Dr. Esther Neuhann
Institute:
Researcher
Room Raum 24
14195 Berlin
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Events
Manuscript workshop with Jay Bernstein on his new book Of Ecocide and Human Rights. Political Morality for the 21st Century
Vita
I am on leave from April 1st 2024 until March 31st 2025. During this time, I will be an interim professor of practical philosophy at TU Dresden.
Since 2023: Postdoctoral research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the chair for social philosophy (Robin Celikates), FU Berlin
2019-2023: Postdoctoral research associate (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Universität Hamburg; partly funded through a DFG(German Research Foundation)-project on "Fichte and Human Rights"
2019: PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt (supervisors: Rainer Forst and Christoph Menke)
2013: MPhil in Political Theory, University of Oxford
2011: BA Political Science, FU Berlin
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During my BA, I spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris (Paris IV) studying philosophy. As a PhD student, I was at Columbia University for a few months (host: Frederick Neuhouser). In 2022, I spent some time visiting Michelle Kosch at Cornell University.
Winter semester 2024/5 (TU Dresden):
- Philosophy of Violence
- Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
- Introduction to Practical Philosophy (Lecture)
- Colloquium Practical Philosophy
Summer semester 2024 (TU Dresden):
- Discourse Ethics
- Cooperation and the Division of Labor
- Philosophy of Love and Sex
- Colloquium Practical Philosophy
Winter semester 2023:
- Körper and Leib
- Silvia Federici: The Body and the Division of Labor
Summer semester 2023:
- Philosophy of Work
- Jay Bernstein: Torture and Dignity
- Political, legal and social philosophy; critical theory
- Fichte's practical philosophy
- Feminist philosophy
2020: Zeitstrukturen des Rechts. Über die Möglichkeit einer kritischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit.
Forthcoming: "Fichte's Global Material Constitution", in: European Journal of Political Theory.
Forthcoming: "On the Ambivalent Effects of Politicizing Justice", in Anastasia Marinopoulou (ed.): Critical Theory and Politics, Manchester University Press.
2024: "Fichte on Human Rights", in: Fichte-Studien (open access).
2023: "Toril Moi's Account of "Woman" and Questions of Trans Inclusivity", in: Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (open access).
2023: "Social Pathologies as Educational Injustices", in: Emancipations. A Journal of Critical Social Analysis (open access).
2020: "Fichte's Concept of Recognition and Poverty as Material Deprivation", in: Gottfried Schweiger (ed.), Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition, Springer, pp. 37–58.
2020: "Constitutionalism Justified. Rainer Forst in Discourse" (ed. Ester Herlin-Karnell und Matthias Klatt), in: Jurisprudence 11 (4), pp. 645–652 [Book review].
2020: "Constituent Power: A History of What Exactly?", Comment on Lucia Rubinelli, Constituent Power: A History, Cambridge University Press (2020), in verfassungsblog.de (https://verfassungsblog.de/constituent-power-a-history-of-what-exactly/)
[For more non-English publications, see the German version of my website.]
[recent and upcoming English talks]
September 2024:
- "Which Body? Mental, Physical and Desirable Work”, DKPhil (Münster)
July 2024:
- "The Role of Nature in Fichte's and Hegel's Justification of Patriarchal Marriage" (with Karen Koch), FU Berlin
January 2024:
- Presentation at the Panel Fichte's Political Economy, APA Eastern (New York)
November 2023:
- "Which Body? Questioning the Hierarchical Distinction Between Mental and Physical Labor", It Ain't Working: A Workshop on Alternative Approaches to Work, Groningen
September 2023:
- "Fichte on Human Rights", Conference on the Politics of German Idealism, Coimbra (Portugal)
July 2023:
- "Which Body? Questioning the Hierarchical Distinction Between Mental and Physical Labor", Workshop on the Division of Labor, FU Berlin