Political Epistemology

My research focus on political epistemology bundles different projects, for example on the effectiveness of knowledge, on the concept of normativity or on the history of political epistemology.

In this research project, I aim to write a genealogy of “normativity,” this “chief term” of philosophy.

In this research project, I analyze theoretical advances towards a general political epistemology in different fields: philosophy of science, critical theory, feminist epistemology, French poststructuralism, analytic epistemology and postcolonial theory.

Jan Slaby has written a review of my book for the Deutschen Zeitschrift für Philosophie.

Im Hörsaal von Deutschlandfunk Nova wird am 1. Oktober 2023 die Aufnahme meines Vortrags »Wissenschaft als Mittel gegen das ›postfaktische Zeitalter‹?« ausgestrahlt.

My new book Contested Sciences – Between Idealisation and Contempt comes out in the [Was bedeutet das alles?]-series with Reclam on 13 October 2023.

In the radio show Sein und Streit from 19 March, I spoke with Catherine Newmark about our understanding of the sciences and their relation to politics.

A two-day workshop in Freiburg for discussing the present state and the potential future of political epistemology from all its different traditions, including postcolonial theory, feminist epistemology, critical theory and analytic epistemology.

The recording of the book presentation of Die Wirksamkeit des Wissens and its discussion with Ulrich Bröckling, Nadja Germann, Nicola Gess and Daniel Loick is now available on this page.

For those who understand German, you can now listen to two podcast episodes on my new book and, more generally, on topics I am working on. With the makers of Narabo, Lukas Kiemele and Roxana Rentsch, I chatted about my career path, philosophy, responsibility and political epistemology.