Biography

Currently, I am interim professor for sociology with focus on the history and systematics of social sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

In my research, I focus on political epistemology, an emerging field of research in which I pursue the dual insight of early Frankfurt School Critical Theory that epistemology requires social theory just as social theory requires epistemology. Developing this insight in dialogue with analytic, continental and feminist epistemology on the one hand, and (French) political and social theory/philosophy on the other hand, I am working on a book project with the preliminary title True and Effective. A Concept of Knowledge for Political Epistemology.

My further research projects – on alternative governmentalities, on the concept of responsibility, on the concept of critique and on Michel Foucault’s philosophical method – have a common methodological core, best described as a historical-critical conceptual analysis. Following Ludwig Wittgenstein and Michel Foucault, I take the meaning of concepts to be established by their use in our social practices. Yet these practices must have a history emerging from the social struggles in wich they partake.

You can find further information in my CV or on my Academia.edu profile.