Former lecturers

Karlfriedrich Herb studied philosophy, comparative religious studies and psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. he was awarded his doctorate in 1986 with a thesis on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of law and the state.

This was followed by research projects funded by the German Research Foundation (Bonn/Munich), the Thyssen Foundation (Munich/Paris), the Volkswagen Foundation (Munich) and the DAAD (Paris) as well as a stay as a chercheur associé at the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CNRS, Paris). As an assistant at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut in Munich, he habilitated in 1997 with a study of the history of ideas of the modern concept of freedom.
As a private lecturer, he taught political science and philosophy in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. After visiting professorships at the Federal Universities of Recife and Campinas (Brazil), he was appointed endowed professor of philosophy at the University of Ulm in the summer semester of 2001.

He also teaches political science at the Munich School of Politics and philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy.

His academic work focuses on the field of modern political philosophy. At the centre is the history of ideas of contractualism, the genesis of the modern concept of the citizen and philosophy of the European Enlightenment. He is also interested in political anthropology and the revival of ancient thought in contemporary political philosophy.

Detailed information and sales offers for the publications can be found under the attached links.

Dissertation

• State of nature and bourgeois state. Rousseau's conception of the contract-theoretical justification of rule, Bonn, Faculty of Philosophy 1986, 273 pp.

Habilitation

• The ambivalence of modern freedom. Wandlungen des politischen Freiheitsbegriffes von Hobbes bis Constant, Munich, Faculty of Social Sciences 1997, 224 p.

Monographs

• Rousseau-Brevier. Key Texts and Explanations (with Bernhard H. F. Taureck), Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2011, 237 p. Link
• Alexis de Tocqueville (with Oliver Hidalgo), Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2005, 176 p. link
• Civil Liberty. Politische Philosophie von Hobbes bis Constant, Freiburg - München: Karl Alber 1999, 243 p.
• Rousseau's theory of legitimate rule. Requirements and justifications, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 1989, 284 p. Link
• Hobbes on Liberty (with Georg Geismann), Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 1988, 228 p. Link

Co-authorship / co-editorship

• Space and Time. Forms of Thinking the Political in Hannah Arendt (with Mareike Gebhardt and Kathrin Morgenstern), Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus 2014, 250 p. Link
• Narrative, Dreams, Imagination. Israeli and German Youth imagine the Future (with Jen Glaser, Barbara Weber, Eva Marsal, Takara Dobashi), Münster: Lit-Verlag 2013, 206 p. Link
• Rousseau's magic: readings of political philosophy (with Magdalena Scherl), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012, 192 p. Link
• Interpreting the classics. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract or Principles of Constitutional Law (with Reinhard Brandt), 2nd ed. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2012, 313 p. Link
• Cultural Politics and Identity. The Public Space of Recognition (with Barbara Weber et al.), Münster et al: Lit-Verlag 2011, 251 p. Link
• The Nature of the State. Montesquieu zwischen Macht und Recht (with Oliver Hidalgo), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, 168 p. Link
• Kinder philosophical issues in theology (with Siegfried Höfling et al.), Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 53, Akademie für Politik und Zeitgeschehen, Munich 2007, 186 p. Full text
• The Future of Democracy: Political Challenges at the Beginning of the 21st Century (with Oliver Hidalgo). Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 47, Academy for Politics and Current Affairs, Munich 2006, 79 p. Full text
• Thinking political change. Challenges of Democracy in a European and Global Perspective (with Stephan Bierling et al.), Hamburg: Lit-Verlag 2004, 98 p. Link
• Old State - New Politics. Tocqueville's Discovery of Modern Democracy (with Oliver Hidalgo), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004, 177 p. Link
• Interpreting the classics. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts (with Reinhard Brandt), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2000, 308 p.
• Julius Ebbinghaus, Collected Writings, Volume IV. Studies on German Idealism. Schriften 1909-1924 (with Stephan Nachtsheim / Udo Rameil), Bonn: Bouvier 1994, 423 p. Link

Audiobook

• Rousseau. A short introduction, Berlin: Argon Verlag 2007, CD 48.02 minutes

Essays

• Abençoado por Deus e igual por natureza. Tocqueville sobre democracia, in: Helen Esser dos Reis, Democracia e miséria, São Paulo 2020, 55-70.
• Tocqueville's speculations on the future of democracy (with Sarah Rebecca Strömel), in: Blick in die Wissenschaft 41 (29) 2020, 30-34.
• Lonely hearts. Tocqueville and Democracy (with Sarah Rebecca Strömel), in: Zeitschrift für Politik, 66 (4) 2019, 365-383.
• Rousseau: Aporias da autonomia, in: Revista Dialecticus. Revista de Filosofia, 15 (2019), 109-121. link
• Among pale faces. Kant's Critique of Colonial Reason, in: Journal of Politics 65 (4) 2018, 381-398.
• Achille Mbembe. Postcolony: On the Political Imagination in Contemporary Africa, in: Manfred Brocker (ed.), History of Political Thought. The 20th century. Frankfurt a.M. 2018, 912-927.
• Devaneios pedagógicos: Rousseau e o fim da educação, in: Alberto Filipe Araújo, Custódia Martins et alii, Paideia & Humanitas: formar e educar ontem e hoje / to form and educate yesterday and today, Lisboa 2018, 327-335.
• Between narrative and norm. Rousseau's narratives on the origin of society, in: Rohbeck, Johannes / Steinbrügge, Lieselotte (eds.): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Two Discourses on the Critique of Civilisation. Interpreting the Classics, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2015, 159-178.
• Perfis da modernidade. Maquiavel e Hobbes sobre política e moral, in: Revista de Ciências Sociais No. 2 (2014), 19-30.
• Die republikanische Klaustrophobie - Politischer Raum bei Hannah Arendt, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/ Gebhardt, Mareike/ Morgenstern, Kathrin (eds.): Raum und Zeit. Forms of Thinking the Political in Hannah Arendt, Frankfurt a.M./ New York: Campus 2014, 27-37.
• Being present. Rethinking Hannah Arendt (with Mareike Gebhardt and Kathrin Morgenstern), in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/ Gebhardt, Mareike/ Morgenstern, Kathrin (eds.): Raum und Zeit. Forms of Thinking the Political in Hannah Arendt, Frankfurt a.M./ New York: Campus 2014, 9-24.
• Triumph of the Individual - End of the Citizen? Constant on the freedom of the moderns, in: Lembcke, Oliver W./ Weber, Florian (eds.): Republikanischer Liberalismus. Benjamin Constant's understanding of the state, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013, 23-41.
• Além do bem e do mal. O poder em Maquiavel, Hobbes, Arendt e Foucault, in: Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política No. 10 (2013), 267-284.
• I do not know. Rousseau and the question of the origin of society, in: Delhom, Pascal/ Hirsch, Alfred (eds.): Rousseaus Ursprungserzählungen, Munich: Wilhelm Fink 2012, 149-158.
• Autonomous or authentic? Rousseau and the ambivalences of modern citizenship, in: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 20 (2012), 93-104.
• Silent majority or joyful celebration? Ambivalences of the concept of the public sphere in Rousseau, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich / Scherl, Magdalena (eds.): Rousseaus Zauber. Lesarten der Politischen Philosophie, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012, 93-100.
• The violence of abstraction. Constant reads Rousseau, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich / Scherl, Magdalena (eds.): Rousseaus Zauber. Lesarten der Politischen Philosophie, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012, 33-43.
• Introduction (with Magdalena Scherl), in: Herb, Karlfriedrich / Scherl, Magdalena (eds.): Rousseaus Zauber. Lesarten der Politischen Philosophie, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012, 11-15.
• In the Shadow of the Public. Privacy and Intimacy in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt (with Magdalena Scherl and Kathrin Morgenstern), in: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 19 (2011), 275-298.
• Beyond understanding. Rousseau and the Beginning of the Other, in: Weber, Barbara et al. (eds.): Cultural Politics and Identity. The Public Space of Recognition, Münster et al: Lit Verlag 2011, 11-15.
• La violence de l'Interpretation. Carl Schmitt lecteur de Rousseau, in: Bach, Reinhard / L'Aminot: Rousseau et l'Allemagne. À l'Èpoque contemporaine, Greifswald 2009, 65-71.
• "Except for the Republic there is no salvation". Profane and Sacred Patterns of Interpretation of the State in Kant's Philosophy of History (with Thomas Nawrath), in: Ottmann, Henning (ed.): Kant's Doctrine of State and Peace, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009, 28-41.
• Questions of power. Four philosophical answers, in: Die Politische Meinung 53 (2008), 68-76.
• In the web of laws. Montesquieu on freedom, in: Hidalgo,Oliver / Karlfriedrich, Herb (eds.): The nature of the state. Montesquieu between power and law, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, 67-76.
• Art. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract, in: Manfred Brocker (ed.), History of Political Thought. Ein Handbuch, Frankfurt a. Main 2007, 303-317.
• Philosophical visions of progress in: Die Politische Meinung 52 (2007), 44-52.
• Once Upon a Time in America - Tocqueville on the Beginning of the End of History (with Oliver Hidalgo), in: Amerikastudien, Volume 54, 4 (2007), 545-560.
• Which End of History? Democracy as a Peace Order, in : The Future of Democracy. Political challenge at the beginning of the 21st century. Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 47, Akademie für Politik und Zeitgeschehen, Munich 2006, 7-11.
• The rediscovery of the body. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on concrete intersubjectivity, in: Weber, Barbara / Stella, Bernhard / Merkel-Trinkmalder, Petra (eds.): Phänomenologische Dimensionen der Bildungsanthropologie, Regensburg: Roderer 2005.
• The freedom of the moderns. Zum philosophischen Streit der Ideen von 1789, in: Leißner, Nicole / Breuninger, Renate (eds.): Zur Sprache gebracht. Philosophical Facets, Ulm: Humboldt Study Centre 2005, 61-74.
• Au-délà de la citoyenneté. Hobbes et le problème de l'autorité, in: Nuove prospettive critiche sul Leviatano di Hobbes nel 350 ° anniversario di pubblicazione, ed. Luc Foisneau, George Wright, Rivista di storia della filosofia, 1 (2004), 219-227.
• The beginning of the end of history. Philosophical visions of progress, in: Bierling, Stephan / Herb, Karlfriedrich / Maćków, Jerzy / Sebaldt, Martin: Politischen Wandel denken. Challenges of Democracy in a European and Global Perspective. Inaugural Lecture Institute of Political Science 26/27 January 2004, Hamburg 2004, 7-17.
• Tocqueville's understanding of the state (with Oliver Hidalgo), in: Herb, Karlfriedrich / Hidalgo, Oliver: Alter Staat - Neue Politik. Tocqueville's discovery of modern democracy, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004, 13-22.
• Staat und Religion - Die politische Vernunft in den Grenzen des Glaubens, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich / Hidalgo, Oliver: Alter Staat - Neue Politik. Tocqueville's Discovery of Modern Democracy, Baden-Baden 2004, 83-95.
• O futuro da República. Sobre a leitura contratualista da história em Hobbes e Kant, in: Discurso 33 (2003), 75-87.
• L'avenir de la republique. Sur la lecture contractualiste de l'histoire chez Hobbes et Kant, in: Thouard, Denis / Foisneau, Luc (eds.): Les origines de la modernité politique et l'idéalisme allemand, Paris 2003, 123-131.
• Luz e sombra. O publico e o privado em Jean-Jacques Rousseau e Hannah Arendt, in: Philósophos. Revista de Filosofia 7 (2002), 75-90.
• Alexis de Tocqueville, in: Denzer, Horst / Maier, Hans (eds.): Klassiker des Politischen Denkens, Munich: Beck Verlag 2001, 145-156.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Modern Man with an Ancient Soul, in: Great Philosophers - from Antiquity to the Present Day, Darmstadt: Primus Verlag 2001, 534-549.
• Paradoxien der Freiheit: Zur Problematik der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte bei Rousseau, in: Paul, Gregor / Göller, Thomas / Lenk, Hans / Rappe, Guido (eds.): Humanität, Interkulturalität und Menschenrecht, Bern et al.: Peter Lang Verlag 2001, 319-330.
• Light and Darkness. On the Republic Ideal in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt, in: Graf Ballestrem, Karl / Gerhardt, Volker / Ottmann, Henning / Thompson, Martyn P. (eds.): Politisches Denken. Yearbook 2001, 59-68.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Um modernista com alma antiga, in: Kreimendahl, Lothar: Filósofos do século XVIII. Sao Leopoldo: Unisinos 2000, 177-196.
• Modern with an ancient soul. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in: Kreimendahl, Lothar (ed.): Die Philosophen des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2000, 141-156.
• Modernity denied. The Problem of Representation, in: Brandt, Reinhard / Herb, Karlfriedrich (eds.): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. On the Social Contract or Principles of Constitutional Law. Interpreting the Classics, Berlin: Akademie -Verlag 2000, 167-188.
• Zur Grundlegung der Vertragstheorie, in: Brandt, Reinhard / Herb, Karlfriedrich (eds.): Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts. Klassiker Auslegen, Berlin: Akademie -Verlag 2000, 27-43.
• Introduction to Rousseau's Social Contract, in: Reinhard Brandt / Karlfriedrich Herb (eds.), Klassiker Auslegen. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts, Berlin: Akademie -Verlag 2000, 3-25.
• História civil e contrato. A leitura rousseauniana do "Contrato social", in: Revista do departamento de filosofia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 12 (1998), 23-35.
• The German Enlightenment and its present contribution to the Organisation of Communities, in: Contributions of African and German Philosophical Issues in the Formation of Communities in Transition, Goethe Institut Johannesburg 1998, 56-62.
• Ideal da Natureza e Idéia do Direito. Reflexões sobre a Gênese da Teoria contratualista de Rousseau, in: Heck, Jose N. / Brito, Adriano (eds.): Ética e Filosofia Política, Goiânia 1997, 30-52.
• A Ambigüidade da Cidadania moderna. O Caso do Contratualismo, in: Philosophos. Revista da Universidade Federal de Goiás 2 (1997), 55-65.
• Contrat et histoire. La transformation du Contrat social de Rousseau à Kant, in: Waszek (ed.): Kant sur l'histoire, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1996, 101-112.
• Le Fondement de la philosophie de l'État dans le De Cive, in: Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 101 (1996), 189-209.
• Kant's Critical Constitutional Law (with Bernd Ludwig), in: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 2 (1994), 431-477.
• State of Nature, Property and State. Immanuel Kant's relativisation of the "ideal of hobbes" (with Bernd Ludwig), in: Kant-Studien 84 (1993), 283-312.
• Natural history and law. Rousseau's path from the "Discours sur l'inégalité" to the "Contrat social", in: Zeitschrift für Politik 40 (1993), 355-371.
• The Julius Ebbinghaus Archive. [Research report on a project of the German Research Foundation], in: Kant-Studien 80 (1989), 345-353.

Reviews

• Bernd Ludwig, Die Wiederentdeckung des epikureischen Naturrechts. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann 1998, in: Archives de Philosophie, Bulletin Hobbes, 2000.
• Jan Patocka, Art and Being. Writings on the Philosophy of Culture. Edited by Klaus Nellen / Ilja Srubar, Stuttgart 1987, in: Bohemia. Journal of the History and Culture of the Czech Lands 30 (1989), 49-51.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality = Discours sur l'inégalité. Ed. and comm. by Heinrich Meier, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich: Schöningh 1984, in: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 39 (1986), 125-129.

Summer semester 2021
 

• Lecture: The invention of freedom. Rousseau's political philosophy
• Advanced seminar: Freedom and Participation. Rousseau's political philosophy of the social contract
• Advanced and research seminar: The banality of evil? Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem

Winter semester 2020/ 2021 - Research semester off

Summer term 2020

• Lecture: Race - class - gender. Shady sides of the Enlightenment
• Advanced seminar: Close reading. Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)
• Exercise: Skin colours of reason? Politics of gender? Critical enquiries into the philosophy
• Senior and research seminar: "Yesterday's news? Rereading Karl Marx. Together with Prof. Dr Brea

Winter term 2019/ 2020

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas: Titles - Theses - Traditions
• Advanced seminar: The political philosophy of Immanuel Kant
• Exercise: Transculturality. A new contribution to a multicultural society?
• Advanced and research seminar: Working or living? On the changing meaning of work in history and the present. Together with Prof. Dr Brea

Summer term 2019

• Lecture: On dealing with strangers. Interculturality and transculturality in a political context
• Exercise: Between self-determination and loss of self. Individualism in democratic times
• Advanced seminar: Master thinkers of the European Enlightenment: Rousseau and Kant
• Advanced and research seminar: The right to be an Other. Democracy between identity and diversity

Winter semester 2018/ 2019

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas
• Lecture series: Democracy - the best form of rule? On the topic: Lonely hearts. Tocqueville's speculations on the future of democracy. Together with Sarah Strömel
• Advanced seminar: Freedom - Law - Democracy. An introduction to Immanuel Kant's philosophy
• Advanced and research seminar: Current contributions to political philosophy and the history of ideas. Loyalty versus freedom

Summer term 2018

• Lecture: Freedom and rule. Constellations of political philosophy
• Exercise: Transatlantic-Postcolonial; North and South American Discourses
• Advanced seminar: Close and Critical Reading: Hannah Arendt, Vita activa
• Advanced and research seminar: Current contributions to political philosophy and democracy studies. Together with Prof. Dr Brea

Winter term 2017/ 2018

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas
• Advanced seminar: In search of democratic identity. Politics and literature in Brazil, together with Susanne Friedl
• Advanced and research seminar: Current contributions to political and democracy studies. Together with Prof. Dr Brea

Summer term 2017

• Lecture: Multiculturalism as a leading culture?
• Exercise: The society of equals. On the unfulfilled promise of democracy
• Advanced seminar: Body - Natural Law - Sovereign Power: Modern Political Consciousness in Thomas Hobbes
• Advanced and research seminar: Democracy in crisis? Case studies on Brazil's dilemma. Together with Prof. Dr Brea

Winter term 2016/ 2017

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas
• Exercise: Citizenship at the peripheral modernity. Brazil today
• Advanced seminar: Really now? The staging of actuality in society, politics and media. Together with Prof. Dr Mecke
• Advanced and research seminar: On Democracy in America. Alexis de Tocqueville between liberalism and republicanism
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Summer term 2016

• Lecture: Profiles of freedom. Fundamental issues in the political philosophy of modern times.
• Exercise: Between Carnival and Crime. Roberto DaMatta on democracy in Brazil.
• Advanced seminar: Liberal and republican discourses: John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Together with Prof. Dr Brocker.
• Advanced and research seminar: Politics and Corruption. Systemic constraint or human flaw. Together with Prof. Dr Brea.
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory.

Summer term 2015

• Lecture: Politics and Interculturality.
• Exercise: Multiple Modernities. Citizenship in context.
• Advanced seminar: Postcolonialism in politics and literature. Together with Prof Dr Mecke
• Advanced and research seminar: Multiple Modernities. Citizenship in context. Together with Prof. Dr Brea
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2014/2015

• Lecture: Classics of political thought. Introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas.
• Advanced seminar: The concept of democracy. Ancient, modern and postmodern definitions.
• Research seminar: Multikulti?! On the theory of cultural rights in liberalism, communitarianism and post-colonialism.
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Summer term 2014

• Lecture: Political philosophy in France. Positions and Profiles (together with Prof Dr Schönherr-Mann)
• Exercise: Equality or Difference? Basic questions of contemporary democracy
• Advanced seminar: After the end of the grand narratives. Current tendencies in political philosophy in France (together with Prof. Dr Schönherr-Mann)
• Research seminar: Transformation of the public space. Democracy studies and intercultural perspectives
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2013/2014

• Exercise: From the gut? Implicit and explicit knowledge in political decision-making processes
• Advanced seminar: Lies and deception? Lies, deception and manipulation in politics, society, media and literature (together with Prof. Mecke)
• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy. Profiles of the history of political ideas
• Main/advanced seminar: Political anthropology between ontology and ethnology. Brazilian conditions (block seminar)
• Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Summer term 2013

• Lecture: Citizenship and national identity. Political science and intercultural perspectives
• Advanced seminar: Hard but warm. Forms of democratic citizenship in Brazil
• Research seminar: Post-privacy. Democratic privacy between isolation and exhibitionism
• Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2012/13

• Lecture: Stations of political thought. An introduction to political philosophy and the history of ideas
• Main/seminar: Demarcation Lines of Democracy. Privacy and the public sphere in political science discourse
• Research seminar: Democracy, of course! On the relationship between democracy studies and political philosophy
• Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Summer term 2012

• Lecture: Rousseau reloaded. A stocktaking on the 300th birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Advanced seminar: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. On the debate on new forms of ethical self-commitment in business
• Research seminar: Constructions of political space. Current research approaches
• Exercise: The Street and the House. Brazilian configurations of the social
• Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2011/12

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy. Title - Title - Traditions
• Advanced seminar: Between economics, ethics and politics. Basic questions of business ethics
• Advanced seminar: Order and Progress. Brazil's society and politics in the 21st century
• Advanced seminar: The measure of all things? Democracy in the perspective of democracy studies
• Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2010/11

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy
• Advanced seminar and advanced seminar: Democracy - Postmodernism - Postdemocracy
• Exercise: Negotiation - The art of arguing between the search for truth, being right and calculating power
• Colloquium: Current positions on political philosophy

Summer term 2010

• Lecture: Rousseau's magic. The closed society and its friends
• Advanced seminar and advanced seminar: Everything to blame? Rousseau between democracy and totalitarianism
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Winter term 2009/10

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy: freedom and rule
• Advanced seminar: The figure of the warrior. Historical and philosophical constructions (with Prof. Dr Kortüm)
• Advanced seminar: Politics and Space (with Dr Barbara Weber)
• Advanced seminar: Theory of the state
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy
• Colloquium: Doctoral colloquium as part of the Bavarian Doctoral Programme in Political Theory

Summer term 2009

• Lecture: Postmodernism in Culture, Politics and Literature (together with Prof. Dr Jochen Mecke, Romance Studies)
• Advanced seminar: The Power of Stupidity (together with Prof. Dr Jochen Mecke, Romance Studies)
• Advanced seminar: On the hermeneutics of the Third Estate
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Winter term 2008/2009

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Titles, Theses, Traditions
• Advanced seminar: Business Ethics. An interdisciplinary dialogue (together with Prof. Dr. Rainer Gömmel, Economic History)
• Advanced seminar: From the rule of philosophy to political management. Perspectives on political counselling
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Summer term 2008

• Lecture: Philosophy, politics and culture of existentialism
• Advanced seminar: Existentialism: Culture, Philosophy, Literature, Film, Chanson and Politics (together with Prof. Dr Jochen Mecke, Romance Studies)
• Advanced seminar: Changing Civil Society - Adam Smith and the Consequences (with Antje Kuttner, political science)
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Winter term 2007/2008

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy. Theorists - Themes - Traditions
• Advanced seminar: Judgement: Farewell to the Principled?
• Advanced seminar: Socrates: Philosophy - politics - method
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Summer term 2007

• Lecture: The Tradition of Contractualism in the Philosophy of the State. History and Present
• Exercise: Political philosophy in France. 20. Century and Present
• Advanced seminar: The people as hero of the romance
• Advanced seminar: Getting along. On the genesis of a modern concept of the political
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Winter term 2006/2007

• Lecture: Fundamentals of political philosophy
• Basic Course: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Strauss
• Strauss
• Exercise: Individualism. On the career of a guiding concept of modernity
• Colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Summer term 2006

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Titles, Theses, Traditions
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Augustine - Rousseau - Arendt
• Advanced seminar: Critics of modernity: Nietzsche's political philosophy
• Undergraduate and postgraduate colloquium: Current contributions to political philosophy

Summer term 2005

• Lecture: Citizenship. Development of a basic democratic concept
• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Kant - Rawls
• Advanced seminar: Tocqueville and the consequences
• Advanced seminar: Philosophising with children. New ways of teaching values
• Master's and doctoral colloquium

Winter term 2004/2005

• Lecture: Profiles of Republicanism
• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Machiavelli - Carl Schmitt
• Advanced seminar: Political prudence - between reason of state and loyalty to principle
• Graduate and doctoral colloquium - New publications on political philosophy

Summer term 2004

• Lecture: Political philosophy in France
• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction: Aristotle - Hobbes - Arendt
• Exercise: Current Contributions to Political philosophy in France
• Advanced seminar: Modern Republicanism: Kant's political philosophy

Winter term 2003/2004

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ancient and Modern Classics
• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Kant - Habermas
• Advanced seminar: Loyal or fair? On the morality of human relationships
• Advanced seminar: Basic positions of 20th century political philosophy

Summer term 2003

• Lecture: Political philosophy of modernity
• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Aristotle - Hobbes - Hannah Arendt
• Advanced seminar: Alexis de Tocqueville: On Democracy in America
• Colloquium: Human Rights and the Diversity of Cultures

Winter term 2002/2003

• Lecture: Human Rights: History of Ideas - Philosophical Issues - Politics
• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory: Aristotle - Locke - H. Arendt
• Advanced seminar: Rousseau's political philosophy
• Advanced seminar: Clothes make the man: Society and fashion

Summer term 2002

• Lecture: Introduction to political philosophy: Antiquity
• Advanced seminar: Politics as a practical science: Aristotle
• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory: Aristotle-Hobbes-Arendt
• Exercise: H. Arendt, Power and Violence

Winter term 2001/2002

• Lecture: Classics of Republicanism
• Advanced seminar: Freedom and Rule: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory

• Exercise: Profiles of Freedom: Isaiah Berlin

   

Institute for Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Summer term 2001

• Advanced seminar: Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws

Winter term 2000/2001

• Advanced seminar: Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws

Summer term 2000

• Advanced seminar: The virtue of moderation. Political judgement in Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Constant and Hannah Arendt

Winter term 1999/2000

• Advanced seminar: Plato's political philosophy

Summer term 1999

• Advanced seminar: Individualism. Louis Dumont's History of the Development of the Ideology of Modernity

Winter term 1998/99

• Advanced seminar: Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amerique

Summer term 1998

• Advanced seminar: Pathologies of Modernity: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss

Summer term 1997

• Basic Course: Introduction to Political Theory (Aristotle - Hobbes - Arendt)

Winter term 1996/97

• Basic course: Introduction to Political Theory (Aristotle - Locke - Rawls)
• Exercise: Modern Republicanism: Rousseau - Kant - Sieyès - Tocqueville

Summer term 1996

• Basic course: Introduction to Political Theory (Aristotle - Hobbes - Taylor - Sandel)
• Exercise: Citizenship. Basic positions of political modernity

Winter term 1995/96

• Basic course: Introduction to Political Theory (Plato - Rousseau - Strauss)
• Exercise: Kant's political philosophy

Institute of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Winter term 2000/2001

• Advanced seminar: Faces of the Other. Emmunel Lévinas

Summer term 2000

• Advanced seminar: Freedom and history. Political Thought in Camus

Winter term 1999/2000

• Advanced seminar: Being and having a body. On the theory of concrete subjectivity in Plessner, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre

Summer term 1999

• Advanced seminar: Tolerance. Philosophical concepts in history and the present

Winter term 1998/99

• Advanced seminar: Tolerance. Philosophical concepts in history and the present

Summer term 1996

• Proseminar: Locke, Second Treatise on Government

Winter term 1995/96

• Advanced seminar: Rousseau, Du Contrat social. (together with Prof. Dr Hans Maier)

Summer term 1995

• Proseminar: Kant, On Perpetual Peace

Winter term 1994/95

• Proseminar: Constant, La Liberté chez les Modernes

Summer term 1994
 

• Proseminar: Hobbes, De Cive

YouTube video

• Lecture "Lonely hearts. Tocqueville's speculations on the future of democracy" together with Sarah Rebecca Strömel, M.A. as part of the lecture series "Democracy - the best form of rule?" at the University of Regensburg, 21 November 2018.
  You can find the YouTube video of the lecture here and the programme of the lecture series here.

Downloads

• Lecture "Citizens in revolt. On the post-democratic climate change" as part of the lecture series "The exhausted citizen. Ambivalences of Democracy" at the University of Ulm, 24 May 2011. You can download the audio and video version here.

• Lecture "Paradoxes of freedom. Rousseau's political philosophy" as part of the lecture series "Rousseau und Rousseau-Kritik" at the TU Darmstadt, 13 February 2013. You can download the audio version here.

Audio book

• Rousseau. A short introduction. Berlin: Argon Verlag 2007, CD 48.02 minutes.

Radio features

• WDR ZeitZeichen interview "29.07.1805 - Birthday of Alexis de Tocqueville", together with Sarah Rebecca Strömel, 29 July 2020. You can listen to the 14-minute radio report here.
• SWR2 interview on the opening of the Burj Dubai, 4 January 2010.
• SWR2 interview "What is the "volonté générale" of Europe? On the topicality of Jean-Jacques Rousseau", 26 June 2012. You can find the interview here.

• 03. June 2020: "Enlighten and exclude. Kant and the dark sides of the European Enlightenment". Open lecture series "Migration and Education", digital via Zoom, University of Regensburg.
• 13. July 2019: "Perfected art. Human nature and politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau". International conference "Was ist der Mensch", University of Regensburg.
• 03. July 2019: "Among Pale Faces - Immanuel Kant between Racism and Human Rights". Bayreuth City Talks, University of Bayreuth.
• 19. May 2019: "Dance - Brazil - Politics". Panel discussion with Lia Rodrigues. Dance Festival, Munich.
• 21. November 2018: "Lonely hearts. Tocqueville's speculations on the future of democracy" (together with Sarah Strömel M.A.). Lecture series "Demokratie - die beste Form der Herrschaft?", University of Regensburg.
• 25. October 2018: "Aporias republicanas. Rousseau e o fim da educação". XVIII Associação nacional de pós-graduação em filosofia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória.
• 16. October 2018: "Interculturalidade. Uma leitura pós-colonial. Jornada de Interculturalidade." Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direitos Humanos (NDH), Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 19. May 2017: "Saber viver autenticamente. O Impasse republicano no Emilio de Rousseau". VIII Colóquio Nacional Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau e os filósofos. Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba.
• 11. May 2017: "Liberdade e igualdade: Modernidade em Tocqueville". Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direitos Humanos (NDH), Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 10. May 2017: "Triunfo dos indivíduos - fim dos cidadãos? Constant sobre a Liberdade dos Modernos". Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direitos Humanos (NDH), Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 09. May 2017: "Homem ou cidadão? Rousseau e as aporias da liberdade moderna". Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas em Direitos Humanos (NDH), Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 16. December 2016: "Devaneios pedagógicos: Rousseau e o fim da educação", International Colloquium: Paideia and Humanitas. To form and educate yesterday and today, Universidade de Lisboa.
• 25. November 2016: "The consummate art of the political. Paradoxes of Contract Law in Rousseau's Contrat social", Workshop: "Normative Nature? Rousseau in Context", WWU Münster.
• 27. April 2016: "Hard but warm. Brazilian internal and external views", Latin America on the move, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
• 18.september 2015: "Alexis de Toqueville no Brasil", Universidade Federal de São Paulo.
• 22. January 2015: "Who is afraid of Thomas Hobbes? The Silence of the Laws in Leviathan", Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
• 16. October 2013: "O conceito de liberdade na filosofia politica de Kant", Instituto de Ciência Política, Universidade de Brasília.
• 14. October 2013: "Doutrina dos Direitos é cega sem a filosofia transcendental? Três abordagens da filosofia do direito de Kant", XV Colóquio Kant, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
• 13. June 2013: "Festa popular ou maioria silenciosa? Dimensões da esfera pública em Rousseau", VI. Colóquio Rousseau: Festa e representação, Pirenópolis, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 07. June 2013: "Os limites da política: um diálogo entre Rousseau e Arendt", FAFIL - Faculdade de Filosofia - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 06. June 2013: "Como viver nas grandes cidades?", Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia.
• 13. February 2013: "Paradoxes of freedom. Rousseau's political philosophy", lecture series of the Institute of Philosophy on the topic: "Rousseau und Rousseau-Kritik", Technical University of Darmstadt.
• 27. November 2012: "Portrait of a non-conformist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on his 300th birthday", Academy of the Society for Adult Education e.V. Regensburg.
• 19. November 2012: "Rousseau's magic. The ambivalence of modern freedom", Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
• 20. September 2012: "Autônomo ou autêntico? Rousseau e as aporias da cidadania moderna", International Colloquium "Je suis autre. Tricentenaire de la naissance de Jean-Jacques Rousseau", Universidade de São Paulo.
• 28. June 2012: "Autonomous or Authentic? Aporias of Citizenship in Rousseau's Social Contract", International Conference: "Ambivalences of Democratic Freedom. On the Topicality of Rousseau's Political Theory", University of Frankfurt.
• 21. June 2012: "The chains of freedom. Rousseau and the paradoxes of modern citizenship", Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• 14. May 2012: "Freedom without chains? Rousseau's republican reveries", lecture series on the topic: "Man is born free! Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712- 1778) on his 300th birthday", University of Augsburg.
• 8. October 2011: "I don't know. Rousseau and the question of the origin of society", conference: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Origin Narratives", Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen.
• 24. May 2011: "Citizens in revolt. On the post-democratic climate change", lecture series: "The exhausted citizen. Ambivalences of Democracy", Humboldt Study Centre for Fundamental Philosophical Issues in theology, University of Ulm.
• 6. July 2010: "Chains and freedom. Rousseau and the fundamental problem of modern contractualism", Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
• 8. June 2009: "How strong should the role of the state be in times of crisis?", panel discussion with Christiane Haderthauer and Harald Strötgen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
• 6. June 2009: "La violence de l'Interpretation. Carl Schmitt lecteur de Rousseau", Bibliotheque D'Etudes Rousseauistes, Montmorency.
• 24. April 2009: "Loi et décision. Carl Schmitt, lecteur de Jean-Jacques Rousseau", Colloque international: "Rousseau et l'Allemagne", University of Greifswald.
• February 2009: "Mannsbilder - Weibsbilder?! philosophical reflections on gender inequality", Academy for Adult Education, Regensburg.
• September 2008: "Republic and Representation. Eine Begründungslücke in Kants Theorie des öffentlichen Rechts", German-Croatian conference, University of Dubrovnik.
• September 2008: "Zustimmen - Teilnehmen - Genießen. Three meanings of freedom in Kant's political philosophy", German-Croatian conference, University of Dubrovnik.
• September 2008: "Kant's legal-political theories and his interpreters", German-Croatian conference, University of Dubrovnik.
• September 2008: "Tocqueville and the end of history", Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
• September 2008: "A crítica do juízo. Immanuel Kant e Hannah Arendt", Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito, São Paulo.
• September 2008: "A privacidade em Rousseau e Hannah Arendt", Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo.
• August 2008: "Democracia e igualdade. Tocqueville e o liberalismo crítico", Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
• August 2008: "De súdito a cidadão: Hobbes, Rousseau e Kant e o conceito de cidadania", Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
• October 2007: "Politics and Terror. The Violence of Abstraction", Annual Conference of the Görres Society, Fulda.
• November 2006: "Experiences in Philosophising with children. Perspectives and Challenges", Unesco conference, Paris.
• September 2006: "At the end of history?", General Assembly of the Görres Society, Regensburg.
• June 2006: "Philosophie und Beratung: Philosophische Orientierung in der Schulpraxis", Schulleitungskongress 2006, Wildbad Kreuth.
• September 2005: "New ways of democratic value orientation", University of Graz.
• May 2005: "Es war einmal in Amerika - Tocqueville über die Zukunft der Demokratie", University of Regensburg, lecture series "Zwischen den Welten - Tocquevilles Amerika".
• March 2005 - October 2006: "Streifzüge durch die Philosophie", eight-lecture series as part of a qualification campaign of the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs and Culture, Banz - Wildbad Kreuth.
• February 2005: "Kant as a Republican", Regensburger Hochschulkreis, Regensburg.
• February 2005: "Which end of history? Democracy as a peace order", Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Wildbad Kreuth.
• November 2004: "Children philosophical issues in theology. Perspectives on a project", Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Munich.
• August 2004: "Freundschaft - Philosophisch betrachtet", Rotary Club, Inner Wheel, Munich.
• February 2004: "Kant and the freedom of the moderns", Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Wildbad Kreuth.
• January 2004: "The beginning of the end of history. Philosophical visions of progress", University of Regensburg.
• January 2004: "What is power?", TV lecture Teleakademie SWR, Stuttgart.
• November 2003: "Das Zeitalter der Menschenrechte", University of Regensburg, lecture series "Die Zeit des Menschen", Regensburg.
• January 2003: "Religion and Politics. The case of Tocqueville", Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Protestant Academy Tutzing, Regensburg.
• December 2001: "Au-delà de la citoyenneté: Hobbes et le problème de l'autorité", Sorbonne, Paris.
• May 2001: "Limits of the Political. The fundamental philosophical issues in theology of Hannah Arendt", Humboldt Lecture in the Stadthaus, Ulm.
• May 2001: "The fundamental philosophical issues in theology. Architecture and Utopia in Oskar Niemeyer", Humboldt Lecture in the Stadthaus, Ulm.
• May 2001: "The freedom of modernity. Zum philosophischen Streit der Ideen von 1789", inaugural lecture, University of Ulm.
• September 2000: "Religion and Politics. The Case of Tocqueville", Annual Conference of the Görres Society, Eichstätt.
• April 1999: "Luz e sombra. O publico e o privado em Jean-Jacques Rousseau e Hannah Arendt", Universidade Federal de Bahia, Departamento de Filosofia, Salvador.
• April 1999: "Cidadão ou sujeito? Impasses do liberalismo de Hobbes", Universidade de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Belo Horizonte.
• March 1999: "As transformações do Estado de Natureza de Hobbes à Hegel", Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas.
• March 1999: "Independicia e participação política. A idéia da cidadania republicana em Kant", Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas.
• March 1999: "Ideal da natureza e a idéia de direito em Rousseau. Reflexões sobre a gênese de teoria contratualista de Rousseau", Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas.
• March 1999: "As Ambigüidades da libertade moderna. Hobbes, Rousseau e Kant", Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Campinas.
• November 1998: "L'avenir de la republique. Sur la lecture contractualiste de l'histoire chez Hobbes et Kant", Colloque international Kant et Hobbes. Politiques de la Raison, Goethe Institut Paris - Centre d'Histoire de la Philosophie Moderne, CNRS.
• October 1998: "The German Enlightenment and its present contribution to the Organisation of Communities", University of the North, Goethe Institut Johannesburg.
• July 1998: "Light and Darkness. On the Republic Ideal in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt", Faculty of Philosophy, University of Passau.
• June 1998: "Public and private life. Republican Critique of Modernity in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt", Studium generale, University of Ulm.
• December 1997: "Contrato social e história - A transformaçâo do contratualismo de Rousseau a Kant", II congresso internacional Kant. 200 anos da metafísica dos costumes, Rio de Janeiro.
• October 1997: "Democracia e liberdade politica: sobre a crise da cidadania em Alexis de Tocqueville e Hannah Arendt", XXI Encontro anual da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais, Caxambu, Minas Gerais.
• September 1997: "Transformacões do privado. Paradoxos da critica da modernidade em Hannah Arendt", Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Filosofia, Recife.
• July 1997: "Transformation of the Private. Hannah Arendt's critique of modernity in the context of the political public sphere", Habilitation lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Munich.
• July 1996: "Bürgerliche Freiheit. Reflections on the political concept of freedom in Hobbes, Rousseau and Kant", Institute for Political Science, University of Munich.
• April 1996: "História Natural e Direito: O Trajeto de Rousseau", Pontificia Universidade Católica de Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de História, Rio de Janeiro.
• April 1996: "Ideal da Natureza e Idéia do Direito. Reflexões sobre a Gênese da Teoria contratualista de Rousseau", conference at the Universidade Federal de Goiás "Ética e politica no Centro-oeste", Goiânia.
• October 1995: "As Ambigüidades da Cidadania moderna. O Caso do Contratualismo", Universidade Federal de Brasília, Departamento de Sociologia, Brasília.
• October 1995: "O Republicanismo moderno em Rousseau e Kant", Universidade Federal de Brasília, Departamento de Filosofia, Brasília.
• May 1994: "Le modèle de la citoyenneté chez Hobbes: Du citoyen ou sujet", conference at the Université de Versailles and the Ecole normale supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roses: "Modèles historiques et pensée politique en Europe de Machiavel à Montesquieu", Versailles.
• February 1994: "Contrat social et histoire: de Rousseau à Kant", Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, U.F.R. de Philosophie, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Amiens.
• March 1993: "Le Fondement de la Philosophie Politique dans le 'De Cive'", Centre d'études sur Rhétorique, philosophie et histoire des idées, Ecole normale supérieure, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris.
• March 1992: "Kant et la transformation du concept rousseauiste du contrat social", Centre de recherche en épistémologie appliquée, Paris.
• March 1992: "Constant et la doctrine contractualiste de la liberté", conference at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme "Les transformations du concept de liberté politique", Paris.
• June 1991: "Constant vs. Rousseau. Zur Kontroverse um einen modernen Begriff politischer Freiheit", Conference of the French and German Society for the Study of the 18th Century "Tradition and Emancipation", Luxembourg.
• May 1991: "Nature and Politics in Rousseau", Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

• June 2019: Appointment as Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Regensburg
• since May 2019: Senior Academic Councillor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Münster
• October 2016 to March 2017: Deputy Professor of Political Theory (specialising in politics and religion) at the University of Münster
• April 2015 to March 2016: Deputy Professor of Political Theory (specialising in politics and religion) at the University of Münster
• November 2014 to October 2018: Research Leader at the Parmenides Foundation Munich-Pullach (Rejuvenating Democracy: New Technology-Related Options)
• since December 2013: Strategic development and scientific consulting for Denk! Philosophical communication in the company, Munich
• June 2013 to November 2013: Research assistant at the Chair of Comparative Political Science (specialising in Western Europe)
• since August 2012: Lecturer (venia legendi) at the Institute of Political Science, Regensburg
• 1. August 2012: Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy I of the University of Regensburg (Habilitation thesis: "The Antinomy of Democracy - Theoretical Reflections on the Paradoxes, Political Sequences and Normative Opportunities of a Controversial Concept")
• since May 2012: Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science Regensburg
• October 2006 to July 2011: Lecturer at the Munich School of philosophy (HfPh)
• April 2006 to September 2011: Senior lecturer at the Institute of Political Science Regensburg
• October 2005 to April 2006: Research Assistant at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas at the University of Regensburg
• since 2005: Lecturer and seminar leader for political education at Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Academy for Political Education Tutzing, Richterakademie Wustrau, Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V., Bayme Vbm, Bavarian State Chancellery, European Academy Bavaria, Georg-von-Vollmar Foundation, Academy for Teacher Training Dillingen, Competence Centre for Democracy and Human Dignity Freising
• 20. July 2005: Doctorate (title of dissertation: "Unbehagliche Moderne. Tocqueville and the question of religion in politics")
• October 2001 to September 2005: Assistant professor at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas at the University of Regensburg
• October 2000 to September 2001: research assistant at the GSI Munich
• July 2000: Magister Artium
• 1993 to 2000: Freelance journalist, online radio reporter and working student for Management & Seminar, BaB Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels, Antenne Bavaria, Radio Relax FM Munich, IneTV and ifo Institute Munich
• 1993 to 2000: Studied economics, political science, communications and law (specialising in european law) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

(* = peer reviewed)

Monographs

• Political Theology. Contributions to the inseparable connection between religion and politics, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018.
• The Antinomies of Democracy, Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2014.
• Kant's Peace Treatise and the Theory Controversy in International Relations (with the collaboration of Nicole Richter). Series Global Society and International Relations, Wiesbaden: VS 2012.
• Uncomfortable modernity. Tocqueville and the Question of Religion in Politics, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2006.
• Alexis de Tocqueville. Campus Series Introductions (with Karlfriedrich Herb), Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2005.

Editorships

• Politics, Ethics and Religion. In Search of the Good Order (with Stefanie Hammer), Series Politics and Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2020.(*)
• Flight and migration in Europe. New Challenges for Political Parties, Churches and Religious Communities (with Gert Pickel), Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019 (*).
• Rechtspopulismus und Religion (with Alexander Yendell and Philipp Hildmann), special issue of the Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP) 2/2 (2018): Springer VS (*).
• Das Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religionen (with Holger Zapf and Philipp Hildmann), Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018 (*).
• State and religion. Zentrale Positionen zu einer Schlüsselfrage des Politischen Denkens (with Christian Polke), series Staat, Nation, Souveränität, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017.
• Christianity and Islam as Political Religions - Changing Ideas in the Mirror of Society Conflicts (with Holger Zapf and Philipp Hildmann), series Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017. (*)
• Religious Identities in Political Conflicts (with Ines-Jacqueline Werkner), Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016. (*)
• Die sprachliche Formierung der Moderne - Spätmittelalter und Renaissance in Italien (= Politisches Denken und literarische Form Bd. 1) (with Kai Nonnenmacher), Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015.
• Democracy and Islam. Theoretische und empirische Studien (with Ahmet Cavuldak, Philipp Hildmann and Holger Zapf), series Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014. (*)
• Religions - Global Players in International Politics? (with Ines-Jacqueline Werkner), Series Politics and Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014. (*)
• The long shadow of the Contrat social. Demokratie und Volkssouveränität bei Jean-Jacques Rousseau, series Staat, Nation, Souveränität, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013.
• Politics and religion in a united Germany. What remains of the return of religion? (with Gert Pickel), Series Politics and Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013.
• The Nature of the State - Montesquieu between Power and Law (with Karlfriedrich Herb), Series Staatsverständnisse Bd. 20, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009.
• The Future of Democracy. Political challenges at the beginning of the 21st century. Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen vol. 47 (with Karlfriedrich Herb), Munich 2006.
• Old State - New Politics. Tocqueville's Discovery of Modern Democracy (with Karlfriedrich Herb), Series Staatsverständnisse Bd. 7, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004.

Articles in journals and conference proceedings

• Normative-theoretical dimensions of democracy in history and the present, in: Amos international: Demokratie. Issue 2/2019.
• Democracy and digitalisation. In: Information fundamental philosophical issues in theology 01/2019: 52-58.
• Religion, Right-Wing Populism and Democracy - An Attempt at a Theoretical Definition of the Relationship, in: Rechtspopulismus und Religion. Special issue of the Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP) 2 (2018): 167-192.
• Editorial (with Philipp Hildmann and Alexander Yendell), in: Rechtspopulismus und Religion. Special issue of the Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP) 2 (2018): 159-166.
• Between pacifism and just war? The 'just peace' as a model of German-speaking peace ethics and an alternative to the tradition of bellum iustum, in: Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften 59 (2018): 61-84.
• Carl Schmitt's paradigm of international relations and its significance for security policy (with Sebastian Enghofer), in: Carl-Schmitt-Studien 2.2 (2018): 7-31. (*)
• Human rights as a civil religion? Eine ideengeschichtliche, theoretische und politische Annäherung, in: Jahrbuch für Religionspädagogik 33 (2017): Human Rights and Religious Education. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 50-60 (*).
• Politik und Religion - Über die Besonderheiten einer interaktiven Beziehung in der säkularen Demokratie, in: Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik 1 (2017): 111-132. (*)
• Die Idee der 'Non-Western-Democracy' - Zur genealogischen Rekonstruktion konzeptioneller Spielräume des antinomischen Demokratiebegriffs, in: PVS Sonderheft 2016 ",Demokratie' jenseits des Westens. Theories, Discourses, Attitudes, ed. Sophia Schubert and Alexander Weiß, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016: 35-55. (*)
• Democracy and Violence - Traces of a History of Transformation, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft. Research Magazine of the University of Regensburg. Thematic issue on violence, 24/31 (2015): 53-56.
• Majority rule as an 'incomplete' democracy. Critique of Egon Flaig: The majority decision - its cultural significance, in: Erwägen - Wissen - Ethik (EWE). Forum for Consideration Culture 25.3 (2014): 424-426.
• Keyword: Postdemocracy, in: Information Philosophie 03/2014, September 2014: 26-29.
• A critical corrective for practice. Comment on Bernd Ladwig: How practical can political philosophy be? In: Information Philosophie 01/2014: 40-41.
• Derrida, Kant and the interplay of deconstruction and construction. Traces of a normative identity of political theory and the history of ideas, in: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 4.1 (2013): 43-65. (*)
• Carl Schmitt, Immanuel Kant, and the Theory of International Relations: Reflecting the Problems of Just War Theory, Unipolarism and Political Realism, in: Philosophy Study 3.3 (2013): 180-192. (*)
• Politische Ideengeschichte als Theorie der Politikwissenschaft (with Frauke Höntzsch and Samuel Salzborn), in: Politisches Denken, Jahrbuch 2012: 175-200. (*)
• The Vision of Global Democracy and the Terror of Voyeurism - Why a Transnational Public Sphere Might Not Be a Solution. In: Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, 3.2 (2011): 139-152. (*)
• Paradoxes of Democratic Participation. Alexis de Tocqueville and Civil Society, in: Erwachsenenbildung. Vierteljahresschrift für Theorie und Praxis 57.3 (2011): 107-111.
• Democracy and secularisation. Brothers in spirit or a connection exaggerated by the history of ideas? In: Forum Politikunterricht 23.2 (2010): 24-27.
• The Other as Friend or Enemy? Emmanuel Lévinas, Carl Schmitt and the denied mediation between ethics and politics (with Christo Karabadjakov). In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 116.2 (2009): 116-138. (*)
• The political-theological problem of democracy - Alexis de Tocqueville and the mediation between the individual and the community. In: Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences Vol. 50 (2009): What holds society together? 111-131. (*)
• Democratic Antinomies: Freedom and Security, Liberty and Equality, Individual and Collective Claims, in: Motoh, Helena/Skof, Lenart (eds.): Proceedings to the Conference Freedom and Democracy. European Perceptions, European Perspectives, Ljubljana: Poligrafi 2009: 21-31.
• Conceptual History and Politics: Is Democracy Essentially Contested? In: Contributions to the History of Concepts 4.2 (2008): 176-201. (*)
• Rethinking the Concept of Democracy. From Aporias to Normativity. Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy Vol. 46 (2008): Philosophy of Social Sciences: 21-28.
• Tolerance as a theological-political problem: Why Christian ethics could shed light on the motives of tolerant behaviour in a democratic constitutional state (with Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl), in: Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 55.2 (2008): 307-323. (*)
• Guantánamo Bay oder die begrenzte Entgrenzung der Gewalt - Der globalisierte Terrorismus und der staatlich definierte Ausnahmezustand, in: Berliner Debatte Initial, 19.3 (2008): 77-91. (*)
• Tocqueville, the Neocons and the American Empire - Does Democracy in America Contain a Plea for the Violent Spread of Liberal Society? In: Journal of International Relations 14.2 (2007): 331-354. (*)
• America as a Delusive Model - Tocqueville on Religion, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.4 (2007): 561-578. (*)
• Once Upon a Time in America - Alexis de Tocqueville on the Beginning of the End of History (with Karlfriedrich Herb), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.4 (2007): 545-560. (*)
• Carl Schmitt and Tocqueville's Liberalism of a New Kind - Two Contrasting Concepts of Political Theology (with Norbert Campagna), in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie 16.1 (2007): 107-129.

Essays and contributions to edited volumes and encyclopaedias

• Religion, Democracy, and Globalisation - Discussing Schmitt and Barth on the Chances of Global Democracy in the Shadow of Political Theology, in: Höfner, Marcus (ed.): Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts, Minneapolis: Fortress 2021.
• Religion as a Paradigm of Authority, Hierarchy, and (In)Equality: On Conceptualising Linkages between Religious Patterns of Thought and Illiberal Politics in Modern Democracy, in: Hennig, Anja/Weiberg-Salzmann, Mirjam (eds.): Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond: Concepts, Actors and Identity Narratives (Series Religion and Modernity), Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2020.
• Religions and Political Ideologies as (Normative) Vehicles of Democratic Order? In: Hammer, Stefanie/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Politics, Ethics and Religion - In Search of the 'Good' Order. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2020.
• 'The purification agenda hovers over every conflict of values' - comments from a democratic theory perspective, in: Kostner, Sandra (ed.): Identitätslinke Läuterungsagenda. A debate on its consequences for migration societies. Stuttgart: ibidem 2019.
• Secularisation as a process of normative liquefaction and consolidation - a democratic-theoretical perspective, in: Gutmann, Thomas/Gärtner, Christel (eds.): Verflüssigung und Verfestigung von Normen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019.
• Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis (1324), in: Reichart, Cordula (ed.): Italienische Texte zur politischen Theorie, Munich 2019: Herbert Utz.
• René Girard, La violence et le sacré (1972) (The Sacred and Violence, 1994), in: Gärtner, Christel/Pickel, Gert (eds.): Schlüsselwerke der Religionssoziologie. Wiesbaden 2019: Springer VS.popular sovereignty and democracy - A constructive examination of Kielmansegg's 'squaring of the circle' in the mirror of Rousseau's Contrat social, in: Ahmet Cavuldak (ed.). The Grammar of Democracy. Baden-Baden 2019: Nomos: 135-152.
• The relationship between politics and religion put to the test? Indirect effects of the refugee crisis on a fundamental question in the democratic constitutional state, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Pickel, Gert (eds.): Parteien, Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften vor den Herausforderungen von Flucht und Migration in Europa, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019 (*): 19-48.
• Introduction: New challenges for religion and religious policy through refugee and migration movements (with Gert Pickel) in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Pickel, Gert (eds.): Parties, churches and religious communities facing the challenges of flight and migration in Europe, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019: 1-18.
• Historical contextualism (Cambridge School), in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Handbuch Ideengeschichte. Approaches - Methods - Currents. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler 2018: 45-50.
• Von den Antinomien zu den Strukturdefekten der Demokratie: Eine theoretische Analyse mit einem Ausblick auf das politische Problem der Nachhaltigkeit, in: Mannewitz, Tom (ed.): Die Demokratie und ihre Defekte: Analyses and Reform Proposals, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018: 33-55.
• Rousseau as the inspiration for a totalitarian democracy? Notes on an evergreen in the history of reception from Voltaire to Jacob L. Talmon and Isaiah Berlin, in: Lau, Thomas/Reinhardt, Volker/Voigt, Rüdiger (eds.): Der Wille des Volkes. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's doctrine of the volonté générale, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018: 245-270.
• Classical theories of the state, in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Handbuch Staat, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018: 189-198.
• Gesellschaftsvertrag, in: Staatslexikon: Recht, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, in 5 Bänden, ed. by the Görres-Gesellschaft. 8th, completely revised edition, Freiburg: Herder 2018: 1251-1255.
• Rückkehr der Religionen und Säkularisierung - Über die Verwobenheit zweier scheinbar gegensätzlicher Narrative, in: Zapf, Holger/Hidalgo, Oliver/Hildmann, Philipp W. (eds.): Das Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religionen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018: 13-33. (*)
• Introduction, in: Zapf, Holger/Hidalgo, Oliver/Hildmann, Philipp W. (eds.): Das Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religionen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018: 1-11.
• Tocqueville and the question of religion in modern democracy, in: Krause, Skadi (ed.): Erfahrungsräume der Demokratie. On the state thinking of Alexis de Tocqueville. Series Understandings of the State, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2017: 125-148.
• Hans Kelsen und das Paradox der wehrhaften Demokratie, in: Özmen, Elif (ed.): Hans Kelsens Politische Philosophie, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017: 95-111.
• Thomas Hobbes - Continuities and Ruptures in Political Theology, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Polke, Christian (eds.): Staat und Religion. Zentrale Positionen zu einer Schlüsselfrage des Politischen Denkens, Reihe Staat, Nation, Souveränität, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017: 143-157.
• Introduction (with Christian Polke), in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Polke, Christian (eds.): Staat und Religion. Zentrale Positionen zu einer Schlüsselfrage des Politischen Denkens, Reihe Staat, Nation, Souveränität, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017: 1-20.
• Hobbes und der Kontraktualismus - Der Leviathan und seine Bedeutung für die vertragstheoretischen Ansätze bei Locke, Rousseau und Kant, in: Lau, Thomas/Reinhardt, Volker/Voigt, Rüdiger (eds.): Der sterbliche Gott. Thomas Hobbes' Doctrine of the Omnipotence of Leviathan in the Mirror of Time. Series Understandings of the State, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2017: 79-102.
• The transformation of theological-political ideas in the 14th-16th centuries in the context of the controversy over the papacy's claim to power, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Zapf, Holger/Hildmann, Philipp (eds.): Christianity and Islam as political religions, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017: 115-139. (*)
• Das Verhältnis von Religion und Politik in Geschichte und Gegenwart oder: Christentum und Islam als 'politische Religionen' (with Holger Zapf and Philipp Hildmann), in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Zapf, Holger/Hildmann, Philipp (eds.): Christentum und Islam als politische Religionen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017: 1-17.
• Political theology - a loaded term and an inevitability, in: Hildmann, Philipp/Koecke, J. Christian (eds.): Christentum und Liberalität. On the religious roots of secular democracy, Frankfurt/Main et al: Peter Lang 2017: 129-146.
• Democratic Antinomies as a Framework and Measure of Political Practice: Theory - Examples - Aesthetic Processing, in: Frick, Marie-Luisa/Hubmann, Philipp (eds.): Politische Aporien. Actors and Practices of the Dilemma, Vienna: Turia & Kant 2016: 53-81.
• Rousseau, Kant and the aporias of just war and democratic peace: Between politics, law and morality, in: Sedmak, Clemens (ed.): Frieden. The value of coexistence. Series Fundamental Values of Europe Vol. 6, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2016: 79-98.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Staatsdenken. On the State of State Theory Today, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016: 93-97.
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Staatsdenken. On the state of state theory today, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016: 102-106.
• Religionspolitisch relevante Theoriedebatten in Deutschland - eine vorläufige Skizze, in: Liedhegener, Antonius/Pickel, Gert (eds.): Religionspolitik und Politik der Religionen in Deutschland. Case Studies and Comparisons, Series Politics and Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016: 23-60. (*)
• Religious freedom in the mirror of Islamic concepts of human rights and democracy - a key question in the transformation process of the Arab world, in: Brose, Thomas/Hildmann, Philipp (eds.): Umstrittene Religionsfreiheit. On the debate about a fundamental human right, Frankfurt/Main et al: Peter Lang 2016: 133-147.
• Religions in the identity trap? Theoretical reflections on the ambivalence of religious identity, in: Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Religiöse Identitäten in politischen Konflikten, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016: 145-172. (*)
• Religious Identities in Political Conflicts - An Introduction (with Ines-Jacqueline Werkner), in: Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Religiöse Identitäten in politischen Konflikten, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016: 1-12.
• Tocqueville in the mirror of current (post-)democratic theories - ambivalence, agonality, antinomies, in: Bluhm, Harald/Krause, Skadi (eds.): Alexis de Tocqueville. Analyst of Democracy, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2015: 323-341.
• Machiavelli - Cynic of power or founder of modern self-determination? The readings of Reginald Pole and Innocent Gentillet in contrast to the thesis of the Cambridge School of Intellectual History, in: Reinhardt, Volker/Saracino, Stefano/Voigt, Rüdiger (eds.): Der Machtstaat. Niccolò Machiavelli als Theoretiker der Macht im Spiegel der Zeit, series Staat, Souveränität, Nation, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015: 73-90.
• On the relationship between politics and religion in modernity, in: Reichel, Mark/Solms, Hermann Otto/Zowislo, Stefan (eds.): Reformation and Politics. European Paths from Pre-Modernity to the Present Day, Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2015: 38-72.
• Das politische Vokabular in Italien zwischen 13. und 16. Jahrhundert (with Kai Nonnenmacher), in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Nonnenmacher, Kai (eds.): Die sprachliche Formierung der Moderne - Spätmittelalter und Renaissance in Italien. Political thought and literary form I, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015: 7-31.
• Transformations of the theological-political and the linguistic birth of modernity: Dante Alighieri, Marsilius of Padua and Niccolò Machiavelli, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Nonnenmacher, Kai (eds.): Die sprachliche Formierung der Moderne - Spätmittelalter und Renaissance in Italien. Political Thought and Literary Form I, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015: 155-182.
• Religious diversity and social homogeneity in democracy - steps towards a theoretical analysis with special consideration of Islam, in: Schnebel, Karin B. (ed.): Europäische Minderheiten. Im Dilemma zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Integration, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014: 49-72.
• The 'secularity' of democracy and Islam as a political-theological problem, in: Cavuldak, Ahmet/Hidalgo, Oliver/Hildmann, Philipp W./Zapf, Holger (eds.): Demokratie und Islam. Theoretische und empirische Studien, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: VS 2014: 217-251. (*)
• Introduction, in: Cavuldak, Ahmet/Hidalgo, Oliver/Hildmann, Philipp W./Zapf, Holger (eds.): Demokratie und Islam. Theoretische und empirische Studien, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: VS 2014: 1-19.
• Post-political agents of cosmopolitan democracy? Religions in the field of tension between universality and particularity, in: Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Religions as Global Players in International Politics, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014: 33-55. (*)
• Religions - Global Players in International Politics? (with Ines-Jacqueline Werkner), in: Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Religions as Global Players in International Politics, Reihe Politik und Religion, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014: 1-11.
• The future of war. Beyond Law and Justice? In: Löhnig, Martin/Preisner, Mareike/Schlemmer, Thomas (eds.): War and Law. Die Ausdifferenzierung des Rechts von der ersten Haager Friedenskonferenz bis heute (Rechtskultur Wissenschaft 16), Regenstauf 2014: 219-237.
• Religion, Virtue, and the Ennobling of Democracy. Tocqueville's Vision of Civic Society, in: Rau, Zbigniew/Tracz-Tryniecki, Marek (eds.): Tocquevillean Ideas: Contemporary European Perspectives, Lanham/MD 2014: 99-110. (*)
• The Leviathan between "democratic" taming and "total" delimitation. Schmitt, Hobbes und der Ausnahmezustand als staatstheoretische Herausforderung, in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Ausnahmezustand. Carl Schmitt's Doctrine of the Commissarial Dictatorship, Series Staatsverständnisse Vol. 57, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013: 58-82.
• 300 years of Rousseau. Der Gesellschaftsvertrag in der Staats- und Politikwissenschaft, in: Hidalgo, Oliver (ed.): Der lange Schatten des Contrat social. Demokratie und Volkssouveränität bei Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wiesbaden 2013: 9-27.
• Rousseau, the antinomies of democracy and the failure of its abolition through religion, in: Hidalgo, Oliver (ed.): Der lange Schatten des Contrat social. Demokratie und Volkssouveränität bei Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wiesbaden 2013: 121-144.
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak? In: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS 2013: 328-332.
• José Casanova: Public Religions in the Modern World, in: Salzborn, Samuel (ed.): Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: VS 2013: 359-363.
• The "secular" democracy. Theoretical considerations with a special perspective on the example of Germany, in: Pickel, Gert/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Politik und Religion im vereinigtem Deutschland. What remains of the return of religion? Wiesbaden: VS 2013: 165-191.
• Introduction - Religion and Politics in Germany Twenty Years after the Upheaval (with Gert Pickel), in: Pickel, Gert/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Religion und Politik im vereinigten Deutschland. What remains of the return of religion? Wiesbaden: VS 2013: 7-20.
• Freiheit und Sicherheit als antinomische Gegenpole im demokratischen Rechtsstaat, in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Sicherheit versus Freiheit. Defence of the state order at all costs? Series State - Nation - Sovereignty, Wiesbaden: VS 2012: 269-291.
• Political culture in Mill and Tocqueville. Die Spannung zwischen Gleichheit und Freiheit in der modernen Demokratie, in: Höntzsch, Frauke (ed.): John Stuart Mills sozialliberaler Staatsbegriff. Staatsdiskurse series, Stuttgart 2011: Steiner: 145-172.
• Glaube und politisches Engagement - Die zivilgesellschaftliche Funktion der Religion bei Alexis de Tocqueville, in: Liedhegener, Antonius/Werkner, Jacqueline (eds.): Religion zwischen Zivilgesellschaft und politischem System. Findings - Positions - Perspectives, Wiesbaden: VS 2011: 39-55.
• Der universale Menschenrechtsdiskurs im Spiegel der Hegemonie- und Demokratietheorie Ernesto Laclaus, in: Bohmeyer, Axel/Filipovic, Alexander/Krauss, Christoph/Veith, Werner (eds.): Anthropologie und Sozialethik, Münster: Aschendorff 2010: 195-212.
• Turning away from the scapegoat. Christian roots of human rights and the democratic constitutional state? In: Liedhegener, Antonius/Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline (eds.): Religion, Menschenrechte und Menschenrechtspolitik, Wiesbaden: VS 2010: 47-69.
• Augustine. In: Voigt, Rüdiger/Weiß, Ulrich (eds.): Handbuch Staatsdenker, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2010: 32-36.
• Montesquieu, Charles de. In: Voigt, Rüdiger/Weiß, Ulrich (eds.): Handbuch Staatsdenker, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2010: 294-298.
• Constant, Benjamin. In: Voigt, Rüdiger/Weiß, Ulrich (eds.): Handbuch Staatsdenker, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2010: 91-93.
• Tocqueville, Alexis de. In: Voigt, Rüdiger/Weiß, Ulrich (eds.): Handbuch Staatsdenker, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2010: 424-429.
• Tocqueville, Alexis de. In: Heinen, Heinz et al. (eds.): Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (HAS), CD-Rom, Delivery I-III, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2010.
• Just war as deus ex machina - an agnostic plea. In: Liedhegener, Antonius/Werkner, Ines-Jacqueline (eds.): Just War - Just Peace. Religion in Current Military Conflicts, Wiesbaden: VS 2009: 83-107.
• The return of the Leviathan or how transnational terrorism disturbs the fragile balance between freedom and security in the democratic constitutional state. In: Frühbauer, Johannes/Hörter, Michael/Noweck, Anna (eds.): Freedom, Security, Risk. Christian social ethics facing new challenges, Münster: Aschendorff 2009: 21-35.
• Montesquieu und die Folgen, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Herb, Karlfriedrich (eds.): Die Natur des Staates - Montesquieu zwischen Macht und Recht, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009: 181-195.
• Die Religion des Bürgers - Montesquieu und die Grenzen des Politischen, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Herb, Karlfriedrich (eds.): Die Natur des Staates - Montesquieu zwischen Macht und Recht, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009: 137-157.
• Montesquieu's understanding of the state, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Herb, Karlfriedrich (eds.): Die Natur des Staates - Montesquieu zwischen Macht und Recht, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009: 11-23.
• Der "gerechte" Krieg - ein moralphilosophischer Holzweg, in: Starck, Christian (ed.): Kann es heute noch gerechte Kriege geben? Göttingen: Wallstein 2008: 67-108 (*).
• Das Außen der Demokratie - Die Utopie der Weltkultur im Spiegel von politikwissenschaftlichen und literarischen Auffassungen, in: Gottwald, Markus/Klemm, Matthias/Schulte, Birgit (eds.): KreisLäufe - CircularFlows. Kapillaren der Weltkultur - Capillaries of World Culture. Münster: LIT 2007: 105-119.
• Tocqueville, the Neocons and American Empire: Political Practice Against a Violent Expansion of the Democratic Gospel, in: Heuser, Stefan/Ulrich, Hans G. (eds.): Political Practices and International Order. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica, Oxford 2006, Societas Ethica Bd. 4, Münster: LIT 2007: 75-86.
• Verbände als Indikator freiheitlicher Ordnung: Alexis de Tocqueville, in: Sebaldt, Martin/Straßner, Alexander (eds.): Klassiker der Verbändeforschung, Wiesbaden: VS 2006, 37-55.
• Alexis de Tocqueville and the vision of a post-liberal democracy, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Die Zukunft der Demokratie. Political Challenges at the Beginning of the 21st Century Munich: HSS 2006: 47-56.
• Foreword, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Die Zukunft der Demokratie. Political Challenges at the Beginning of the 21st Century Munich: HSS 2006: 5-6.
• Hierarchy and Equality - Tocqueville and the Art of Freedom in the Democratic State, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Alter Staat - Neue Politik. Tocqueville's Discovery of Modern Democracy, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004: 111-133.
• Tocqueville's understanding of the state, in: Herb, Karlfriedrich/Hidalgo, Oliver (eds.): Alter Staat - Neue Politik. Tocqueville's Discovery of Modern Democracy, Baden-Baden 2004: 13-22.
• In publication:
• Gesellschaftliche Integration und religiöse Pluralisierung, in: Decker, Oliver/Kailitz, Stefan/Pickel, Gert/Röder, Antje/Schulze Wessel, Julia (eds.): Handbuch Integration, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022.
• The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism or India's Secular Democracy as a Paradigm for Religious Accommodation? Considerations from the Perspective of Democratic Antinomies, in: Roy, Anupama/Becker, Michael (eds.): Constitutional Democracy in India and Europe. 2022.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in: Schweda, Mark/Hacke, Jens (eds.): Handbuch 'Die Ritter-Schule', Stuttgart: Metzler 2022.

Working and Conference Papers

• Religion and right-wing populism. Argumentation Kompakt 3/2019 (14 February 2019) (with Philipp W. Hildmann and Alexander Yendell) (https://www.hss.de/publikationen/religion-und-rechtspopulismus-pub1437/)
• Religious Diversity as a Challenge to Democracy? (http://www.b-b-e.de/fileadmin/inhalte/aktuelles/2015/10/newsletter-22-hidalgo.pdf)
• Democracy and Secularisation: A Difficult Relationship. Fair Observer, 27 September 2012 (http://www.fairobserver.com/article/democracy-and-secularization-difficult-relationship)
• Spatial Dimensions of Democracy in a Globalising World. IPSA Online Paper Room (http://paperroom.ipsa.org/papers/paper_3007.pdf)
• The Vision of Global Democracy and the Terror of Voyeurism - Why a Transnational Public Sphere Might Not Be a Solution. FRP-Working Paper 02-2011 (http://www.regensburger-politikwissenschaftler.de/frp_working_paper_02_2011.pdf)
• Religion and Civil Society - A Complex Symbiosis in the History of Political Ideas (http://www.b-b-e.de/fileadmin/inhalte/aktuelles/2010/02/nl3_hidalgo.pdf)
• How Many Democracies? The Third Way Revisited 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism - A New Chapter in the Dialectics of Democracy, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica, Warsaw 2009, URL: (http://www.societasethica.info)
• The Narrative of the EU's Democratic Deficit. FRP-Working Paper 02-2009 (URL: http://www.regensburger-politikwissenschaftler.de/frp_working_paper_02_2009.pdf

Reviews

• Religious Policy - From Questions of Principle and Conflicts to Viable Solutions? Review of Daniel Gerster/Viola van Mehlis/Ulrich Willems (eds.): Religionspolitik heute. Problem areas and perspectives in Germany, Herder, Freiburg i. Br. et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-451-37807-2, in: Ethik und Gesellschaft 2018.2 (http://www.ethik-und-gesellschaft.de/ojs/index.php/eug/article/view/2-2018-rez-5/585)
• Oliver Eberl/David Salomon (eds.), Perspektiven sozialer Demokratie in der Postdemokratie, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-02724-7, in: Jahrbuch für Extremismus und Demokratie, vol. 30. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018: 411-412.
• Astrid Séville, "There is no Alternative". Politik zwischen Demokratie und Sachzwang, Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50788-0, in: Yearbook on Extremism and Democracy, vol. 30. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018: 411-412.
• Marsilius von Padua, Defensor Pacis/Der Verteidiger des Friedens, translated, edited and annotated by Horst Kusch, newly introduced and edited by Jürgen Miethke, Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe vol. 50, Darmstadt, WBG, 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-74281-3, in: H-Soz-Kult, 27 June 2018 (https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-28845).
• Cavuldak, Ahmet: Common Good and Salvation. Die Legitimität der Trennung von Religion und Politik in der Demokratie, Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2965-1, in: Neue Politische Literatur 62.3, 2017: 580-582.
• Meskini, Fethi: The Other Islam. Culture, Identity and Democracy, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66136-9, in Neue Politische Literatur 62.3, 2017: 580-582.
• Peeters, Benoît: Derrida. A Biography, Polity Press, Cambridge/Malden 2013, ISBN: 978-0-7456-5615-1, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122/1, 2015: 244-248.
• Gerhardt, Volker: Public sphere. Die politische Form des Bewusstseins, Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN: 978-3-406-633034, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122/1, 2015: 207-209.
• Stefan Marschall: Demokratie, Barbara Budrich, Opladen/Toronto 2014, ISBN: 978-3-8252-4029-5; Darmstädter Atheneforum (ed.): Macht - Herrschaft - Regierung. Herrschaftslegitimation in Geschichte und Theorie, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN: 978-3-8487-0861-1; Friedrich J. Arndt: Modi des Demokratischen. On the relationship between power and democracy. Collective review in: Backes, Uwe/Gallus, Alexander/Jesse, Eckhard (eds.): Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie. Vol. 27, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2015: 416-417.
• Rancière, Jacques: The Politics of Literature, Polity, Cambridge 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7456-4531-5, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 120/2, 2013: 460-463.
• Brune, Jens Peter: Morality and Law. Zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und der Demokratie von Jürgen Habermas, Alber, Freiburg/München 2010, ISBN: 978-3-495-48430-2, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 120/2, 2013: 415-417.
• Michael von Grundherr: Morality out of interest. Metaethics of Contract Theory, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019356-5, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 118/2, 2011: 413-414.
• Matthias Lutz-Bachmann/Fidora, Alexander (eds.): Action and Science. Die Epistemologie der praktischen Wissenschaften im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN: 978-3-05-004519-1 , in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 118/2, 2011: 439-441.
• Wolfgang Gärtner: Integrative Business Ethics. Zur Grundlegung einer modernen Zukunftsethik, Lit Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-04107, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 116/2, 2009: 468-470.
• Grit Straßenberger: Über das Narrative in der politischen Theorie, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3050041455, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 114/2, 2007: 492-493.
• Cheryl B. Welch: De Tocqueville (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), ISBN: 0198781318, in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 52/2, 2007: 261-263.
• Sheldon S. Wolin: Tocqueville Between two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003), ISBN: 0691114544, in: Amerikastudien/ American Studies 52/2, 2007: 263-264.
• Harvey Mitchell: America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), ISBN: 0521812461, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2, 2007: 264-265.
• Laura Janara: Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), ISBN: 0791454428, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2, 2007: 265-266.
• August H. Nimtz, Jr: Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic' (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003), ISBN: 0739106775, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2, 2007: 266-267.
• Robert T. Gannett Jr: Tocqueville unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for 'The Old Regime and the Revolution' (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2003), ISBN: 0226281086, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2, 2007: 267.
• Barbara Allen: Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution. Harmonising Earth with Heaven (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005), ISBN 0739110640, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies, 52/2, 2007: 267-269.
• Matthew J. Mancini: Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (Lanham: Rowan & Littlefield 2006), ISBN 0742523438, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2, 2007: 269-270.
• Bernard-Henri Lévy: American Vertigo. Travelling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (New York: Random House 2006), ISBN 1400064341, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 52/2: 2007, 270.
• Richard Saage: Democracy Theories. Eine Einführung, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3531147226, in: Politische Studien (410), 57, 2006: 120-122.
• Dieter Sturma: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Beck'sche Reihe; 549: Denker, Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN: 3406419496, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 109, 2002: 395-398.

Publications on political education

• Sharing thoughts. Philosophical issues in theology in schools and day-care centres. Interdisciplinary Requirements, Methodological Practice, Implementation and Effects (with Christophe Rude and Roswitha Wiesheu), Münster: LIT 2011.
• Introduction, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Rude, Christophe/Wiesheu, Roswitha: Sharing thoughts. Philosophical issues in theology in schools and day-care centres. Interdisciplinary requirements, methodological practice, implementation and effects, Münster 2011: 8-21.
• Content-related theoretical guidelines for children's philosophising: meaning orientation, moral judgement and democracy education, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Rude, Christophe/Wiesheu, Roswitha: Gedanken teilen. Philosophical issues in theology in schools and day-care centres. Interdisciplinary requirements, methodological practice, implementation and effects, Münster 2011: 22-45.
• In dubio pro reo or how we understand democracy by philosophising, in: Hidalgo, Oliver/Rude, Christophe/Wiesheu, Roswitha: Gedanken teilen. Philosophical issues in theology in schools and day-care centres. Interdisciplinary requirements, methodological practice, implementation and effects, Münster 2011: 162-176.
• Der Zauberring - ein philosophischer Lehrfilm, in: Karlfriedrich Herb/Siegfried Höfling/Roswitha Wiesheu (eds.): Philosophieren mit Kindern - Neue Wege in der Werteerziehung, Munich 2007: 157-160.
• Explanations of Plato's Politeia, in: FWU-Schule und Unterricht: Der Zauberring. Children philosophise, Didactic DVD 46 02336, Grünwald 2005.
• The Ring of Gyges. Text and notes on interpretation, in: FWU-Schule und Unterricht: Der Zauberring. Children philosophical issues in theology, Didactic DVD 46 02336, Grünwald 2005.

Journalistic publications

• Democracy is dead. Long live democracy. In: Feinschwarz.net. Theological feuilleton 19.9.2017 (URL: www.feinschwarz.net/die-demokratie-ist-tot-es-lebe-die-demokratie/)
• In the web of success? Whether we can learn something about multicultural society from the World Cup in South Africa. FRP Comment 02/2010 (URL: www.regensburger-politikwissenschaftler.de/kommentar_hidalgo_02_10.pdf).
• The future of work - Hard times for losers, in: Management & Seminar. Journal for personnel development, training and conferences, 26, 1999/1: 6-8.
• Globalization - Nothing works in the new world order without intercultural competence, in: Management & Seminar. Zeitschrift für Personalentwicklung, Training und Tagungen, 26, 1999/2: 6-8.
• Thaw between China and Taiwan?, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 3, 18 February 1999: 8.
• Thailand. Light at the end of the tunnel. Focus on the Asian crisis Part 1, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 7, 15 April 1999: 8.
• Malaysia. Confrontation instead of co-operation. Focus on the Asian crisis Part 2, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 9, 18 May 1999: 8.
• South Korea. The tiger on the move? Focus on the Asian crisis Part 3, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 11, 16 June 1999: 8.
• Schröder plans revolution from above, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 12, 01 July 1999: 5.
• Greens - the liberals of tomorrow?, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 13, 15 July 1999: 5.
• Hong Kong. Back to the future? Focus on the Asian crisis Part 4, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 14, 09 August 1999: 8.
• China. Between hope and fear. Focus on the Asian crisis Part 5, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 17, 1 October 1999: 8.
• Indonesia. The chances for a new beginning are good. Focus on the Asian crisis Part 6, in: BaB. Report from Berlin/Bonn/Brussels. Die strukturpolitische Information, No. 20, 16 November 1999: 8.

Summer term 2022

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Theory and History of Ideas
• Advanced seminar: Football as an object and challenge of political theory
• Research seminar: Application-oriented political theory
• Advanced seminar: Structural effects of democracy? Populism, sustainability, political correctness

WS 2014/2015

• Lecture: The antinomies of democracy - a political genealogy from antiquity to the present day
• Main/seminar: State and religion - Stages of a controversy in the history of ideas
• Research seminar: Political theory and political science

SUMMER TERM 2014

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Theory and the History of Ideas
• Main/advanced seminar: Politics and economics - classical and current theoretical approaches
• Research seminar: History of political theory and political science

WS 2013/2014

• Lecture: Politics and Religion - Theoretical Positions on a Key Topic of Political Thought
• Main/seminar: Postmodernism and postcolonial democratic theory
• Research seminar: Research questions in political theory

SUMMER TERM 2013

• Lecture: Political theories of the present
• Main/upper seminar: Problems of the democratic welfare state
• Research seminar: History of political ideas and political science

WS 2012/2013

• Lecture: Threats to Democracy - Current Theoretical Debates
• Main/advanced seminar: The future of war. Beyond Law and Justice?
• Research seminar: Approaches to a normative understanding of democracy

SUMMER TERM 2012

• Exercise: Democracy and popular sovereignty in Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The long shadow of the Contrat social
• Exercise: Transformations of violence in democracy
• Colloquium: Classics of Political Thought III - Albert Camus or the Political Issues in his Philosophy and Literature

WS 2011/2012

• Exercise: The concept of secularisation and the development of modern democracy
• Exercise: Freedom vs. security - a breaking point in the democratic constitutional state
• Research seminar: Democracy and Islam

SUMMER TERM 2011

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Mill- Voegelin
• Exercise: Postmodernism and post-democracy. From the end of history to the end of the democratic narrative?
• Colloquium: Classics of Political Thought II - Michel Foucault: Surveillance and Punishment/The Will to Knowledge

WS 2010/2011

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Hobbes - Charles Taylor
• Exercise: Freedom and Equality - Reflections on a classical tension
• Colloquium: Democracy and Violence

SUMMER TERM 2010

• Exercise: Democratic Peace - Findings, Theories and Antinomies
• Exercise: Democracy and Narration. Political reflections in the contemporary romance
• Colloquium: Classics of Political Thought I - Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri: Empire. The New World Order/Multitude. War and Democracy in Empire

WS 2009/2010

• Exercise: Time and Space - Dimensions of Democracy
• Exercise: Immanuel Kant and Carl Schmitt as theorists of international relations

SUMMER TERM 2009

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Cicero - Machiavelli - Max Weber
• Exercise: The vitality of a fossil - political philosophy in the canon of empirically based political science
• Exercise: The transformation of political thought in Renaissance Italy

WS 2008/2009

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Locke - Federalists - Rawls
• Exercise: New and just wars

SUMMER TERM 2008

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Augustine - Hegel - Carl Schmitt
• Exercise: New Theories of Democracy
• Exercise: Political Thought and Literary Form in Italy

WS 2007/2008

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Machiavelli - Leo Strauss
• Exercise: Political Theology

SUMMER TERM 2007

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Nietzsche - Carl Schmitt
• Exercise: Democracy and Islam
• Exercise: The Two Faces of Violence

WS 2006/2007

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Hobbes - Montesquieu
• Exercise: Political Morality and Economics
• Advanced seminar: Tolerance - A political or ethical question?

SUMMER TERM 2006

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Locke - Karl Marx
• Exercise: The Romance of Democracy

WS 2005/2006

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Locke - Max Weber
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Hobbes - Hannah Arendt
• Advanced seminar: The future of democracy
• Philosophising with children: Contents, methods and didactic realisation (EWS)

SUMMER TERM 2005

• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Machiavelli - Tocqueville
• Exercise: Political theories of the present

WS 2004/2005

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Kant - Habermas
• Exercise: Fundamental philosophical issues in theology with children (EWS)

SUMMER TERM 2004

• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Exercise: The French Revolution
• Exercise: Current Issues in Political Theory

WS 2003/2004

• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Aristotle - Hobbes - Carl Schmitt
• Exercise: Politics and Morality (EWS)

SUMMER TERM 2003

• Basic course: Introduction to political science
• Basic course: Introduction to political philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - John Rawls
• Exercise: Political Thought in the 20th Century (EWS)

WS 2002/2003

• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory: Plato - Kant - Karl Popper
• Exercise: Human Rights in History and the Present (EWS)

SUMMER TERM 2002

• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory: Aristotle - Hobbes - Hannah Arendt
• Exercise: Is there a just war?

WS 2001/2002

• Exercise: Introduction to Political Theory: Aristotle - Rousseau - John Rawls
• Exercise: Plato's Politeia

Congresses, specialist conferences and lecture series

• "Religion as Paradigm of Authority, Hierarchy, and Equality - On Programmatic Linkages Between Religious Patterns of Thought and Illiberal Politics", as part of the panel "Illiberal Politics and Religion" at the ECPR General Conference at the University of Wroclaw, 4-7 September 2019.
• "In Defense of Democracy - From Digital Transformation and the Technological Performance of Populism to a New Democratic Authority and Participation?", Conference "Way forward for Democracy - (Digital) Potentials, Mobilizations, Strategies", 24 July 2019, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Munich.
• "Populism in Europe and Latin America", Interdisciplinary conference "1968-2018. From Revolution to Populism in Latin America?" at the University of Regensburg as part of the CinEScultura cultural festival, 3-4 May 2019.
• "The Antinomies of Democracy and the Ambivalence of Religion in the Modern Constitutional State - From Causes and Effects to Communicating Tubes?" Joint conference of the Section for the Sociology of Religion and the Section for Political Sociology of the DGS and the DVPW Working Group on Politics and Religion "Das ambivalente Verhältnis zwischen Politik und Religion: Deutungsversuche und Erklärungsansätze", 25-26 April 2019 at the University of Bamberg.
• "Religion and politics in a democratic constitutional state - From ideological neutrality to secularism?" Conference "Religion and Democracy: Reassurances on the Relationship of Christianity and Islam to the Secular State" on 29 March 2019 at the Protestant Academy in Hofgeismar.
• "Christian politics vs. political Islam? Perspectives from the history of ideas and conceptual politics on the linguistic conception of political religions". International symposium of the IGGÖ "Political Islam: An attempt at a definition, 25 March 2019 Hilton Vienna, Vienna.
• "The Narrative of the 'Return of Religions' as Indicator, Reaction or Movens of Political Transformation Processes?" Conference of the Research Section "Comparative Politics" of the German Political Science Association(DVPW) "Governance of Big Transformations", 21 March 2019 School of Governance, TU Munich.
• "Demokratie zwischen Universalität und Partikularität oder: der konstitutive Charakter demokratischer Aporien", Conference "Demokratie und Wahrheit" of the DVPW-Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, 13-15 March 2019 at the University of Bremen.
• "Religion, Demokratie und die Grenzen weltanschaulicher Neutralität", Panel "Religion in den Grenzen der Demokratie und/oder Demokratie in den Grenzen der Religion?" at the 27th Scientific Congress of the DVPW "Grenzen der Demokratie/Frontiers of Democracy, 27 September 2018 at the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
• "Religion and Illiberal Politics in Europe: Patterns, Concepts, and Conditions." Paper for the workshop "The Liberal Order in Crisis: Authoritarian, Radical, and Populist Challenges to Democracy in Europe", Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, 1-2 June 2018.
• "Religions and Political Ideologies as (Normative) Vehicles of Democratic Order", Annual Conference "Politics, Ethics and Religion - In Search of the Good Order?", Catholic Academy Berlin, 22 March 2018.
• "Comment on: Unsettled by state and democratic theory? A current stocktaking of the Christian churches' programmatic efforts to understand themselves" Workshop of the Institute for Theology and Social Ethics (iths) "Wechselseitige Erwartungslosigkeit? The churches and the state of the Basic Law - yesterday, today and tomorrow" from 26/27 January 2018 at the University of Darmstadt.
• "The Distinctiveness of Indiaʼs Secular Democracy as a Paradigm for Religious Accommodation? Considerations from the Perspective of Democratic Antinomies". Workshop "Constitutional Democracy", Project of the "Foundation of the Indo-European Strategic Partnership", 7-8 December 2018.
• "The 'universal value of freedom and the contingency of the religious-political order or: Why the current 'conflicts of values' in Western immigration societies point to the paradoxes of the democratic constitutional state". Lecture series: "And does the conflict of values always endure? Western values as a societal basis and field of conflict in migration societies" at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, 7 November 2017.
• "Religious, Christian and ecclesiastical actors in politics: A political science and history of ideas perspective." Conference "Experts, Prophets or Lobbyists: The Role of Church Representatives in Political Advisory Bodies" at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 15-16 September 2017.
• "Religion as an 'Authoritarian' Counterweight to the Idea of Liberal Democracy? A Theoretical and Historical Approach", Panel "Religion and Illiberal Politics I" at the 11th ECPR General Conference from 6-9 September 2017 at the University of Oslo.
• "New (Communication) Technologies as an Opportunity or Threat to Democracy?" Lecture series "Über Menschliches/Übermenschliches" of the Collegium Giessenum on 14 June 2017 at the University of Giessen.
• "Religion in secular democracy - elective affinities or foreign bodies?", conference "'Thou shalt not do politics with God! On the relationship between religion and democracy in our society" on 29 April 2017 in Kloster Banz.
• "Populism, racism, extremism - a threat to democracy in Europe?" 6th Federal Congress on Interculture on 4 April 2017 in the Roter Saal Braunschweig.
• "Religion as an 'authoritarian' counterweight to democracy? Theoretische und ideengeschichtliche Zugänge", Conference of the Section "Comparative Politics" (DVPW) "Unlike Twins?! Comparing Democracies and Autocracies" on 16 March at the University of Tübingen.
• "Secularisation as a synchronous process of the liquefaction of the community norm and the consolidation of its competition with the individual - a democratic-theoretical perspective", symposium of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" on 2 February 2017 in the Festsaal of the University of Münster.
• "The relationship between politics and religion put to the test? Mittelbare Auswirkungen der Flüchtlingskrise auf eine Grundfrage im demokratischen Verfassungsstaat", Annual Conference of the AK Politik und Religion (DVPW) "Parteien, Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften vor den Herausforderungen von Flucht und Migration in Europa", 24 November 2016, Leipzig University.
• "A Common Political Theology of Democracy? Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the History of Democratic Ideas and their Impact on Contemporary Questions of Religious Freedom and Minority Rights" on 11 August 2016, Summer School "Arabic Christianity: History, Culture, Language, Theology, Liturgy an der WWU Münster.
• "Is there a Human Right to Well-Being or only to Survive?" Paper at the 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science (Politics in a World of Inequality) as part of the panel "Between Morality, Law and Hospitality: The Challenge of the Refugee Crisis from the Perspective of Political Theory" on 25 July 2016, ICC Istanbul.
• "Die Antinomien der Demokratie als Gradmesser für ihr janusköpfiges Verhältnis zu Marktwirtschaft und Kapitalismus - Eine genealogische Betrachtung", symposium "Ziemlich beste Feinde. Das spannungsreiche Verhältnis von Demokratie und Kapitalismus" of the DVPW Sektionen Politische Ökonomie and Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte on 23 June 2016 at the Schader-Forum Darmstadt.
• "Tocqueville und die Paradoxien demokratischer Gleichheit", workshop as part of the research project "Verhandlungsformen normativer Paradoxien" on 10 June 2016 at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main.
• "Holy simplicity vs. religious diversity - religious freedom as a current challenge in democratic theory", lecture series "The future of political theory in the 21st century" on 7 June 2016 at the University of Göttingen.
• "Tolerance as a leitmotif of refugee and migration policy in European democracies?" Authors' conference for the special issue of the Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft on "Migration and Integration as a Political Challenge - Comparative Analyses of Political-Cultural Requirements of Migration Policy and Reactions" on 4 June 2016 at Leipzig University.
• "Politische Theologie - Ein belasteter Begriff und eine Unvermeidlichkeit", International Expert Conference "Christentum - Wurzel säkularer Demokratie und politische Liberalität" on 3 December 2015 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Democratic Antinomies as a Conceptual and Empirical Measure for Values, Qualities, and Defects of Democracy concerning the Challenge of Contemporary Islam",^5th Research Conference "Democracy and Islam" of the Austrian Research Association-Working Group on 6 November 2015 at the University of Vienna.
• "Democratic Antinomies as a Conceptual Measure for Illiberal Policies in the Name of Liberalism - A Theoretical Analysis of Right-Wing Discursive Strategies", Workshop "Liberal Arguments for Illiberal Purposes? Comparing Conservative Religious and Right-Wing Actors in the Public Spheres", 15 October 2015 at the European University Viadrina in Stubice and Frankfurt/Oder.
• "Democracy and secularisation. On the Dwindling Influence of Religion on Politics", General Assembly of the Görres Society 2015 on 28 September at the University of Bonn.
• "'The Taming of the Shrew' - The Key Problem of Religious Freedom in the Security Architectonics of Hobbes' Leviathan and its Current Modelling", 26th Scientific Congress of the DVPW on the topic "Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimation Problems of the Order of Freedom" on 25 September 2015 at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
• ",Rückkehr der Religionen' und 'Säkularisierung' - Über die Verwebenheit zweier scheinbar gegensätzlicher Narrative", Annual Conference of the Working Group on Politics and Religion (DVPW) "Das Narrativ von der Rückkehr der Religionen" on 23 July 2015 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Die Idee der Non-Western-Democracy - Zur genealogischen Rekonstruktion konzeptioneller Spielräume des antinomischen Demokratiebegriffs", authors' conference on the PVS special issue 2016 "'Demokratie' jenseits des Westens: Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen" on 18 March 2015 at the University of Hamburg.
• "Visibilities of cultural uprooting - religion and religious identity in the (post-)secular age", panel "Clash of civilisations? Die unterschiedliche Wirkung von Religion und Politik in der Welt" at the Section Conference on Comparative Political Science (DVPW) "Weltregionen im Vergleich: Polity, Politics and Policy on 27 February 2015 at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
• "Religion, Democracy, and Globalisation in the Perspective of Political Science", Symposium "Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts", on 18 October 2014 at the University of Bochum.
• "Über das Verhältnis von Politik und Religion in der Moderne", conference "Reformation und Politik - europäische Wege von der Vormoderne bis heute" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V. on 9 October 2014 at the Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt Berlin.
• "Wandlungen theologisch-politischer Ideen zwischen Spätmittelalter und Renaissance im Kontext der Kontroverse über den politischen Anspruch des Papsttums", cooperation conference "Christentum und Islam als politische Religionen - Ideenwandel im Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Konflikte" of the AK Politik und Religion (DVPW) and the Themengruppe Transkulturell vergleichende Politische Theorie (DVPW) on 24 July 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Gefährliche Moderne - Die Diagnose egalitärer Gesellschaften bei Tocqueville", Interdisziplinäre Kooperationstagung "USA verstehen?" der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing und der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes on 13 June 2014 in Tutzing.
• "Das Paradox der wehrhaften Demokratie", symposium "Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie. Hans Kelsen's political philosophy" on 23 May 2014 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Religiöse Vielfalt und Demokratie - eine theoretische Einführung", three-country conference of the ÖGPW, DVPW and SVPW from 19-21 September 2013 at the University of Innsbruck.
• "Die Religionsfreiheit im Spiegel islamischer Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsvorstellungen sowie als Schlüsselfrager im Transformationsprozess der arabischen Welt", Expertentagung der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste am 12. April 2013 in Berlin.
• "Religions in the field of tension between cosmopolitan and post-political democracy - universality vs. particularity." Annual conference of the working group "Politics and Religion" (DVPW) on 1 February 2013 at the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research (HSFK) in Frankfurt/Main.
• "Democracy - pre-democracy - post-democracy? Zur Kritik eines polemischen Begriffs", on 23 January 2013 at the 2013 research colloquium of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Göttingen.
• "The future of war - beyond law and justice?" Lecture series "War and Law" in the summer semester 2012 at the University of Regensburg on 4 July 2012.
• "Rousseau, the antinomies of democracy and the failure of its abolition through religion." International Rousseau Conference and Annual Conference of the DVPW Section Political Theory and History of Ideas on 29 June 2012 at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main.
• "The Secularity of Democracy and Islam as a Political-Theological Problem". Cooperation conference "Democracy and Islam" of the DVPW working group "Politics and Religion" with the DVPW thematic group "Transcultural Comparative Political Theory" and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, 18-20 April 2012 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Competing and complementary tensions between religion, democracy and post-democracy." Conference of the DVPW Comparative Political Science Section "Pre-democracy, post-democracy, autocracy? On the State of Comparative Governance Research", 29-31 March 2012 at the University of Marburg.
• "Religion, Virtue, and the Ennobling of Democracy. Tocqueville's Vision of Civic Society." International Lecture Series at the Tocqueville Center for Political and Legal Thought, 29 February 2012 at the University of Lodz.
• "Derrida, Kant or Political Theory in Search of the Sources of its Identity." Autumn conference of the DVPW section Political Theory and History of Ideas "Object and Methods of Political Theory", 28-30 September 2011 at the University of Bremen.
• "Wandlungen des Theologisch-Politischen und die sprachliche Geburt der Moderne", International symposium "Politisches Denken und literarische Form. Italien zwischen Spätmittelalter und Renaissance"/"Political Thinking and Literary Form. Italy Between Late Middle Age and Renaissance", 14-16 January 2010 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Die Menschenrechte als hegemonialer Diskurs und seine sozialethische Relevanz", conference "Anthropologie und Sozialethik" of the Forum Sozialethik on 14-16 September 2009 at the Kommende Dortmund.
• "Carl Schmitt, Immanuel Kant, and the Theory of International Relations. Political Theology vs. Political Philosophy" ,^5th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, 10-12 September 2009 in Potsdam.
• "How Many Democracies? The Third Way Revisited", Societas Ethica Annual Conference "The Year 1989. Twenty Years After the Collapse of Communism, 19-23 August 2009 in Warsaw.
• "Spatial Dimensions of Democracy in a Globalising World", on 13 July 2009 at the 21st World Congress of Political Science "Global Discontent? Dilemmas of Change (12-16 July 2009) in Santiago de Chile.
• "Glaube und politische Tat - Die zivilgesellschaftliche Funktion der Religion bei Alexis de Tocqueville", annual conference "Religion, Zivilgesellschaft und bürgerliches Engagement" of the DVPW working group "Religion and Politics" on 10-12 July 2009 at the Evangelische Akademie Villigst.
• "Democratic Antinomies: Liberty and Equality, Individual and Collective Claims, Universalism and Particularity", International Conference "Freedom and Democracy. European Perceptions, European Perspectives", 4-6 December 2008 at the University of Primorska in Koper/Slovenia.
• "Alexis de Tocqueville and the political-theological problem of democracy." Conference "What holds society together? The role of religion in modern societies" on 14/15 November 2008 at the Akademie Franz Hitze Haus Münster.
• "In dubio pro reo oder warum wir philosophierend die Demokratie verstehen", cooperation conference "Wer früher philosophiert, ist länger weise" of the ASKO-Europa-Stiftung, the Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (BBW) and the Akademie Kinder philosophieren on 26/27 September 2008 at the Haus der Bayerischen Wirtschaft in Munich.
• "Die Rückkehr des Leviathan oder wie der transnationale Terrorismus die labile Balance zwischen Freiheit und Sicherheit im demokratischen Rechtsstaat (zer-)stört", conference "Freiheit, Sicherheit, Risiko. Christian social ethics facing new challenges" of the Forum Sozialethik on 8-10 September 2008 at the Kommende Dortmund.
• "Rethinking the Concept of Democracy: From Aporias to Normativity", Contributed Paper of the Section "Philosophy of Social Sciences" at the XXII World Congress of Philosophy from 30 July - 5 August 2008 at the Seoul National University/Korea.
• "The Just War as Deus ex Machina - An Agnostic Plea, Conference "Just War - Just Peace. Religion in Current Military Conflicts" of the DVPW working group "Religion and Politics" on 27-29 June 2008 at the Catholic Academy Berlin.
• "On the vitality of a fossil. Opportunities of political philosophy and the history of ideas for an empirically based political science - a theoretical sketch with selected examples", conference on the perspectives of political theory and the history of ideas in theology in Bavaria on 25-26 January 2008 at the Political Academy Tutzing.
• "Can there still be just wars today?" Panel discussion on the occasion of the awarding of the 2007 prizes for the scientific prize question of the Hanover Research Institute for Fundamental Philosophical Issues in theology on 15 September 2007 in the Hildesheim Cathedral Library.
• "Das Opfer des Sündenbocks - Christliche Wurzeln der Menschenrechte und des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", conference "Religion, Menschenrechte und Menschenrechtspolitik" of the working group "Religion und Politik" of the DVPW on 8 September 2007 at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie Gummersbach.
• "Politische Philosophie und Wirtschaftsethik oder warum die Moral der Ökonomie politisch ist", Societas Ethica Conference "Philosophical Approaches to Ethics - Methods and Foundations, on 26 August 2007 in Leysin/Switzerland.
• "The Problem of Democracy and the Possibilities of Philosophising for Children", 22 February 2007 at the Academy for Civic Education Tutzing.
• "The outside of democracy. Weltkultur im Spiegel von Politik und Literatur", 7th Erlangen Graduate Conference "Kreisläufe - Kapillaren der Weltkultur" on 4 November 2006.
• "Tocqueville and the American Empire", SSCE/Societas Ethica Conference "Political Ethics and International Order", at Wadham College in Oxford on 25 August 2006.
• "Terror as Communication Strategy - A Hostile Takeover of the Media System?", Presentation Panel of the^3rd IPP- Summer School "Hostile Takeovers - On Violence and Media", on 1 August 2006 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
• "Voyeurism and Terror - A Political Philosopher's View", on 6 June 2006 at the University of Freiburg as part of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) Host Conference "Between Three" from 5-10 June 2006 in Freiburg, Basel and Strasbourg.
• "Was Tocqueville right?", Roundtable Expert Discussion "The United States of America. The troubled world power", on 1 December 2005 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Das trügerische Vorbild Amerika - Tocqueville und die Religion", on 8 June 2005 as part of the lecture series "Zwischen alten und neuen Welten - Tocquevilles Amerika" at the University of Regensburg.
• "Alexis de Tocqueville and the vision of a post-liberal democracy", expert conference "The future of democracy" on 4 February 2005 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.

