Rahel Jaeggi

Rahel is a full Professor for Practical and Social Philosophy and director of the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main historical research is Critical Theory, her main systematic reasearch Social Philosophy, Social Theory, Social Ontology and Anthropology, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

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Robin Celikates

Robin is a full Professor for Practical and Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His current work mainly focuses on critical theory, civil disobedience, democracy, migration and citizenship.

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Zveta Pauly

Zveta (full name Tzvetomila Pauly) is academic coordinator at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is a PhD in Slavonic Philology and Literature and speaks Polish, Croatian, and Bulgarian next to German, English and a little French. Previousely she worked at University Zagreb and at University Helsinki. She joined Humboldt University […]

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Christian Schmidt

Christian is a private lecturer for philosophy and research associate at the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His philosophical interests lie in the field of social philosophy, philosophy of law and history with historical emphasis on Hegel and the Hegelian Left (especially Marx and the Marxism), the authors of critical theory […]

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Isette Schuhmacher

Isette Schuhmacher is a research associate at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at Humboldt-University, Berlin. In her dissertation she develops a philosophical concept of crisis, building on Theodor W. Adorno`s and Walter Benjamin`s accounts of dialectics and social transformation.

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Marvin Ester

Marvin is a research associate at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt University in Berlin. In his dissertation entitled “Narcissism and Ideology,” he develops a social-philosophical-psychoanalytical theory of regressive politics as a social-structurally induced crisis of social freedom, following Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michael Bálint, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Theodor W. Adorno.

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Charlie Ebert

Since September 2023, Charlie is the coordinator for the project Critical Theory Under Pressure (CritUP). They hold an MA in philosophy from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a student research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique from 2018 to 2022.

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Louis Leary

Louis is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy since October 2020.

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Svana Stemmler

Svana is studying for a master’s degree in philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has been working as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2023.

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Friedemann Melcher

Friedemann studiert Philosophie an der Freien Universität Berlin und ist seit 2024 als studentischer Mitarbeiter am Centre for Social Critique tätig.

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Samu/elle Striewski

Samu/elle Striewski is master student philosophy (FU Berlin) and gender studies (Université Paris VIII) and works as research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2023. Their research interests lie in the intersection of Queer Theory and political philosophy and they are currently writing their master thesis on the socioeconomic, political, and normative grounds […]

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Ruben Heizmann

Ruben studies philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy since 2023.

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Josefine Berkholz

Josefine is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy since 2022.

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Former team

Barbara Heinrich

Barbara studies philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and works as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2021.

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Amin Wagner

Amin studies philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique from 2022 to August 2023.

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Lea Prix

Lea is a research associate at the Center for Humanities & Social Change at Humboldt University, Berlin. Her fields of interest are Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Economics, feminist and Critical Theory. In her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Second Work, she develops a concept of labor, responding to Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Hegel’s dialectic […]

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Abibi Stewart

Abibi studies philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Humanities and Social Change Center Berlin from 2018 to 2021.

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Eva von Redecker

Eva was a research associate at the Center for Humanities & Social Change , Humboldt University, Berlin. She works on theories of social change, feminist topics, and the modern notion of property.

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Carina Nagel

Carina is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy there since 2017.

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Susann Schmeißer

Von 2018 bis August 2022 war Susann wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin des Centers for Humanities and Social Change am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Jo Eckert

Jo studies philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Humanities and Social Change Center Berlin in 2022.

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Bastian Ronge

Bastian worked as a research associate at the Chair for Practical and Social Philosophy at HU Berlin until March 2021. His areas of research, publications and teaching mainly are Philosophy of Economics, Social Philosophy, Critical Theory and Philosophy of Enlightenment.

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