Degrees:
Univ.-Doz., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
M.A., Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Author/editor of 26 books; author of 80+ articles and book chapters; translator of 11 books and of 90+ articles; some of his work has been translated into 7 languages.
His (co-)edited volumes as well as his translations of 70+ authors from 5 continents have been undertaken in the hope that they might constitute a small contribution to the publication and circulation of important diverse established and fresh voices from different linguistic and cultural traditions.
Most recently, he finished a book about the Austrian writer Peter Handke (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2019) entitled "Peter Handkes literarische Romantik".
He is preparing an edited volume examining the question of the arts (literature and theater, music, painting) in Alain Badiou's seminal work. This volume succeeds volumes on "Slavoj Zizek und die Künste" and on "Jacques Rancière und die Literatur".
Furthermore, he is preparing a volume that examines the contemporary constellation of biopolitics, aesthetics, and art by gathering theoretical and artistic perspectives from and/or on China, Japan, Turkey, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, and Germany. Publication date for both volumes will be end of 2025/ beginning of 2026..
His next monograph - a continuation of the aesthetic-political project delineated in the book on Handke - will engage with the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2004) to examine the ways in which Jelinek's (conception of) literature can be grasped in terms of a disarticulation and caesura of the romantic notion of "great literature" as supposed foundation of "eigentliche Politik" invoking some secret destiny for the supposedly elect and identitarian "German" and/or "Austrian" people ("Volk") that is, as Jelinek brilliantly demonstrates, at the heart of certain philosophical theories (she engages most notably with Martin Heidegger, as well as with other Germanic philosophers and politicians) that seem to share and reproduce the commitment to an archi-fascist legacy that is often accompanied by the trivialization of Auschwitz and anti-Semitism.
Finally, he is working on essays and conference presentations addressing the following topics: the question of "Dichtung" in Alain Badiou and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; the issue of justice in Handke's literature; the constellation of the museum, the avant-garde and biopolitics in the aesthetic writings of Jacques Rancière and Boris Groys; curatorship as an aesthetic-political practice in the work of Boris Groys; different aesthetic readings of the Russian avant-garde. Most recently, he has also agreed to write a comprehensive "Theoretikerporträt" about Frantz Fanon.
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20th Century and Contemporary German, French, Italian, Slovene Philosophy
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Aesthetics, (Austrian) Literature
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Anti-Semitism, Europe, Genocide, Biopolitics, Racism, Monstrosity
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Adorno, Agamben, Badiou, Balibar, Baudrillard, Bernhard, Celan, Dennett, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Grossman, Groys, Handke, Hofmannsthal, Jelinek, Kafka, Laclau, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, Perniola, Rancière, Sartre, Schmitt, Vattimo, Wagner, Žižek
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Numerous Research Grants (from such institutions such as Austrian Science Fund, University of Vienna City of Vienna and others).
Translation Grants from US and European academic and publishing institutions.
Teaching Awards and Teaching Recognitions (the latest being
Trinity College's Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching
Excellence).
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