Michael Hirsch (philosopher)

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Michael Hirsch (* 1966 in Karlsruhe ) is a German philosopher , political scientist , art theorist and author . He is a private lecturer in political theory and the history of ideas at the University of Siegen .

Life and academic background

From 1986 to 1991 , Hirsch studied political science , philosophy and modern history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and at the École normal supérieure in Paris . In 2006 he received his doctorate with his thesis "The two sides of depoliticization" with the political theorist Ingeborg Maus at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2014, Hirsch received his habilitation at the seminar for social sciences at the University of Siegen with his thesis "Overcoming the Labor Society" . In 1997 he was represented as a participant in the Jackson Pollock Bar at documenta X in Kassel. Since 1998 he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (2003–2008), the Merz Academy in Stuttgart (2005–2008), the Technical University of Munich (2008–2010) and most recently as a substitute professor for political theory at the Institute for Political Science from the University of Hamburg (2012/2013). Since 2015 he has been teaching political theory and the history of ideas at the University of Siegen as a private lecturer.

His research interests include political theory and the history of ideas, especially modern and postmodern, democracy and state theory, social philosophy, critical theory and contemporary French philosophy, feminism and gender equality policy, social and labor policy, aesthetic theory and art theory. Hirsch's thinking is in the tradition of left Kantianism, critical theory and post-Marxism .

Quotes

"The strengthening of the cultural left [...] is the symptom of a weakness in the political left."

- Michael Hirsch, in: Logic of Differentiation, 10 theses on art and politics, 2015, p. 47.

“The blueprint for a better future always has to start from the specific symptoms of suffering: from growing social inequality on a national and international scale; of the individual as well as collective bondage; from increasing environmental degradation; and the loss of quality of life as a result of increased competition and a general compulsion to work overtime. A fairer society can only emerge within the framework of a comprehensive vision for a better life for all. "

- Michael Hirsch, in: Why we need a different society! 2013, p. 69f.

Works

Monographs

  • Utopias of abundance. About artistic work and education in times of crisis . Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-942154-21-5 .
  • Overcoming the work society. A political philosophy of work . Springer, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-09930-5 .
  • The two sides of depoliticization. On the political theory of the present . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09089-6 .

Editorships

  • Symbolic violence. Politics, power and the state with Pierre Bourdieu . Edit .: Michael Hirsch, Rüdiger Voigt (=  Staatsverständnisse . No. 97 ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8487-3291-3 .
  • The state in post-democracy. State, politics, law and police in modern French philosophy . Ed .: Michael Hirsch, Rüdiger Voigt (=  state discourses ). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-515-09308-8 .
  • Adorno. The possibility of the impossible / The Possibility of the Impossible (2 vol., German-English) . Ed .: Michael Hirsch, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa Joan Müller. Sternberg Press, New York / Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-0-9726806-4-6 .

Articles (selection)

  • (2019): Ideas Politics, Social Politics and Biopolitics. On the re-establishment of critical political theory in the name of an emancipatory narrative, in: Critical Theory of Politics , ed. by Ulf Bohmann and Paul Sörensen, Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​367–396.
  • (2018): The political as depoliticization of politics, in: Journal for Critical Social Theory and Philosophy , Volume 5, Issue 2, 182–191.
  • (2017): Symbolic revolutions and progressive statism, in: Symbolic violence. Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Politics, State, Society and Culture , ed. von ders. and Rüdiger Voigt, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 197–230.
  • (2017): Social Democracy as a Counter-Hegemonial Project. Democratic question, social question and gender question, in: Perspektivener Sozial Demokratie in der Postdemokratie , ed. by Oliver Eberl and David Salomon, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 229–251.
  • (2016): Beyond the Bann - Myth of the Always Same or New Progress Sequence, in: Absolute Gegenwart , ed. by Marcus Quent, Berlin: Merve, 86–112.
  • (2016): Critical Political Theory and Emancipatory Social Theory, in: Political Theory and Social Theory - Between Renewal and Disenchantment , ed. by Sybille de la Rosa and Michael Haus, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 149–168.
  • (2014): Repoliticization of Feminism. Beyond post-democracy and the depoliticization of social movements, in: Research Journal Social Movements , Issue 1, 54–63.
  • (2014): The Exception and the Rule. Philosophy as Utopia, Model, and Life Form / The exception and the rule. Philosophy as utopia, model and way of life (e / d), in: Inaesthetics No. 4, Berlin: Merve, 142–177.
  • (2014): Functions of inoperability. Aesthetic and political messianism according to Adorno, in: The promise of art. Current Approaches to Adorno's Aesthetic Theory , ed. by Marcus Quent and Eckardt Lindner, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 67–86.
  • (2012): Conflicts of distribution of work, income and social recognition. An egalitarian, radical democratic and feminist program, in: Democracy and Justice in Distribution Conflicts , ed. by Regina Kreide, Claudia Landwehr and Katrin Toens, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 261–280.
  • (2011): Nominalism of Radical Democracy. On the critical theory of politics in Left Kantianism, in: Transnationalization of Popular Sovereignty. Radical democracy on this side and beyond the state , ed. by Oliver Eberl, Stuttgart: Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 57–82.
  • (2010): The symbolic primacy of the political and its criticism, in: Das Politische und die Politik , ed. by Thomas Bedorf and Kurt Röttgers, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​335–363.
  • (2010): Concrete Utopias of Working in Freedom / Concrete Utopias of Working in Freedom, in: The symbolic client , ed. by Sören Grammel, Berlin / New York: Sternberg Press, 71–96.
  • (2010): The axiom of equality and the elitist independence of politics. On politics and ethics with Alain Badiou, in: Loyalty to the truth. The Justification of Philosophy Alain Badious , ed. Jens Knipp and Frank Meier, Münster: Unrast, 63–84.
  • (2010): The Restoration of the Androcentric Labor Society. Hartz IV and the hegemony of gainful employment, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik , 11/2010, 67–74.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.michael-hirsch-archiv.de/ueber-michael-hirsch/biographie/
  2. ↑ https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/politik/mitarbeiter/michael_hirsch/?lang=de
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe