Curriculum vitae
PhDr. Ľuboš Blaha, PhD.
He was born in 1979. In 1998 – 2003 he studied at The Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Matej Bel, Banská Bytsrica, the subject: political theory. In 1999 – 2004 he studied at The Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University, Bratislava, the subject: philosophy. In 2004 - 2007 he was the PhD. student at the Department of Political Sciences of Slovak Academy of Sciences. Since 2007 he has been the employee of the Department of Political Sciences of SAS. The degrees: 2003 – Mgr. (political science),2004 – Mgr. (philosophy), 2004 – PhDr. (political science), 2008 - PhD. (political science).His scientific work is aimed on the political philosophy, especially the analysis of social justice. As regards the political theory, he mainly concerns the analysis of Liberalism, Communitarianism and Neo-Marxism, concretely the philosophical theories of John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Michael Walzer. In the field od Neo-Marxism he concerns especially the American and British authors of Analytical Marxism (John Roemer, G.A. Cohen, Rodney Peffer etc.). He is the author of 2 monographies: Social Justice and Identity (2006) and Back To Marx? (2009), as well as various scientific studies on political-philosophical issues (the theories of justice, the welfare state, media manipulation, political Left etc.). He contributes to the political magazine SLOVO where he published various articles, e.g. The Welfare State, Are the Taxes a Theft?, Back to Marx or The American Liberal Left.