Olaf Asbach

Olaf Asbach (born April 8, 1960 in Wuppertal ) is a German political scientist .

Olaf Asbach studied political science, sociology and philosophy in Marburg. In 1991 he made his diploma in politics and worked from 1991 to 1993 in Marburg. In 1996 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the philosophical beginnings of Max Horkheimer . From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant in a German-French cooperation project on the French image of Germany in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2000 he was a research assistant in Marburg. In 2001 he completed his habilitation in Hamburg. From 2002 to 2004 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg . From 2005 to 2007 Asbach taught as a substitute professor at the University of Augsburg . Since 2009 he has been teaching as a professor for political theory and the history of ideas in Hamburg. Olaf Asbach researches, among other things, political science in the French Enlightenment, the foundations and future of the state, politics and democracy.

Fonts

• State and politics between absolutism and enlightenment. The Abbé de Saint-Pierre and the development of the French Enlightenment up to the middle of the 18th century. Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-487-12813-6 .
• The taming of the leviathans. The idea of ​​a legal order between states in the Abbé de Saint-Pierre and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003714-8 .
• Critical social theory and historical practice. Developments in critical theory with Max Horkheimer 1930–1942/43. Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-31766-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Olaf Asbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Hamburg
• Page at the University of Marburg