Prof. Dr. Rahel Jaeggi
Education
- 2009 Habilitation at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M. on the subject of “Critique of Forms of Life”
- 2002 Doctorate from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M. with a dissertation on “Freedom and Indifference – A Reconstruction of the Concept of Alienation”
- 1996 Magistra Artium (Master’s equivalent) from the Free University in Berlin with a thesis on Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy
Academic Positions
- September and October 2012 Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai
- Since April 2009 Professor for Practical Philosophy with Emphasis on Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2003-2009 Assistant Professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University (Chair for Social Philosophy, Prof. Axel Honneth)
- 2002/2003 Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University, New Haven, Program for Ethics, Politics, and Economics
- 1999 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research, New York
- 1996-2001 Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute for Philosophy at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University (Chair for Social Philosophy, Prof. Axel Honneth) Frankfurt a. M. and at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research
Areas of Specialization
Social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, philosophical anthropology, social ontology
Editorial Boards and Memberships
- Member of the Editorial Council of Constellations – An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (Blackwell Publishing)
- Member of the Editorial Council of Critical Horizons (Acumen Publishing)
- Member of the “Green Academy”
- Member of the Scientific Board of IMES (Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung)
- Member of the editorial board of „Moral Philosophy and Politics“
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Member of the extended Managing Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie e.V. [German Society for Philosophy]