Christopher Lord

Christopher Lord has lived in 10 countries and speaks 7 languages. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, a chance meeting led to him joining a group of dissidents who had taken over the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Charles University, Prague, in the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution. Given a desk, an office, and carte blanche, he moved in two directions: an academic direction, founding courses in international politics, and an activist direction, holding diplomatic events at the university and also joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Institute of International Relations in an ill-defined role. Apart from editing conference papers, he produced two significant books, Politics (1999), a general theory of politics published by the Charles University press in English and Czech editions, and Parallel Cultures, a study of minorities in Eastern Europe, re-issued by Routledge in 2019. Currently living in France, he works as an independent translator, including translating French philosophical works, and also does some journalism and academic writing, his main project being a philosophical study of perspective, called “The Vanishing Point – a study of Art, Science and Consciousness.”