Stathis Kouvélakis is an independent researcher in political theory. He has authored, edited, or prefaced, among other titles and writings, Sur la Commune de Paris. Textes et controverses: Précédé de Événement et stratégie révolutionnaire par Stathis Kouvélakis (2021), La critique défaite: Émergence et domestication de la théorie critique (2019) —forthcoming in English as The Defeat of Critique: Emergence and Domestication of Critical Theory—, Philosophie et révolution: De Kant à Marx (2017) —translated into English as Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx (2019)—, Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (co-edited with Jacques Bidet) (2009), La France en révolte. Luttes sociales et cycles politiques (2007), and Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth (co-edited with Sebastian Budgen and Slavoj Žižek) (2007).