Isolde Charim

Isolde Charim (* 1959 in Vienna) studied philosophy in Vienna and Berlin and works as a freelance publicist and regular columnist for taz, Wiener Zeitung (until 2018) and Falter. Since 2007, she has been the academic curator at the Bruno Kreisky Forum. She also taught at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna.

In 2016, Isolde Charim held the Radio Ö1 summer lecture: „Me and the Others. Philosophical Reflections on Life in a Pluralised Society“ (ORF-CD). March 2018: „Me and the Others. How New Pluralisation Is Changing Us All“ (Zsolnay Verlag).

Prices and Awards

2006: City of Vienna Prize for Journalism
2018: Philosophical Book Prize for „Me and the Others. How New Pluralisation Is Changing Us All“
2018: proZukunft Top Ten of Future Literature 2018, for „Me and the Others. How the New Pluralisation is Changing Us All“

Works

Trade Unions, Chambers, Social Partnership and Parties after the Post-War Reconstruction: with experiences from Sweden, Great Britain, France and Germany. Edited by Heinz Füreder, ÖGB–Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-7035-0831-8.
Austria: Reports from Quarantine. Co-edited with Doron Rabinovici. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-12184-9.
The Althusser Effect: Draft of an Ideology Theory. Passagen, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85165-475-2 (2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-7092-0342-2).
Life Model Diaspora: On Modern Nomads. Co-editor with Gertraud Auer Borea. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1872-3.
I and the Others. How the New Pluralisation Changes Us All. Zsolnay. Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05888-0.

Translations

Slavoj Žižek: „What You Always Wanted to Know about Lacan and Never Dared to Ask Hitchcock.“ Translation from English. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-518-29180-1.
Slavoj Zizek: „The Most Sublime of All Hysterics. Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of German Idealism.“ Translated from English, Vienna, Berlin. Turia & Kant, 1992, ISBN: 385132028X / 3-85132-028-X