Georg Simmerl

CV

  • Since 2024 Principal investigator of the project "Strategies of Critique. A Systematic Reconstruction of the Debate on the Antisemitism Scandal at documenta fifteeen" (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  • 2022-2023 Carlo-Barck-Fellow at ZfL Berlin with the project "Crisis, Critique, Governance: The History of the Theory of Liberalism and its Concepts"
  • 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cluster "Contestations of the Liberal Script", Berlin
  • 2021 PhD defense in Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University Berlin (summa cum laude)
  • Since 2020 Freelance Author (reviews, essays)
  • 2019 Fellow-in-residence at Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar
  • 2018 PhD scholarship granted by FAZIT-Stiftung
  • 2016 Research asssociate at the Professorship "Political Theory", Humboldt University Berlin
  • 2015-2018 PhD scholarship granted by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • 2013-2014 Research associate at WZB Berlin, Department "Global Governance"
  • 2006-2013 Studies in Political Science, Media Science and Law in Regensburg, Berlin and Copenhagen

Fellowships

  • 2016 Visiting Researach at the Department of German, Princeton University

Research Interests

  • Cultural Political Economy
  • Political Theory
  • History of Concepts
  • Debate Dynamics in Liberal Publics

Publications

Monograph:

  • Die Gründerkrise. Liberalismus und deutscher Nationalstaat (1873-1879), Berlin: Matthes & Seitz [in preparation]

Articles:

  • Nach der Zäsur. Versuch eines vorausschauenden Rückblicks auf die documenta fifteen, in: Merkur 78.898 (2024), S. 56–66.
  • Liberalism and Critique, in: SCRIPTS Working Paper Series 24 (2023), Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 »Contestations of the Liberal Script – SCRIPTS«
  • Einführung, in: Thomas Robert Malthus: Das Bevölkerungsgesetz, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022, S. 9–21
  • Liberale gegen Liberale. Unpopuläres über den (deutschen) Populismus, in: Merkur 73.844 (2019), S. 65–76
  • Internationale Autorität: Zwei Perspektiven, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 23.1 (2016): 39–71 (with Michael Zürn)
  • Europäische Schuldenkrise als Demokratiekrise. Zur diskursiven Interaktion zwischen Politik und Finanzmarkt, in: Berliner Debatte Initial 23.3 (2012): 108–125


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