OUT NOW. Mein Buch »Radikale Demokratie und die Macht des Affektiven« gibt es ab heute druckfrisch in der Buchhandlung eures Vertrauens oder als Open-Access-Variante kostenlos per Download unter: short-url.org/1pADO

Please share this widely: there are various postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in political theory, philosophy, and the social sciences at Normative Orders in Frankfurt!

Ein Buch, das aktueller nicht sein könnte: Menschen mit »Behinderungen« werden oft nicht als vollwertige Personen anerkannt. Regina Schidel schließt mit ihrem Buch eine Lücke, indem sie Ableismus aus philosophischer und sozialtheoretischer Perspektive analysiert. 17.12.!

🛑Stop the Cuts!✂️ Die hessische Landesregierung zwingt den Hochschulen mit dem 'Hochschulpakt 2026-2031' massive Sparmaßnahmen mit verheerenden Konsequenzen auf: Fächer und Stellen werden ersatzlos gestrichen, Studieren und Arbeiten an den Unis wird zur Zumutung. Wir fordern dehalb: #nocutsinhessen!

Looking forward to the 32nd Critical Theory Roundtable, which starts tomorrow at Smith College, organized by @erinrpineda.bsky.social and Nathan DuFord. Check out the full program here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Stellenausschreibung am IfS für Mitarbeit im DFG-Projekt ‘Die postnazistische Gesellschaft’: www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/st...

Hier haben wir unsere Stellenausschreibung vielleicht noch nicht gepostet: Das @hiigberlin.bsky.social sucht eine*n interessierte*n und motivierte*n postdoc, die/der mit uns zusammen einen neuen Forschungsbereich zum Thema Demokratischer Wandel und Wissen aufbaut. www.hiig.de/stellenaussc...

Check out this call for two postdoctoral positions in the humanities and social sciences at Normative Orders in Frankfurt. Applications are due by the end of October

Bogotá

Looking forward to discussing the racket model of Critical Theory and its relevance for understanding the crisis of authoritarianism this Friday at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, as part of our JUSTLA project.

In Bogota for the first time

🌍 JUSTLA Initial Conference 🌍 Justice in the XXI Century: New Challenges, New Directions of Inquiry 📍 University of Catania, Italy 📅 Feb 25–27, 2026 🎤 Distinguished keynote speakers from leading International Universities 🔗 justla.eu #JUSTLA #EU #MSCA #JusticeXXI #PoliticalTheory

Frankfurt/Darmstadt aufgepasst. Für das interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg »Ästhetik der Demokratie« unter Leitung von Johannes Völz und Sophie Loidolt gibt es 12 (!) Promotionsstellen befristet auf 4 Jahre. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 14. November 2025. Programmstart ist der 1. April 2026.

Special issue of Public Reason which it is shamelessly immodest of me to post: publicreason.ro/cuprins/29

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

#CfP bis 30. Juni 2025 für die Sektionstagung im Frühjahr '26 zu "Bürgerschaft: Aktuelle Entwicklungspfade und konzeptionelle Neubestimmungen". Das Orgateam besteht aus Oliver Eberl & Julian Nicolai Hofmann (@unimarburg.bsky.social), Eva-Maria Schäfferle & Sandra Seubert (@goetheuni.bsky.social).👇

›daß das Verschiedene nebeneinander besteht, ohne sich gegenseitig zu vernichten, daß ein Verschiedenes dem anderen Raum läßt, und daß … das Verschiedene sich liebt, das wäre eigentlich der Traum überhaupt einer versöhnten Welt.‹ Adorno in seinen Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Dialektik

DER HÄNDLER: Der Winter kommt, die Leute brauchen Kleider Da muß man Baumwolle kaufen Und die Baumwolle nicht hergeben Wenn die Kälte kommt, werden die Kleider teurer. … Weiß ich, was ein Mensch ist? Weiß ich, wer das weiß! Ich weiß nicht, was ein Mensch ist Ich kenne nur seinen Preis.

Today, more than 10,000 people took to the streets in Neu-Isenburg to raise their voice against fascism

Excellent postdoc fellowships

The African socialist Nyerere’s on a major premise of historical materialism: ‘The European socialist cannot think of his socialism without its father—capitalism! … I find this contradiction quite intolerable. It gives capitalism a philosophical status which capitalism neither claims nor deserves.’

