Martin Joseph Beck Matustik

Martin J. Matustik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, was educated in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Germany. At 19, a student signatory of Charta 77, he left Prague for political reasons. After 8 months in an Austrian refugee camp in 1978, he immigrated to Los Angeles, California. As a Fulbright Fellow, he studied with Habermas during the revolutionary events of 1989-1991. He has lectured on identity and power at Prague's Charles and Central European Universities...See more

Martin J. Matustik, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, was educated in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Germany. At 19, a student signatory of Charta 77, he left Prague for political reasons. After 8 months in an Austrian refugee camp in 1978, he immigrated to Los Angeles, California. As a Fulbright Fellow, he studied with Habermas during the revolutionary events of 1989-1991. He has lectured on identity and power at Prague's Charles and Central European Universities (Sporos Foundation), and has published articles on Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Levinas, Kierkegaard, Habermas, Havel, and eastern European politics. See less