Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Towards a Democratic Imagination” (forthcoming, Polity)

Divine Epiphany and Political Authority in Plato’s Republic,History of Political Thought, vol. 44, no. 2 (2023): 213-233

Leviathan Versus Beelzebub: Hobbes on the Prophetic Imagination,” History of European Ideas, vol. 49, no. 3 (2023): 543-560.

“Political Phantasies: Aristotle on Imagination and Collective Action,” American Journal of Political Science (published online, September 2022)

Political Imagination and Its Limits,” Synthese, Vol 199 (2021): 3325-3343

The Sleeping Subject: On the Use and Abuse of Imagination in Hobbes’s Leviathan,Hobbes Studies Vol. 33, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 153-175


Edited Volumes

“Imagination and Creativity in the Political Realm,” The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, eds. Amy Kind and Julia Langkau (OUP, forthcoming)

Olga Lenczewska & Avshalom M. Schwartz, “Disagree to Agree: Forming Consensus around Basic Income in Times of Political Divisiveness,” in Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee, ed. Richard Caputo and Larry Liu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)  



Working Papers

 “Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Struggle Over Athenian Identity” (under review)

“Revisiting the Meaning of syllogos at Thucydides 2.22” (in progress)

“Du Bois’ Platonic Egalitarianism,” with Desmond Jagmohan (in progress)

 “Persona civitatis and persona Dei: Hobbes on Religious Representation and Misrepresentation,” with Kajetan Kubala (in progress)  


Other Media

Imagination and Democracy,” The Junkyard, February 21, 2024.

Imagination, Misinformation, and Democracy” - an interview in the Civic Agora Podcast

Between Autonomy and Heteronomy: Castoriadis on the Ancient and Modern Democratic Imagination,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, June 22, 2023

Conference Report: Stanford Imagination Workshop,” The Junkyard, June 7, 2023

Imagining Monsters, Together and Alone,” Solitude: Past and Present, October 2022

Plato and Hobbes on Imagination and Political Instability,” The Junkyard, May 20, 2020

‘The Settlers’ is a Promotional Film for the Settlement Movement,” Haaretz, July 12, 2016 [Hebrew]