Senior Researcher

swain@flu.cas.cz

Dan Swain is a researcher at CETE-P working on the European Regional Development Fund supported project 'Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building'. His work focuses on social and political philosophy, specifically on the theory and practice of social movements and their contribution to social transformation and innovation. He is the author of Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory (Bookmarks, 2012), None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation (Brill, 2019) and Social Cohesion Contested (with Petr Urban; Rowman and Littlefield, 2024). His work has also been published in the European Journal of Social Theory, Historical Materialism and Political Studies.
He also works as an assistant professor at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Czech University of Life Sciences, where he has researched and taught philosophy and political theory since 2015.

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Dan Swain is a researcher at CETE-P working on the European Regional Development Fund supported project 'Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building'. His work focuses on social and political philosophy, specifically on the theory and practice of social movements and their contribution to social transformation and innovation. He is the author of Alienation: An Introduction to Marx's Theory (Bookmarks, 2012), None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation (Brill, 2019) and Social Cohesion Contested (with Petr Urban; Rowman and Littlefield, 2024). His work has also been published in the European Journal of Social Theory, Historical Materialism and Political Studies.
He also works as an assistant professor at the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Czech University of Life Sciences, where he has researched and taught philosophy and political theory since 2015.