David Pan began his work with Telos as a student of Russell Berman, then as an intern with Paul Piccone, with whom he developed skills not only as a writer and an editor but also as a furniture mover, a handyman, and a plongeur.
David became an editorial associate in 1988 and since then has published essays on figures such as Franz Kafka, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, John Dewey, Carl Einstein, and Jürgen Habermas. He has also edited journal issues on Carl Schmitt and collaborated on the publication of several Telos Press books, including Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba and The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts, Ernst Jünger’s Sturm, Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism, and For a New Naturalism.
David was the Executive Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute from its founding in 2012 until 2019, overseeing annual conferences in New York in addition to collaborative international conferences in L’Aquila, Melbourne, Beijing, Irvine, Chongqing, Berlin, New Delhi, Moscow, Ragusa, and Haifa.
Read David’s articles from Telos in our online archives. To find out more about Telos‘s latest projects, please see the letter from the publisher.
David Pan is Professor of European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
