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Jörg Schaub

@joergschaub.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Essex. Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy Author of (open access) monograph "Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life: The Struggle for Aesthetic Freedom" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hybrid Double (Open Access) Book Launch Workshop – University of Essex, 2 October 2026, 1:00–6:30 pm (UK time). The workshop can be attended in person or via Zoom. If you would like to join us, please email jschaub@essex.ac.uk to register.
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Article on the polical situation in Germanyby Robin Celikates for tribune mag
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
‘Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life’ is now available open access! In this innovative study, Jörg Schaub demonstrates that the aesthetic is essential to democratic societies’ aspiration to realize a life of equal freedom for all. Read now: bit.ly/3TKCyv8
Cover of the book "Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life" by Jörg Schaub.
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The hardcopy of my (open access) monograph Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life: The Struggle for Aesthetic Freedom arrived today - alongside a lovely endorsement by Axel Honneth (see below).
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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Burnham's regional plans need to pay attention to this www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/loss-of...
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Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy
A new data map released today shows a sharp and widespread decline in opportunities for university staff in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects in 2024-25. The data shows a precarious la...
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David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Even in the early 2020s, higher education paid back fourteen times more than governments put into it and was worth £265bn a year. But even that doesn’t seem to count for much these days."
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Normative Orders @normativeorders.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Letzten Freitag würdigte das Forschungszentrum Normative Orders gemeinsam mit @suhrkamp.de den verstorbenen Jürgen #Habermas mit einem internationalen Symposium an der @goetheuni.bsky.social. Zur Aufzeichnung der Veranstaltung: www.youtube.com/live/QLIt_RR...
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International Symposium in Memory of Jürgen Habermas
YouTube video by Normative Orders
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yesterday, Frankfurt, Germany, Goethe University, and Suhrkamp remembered the life and work of Jürgen Habermas with a memorial event at Paulskirche and a conference (including a beautiful keynote from Axel Honneth).
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
next week / nächste woche!
WALTER-BENJAMIN- LECTURES
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
A SECOND DECLINE OF THE WEST?
MIRIAM MAKEBA
AUDITORIUM, HKW JOHN-FOSTER-DULLES-ALLEE 10
JUNE 23-25TH 2026
6-8 PM
3
LECTURES
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peterniesen.bsky.social @peterniesen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In der Politischen Theorie an der Uni Hamburg ist zum 1.10. eine postdoc-Stelle zu besetzen, hier auf Deutsch und im Kommentar auf Englisch: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Ausschreibung
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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🕖4. Juni 10-19 Uhr und 5. Juni 10-18 Uhr 📍Auditorium, Grimm-Zentrum Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1–3, 10117 Berlin Check out our Homepage and Instagram for more information on the conference and to get introduced to our panels and speakers! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/crisis...
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In case you missed it (since they are both not on bsky): Matt Congdon (Vanderbilt) and Thomas Khurana (Potsdam) have put together this fantastic volume expanding our perspective on recognition beyond the standard story.
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Squadrons of Pigs www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Sherri Irvin @sherriirvin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
New paper! "Aesthetic Blight, Aesthetic Agency, and Justice." What does justice require when people are experiencing terrible aesthetic conditions due to their disempowered social position? academic.oup.com/jaac/article...
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Aesthetic Blight, Aesthetic Agency, and Justice
ABSTRACT. Aesthetic blight is persistently aversive aesthetic experience to which someone has been made systematically vulnerable by virtue of their identi
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Jörg Schaub @joergschaub.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
NEW book (open access): Jörg Schaub, "Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life: The Struggle for Aesthetic Freedom" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Free download from: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... (Hardcopy release date: 7 July)
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