Rahel Jaeggi

Rahel Jaeggi (born July 19, 1967) is a Professor for Practical Philosophy with Emphasis on Social Philosophy and Political Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research areas are Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Social Ontology, Critical Theory, and History of Critical Theory. Currently she is teaching at The New School for Social Research.

Biography

Rahel Jaeggi studied at Free University of Berlin from 1990 – 1996, and wrote her Master thesis on Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy. After that, she worked as a research assistant with Axel Honneth’s chair of Social Philosophy at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research in 1999. In 2002, she graduated with a doctoral thesis on Freedom, Indifference, and Reconstruction of “Alienation” (German title: Freiheit und Indifferenz – Versuch einer Rekonstruktion des Entfremdungsbegriffs). She spent 2002 and 2003 at the Yale University, New Haven as a Visiting Assistant Professor and worked at Wolfgang-Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 2003 – 2009 before she submitted her habilitation thesis on Critique of Forms of Life (German title: Kritik von Lebensformen). Also, since 2009, she has been Professor for Practical Philosophy with Emphasis on Social Philosophy and Political Philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin. During the fall term 2015/2016 she is teaching at the New School for Social Research, New York.

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie e.V. (Extended Board)
• Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Polarkreis e.V.
• Constellations – An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (Editorial Council)
• Grüne Akademie
• Critical Horizons (Editorial Council)

Selected works in English

Monographs

• Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard University Press): expected release in 2016
• Alienation (Columbia University Press 2014)

Essays

• ″What (if Anything) Is Wrong with Capitalism″ (Working Paper 01/2013 of the DFG-Kolleg research group Postwachstumsgesellschaften 2013)
• ″What is a (good) Institution?″ in: Social Philosophy and Critique, Reiner Forst, Martin Hartmann, Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar (ed.) (2009)
• ″Re-Thinking Ideology″ in: New Waves in Political Philosophy, Christopher Zurn, Boujdewijn de Bruijn (ed.) (2008)
• ″No Individual Can Do Anything Against It: Adorno´s Minima Moralia as a Critique of Forms of Life″ in: Dialectic of Freedom, Axel Honneth (ed.) (Suhrkamp 2005)
• ″Solidarity and Indifference″ in: Solidarity and Care in the European Union, R. Termeulen and R. Houtepen (ed.) (Kluwer 2001)
• ″The Market´s Price″ in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (2000)

References

• Website at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• Profile at the New School for Social Research
• Portrait at Utrecht University, Conference "Philosophy After Nature"