts research on democracy, with a focus on ideology and civil society. He is also an expert on Soviet and Russian philosophy and has published widely on this topic.