Martin Matuštík

Martin Beck Matuštík was a signatory of Charta 77, fled his native Czechoslovakia for political reasons in 1977 and settled in the United States, where he is professor of philosophy at Purdue University, Indiana. Among his books are Postnational identity: critical theory and existential philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, Havel (Guilford, 1993); Specters of Liberation: great refusals in the new world order (SUNY press, 1998); and Jűrgen Habermas: a philosophical-political profile (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).