Discussion rounds and workshops

• "Kulturelle Erneuerung - Der Beitrag der abendländischen Philosophie" Colloquium of the Stiftung Kulturelle Erneuerung on the study by Volker Gerhardt, 15/16 May 2019 at Meisterhof/Bad Wiessee.
• "Democracy and Islam - two irreconcilable opposites?" on 7 May 2019 as part of the lecture series "Religious diversity and democracy" on 7 May 2019 at the Offenes Haus des Evangelischen Dekanats Darmstadt.
• "Migration and integration in times of globalization: Do we need a German and European guiding culture?" 13 April 2019, Gasthof zur Post Titting/Kreis Eichstätt.
• "Religion in the strategy of right-wing populism: How can an identity politics trap be avoided?" Lecture and expert discussion on the topic "Religious freedom in danger? Right-wing populism as a challenge for churches and democracy" in cooperation with the Competence Centre for Democracy and Human Dignity of the Education Centre Foundation in the Kardinal-Döpfner-Haus Freising on 8 April 2019 at the Munich Ordinariate.
• "Democratic deficit of the European Union - structural and institutional challenges", seminar "The values and contradictions of Europe", on 24 March 2019 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Die paradoxe 'Erfolgsgeschichte' Europas - Zwischen Integration und Nationalbewusstsein, Supranationalität und Pluralismus", Seminar "Die Werte und Widersprüche Europas", on 22 March 2019 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Migration and integration in times of globalization: Do we need a German and European guiding culture?", seminar "Endangered democracy in Germany and Europe?" on 2 February 2019 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "The rise of right-wing populism in Germany and Europe as a threat or an expression of democracy?", Seminar "Endangered democracy in Germany and Europe?" on 1 February 2019 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Religion and right-wing populism. How a message of peace threatens to turn into conflict and hatred". Expert discussion on 10 December at the Hanns Seidel Foundation Conference Centre in Munich.
• "Does 'Islam' belong to Germany or who actually owns 'democracy'?" Lecture and discussion at Vilsbiburg secondary school on 5 December 2018.
• "The value of democracy and what threatens it today", lecture and workshop at Walter-Mohr-Realschule Traunreut on 16 November 2018
• "Politics and religion in Islam - an indissoluble connection?", HSS Advanced Academy "Dialogue of Cultures - Christianity and Islam", 21 October 2018 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen/Ammersee.
• "Clash or dialogue of cultures? Political Islam as an enemy and religious-political challenge in times of globalization and migration", Aufbauakademie der HSS "Dialog der Kulturen - Christentum und Islam", 19 October 2018 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen/Ammersee.
• "Religious identity and homeland faith or: Religions in the identity trap?" Learn & Lunch, Theological and Pastoral Training in the Diocese of Regensburg, Café Anton, 10 October 2018.
• "Islam and democracy - Islam as a challenge for the democratic constitutional state?" Weekend seminar "State and politics in Islam", 23 September 2018 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen/Ammersee.
• "Religion and politics in Islam - an indissoluble connection? Weekend seminar "State and Politics in Islam", 21 September 2018 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen/Ammersee.
• "Religion and churches as adversaries or accomplices of right-wing populism?" Workshop at the conference "The new centre? Right-wing ideologies and movements in Europe, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, 18 September 2018.
• "Democracy and Islam or: Islam as a challenge for the democratic constitutional state?" Impulse and workshop at the Long Night of Democracy, Thon-Dittmer-Palais Regensburg, 15 September 2018.
• "Christian values in the Bavarian Constitution and the ideological neutrality of the Basic Law - a contradiction?", Seminar "Die Gegenwart der Geschichte. 200 years of the Bavarian Constitution, 100 years of the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), 70 years of the Basic Law", Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz, 31 August 2018.
• "The German Basic Law as an attack on Bavaria's independence?" Seminar "The present of history. 200 years of the Bavarian Constitution, 100 years of the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), 70 years of the Basic Law", Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz, 30 August 2018.
• "Headscarves, crosses and kippahs: current religious policy challenges." Summer Academy of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain, 10 August 2018.
• "Islam and Christianity - between serious contrasts and surprising similarities", seminar "Democracy and Islam", Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz, 26 May 2018.
• "Current conflicts of values between Western and Muslim lifeworlds?", Seminar "Democracy and Islam", Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz, 25 May 2018.
• "Democracy and Islam - do they go together? Week-long seminar "Revolution and now? Good governance, political, cultural and economic cooperation with the Maghreb", Georg-von-Vollmar Academy Kochel, 7 May 2018.
• "Der Islam als Herausforderung für den demokratischen Rechtsstaat", Islamwissen um 4 (4th lecture), BiC im Candis (VHS Regensburg) on 4 May 2018.
• "Religion and Politics in the Logic of the Basic Law - Between Unity and Diversity". Seminar "Profane Basic Law - Christian Foundation?", Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz, 29 April 2018.
• "Islam und Gleichberechtigung - Anmerkungen zu aktuellen Wertekonflikten zwischen westlicher und muslimischer Lebenswelt", Islamwissen um 4 (3rd lecture), BiC im Candis (VHS Regensburg) on 27 April 2018.
• "Islam and Christianity as 'estranged siblings' - Stages of a misunderstanding?" Islamwissen um 4 (2nd lecture), BiC im Candis (VHS Regensburg) on 20 April 2018.
• "Political Islam in times of globalization and migration - From real diversity in the countries of origin to a uniform enemy image of the West?" Islamwissen um 4 (1st lecture), BiC im Candis (VHS Regensburg) on 13 April 2018.
• "Islam as a religious-political challenge for the democratic constitutional state? Security policy lecture 2/2018 (topic: world religions), Society for Security Policy (GSP), 13 March 2018.
• "Daring more or less democracy?". Seminar "Macht und Ohnmacht des Volkes: Populismus, Islamismus und Politikverdrossenheit als Krisensymptome des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", BVS Bildungszentrum Holzhausen am Ammersee, 9 February 2018.
• "Democracy in (perceived) crisis? From the perceived powerlessness of the people to the critical diagnosis of post-democracy". Seminar "Macht und Ohnmacht des Volkes: Populismus, Islamismus und Politikverdrossenheit als Krisensymptome des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", BVS Bildungszentrum Holzhausen am Ammersee, 10 February 2018.
• "Demokratietheorie im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung - Über die Chancen und Risiken zu den dringenden Notwendigkeiten, trial lecture for the W3 professorship in Political Theory and History of Ideas, RWTH Aachen, 1 February 2018.
• "Religious freedom and ideological neutrality". Learn & Lunch, Theological and Pastoral Training in the Diocese of Regensburg, "Hexerei", 22 January 2018.
• "Religion and Politics in the Logic of the Basic Law - Between Unity and Diversity". Seminar "Profane Basic Law - Christian Foundation?", Banz Monastery Education Centre, 21 January 2018.
• "Religious freedom as the highest human right? Historical and current developments in the relevant case law", Seminar "Religious freedom, tolerance and ideological neutrality of the state - a Gordian knot?", Asamhotel Straubing, 9 December 2017.
• "Tolerance towards the intolerant? On the challenge of a controversial virtue in dealing with religious fundamentalism", Seminar "Religionsfreiheit, Toleranz und weltanschauliche Neutralität des Staates - ein gordischer Knoten?", Asamhotel Straubing, 9 December 2017.
• "Das Konzept der Twin Tolerations - Über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer politischen Rolle der Religion im demokratischen Rechtsstaat", Seminar "Religionsfreiheit, Toleranz und weltanschauliche Neutralität des Staates - ein gordischer Knoten?", Asamhotel Straubing, 8 December 2017.
• "Die (Ideen-)Geschichte der Religionsfreiheit und der weltanschauliche Neutralität des Staates - Von der historischen zur aktuellen Analyse", Seminar "Religionsfreiheit, Toleranz und weltanschauliche Neutralität des Staates - ein gordischer Knoten?", Asamhotel Straubing, 8 December 2017.
• "Politics and religion in Islam - an indissoluble connection?", HSS Talent Promotion seminar "Encounter of cultures - Bible and Koran", Berlin office, 24 November 2017.
• "Clash of civilisations or positive social change? Islam as a current religious-political challenge in a democratic constitutional state", seminar "Encounter of Cultures - Bible and Koran", Berlin office of the HSS on 22 November 2017.
• "What does Brexit mean?" Panel discussion at the Friedrich-Oberlin BOS/FOS in Munich-Pasing on 20 November 2017.
• "Religious freedom, religious diversity and ideological neutrality - common characteristics or contradictions of the democratic constitutional state?" 50. Colloquium for North German Rotarians "Religion and Politics", Haus Rissen Hamburg, 19 November 2017.
• "Book presentation Governance of Diversity" (commentary), Seminar building of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the WWU Münster on 14 November 2017.
• "Islamism as a challenge to democracy? Current problem areas". Seminar "Macht und Ohnmacht des Volkes: Populismus, Islamismus und Politikverdrossenheit als Krisensymptome des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", BVS Bildungszentrum Holzhausen am Ammersee, 21 October 2017.
• "Populism as a threat or renewal of democracy?" Seminar "Macht und Ohnmacht des Volkes: Populismus, Islamismus und Politikverdrossenheit als Krisensymptome des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", BVS Bildungszentrum Holzhausen/Ammersee, 20 October 2017.
• "Liberal democracy in Muslim societies? On the apparent and real significance of a fundamental political-theological problem", weekly seminar "How to build a state? Challenges in the crisis region from Syria to Afghanistan" on 21 August 2017, Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie Kochel am See.
• "State and good governance - taking stock", weekly seminar "How to build a state? Challenges in the crisis region from Syria to Afghanistan" on 21 August 2017, Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie Kochel am See.
• "Politics and religion in Islam - an indissoluble connection?", HSS Talent Promotion seminar "Encounter of cultures - Bible and Koran" on 10 August 2017 in Kloster Banz.
• "Clash of civilisations or positive social change? Islam as a current religious-political challenge in a democratic constitutional state", seminar "Encounter of Cultures - Bible and Koran" on 9 August 2017 in Kloster Banz.
• "Nothing left for the future? Democracy and sustainability" panel discussion as part of the discussion series "Defects of democracy. ... the best form of government so far?" on 1 June 2017 at the Schader Foundation in Darmstadt.
• "From the state to good governance and back? Governance in the age of globalization", weekly seminar "How to create stability? Good governance and economic cooperation in North Africa and the Sahel" on 15 May 2017, Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie Kochel am See.
• "Dangers of democracy? Populism, Islamism, post-democracy as current challenges of the democratic constitutional state", seminar as part of the 25th course for administrative management of the Bavarian State Chancellery on 9 May 2017 at Prinz-Carl-Palais.
• "Religion in the European society of the 21st century between disappearance and return", seminar of the KAS scholarship programme "Politics and Religion" on 28 March 2017 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Milan.
• "'Politics' and 'Religion' - On the complexity and challenges of an interactive relationship from the perspective of political and democratic theory," Appointment lecture for a W3 professorship in Political Theory and History of Ideas on 8 March 2017 at the University of Göttingen.
• "Islam heute - Vielfältige religiöse Formen, politische Entwicklungen, Aufbrüche" and panel discussion "Islam und Gemeinwohl - Wohin soll sich unsere Gesellschaft verändern?", Diözesaner Studientag "Weißt du, wer ich bin?" zum christlich-islamischen Dialog am 11. Februar 2017.
• "Antinomies of Democracy", Graduate School of Law, Economics, and Society, 31 January 2017 at the University of Würzburg.
• "Do Islam and democracy go together?" Lecture at the Rotary Club Vilshofen on 30 January 2017, Schlemmerhof Vilshofen.
• "Islamic thinkers of democracy today - Authentic or problematic readings of an originally Western idea? Tariq Ramadan, Farid Esack, Mohammed Shabestari", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on 10 December 2016 at Hotel Michel/Landshut.
• "Democracy and Islam - two irreconcilable opposites?", Integration Forum of the City of Regensburg on 9 December 2016, Haus Hemma Regensburg.
• "Tolerance towards the intolerant? On the benefits and limits of a controversial virtue of democracy in dealing with religious fundamentalism/Democratic constitutional state and religious pluralism - facets of a complex relationship", seminar "Religious freedom and religious diversity - from a feature to a risk of the democratic constitutional state" on 19 November 2016 at the Kloster Banz education centre.
• "Die (Ideen-)Geschichte der Religionsfreiheit und die politischen Herausforderungen religiöser Vielfalt - Von der historischen zur aktuellen Analyse", seminar "Religionsfreiheit und religiöse Vielfalt - Vom Merkmal zum Risiko des demokratischen Rechtsstaates" on 18 November 2016 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Fight Club (1999)", lecture series "Politik im Film" of the IfPol/WWU Münster on 16 November 2016, Schlosstheater Münster.
• "The diversity of Islam: Theological and political considerations/Democracy and Islam - two irreconcilable opposites?" Educational evening "What you should know about Islam. An encounter from a theological and democratic perspective", 10 November 2016, Pfarrheim Ihrlerstein.
• "Is there a human right to asylum and/or economic prosperity? Weekly seminar "Help or we're coming! European refugee and development policy in the 21st century" on 7 November 2016, Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie Kochel am See.
• "Relapse or recovery of the nation state / Can the total exodus still be stopped? Current concepts and challenges in refugee policy", seminar "Flight and migration - a never-ending crisis?" 22. October 2016, Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Flight and migration in the 21st century - From historical mortgages to acute developments and problems/Human rights, global justice and world citizenship? Sustainable principles for moral orientation and overcoming the crisis"? Seminar "Flight and migration - a never-ending crisis?" 21. October 2016, Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "The diversity of Islam/Democracy and Islam - two irreconcilable opposites?" Educational evening "What you should know about Islam. An encounter from a theological and democratic perspective", 6 October 2016, Waldmünchen Youth Education Centre.
• "'All this has (nothing) to do with Islam! How academic and popular discourse talk past each other and past the point", discussion event "Between devaluation and reality - the image of Islam in the media and in the socio-political debate" on 1 October 2016, Mediencampus Villa Ida, Leipzig.
• "What is populism? Differentiation and similarities to political extremism/'Us against them up there': Populist methods and how democracy can respond to them", weekly seminar "Demokratie in Gefahr? Populism in Europe", 29 August 2016, Georg von Vollmar Academy Kochel am See.
• "Democracy and Islam - two irreconcilable opposites?" Expert discussion of the Bavaria SPD on 14 July 2016 at the Dechbettener Hof, Regensburg.
• "Islam in the times. Current fundamental questions and political challenges", workshop on 6 July 2016, DICV Regensburg.
• "The underexposed role of religion in political conflicts. From theoretical analysis to the acute case of the Arab world" on 4 July 2016 at the International Relations research colloquium at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart.
• "Opening up new spaces of thought. Changing perspectives, shaping change, developing visions." Exclusive seminar in philosophical communication for Thüga AG on 2/3 June 2016 at Schlosshotel Wilhelmshöhe/Kassel.
• "Religious freedom as a key issue in the evaluation of non-secular, Islamic ideas of democracy" on 19 March 2016 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen am Ammersee.
• "Politics and religion in Islam - an indissoluble connection?" on 18 March 2016 at the BVS-Bildungszentrum Holzhausen am Ammersee.
• "Politics and Islam - Current fundamental questions and challenges", seminar "What we should know about Islam. An encounter from a Christian perspective" on 13 February 2016 at Schloss Spindlhof/Regenstauf.
• "Demokratie unter genealogischem Vorbehalt - Ein Selbstversuch in kritischer Theorie", Long Night of Education on 16 December 2015 at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Münster.
• "Politik und Gewalt - Anmerkungen zu einem Schlüsselproblem des Politischen Denkens" lecture series on society as part of the Master's programme in criminology and violence studies on 3 December 2015 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Technocracy - Mediocracy - Plutocracy - Expertocracy. Crisis symptoms of democracy or signs of a new form of 'output' or 'multiple democracy'?" Seminar "Is our democracy at an end? Capital power, global networking and disenchantment with politics as a warning sign of a 'post-democratic' society" on 21 November 2015 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Theory and critique of 'post-democracy'. The approaches of Colin Crouch, Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière", seminar "Is our democracy at an end? Capital power, global networking and disenchantment with politics as a warning sign of a 'post-democratic' society" on 20 November 2015 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Secularisation. On the dwindling influence of religion in East and West", conference "Einiges Deutschland? History and present after 25 years" of the Political Working Group of the KMF on 14 November 2015 in Maria Laach.
• "The ethical dimensions of the refugee debate - Is there a human right to asylum or economic prosperity?" Seminar "'Help, or we're coming! European refugee and development policy in the 21st century" organised by the Georg von Vollmar Akademie e.V. and the European Academy of Bavaria on 24 August 2015 in Kochel am See.
• "Volkssouveränität und Repräsentation als Antinomie der demokratischen Idee", Scholarship holder meeting "Erneuerung der Demokratie" of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes on 28 May 2015 at the Ethics Centre of the LMU Munich.
• "Young, European and/or religious?", fishbowl debate on 19 May 2015 at the Institute of Sociology at Münster University.
• "Islamic thinkers of democracy today - Authentic or problematic readings of an originally Western idea? Tariq Ramadan, Farid Esack, Mohammed Shabestari", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on 28 March 2015 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Zwischen Wehrhaftigkeit und Toleranz - Der Islam als religionspolitische Herausforderung des demokratischen Rechtsstaates", Seminar "Demokratie und Islam" on 27 March 2015 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Politik und Religion - Eine Ursache von Gewalt?", workshop at the Regensburg symposium "Kausalität: Die Frage nach dem Wie, Warum und Wozu in Wissenschaften und Gesellschaft. Application example: Propensity to violence - combating violence" on 27 March 2015 at the Altes Finanzamt, University of Regensburg.
• "Krise und Zukunft der Demokratie" [Crisis and future of democracy], Kulturstammtisch Philosophie on 2 March 2015 in the Theresiensaal of the restaurant "Der Pschorr", Munich.
• "Geist, Kunst und Macht", panel discussion "Die unmögliche Enzyklopädie aktuell" at the Bavarian State Opera on 14 January 2015 at the Nationaltheater Munich.
• "Verbrechen und Strafe - Grundpositionen in der Politischen Ideengeschichte" [Crime and Punishment - Basic Positions in the History of Political Ideas], lecture series Society as part of the Master's programme in Criminology and Violence Studies on 9 December 2014 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Somalia, Rwanda and Sudan - Case Studies of Just War?", Seminar "Domestic Conflicts and Interventions since the End of the East-West Conflict: Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia" at the European Academy of Bavaria on 7 November 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Haus Brannenburg.
• "What holds society together? Approaches and answers from fundamental philosophical issues in theology", seminar "Gemeinsinn. How much responsibility for others does democracy need?" on 28 June 2014 in Wildbad Kreuth.
• "The discovery of the individual and the break with the traditional idea of community. Between moral progress and ethical challenge", seminar "Gemeinsinn. How much responsibility for others does democracy need?" on 27 June 2014 in Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Das Double Bind der Demokratie - Zwischen ständiger Bedrohung und Chance", seminar: "Wie wehrhaft ist unsere Demokratie?" on 12 April 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Freiheit oder Sicherheit in der Theorie: Ideengeschichtliche Markierungen - Thomas Hobbes zwischen Baruch de Spinoza und Carl Schmitt sowie Hans Kelsen vs. Karl Loewenstein", Seminar: "Wie wehrhaft ist unsere Demokratie?" on 11 April 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Religion and politics in Islam - risk or opportunity for democracy and human rights? Seminar: "Good governance, economic cooperation and poverty reduction as a means of securing peace in the Middle East", cooperation seminar of the European Academy Bavaria, the verdi educational organisation in Bavaria and the BMZ on 7 March 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Haus Brannenburg.
• "Religious freedom as a key issue in the evaluation of Islamic ideas of democracy", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on 8 February 2014 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Do democracies have to be secular? Reflections on the relationship between religion and politics in Islam and Christianity", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on 7 February 2014 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Religions in the democratic public sphere - anachronism or necessity? ", discussion evening on the topic "Religion as a private matter?" as part of the series "Interreligious dialogue on campus " on 15 January 2014, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
• "Politik und Gewalt - Anmerkungen zu einem Schlüsselproblem des Politischen Denkens" lecture series on society as part of the Master's programme in criminology and violence studies on 12 December 2013 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Verbrechen und Strafe - Grundpositionen in der Politischen Ideengeschichte" (Crime and Punishment - Basic Positions in the History of Political Ideas) Lecture series Society as part of the Master's programme in Criminology and Violence Studies on 5 December 2013 at the University of Regensburg.
• "Demokratische Antinomien als Maßstab für die empirische Forschung", lecture for the W 3 professorship in political science on 29 November 2013 at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart.
• "My company - a 'playing field' of values." Exclusive seminar for bayme vbm regional board members and junior board members on 17 October 2013 at the Weinforum Franken in Eibelstadt.
• "The honourable merchant - relevant again today?" Exclusive seminar for bayme vbm regional board members and junior board members on 17 October 2013 at the Weinforum Franken in Eibelstadt.
• "Politics, religion and a defensive democracy - current religious policy challenges with a special perspective on Islam", on 27 May 2013 at the conference of the German Judicial Academy "Political extremism - a challenge for society and justice" in Wustrau.
• "Demokratie und Islam - Facetten einer komplexen Problematik", seminar "Demokratie und Islam" on 12 April 2013 in Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Freedom or security? A stalemate in the history of ideas", seminar: "How defensive is our democracy?" on 23 March 2013 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "The paradoxical concept of defence-oriented democracy. No tolerance of intolerance or the replacement of the constitutional state by the preventive state?", Seminar: "Wie wehrhaft ist unsere Demokratie?" on 22 March 2013 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Human rights and democracy in a globalised world", on 16 February 2013 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "On the way to European post-democracy? Eine ideengeschichtliche Analyse", appointment lecture for the W 3 professorship "Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte" on 9 January 2013 at Chemnitz University of Technology.
• "Freedom vs. security - Does terror justify everything? European domestic and security policy with regard to a digital age worth living in", panel discussion on 22 November 2012 in the large conference room of the old Regensburg tax office.
• "Islam and "secular" democracy. Reflections on the complexity of the relationship between religion and politics", on 2 June 2012 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "From autocracy to democracy? A new image of Muslim societies in the West", on 1 June 2012 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Menschenrechte, Entwicklungspolitik und interkulturelle Handlungskompetenz", seminar "Wie unantastbar sind Menschenrechte?", on 1 April 2012 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "On the cultural mediation of human rights. Human rights between democracy, realism and relativism?", seminar "How inviolable are human rights?", 31 March 2012 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Demokratie und Menschenrechte vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Umwälzungen in Nord-Afrika und im Nahen Osten", Seminar "Menschenrechte, Demokratie und Islam" on 10 December 2011 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth
• "How universal are human rights?" An international and interreligious comparison, seminar "Human Rights, Democracy and Islam" on 9 December 2011 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "What are the wars of the future? New wars, just wars, war for democracy and peace, war against terrorism, climate wars? Seminar "War and Peace" 5 November 2011 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "A useless utopia? Immanuel Kant's On Perpetual Peace, seminar "War and Peace" 4 November 2011 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "From autocracy to democracy? A new image of Muslim societies in the West", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on the history of political ideas on 29 July 2011 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Islam in the modern age. Parochial obstacle, politically marginalised influence or belated secularisation?" Seminar "Democracy and Islam" on the history of political ideas on 30 July 2011 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit oder: was uns die beiden letzteren Ideale der Französischen Revolution über die Freiheit sagen", on 14 July 2011 at the Rotary Club Münchner Freiheit, Gaststätte Hirschau Munich.
• "Tradition and reform in Islam in history and the present, seminar "Democracy and Islam" on 5 December 2010 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Der Menschenrechtsdiskurs von der Antike bis zum 11. September 2001", Seminar "Wie unantastbar sind Menschenrechte" on 22 October 2010 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "How universal are human rights? An international and interreligious comparison", seminar "How inviolable are human rights" on 23 October 2010 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Krieg - Eine ideengeschichtliche Skizze über die Vielfalt eines Begriffs", seminar on war and peace on 5 February 2010 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Legitimisations of war. From the battle of words to the battle of images", War and Peace seminar on the history of political ideas on 6 February 2010 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "The desire for a 'half' modernity. Islam as a political and society factor", seminar "Democracy and Islam" on the history of political ideas on 12 December 2009 at the Wildbad Kreuth Educational Centre.
• "Zwischen Tradition und Reform: Der Islam in Geschichte und Gegenwart", seminar "Demokratie und Islam" on the history of political ideas on 11 December 2009 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "The Chameleon War in History and Present", seminar "War and Peace" on the history of political ideas on 4-6 September 2009 at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "Peace is more than no war. Notes on the dialectic between war and peace", seminar "War and Peace" on the history of political ideas on 4-6 September 2009 at the Wildbad Kreuth Educational Centre.
• "60 Jahre Grundgesetz - Politiktheoretische Betrachtungen", on 22 May 2009 at the Walter-Mohr-Realschule in Traunreut.
• "War and peace. In search of 'true' justice", on 22 April 2009 at the Bildungshaus der Diözese Regensburg Schloss Spindlhof.
• "Human rights policy and humanitarian interventions. Between powerlessness and political instrumentalisation?" Seminar on the history of political ideas "How inviolable are human rights?" on 20 March 2009 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Human rights under criticism. Egoism, Eurocentrism, post-colonialism?" Seminar on the history of political ideas "How inviolable are human rights?" on 21 March 2009 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Footnotes to Plato? Fundamentals and basic concepts of philosophical issues in theology" on 19 October 2008 at the cooperation conference of the HSS and the Akademie Kinder philosophieren at the Bildungszentrum Wildbad Kreuth.
• "A brief history of human rights" Seminar on the history of political ideas "How inviolable are human rights?" on 12 September 2008 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Human rights under criticism. Egoism, Eurocentrism, post-colonialism?" Seminar on the history of political ideas "How inviolable are human rights?" on 13 September 2008 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "Erich Fromm and the art of loving", philosophical discussion group as part of the training programme "Me and the other. Empathy and interpersonal relationships" on 1 March 2008 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "How democratic is Islam? A comparison between democratic and Islamic principles", on 22/23 February 2008 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• "Western images of Islam. A problem sketch on the heterogeneity of Muslim societies", on 23/24 November 2007 at the Bildungszentrum Kloster Banz.
• "A brief history of philosophy. Great philosophers and their thinking", on 31 October 2006 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Children philosophical issues in theology. Scientific foundations and principles of practical implementation", on 13 October 2006 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "The two faces of violence - The role of the final victor or Whoever wants to cleanse must cleanse the world", on 15 July 2006 at the Wildbad Kreuth Education Centre.
• Workshop "Kinder philosophical issues in theology" (with Christophe Rude and Katharina Zeitler) as part of the advanced training course "Gemeinsame Lernchancen nutzen" on 19/20 May 2006 at the Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung in Dillingen.
• "Children philosophising - pedagogical model or principle for teaching and education?", on 10 May 2006 at the Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung in Dillingen.
• "Der Zauberring - ein philosophischer Lehrfilm als interaktives Medium zur Wertebildung", on 24 October 2005 at the Munich Conference Centre of the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
• "Religion and Politics - Tocqueville's uneasy modernity", Disputatio on 20 July 2005 in the large conference hall of the Philosophikum of the University of Regensburg.
• "Der liberale Dissident - Tocqueville oder der Kampf des Citoyen gegen die Bourgeoisie", guest lecture on 25 May 2005 as part of the lecture "Bürgersein. Development of a basic democratic concept" at the University of Regensburg.
• "Tocqueville's Aristocratic Republicanism", guest lecture on 12 January 2005 as part of the lecture "Profiles of Republicanism" at the University of Regensburg.
• "Childhood in a United Europe", workshop at the congress "Philosophising with Children - Wondering, Questioning, Thinking, Finding Values" on 19 November 2004 at the Munich Conference Centre of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation e.V.
• Presentation of the project "Children philosophising" on 28 October 2004 at the Munich Conference Centre of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation e.V.
• "Philosophising with children? New ways of teaching values in day-care centres", on 6 February 2004 at the Banz Monastery Education Centre.
• "Religion and Politics in Tocqueville and Nietzsche", on 22 April 2002, colloquium in PT 1.04 at the University of Regensburg.

• 05/2019 - 12/2019
   

Federal Agency for Civic Education: Topics and materials "Religion in secular society" (scientific director)

• 07/2018 - 11/2019

"Rights, Duties, Solidarity - European Constitution and Muslim Immigration (REM)" (ERASMUS+ Programme) (580205-EPP-1-2016-1-IT-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN) (module development)

• since 2014

"Political Thought and Literary Form", 4-volume interdisciplinary series at Springer VS-Verlag Wiesbaden (series editor)

• 11/2014 - 10/2018

Rejuvenating Democracy: New Technology-Related Options (Parmenides Foundation Munich-Pullach) (Research Leader)

• since 11/2013

Philosophical communication in the company (Denk!Wert) (strategic development)

• 04/2010 - 07/2014

Interdisciplinary research cluster "Aggression and Violence in Nature and Culture" at the University of Regensburg

• 01/2020

Conference "Political Thought and Literary Form in Italy between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (Fritz Thyssen Foundation)

• 04 - 07/2005

Lecture series "Tocqueville Between Two Worlds" (Regensburg University Foundation Hans Vielberth)

• 2004 - 2006

Children philosophy: Third-party funded project of the Bavarian Business Association (VBW) at the University of Regensburg (coordination)