Personal details

• Research Areas

  ? ? ?Political theory and history of ideas
  ? ? ?History of (anti-)democratic thought
  ? ? ?(Radical) democratic theory
  ? ? ?Postfoundationalism
  ? ? ?Civil Disobedience, stasis, revolution

• Curriculum Vitae

  Professional Experience
  
  Since 2026
  Head of Junior Research Group at the Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagination” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  
  2022-2026
  Postdoctoral researcher at ERC Project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures. Cultural and Theoretical Responses to the Crisis of Political Imagination”, Head of Subproject “Archive. Refiguring Forgotten Institutions”, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna

  2020-2022
  Research Associate, Political Theory and History of Ideas, Department of Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald

  2018
  Research stay hosted by Prof. Nadia Urbinati, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

  2016-2020
  Research Associate, Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University Vienna

  
  2013-2016
  Research Assistant, Political Theory, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research
  
  Education
  
  2022
  PhD, Politics, The New School for Social Research
  Dissertation: “The Specter of Disorder. Stasis and the Pacification of the Democratic Idea”External link

  2017
  M.Phil., Politics, The New School for Social Research

  2017
  M.A., Political Science, Free University Berlin

  2013
  M.A., Politics, The New School for Social Research?

  2009
  B.A., Political Science, University of Hamburg
  
  Scholarships and Awards
  
  2023
  Dissertation Prize 2023, German Political Science Association (DVPW)

  2019/2020
  Dissertation Fellowship, The New School for Social Research

  2018
  Global Dialogues Fellowship, The New School for Social Research?

  2018
  Short-Term Grants Abroad Fellowship (KWA), University of Vienna

  2013-2016
  Prize Fellowship, New School for Social Research

  2011-2012
  Full Scholarship for Graduate Students, Fulbright Program

• Publications

  Monographs
  
  2024
  Postfundamentalismus. Wien: utb/facultas, with Sergej Seitz.
  
  Edited volumes
  
  2026 (forthcoming)
  Special Issue ?Castoriadis: Democracy and Radical Imaginaton“. In: Theory, Culture & Society (with Sergej Seitz).
  
  Articles

  2026 (forthcoming)
  ?Autonomy, History, Institution: Castoriadis and Radical Imagination“. In: Theory, Culture & Society (with Sergej Seitz).

  2026 (forthcoming)
  ?‘Civilizing’ Popular Rule: Democracy and Its Colonial Legacy.“ In: Rudolf, Dennis B./Thielicke-Witt, Valerian/Trim?ev, Rieke/Wei?, Alexander (eds.), Politische Theorie nach dem Eurozentrismus. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

  2025
  ?Ander(e)s erz?hlen. Von vergessenen Alternativen, Gegeninstitutionen und utopischem Denken abseits des Modells“. In: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 16(2).

  ?Subversion durch Recht: Radikaldemokratie und der Entfremdungseffekt alternativer Ordnungen.“ In: Olson, Greta/ Schmidt, Christian/ Zabel, Benno/ Bung, Jochen/Martinsen, Franziska/Mei?ner, Hanna (eds.), Law & Critique | Recht & Kritik (Kontrovers. Reihe für interdisziplin?re Gesellschaftstheorie zu Politik, ?konomie und Recht). Baden-Baden: Alber.

  2024
  ?Die Rückkehr der Armen? Plebejanismus und die politische ?konomie der Radikaldemokratie“. In: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 15(2), 319-340.

  2023
  ?Exzessive Freiheit: Lizenz als grundloser Grund der Radikaldemokratie?“ In: von Ramin, Lucas/Schubert, Karsten/Gengnagel, Vincent/Spoo, Georg (eds.), Transformationen des Politischen. Radikaldemokratische Theorien für die 2020er Jahre. Bielefeld: transcript, 163-182.

  2022
  ?Denken in Alternativen: Für eine offensive Verteidigung der Radikaldemokratie“. In: Leviathan 50(4), 577-594.

  2021
  ?The Substance of Procedures: On the Normativity of Deep Pluralism“. In: Philosophy & Social Criticism 47(1), 22-25.

  2020
  ?Zwischen Ordnung und Nicht-Ordnung: Demokratische Stasis als Alternative zum radikaldemokratischen Konfliktbegriff“. In: Herrmann, Steffen/Flatscher, Matthias (eds.): Institutionen des Politischen: Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 111-138.

  2013
  ?Shameless Cosmopolitanism: Diogenes the Cynic and the Paradox of the Cosmopolis“. In: Intellectual History and Political Thought 2(1), 65-81.
  
  Other publications
  
  2025
  ?One Step Back, Two Steps Elsewhere: Exploring the Past to Envision Democratic Futures“. In: American Philosophical Association Blog, Series: New Perspectives on Democracy. Online: https://blog.apaonline.org/2025/03/27/one-step-back-two-steps-elsewhere-exploring-the-past-to-envision-democratic-futures/External link (retrieved April 9, 2026).

  2024
  ?Was sind demokratische Institutionen? Eine radikaldemokratische Antwort mit Claude Lefort“. In: Theorieblog (with Sergej Seitz). Online: https://www.theorieblog.de/index.php/2024/12/lefort-schwerpunkt-was-sind-demokratische-institutionen-eine-radikaldemokratische-antwort-mit-claude-lefort/External link (retrieved April 9, 2026).

  ?Für einen kreativen Anachronismus“. In: Theorieblog. Online: https://www.theorieblog.de/index.php/2024/10/blogdebatte-fuer-einen-kreativen-anachronismus/External link (retrieved April 9, 2026).

  2019
  ?Review Essay of Giorgio Agamben: Stasis: Civil War as a Paradigm (Homo Sacer II,2) and Dimitris Vardoulakis: Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy.“ In: Constellations 26(2), 344-346.

• Further Activities

  Invited Talks (selection)
  
  2026?
  ?Codifying Solidarity? Solon’s Law on Stasis and Non-Essentialist Conceptions of Solidarity“, Colloquium Political and Legal Theory, Free University Berlin.?

  2025?
  ?Innovation durch Rückkehr. Machiavelli als Denker der Gegeninstitution“, Workshop: Arbeiten mit Machiavelli, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt.

  ?Materiality, Collectivity, Closure: Theories of Ideology and the Discourse of Political Imagination“, Workshop: Political Imaginaries and Ideology, Villa Vigoni (with Oliver Marchart, Sergej Seitz).

  ?Civilized Democracy and its Other“, Conference: Radical Critical Theory Circle, Nisyros, Greece.

  ?Was ist Postfundamentalismus?“, Book Presentation, University of Innsbruck (with Sergej Seitz).

  2024
  ?Etikettenschwindel: Zur Republikanisierung der Demokratie in der Frühmoderne“, Evening lecture: ipw lecture, University of Vienna.

  2023
  ?Presentism and the Crisis of Political Imagination: Towards an Archive of ‘Forgotten’ Institutions“, Conference: Radical Critical Theory Circle, Nisyros, Greece.

  2022
  ?An Insurgent Institution? Democratic Stasis and the Politicization of Order“, Conferenc: The Politics of Emancipation: Utopia, Insurgent Democracy and the Legacy of Miguel Abensour, York University.

  2021
  ?Aus stasis wird agon: Zur Republikanisierung der Demokratie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert“, Workshop: Agonale Politiktheorien: Entstehungskontexte, Charakteristika und zukünftige Herausforderungen, University of Greifswald. ?

  2019
  ?The Substance of Procedures: On the Normativity of Deep Pluralism“, Workshop: Author Meets Critics: Cristina Lafont’s Democracy Without Shortcuts, University of Gie?en. ?

  ?Stasis oder die Politisierung von Ordnung: Zum Verh?ltnis von Demokratie und Konflikt“, Opening lecture at Conference: Ausnahmezustand: Grenz(ent)setzungen in rechtslogischer Hinsicht, Humboldt University of Berlin.

  2016
  ?From Stasis to Consensus: On the Pacification of Democracy“, History of Political Ideas Early Career Seminar, University of London.

  2015
  ?Conflictual Democracy and Disobedience: The Necessity for and Limits of a Democratic Justification of Civil Disobedience“, Konferenz: Disagreement and Disobedience, Universit?t Mailand.
  
  Organization of Academic Events (selection)
  
  2026
  Second 欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Congress for Political Theory ?Backsliding, Resilience, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation“, University of Passau (Member of the organizing committee).

  2025
  欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Manuscript-Workshop “Forgotten Institutions”, University of Vienna.

  2024
  欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Conference “Forgotten Institutions: Utopian Archives and Democratic Futures”, with keynotes by Mariana Mora Bayo, Massimiliano Tomba and Demetra Kasimis, University of Vienna.

  Panel “Civil Disobedience: Towards New Forms of Respect for the Law?”, DVPW Kongress, University of G?ttingen (with Rieke Trim?ev).

  欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Workshop “Theorizing Anti-Oligarchic Politics: Institutions, Principles, Practices”, MANCEPT Workshops, Manchester (with Janosch Prinz and Manon Westphal).

  欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Workshop ?Futures Past: Feminism and the Radical Democratic Imaginary“, University of ?Vienna (with Linda Zerilli, Oliver Marchart and Sergej Seitz).

  2023
  欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Workshop “Democracy and Radical Imagination: Castoriadis Revisited”, University of Vienna (with Sergej Seitz).

  2019
  Workshop “Widerstand und Demokratie: Zur Normativit?t politischen Protests“, University of Vienna (with Sergej Seitz and Anna Wieder).

  2013-2015
  Radical Democracy Conference, The New School for Social Research
  
  Editorial Work and Service
  
  Since 2025
  Co-Editor of the volume “On Revolution/?ber die Revolution” of the Hannah Arendt. Complete Works. Critical Edition, Wallstein Verlag (with Marcus Llanque).
  
  Since 2020
  Co-Speaker of the DVPW Arbeitskreis “Konstruktivistische Theorien der Politik“ (with Oliver Marchart, Paula Diehl and Florian Hoffmann).

  Since 2020
  Co-Editor of the Series “Politologische Aufkl?rung – konstruktivistische Perspektiven”, Springer (with Oliver Marchart, Paula Diehl and Florian Hoffmann).

  Since 2016
  Submissions Coordinator, Member of the Editorial Team, Constellations: An 欧洲杯投注地址_明升体育-竞彩足球比分推荐 Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.