Univ.-Ass. Mag. Matthias Lorenz

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Contact

Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room: B 209
1010 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 16
E-Mail: matthias.lorenz@univie.ac.at

Office hour

After agreement

Teaching

Courses: u:find

Short CV

• Since 2023 University assistant (prae doc) at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Department of Political Theory
• Since 2017 PhD project Democratisation of Political Ontology. Causality and Popular Agency in Post-Marxism at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Vienna, Department of Political Theory (Supervision: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Oliver Marchart, PhD)
• 2022 Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main
• 2020-2023 PhD scholarship holder of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• 2020-2022 Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna, Department of Political Theory
• 2019 Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Chair of Political Sociology of Social Inequality, Prof. Dr Stephan Lessenich)
• 2017-2020 Staff of the Mobile Counselling Service against Right-Wing Extremism in Bavaria, State Coordination Office against Right-Wing Extremism at the Bavarian Youth Ring
• 2008-2016 Studies of Philosophy, Sociology and French Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• 2014-2015 Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (at the Chair of Sociology and Gender Studies, Prof. Dr. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky)
• 2011-2012 Studies in philosophy at the Université de Montréal, scholarship from the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec

Research interests

Political Theory and Social Philosophy, Radical Democratic Theory, (post-)Marxism, Deconstruction, Political Theories of Early Modernity, Spinoza, Theories of Populism, Social Movements, Critical Theories of anti-Semitism, Civil society Strategies against Right-wing Extremism

Publications

  • (2017) mit Robert Andreasch, Marcus Buschmüller, Alois Zwicklbauer: Sachverständigengutachten für den 3. Untersuchungsausschuss der 18. Wahlperiode [des Deutschen Bundestags] zum Thema: Rechtsextreme Aktivitäten im Raum München seit 1996
  • (2021) Rezension zu: Diefenbach, Katja: Spekulativer Materialismus. Spinoza in der postmarxistischen Philosophie, Wien / Berlin 2018 in: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 336
  • (2022) Rezension zu: Andermann, Kerstin: Die Macht der Affekte. Spinozas Theorie immanenter Individuation, Hamburg 2022; in: Das Argument. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 339
  • (2022) Killing in the name of – Rechtsterroristische Namenspolitiken und antifaschistische Entnennung, in: Brinkmann, Christina; Krüger, Nils; Schreiter, Jakob: Der Halle-Prozess. Hintergründe und Perspektiven, Leipzig 2022, Spector Books.
  • (Im Erscheinen) Normative und strategische Herausforderungen Mobiler Beratung im Spannungsfeld Zivilgesellschaft – Institutionen – Demokratie, in: Bringt, Friedemann; Mayer, Marion; Warrach, Nora; Lehnert, Esther: Beratung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratiegefährdung. Konzepte – Herausforderungen – intersektionale Perspektiven, Weinheim, Beltz Juventa

 

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