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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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Marvin is a research associate at the Centre for Social Critique, where he explores the intersections of critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, and materialist social criticism. His dissertation, Narcissism and Ideology, offers a nuanced reconstruction of Theodor W. Adorno’s theory of social regression, framed through Adorno’s immanent critiques of Freudian […]

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.

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

Luca is studying Philosophy (MA) at Freie Universität Berlin and has been working as a student research assistant in the Critical Theory Under Pressure (CritUP) project since 2024.

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.

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 […]

Hannes is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has been working as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2024.

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.

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.

Louis is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy from October 2020 to April 2023.

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

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carina studied philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy there from 2017 to 2022.

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.

Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York. Neuhouser‘s research focus is on German Idealism and continental social theory. His current work is centered on ideas of social and spiritual pathology in Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and […]

Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is a leading critical theorist and socialist feminist whose work over the past forty years has addressed issues of power, identity, emancipation, capital, justice, and oppression, especially in relation to the limits of […]

Thomas Rudhof-Seibert completed his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on the history of existential philosophy and existentialism – still his favourite area of philosophical, political, ethical and aesthetic action. Many publications on related issues, most recently: GWF Hegel. Domination, servitude, consciousness of freedom. Introduction and commentary (2023). Until 2023 Human Rights Officer and South […]

Alex Demirović received his PhD in philosophy with a dissertation on Marxist aesthetics. In 1992 he habilitated with an epistemological study on the development of Critical Theory in the 1950s and 1960s: The Nonconformist Intellectual. From 1990 to 2001, he was a staff member at the Institute for Social Research, where he was involved in […]