Roland Végső

My primary research and teaching interests include twentieth-century fiction, modernism, continental philosophy, and translation studies. 

Books

I am the author of three books. My first book, The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture (Fordham UP, 2012), explores the ways literature participated in the constitution of the global imaginaries of early-Cold War culture in the 1950s. 

My second monograph, Worldlessness After Heidegger (Edinburgh UP, 2020), examines the way the concept of “worldlessness” has emerged in 20^th-century continental philosophy as the standard name for the epochal catastrophe that supposedly threatens us all with the loss of our humanity. 

My forthcoming third book, The Dialectical Screen: Walter Benjamin on Television (Northwestern UP, 2026), examines the role of “television” in Benjamin’s media theory. 

Editing

I am the co-editor of the Provocations book series published by the University of Nebraska Press. The series publishes short polemical interventions into contemporary academic debates.

Translation

I am the translator and co-translator of three books: Rodolphe Gasché’s Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Stanford University Press, 2012), Peter Szendy’s All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (Fordham University Press, 2017), and Fethi Benslama’s Thinking Revolution: Writings on Insubmission (co-translated with Nathan Gorelick, forthcoming from Bloomsbury).

Other publications