Political Theory
Students from my seminar Populism as a Social Phenomenon have created a podcast. In six episodes, they discuss different aspects of the concept and the phenomenon called “populism.” The six episodes will be published weekly on Wednesdays, starting on March 10th, 2021, at https://anchor.fm/podcasting-populism.
![Podcasting Populism [in German]](/public/post/2021/2021-03-10_podcast/featured_podcast.jpg)
The rise of untruth in politics has mostly been met by a stout defense of a robust notion of truth and an equally robust notion of the sciences. Yet all too often, this answer sacrifices the results of critically examinations of actual practices in the sciences and humanities.
Von den Theorien und Institutionen des Strafens über die psychiatrische Macht bis zum modernen Staatsrassismus und der (neo)liberalen Gouvernementalität, von den Selbstbildungspraktiken der griechischen Antike über die Notwendigkeit des freimütigen Sprechens in der Demokratie bis zur kynischen Wahrheit einer anderen Welt reichen die Themen in Michel Foucaults Vorlesungen, die er am Collège de France von 1970 bis 1984 gehalten hat. Und quer durch alle hindurch ziehen sich die Fragen nach dem …
Jan Groos has a podcast “for expanding our ideas of te future,” appropriately named Future Histories. In the last episode, I was invited to speak about my project alternative governmentalities. However, I would also recommand listening to all the other interesting episodes!
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progam for the conference of the DVPW-Section Political Theory and History of Ideas has arrived!
The journal diskurs just published an interview with me by Clelia Minnetian and Janosik Herder. It is mostly about the relationship between politics and truth and what that means for post-structuralist social sciences.
![Video of my talk “Fighting with Untruth. The Actuality of a Critique of Reason” [in German]](/public/post/2018/2018_11_ifs/featured_2018-11-28_ifs_5.jpg)
Martin Nonhoff and I are organising the spring conferecne of the DVPW-Section Political Theory and History of Ideas in March 2019. The conference topic (and title) is “Democracy and Truth”. You can find the call for papers by clicking on “Read more” or
<a href="/public/post/2018/2018_03_06_cfp_demokatie_wahrheit/cfp_demokratie_und_wahrheit.pdf">download it as a PDF</a>
. Both are in German, though, as this will be the conference language.
In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 November 2017, Julian Culp reviewed the special issue of the journal Mittelweg 36 that Martin Nonhoff and I edited: Politische Theorie in der Krise. Now our reply has been published in FAZ, 27 Dezember 2017.
Together with Thomas Biebricher I have put together a rather special edited volume: The Birth of Austerity. German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism provides key texts from core thinkers of ordoliberalism, some of them translated into English for the first time, and features four original analyses that show why ordoliberalism is back on the agenda for critics and defenders alike.
