Fellow

Luca Hemmrich

Luca Hemmerich recently submitted his dissertation, entitled “The Concept of Interest. An Objectivist Reconception”, supervised by Dirk Jörke at TU Darmstadt. He was a doctoral student and research assistant at the Department of Political Theory and History of Ideas at TU Darmstadt from 2020 to 2024. He previously studied social sciences, mathematics and political theory in Bielefeld, Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Stays abroad during his doctorate and master’s degree took him to Oxford, Lancaster and the New School for Social Research. His current research project “Institutions for the Future of Democracy” is dedicated to the growing ecological crisis, which is one of the most pressing challenges facing democracy today. The project is based on the assumption that current liberal-democratic institutions are ill-prepared for this crisis due to systemic reasons. Accordingly, an appropriate response to the ecological crisis requires a structural change to existing democratic institutions. The focus here is particularly on the question of how the interests of future generations and non-human nature can be adequately taken into account in political institutions.

  • Publikationen

    Forthcoming. Intergenerational Domination. The Journal of Ethics. 2024. Against Negativism: Why Critical Theory Should Appeal to the Good. Political Philosophy 1 (1), pp. 105–127. 2023. Trivially Satisfied Desires: A Problem for Desire-Satisfaction Theories of Well-Being. Utilitas 35 (4), pp. 277–291. 2021. Politische Anthropologie und Anthropologiekritik. Der Platz des Menschen im politischen Denken heute. Zeitschrift für Politik 2021 (4), pp. 406–422, (with Dirk Jörke).

News from the research center

Event
14.07.2025 | Frankfurt

Utopie und Aufbruch der 1968er – Was von politischer Rebellion und individueller Selbstbefreiung geblieben ist

Panel Discussion

Die Diskussionsrunde mit Rainer Langhans, Christa Ritter, die seit 1978 zur Selbsterfahrungsgruppe um Langhans gehört, und dem Sozialphilosophen Martin Saar widmet sich utopischen Vorstellungen, die von der 1968er Bewegung ausgingen, und beleuchtet deren Ideale, Impulse, individuelle und gesellschaftspolitische Nachwirkungen.

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Event
10.07.2025 | Frankfurt am Main

Territorial Justice by Lea Ypi

Workshop

Workshop on the new book by Lea Ypi (LSE). With, among others: Andrea Sangiovanni and Ayelet Shachar.

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Event
01.07.2025 | Brussels

Europa in einer multipolaren Welt – Wie kann die EU den Herausforderungen gegenüber Großmächten begegnen?

Crisis Talk

Impuls von Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff mit anschließender Podiumsdiskussion

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News
22.05.2025

Does deliberative democracy have a future in the age of oligarchs, autocrats and patriarchs?

On June 3, Prof. Simone Chambers will give a lecture on the value of democracies and the future of the form of government.

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News
19.05.2025

What can a baroque tapestry tell us about colonial iconography?

Lecture by Cécile Fromone on May 21. The professor at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, director of the Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center and author will talk about the long-forgotten African origins of iconography and its colonial dimension.

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News
05.05.2025

Normative Orders Newsletter 01/25 published

The newsletter from Research Centre Normative Orders collects information on current events, reports, news and publications several times a year. Read the first issue 2025 here.

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News
05.05.2025

"Hitler. History of a Dictator" by Sybille Steinbacher will be published on May 15, 2025

The historian's new book deals with Hitler's origins, the roots of his anti-Semitism and his rise to power.

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News
29.04.2025

Public lecture series “Racism in the police” begins on May 13, 2025

Racism in the police has various dimensions. In the lecture series “Racism in the police - empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies”, three empirical studies on police work will be presented.

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