Name

Dr. Karsten Schubert

Position

ass. Researcher

Affiliation

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Research focus

Contemporary critical political theory (at the intersection of French thought, critical theory and political liberalism, especially radical democratic theories), Contemporary social-critical ethics (particularly intersectional theory and debates about identity politics, cancel culture, political correctness and academic freedom), Queer, gay and feminist theory

Michel Foucault (particularly his political philosophy and biopolitics), Critical legal theory, human rights, global democratization

relevant Publications

Schubert, Karsten. 2024. Lob der Identitätspolitik. [Identity politics: An appraisal] München: C.H.Beck.

Schubert, Karsten, und Kolja Möller (Hg.). 2024. Special Issue: „Die Auflösung des liberalen Konsenses.“ [The dissolution of the liberal consensus] Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 14(1/2023): 3–106.

Schubert, Karsten. 2023. „Identity Politics and the Democratization of Democracy: Oscillations Between Power and Reason in Radical Democratic and Standpoint Theory.“ Constellations, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12715 [Online first].

Schubert, Karsten. 2023. „Zwei Begriffe Der Wissenschaftsfreiheit: Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik.“ [Two concepts of academic freedom: The relationship between science and politics] Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 10(1): 39–78.

Schubert, Karsten. 2018. Freiheit als Kritik: Sozialphilosophie nach Foucault. [Freedom as Critique: Social Philosophy after Foucault] Bielefeld: transcript.