Yesterday, I defended my doctoral thesis ‘The Tyranny of the Real.’ I’ve rarely been so tired and so grateful: to my family and friends, my two brillant supervisors, Rainer Forst and Dave Estlund, and everybody at @normativeorders.bsky.social. This would’ve never been possible without them. 🎉

„Trust and Conflict: Taking stock and looking ahead“ – Final Annual Conference of the Research Initiative „ConTrust – Trust in Conflict“ 📆23. und 24. Januar 2025 📍NO-Gebäude / Online (Zoom) Zum Programm: contrust.uni-frankfurt.de/event/trust-...

›Oh, all right, I‘ll answer for you … Anyway, now that I‘ve reminded you … ‹ Painful to read how Callicles gets cooked by Socrates

@dielinkebt.bsky.social is basically the only major party in Germany whose policies would benefit the majority: freezing rent prices, expropriating large real estate companies, raising the minimum wage and social security (pensions, etc), taxing the rich. And they are at 3% atm. It’s frustrating.

G. A Cohen in a lecture on his strong identification with the Jewish population in Israel, 25 years ago: ”when Israelis, under whatever provocation, blow up houses and kill men, women, and children in the occupied territories, there is blood on my own hands and I weep with shame.“

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

“Despite his significant personal means, Mr. Merz, who has sat on the boards of nearly a dozen big companies and flies a personal two-propellor plane, has insisted that he is just a regular member of the middle class.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/w...

Next two days: Negation and/of Violence workshop in Vienna. politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/political....

There are 14 BILLIONAIRES that are part of the second Trump administration

Rieke Trimçev und @hannesbajohr.de haben eine großartige aktualisierende Einführung in das politische Denken von Judith N. Shklar vorgelegt. In meiner Rezension fasse ich einige Kernpunkte zusammen und gehe auf interpretative Kontroversen sowie immanente Spannungen des Liberalismus’ der Furcht ein.

once again sending this starter pack around for those of you local to other places go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Robert Owen on the psychological effects of wealth: the love of accumulation and fondness of luxuries lead to the sacrifice of “the best feelings of human nature.”

London pubs can be cozy as hell on a cloudy Sunday

Quite happy with today’s yield

⚡️Along with Uğur Aytaç, we're convening a panel on technology, work, and the prospects of democratizing the economy as part of the 2025 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference. Check the CfP here philevents.org/event/show/1... & send us your abstracts! Thanks for sharing!

The Russian war economy apparently requires merely three months to produce the amount of ammunition and weapons that the whole EU produces in a year.

Wer Lust auf einen Deep-Dive in die aktuelle Liberalismusdebatte um @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, Francis Fukuyama und Patrick Deneen hat: ich habe den Stand der Debatte einzufangen versucht & eine Position formuliert, von der ihre Dilemmata sich vermeiden lassen: politischeoekonomie.com/in-alternati...

Kropotkin is so admirably clear. “It is because these few prevent the reminder of men from producing the things they need, and force them to produce, not the necessaries of life for all, but whatever offers the greatest profits to the monopolists. In this is the substance of all socialism.”

Emile is such an incredibly rich, beautiful work; and one can only hope that what Rousseau says in this passage is not wishful thinking.

Joking aside: Republicans will almost certainly control both houses of Congress, and the Senate by a comfortable margin. This is Trump's plain declaration that *that's not enough for him.* He objects to the existence of other decisionmakers and branches, even those that will give him what he wants.

Quite frustrating inteview with Nancy Pelosi. She states that the election of Trump is primarily due to cultural, and not economic issues, and that the democratic party has not abandoned working people, as Bernie Sanders had criticized: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...

This conference looks really cool: 3rd Leuven Critical Emancipations Conference "Contestation and Transformation." 8.-10. May 2025. Keynotes: Johanna Oksala & Robin Celikates. Deadline for abstracts: 7. Jan 2025.

Legal theorists and philosophers - I know you have been waiting for a starter pack of your own - so here it is! I hope you’ll find it useful. Let me know if you want to join and please share widely:) go.bsky.app/EJgaQdh

I started putting together a starter pack on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, and more. Please share if you find it useful and respond to this post if you feel like you should be added to the list (or removed for that matter).