IEA

Fellowship from October 2010 to June 2011. 

Research project: "Subject and subjectivity within the political realm. Elements of a political hermeneutics"

"My research will focus on three aspects of the political-philosophical terminology within political thought: Firstly, the traditional dualism between the world of the political and the world of private interests shall be critically reflected. The question is here how to relate economic interests to a political ethics?
Secondly, my goal is to reconceptualise a notion of the state (nation-state) and/or political community which is not dependent on geographical borders or ethnically based values but on the capacity of people to join for political goals and aims.
Thirdly, the research goes on to a critical reform of the concept of the citizen (citoyen, Buerger) which aims at a re-empowerment of political subjectivity
The project is intended as being part of a renewal of political hermeneutics."

Biographical elements: 

Antonia Grunenberg studied sociology, philosophy as well as German language and literature at Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main and in Berlin. She earned her doctorate in philosophy in 1975 at the Free University of Berlin and Habilitation in political science in 1986 at the Technical University in Aix-la-Chapelle (Rhineland - Westphalia). She is co-founder and board member of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (Hannah Arendt-Preises für politisches Denken) and a member of the Scientific Council of the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany. She has taught since 1998 as professor of political science at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since 2006, she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation for Research on the SED dictatorship. Her research focuses on the life and work of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. In addition, she is the founder and director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the University of Oldenburg.