Oliver Marchart

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Oliver Marchart (* 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Marchart completed a degree in philosophy at the University of Vienna , he also studied political theory and discourse analysis at the University of Essex with Ernesto Laclau .

In 1999 Machart received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna. In 2003 he did a second doctorate in English-speaking countries with Ernesto Laclau on the subject of Politics and the Political. An Inquiry into Post-Foundational Political Thought . Étienne Balibar and Simon Critchley were the two other reviewers for his dissertation.

From 2001 to 2006 Marchart worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Basel . From July 2006 to 2012 he was a professor at the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Sociological Seminar of the University of Lucerne . Between 2012 and 2016 Marchart was Professor of Sociology at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Since 2016 he has been working at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna and has been appointed to the Chair of Political Theory in the successor to Eva Kreisky .

Marchart's main research interests include political philosophy, social theory , post- Marxism , post-structuralism , social movement research, research on precariousness and political discourse analysis.

Publications

Monographs

  • Neoism . Edition Selene, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85266-038-6 .
  • The wiring of Central Europe. Media guerrilla - network criticism - technopolitics. Edition Selene, Vienna 1998
  • Techno-colonialism. Theory and Imaginary Cartography of Culture and Media. Löcker, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85409-400-5 .
  • Start over. Hannah Arendt, the revolution and globalization. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85132-421-1 .
  • Post-foundational Political Thought. Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2007, ISBN 978-0-7486-2498-0 .
  • Cultural studies. UVK, Konstanz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2883-5 .
  • Hegemony art field. The documenta exhibitions dX , D11 , d12 and the politics of biennialization. Walther König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8656-0437-8 .
  • The political difference. On the thinking of the political in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou, Laclau and Agamben. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29556-4 .
  • The impossible object. A post-fundamentalist theory of society. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-29655-4 .
  • The precarious society. Precarious protests. Politics and economics under the sign of precarization. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2193-8 .
  • Thinking antagonism. Political Ontology after Laclau . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, ISBN 9781474413312 .

Editing

  • The unrepresentable in politics. On Ernesto Laclaus' theory of hegemony . Turia + Kant, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85132-155-3 .
  • with Simon Critchley : Laclau: A Critical Reader. London 2004.
  • together with Rupert Weinzierl: State of the Movement? Protest, globalization, democracy - an inventory. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-89691-632-7 .
  • Facets of the precarious society. Precarious conditions. Social science perspectives on the precarization of work and life. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2193-8 .
  • Orders of the political. Deployments and effects of the hegemony theory Ernesto Laclaus . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17258-9 .
  • together with Renate Martinsen : Foucault and the Political. Transdisciplinary impulses for contemporary political theory . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22789-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Marchart, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna