Karsten Fischer (political scientist)

Karsten Fischer (* 1967 in Kleve ) is a German political scientist . He is professor of political theory at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1986 and doing civilian service, Karsten Fischer studied political science, philosophy and international law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (with Manfred Funke and Karl Dietrich Bracher, among others ) and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After completing his master's degree in 1994, he received a doctoral grant from the German Business Foundation . In 1998 he was at Herfried Münkler at the Humboldt University of Berlin to Dr. rer. soc. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate.

From 1998 to 2002 he was a research associate and research coordinator of the interdisciplinary working group “Common Good and Common Sense” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

In 2002 and 2003 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He then worked as a research assistant in the Theory of Politics department at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2005 he was a founding member of the “Program on Religion, Politics and Economics”. In 2006 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty III and was awarded the venia legendi .

Fischer then represented professorships in Berlin and Greifswald and since 2007 has accepted regular teaching positions in Friedrichshafen at the Zeppelin University and in Vallendar at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management . In 2009/10 he was visiting professor at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2009 he became a member of the "Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms".

Since April 2010 he has held the chair for political theory at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science, of which he is director, at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In Munich, he is also the spokesman for the Munich Center on Governance, Communication, Public Policy and Law, a member of the interdisciplinary research institute Munich Competence Center for Ethics, a member of the International Graduate School “Religious Cultures in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries” and founder of the scientific advisory board of the Center for Israel Studies at the Department of Jewish History and Culture at LMU.

He is also a member of the German Association for Political Science . He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the research project “The Origins of Political Philosophy in Ancient Greece” at Uppsala University .

Fischer gives public lectures, u. a. at the German National Academic Foundation , German Business Foundation , Hanns Seidel Foundation , Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Cusanuswerk Foundation , Evangelical Academy Tutzing , Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen . He has also made various radio and TV contributions, including a. in Deutschlandfunk , Deutschlandradio Kultur , Bayerischer Rundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Austrian Broadcasting and China Global Television Network.

He is also a reviewer u. a. for the journals " Politische Vierteljahresschrift ", " Zeitschrift für Politischeoretische ", " Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft ", "Swiss Political Science Review", " Soziale Systeme ", " Soziale Welt ", " Behemoth " and "Constellations" as well as for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) , the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science Promotion and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) .

Fischer is married and has one child.

Research priorities

His research interests include political theory and the history of ideas, democracy theory, liberalism theory, constitutionalism, and politics and religion.

Awards

• 1999: Freiburg Academy Prize

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• “Wild self-preservation”. Civilization-theoretical cultural criticism by Nietzsche, Freud, Weber and Adorno (= Political Ideas. Volume 10). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-05-003464-5 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation, 1998).
• Moral communication of power. Political construction of social cohesion in the welfare state. VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-15332-3 (At the same time: Berlin, Humboldt University, habilitation thesis, 2006).
• The future of a provocation. Religion in the Liberal State. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940432-65-0 .

Editorships

• New start of the world race ?. Fiction and fascination of the turning point (= Edition Suhrkamp . 2137). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-12137-5 .
• with Herfried Münkler : Common good and common sense . Volume 2: Rhetorics and Perspectives on Social-Moral Orientation . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003630-3 .
• with Herfried Münkler: Common good and common sense . Volume 3: In Law. Specification and realization of public interests . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003678-8 .
• with Harald Bluhm : Visibility and Invisibility of Power. Theories of political corruption (= series of publications by the Political Theory and History of Ideas section of the German Association for Political Science . Vol. 3). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8271-6 .
• with Kai-Uwe Hellmann , Harald Bluhm: The system of politics. Niklas Luhmann's political theory . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-531-13692-5 .
• with Harald Bluhm, Marcus Llanque : Ideas policy. Historical constellations and current conflicts . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005099-7 .
• with Sebastian Huhnholz: Liberalism. Traditional holdings and contemporary controversies . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-8487-3907-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karsten Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Karsten Fischer  in the German Digital Library
• Karsten Fischer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich