Rahel Jaeggi

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Rahel Jaeggi (2015)

Rahel Jaeggi (* 1967 in Bern ) is a German philosopher . She is professor for practical philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since February 2018 she has also been Head of the Center for Humanities and Social Change . Her thematic focus lies in the areas of social and legal philosophy as well as political philosophy, philosophical ethics, anthropology and social ontology . Their research includes a. about the concepts of alienation , commodification or reification , ideology , way of life , institution and solidarity . Jaeggi is considered a representative of contemporary critical theory .

Live and act

Rahel Jaeggi is the daughter of the psychoanalyst Eva Jaeggi and the Swiss sociologist and artist Urs Jaeggi .

From 1990 to 1996 Rahel Jaeggi studied at the Free University of Berlin . She finished her studies with a thesis on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt (Magister Artium). From 1996 to 2001 she worked as a research assistant at the Philosophical Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main at the Chair for Social Philosophy of Axel Honneth and at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research . In 1999 she was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research , New York (USA). In 2002 Rahel Jaeggi received her doctorate with a thesis on the subject of freedom and indifference - an attempt to reconstruct the concept of alienation . In 2002/2003 he was a visiting assistant professor in the Program for Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University , New Haven (USA). Between 2003 and 2009 she held a position as a university assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In 2009 she completed her habilitation on the subject of critique of life forms . Since April of the same year she has been Professor of Practical Philosophy with a focus on legal and social philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2012 she was also visiting professor at Fudan University, Shanghai . In the 2015/16 academic year she taught as Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School in New York.

Together with Daniel Loick, Jaeggi was the main organizer of the international conference “Re-thinking Marx ”, which took place in May 2011 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Jaeggi has received funding from the Humanities & Social Change Foundation run by Hamburg-based entrepreneur Erck Rickmers to research the subject of the “Crisis of Capitalism and Democracy” .

In May 2018 she organized the international conference “Emancipation” together with Sabine Hark and Thomas Seibert. a. took place at the Technical University of Berlin.

Memberships

  • Member and deputy spokesperson in the Philosophy Review Board of the German Research Foundation
  • Former member of the extended board of the German Society for Philosophy eV
  • Scientific advisory board of the journal for philosophical research
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Marx-Engels Foundation (IMES)
  • Board of Directors Polarkreis eV
  • Editorial Council der Constellations - An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory
  • Green Academy
  • Editorial Council of Critical Horizons .
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal Moral Philosophy and Politics .
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory (Rowmans and Littlefield International).
  • Founding employee and editor of the interdisciplinary magazine Polar. Politics / Theory / Everyday Life (2003–2009).

Fonts

Monographs

  • Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (with Nancy Fraser ), Cambridge (Polity) 2018.
    • German edition: Capitalism. A conversation about critical theory . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-29907-4 .
  • Introduction to social philosophy . (together with Robin Celikates ). Munich (Beck) 2017.
  • Criticism of life forms . Berlin (Suhrkamp) 2013. ISBN 978-3-518-29587-8 .
  • Alienation - On the Topicality of a Socio-Philosophical Problem . Frankfurt am Main (Campus) 2005 (new edition Berlin 2016, with a new epilogue, ISBN 978-3-518-29785-8 ).
  • World and Person - On the anthropological background of Hannah Arendt's social criticism , Berlin (Lukas Verlag) 1997.

Essays / editorships

  • According to Marx: philosophy, criticism, practice . Edited with Daniel Loick , Berlin (Suhrkamp), 2013.
  • Karl Marx: Perspektiven der Gesellschaftskritik , Ed. With Daniel Loick, Berlin (Akademieverlag) 2013.
  • Social Philosophy and Criticism . Eds. Rainer Forst , Martin Hartmann , Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar, Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 2009.
  • What is criticism? , Eds. Rahel Jaeggi and Tilo Wesche, Frankfurt a. M. (Suhrkamp) 2009. ISBN 978-3-518-29485-7 .
  • Critical Theory Key Texts . Edited by the Institute for Social Research and Axel Honneth with the participation of Sandra Beaufays, Rahel Jaeggi, Martin Hartmann and Jörn Lamla , Wiesbaden (VS Verlag) 2006.
  • Editor of the focus on market excesses in Westend - New Journal for Social Research , 3/2006.

Film and television appearances

literature

  • Ulrich Müller-Schöll: Appropriation or Response? On the normative background of two new interpretations of the alienation theorem, in: latenz 1/2016, pp. 257–267.

Web links

Reviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Re-thinking Marx conference ( Memento from December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Karl Marx and its significance today Berlin congress "re-thinking Marx" Deutschlandfunk By Bettina Mittelstraß May 26, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Jaeggi, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern