Yonathan Busquila Listik is a lecturer at Leiden University, teaching courses on Decolonial Theory and Critical Political Theory. His current field of research is philosophy, more specifically, exploring contemporary political ontology in the continental tradition. He is also interested in the connections between Jewish philosophy, decolonial theory and aesthetics. His main interests are possible articulations of the idea of barbarism/stupidity.

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Fields of interest

• Philosophy
• Critical Theory
• Decolonial Theory
• Jewish Thought
• Aesthetics 

Selected publications

-Listik, Y. (2024). "Who Is Afraid of the People? The Entanglement of Democracy, Populism and Stupidity". In The Many Faces of Populism. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

- Listik, Y., & Macmillen Voskoboynik, D. (2024). Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli; A First English Translation, translated by Sebastian Purcell. Teaching Philosophy, 47(4), 621-624.

-Listik Y. (2023), Barbaric Jewishness: resistance to anti-semitism and Judeo-Christianity, Horizontes Decoloniales / Decolonial Horizons 8(1): 7-52.

-Listik Y. (2023), Judeo-Christianity, Jewish Barbarism and the necessity to decolonize Jewishness. In: Attia Y., Hirsch J. & Samson K. (Eds.), Minor perspectives on modernity beyond Europe: an encounter between Jewish studies and postcolonial thought no. 1. Baden-Baden: Ergon. 135-150.

- Listik Y. (2021), A Biopolitical Account of Social Pathology: Viewing Pathology as a Political-Ontological Issue. In: Harris N. (Ed.) Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose: Springer International Publishing.

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