Associate Member

Thomas Biebricher

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Biebricher (1974) is Heisenberg Professor of Political Science with a focus on political theory, history of ideas and theories of economics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, he was Associate Professor for the History of Economic Governance at the Department for Management, Philosophy and Politics at Copenhagen Business School. He is a political theorist and his research focuses on the theory and practice of neoliberalism, conservatism and the center-right as well as the political theory of the European Union.

    After completing his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, he spent six years as a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Subsequently, he was a junior research group leader at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders at Goethe University, where he also held various professorships and post-doctoral positions, interrupted by a research stay of several months at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

  • Publikationen

    Biebricher, Thomas / Bonefeld, Werner / Nedergaard, Peter 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, London und New York.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2021, Die politische Theorie des Neoliberalismus, Berlin.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2018, Geistig-moralische Wende: Die Erschöpfung des deutschen Konservatismus, Berlin.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2020, Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism, in: Global Perspectives 1, https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.11872

    Biebricher, Thomas / Ptak, Ralf 2020, Soziale Marktwirtschaft und Ordoliberalismus zur Einführung, Hamburg.

News from the research center

News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Anthology

Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers

Felfe, Jörg; Dick, Rolf van (eds.) (2025): Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers. Springer.

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News
20.11.2025

Voluntary or compulsory? Military service, peace and democratic responsibility

Review of the 58th "Römerberggespräche". The topic of compulsory military service and the question of what a democratic state is allowed to demand of its citizens were at the center of the 58th "Römerberggespräche" "Conditionally ready for action? Military service and the duty to serve the state", which took place on November 15 in cooperation with the Research Centre Normative Orders in the Chagallsaal at Schauspiel Frankfurt.

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News
13.11.2025

Goethe Lecture Offenbach on ableist discrimination

Regina Schidel hat im Rahmen der Goethe Lectures Offenbach eine Kritik ableistischer Diskriminierung präsentiert. In ihrem Vortrag „Ich kann, also bin ich?“ diskutierte sie praktische Ausprägungen und philosophische Herkünfte von Ableismus.

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Event
10.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Satanic Politics. Democracy after Liberalism

Lecture, Lecture Series

Lecture by Michael Rosen (Harvard University) as part of the lecture series "At the Crossroads? On the crisis of democracy" in the winter semester 2025/2026

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Event
04.02.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Demokratien verteidigen. Zur Aktualität des Gewaltbegriffs bei Camus und Derrida

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Abbt (Universität St. Gallen) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
29.01.2026 | Frankfurt

Civil Geopolitics and the Dilemmas of the Democratic State

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von David Owen (Universtiy of Southampton) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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Event
14.01.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps: Neuorientierungen in katastrophischen Zeiten

Lecture Series, Lecture

Vortrag von Christine Hentschel (Universität Hamburg) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Am Scheidepunkt? Zur Krise der Demokratie" im Wintersemester 2025/2026

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