Former Fellow

Eduardo Mendieta

Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University

Research project title:
Enlightened Religion: Jürgen Habermas’s Philosophy of Religion

Abstract
With this project Eduardo Mendieta aims to track the development of Habermas’s thinking about religion, beginning in the sixties, when he wrote some important essays on the role of Jewish thinkers in the transmission of German Idealism, to his forthcoming two volume book Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (Suhrkamp, 2019), which traces the debate between faith and knowledge from ancient times through the nineteenth century.

Events:
THE EVENT IS CANCELLED!

17-19 March 2020
Symposium
“Present of Religion – Future of Philosophy. Reflections on the latest work by Jürgen Habermas”

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THE EVENT IS CANCELED!
April 16, 2020, 11am
Fellow Colloquium
“Jus Soli: On Normative Grounds”

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof. Eduardo Mendieta has taught at the University of San Francisco and Stony Brook University of the SUNY System, as well as at universities in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. He works primarily on twentieth century Latin American philosophy and post-WWII German philosophy (especially the work of Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas). He is co-editor with Jonathan VanAntwerpen of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011), with Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen of Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013), with Amy Allen, From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), and with Amy Allen of the Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He recently finished a book entitled The Philosophical Animal, which will be published by SUNY Press in 2019. He is the 2017 recipient of the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Achievements Award. During his residence as a Fellow of the Excellence Cluster Normative Orders he will give a series of seminars and will coordinate a conference that relates to his research project.
  • Publikationen

    – With Jonathan VanAntwerpen: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia University Press, 2011) – With Craig Calhoun and Jonathan VanAntwerpen: Habermas and Religion (Polity, 2013) – With Amy Allen: From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) – With Amy Allen: The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2019) – The Philosophical Animal (Forthcoming 2019)

News from the research center

Event
24.09.2026 | Frankfurt am Main

Die neuen Warlords. Gewaltdynamiken einhegen / Friedensgutachten 2026

Book Presentation

Die imperialistische Großmachtpolitik ändert die Vorzeichen von Krieg, Frieden und Sicherheit. Staaten agieren zunehmend wie Warlords und setzen Krieg als Mittel der Politik ein. Übergänge von Gewaltkonflikten zu Frieden werden als „Deals“ behandelt, Mittelmächte treten mit neuem Selbstbewusstsein, aber ambivalentem Kurs auf, und technologische Innovation verändert Kriege und erschwert die Regulierung. Zugleich befindet sich die internationale Kooperation in der Friedenssicherung in ihrer schwersten Krise. Das Friedensgutachten 2026 analysiert Optionen, dennoch Frieden zu fördern.

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Publication
23.07.2026 | Journal article

Governing the Subject of Populism

Biebricher, Thomas: "Governing the Subject of Populism". In: European Journal of Social Theory, OnlineFirst.

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Publication
15.07.2026 | Monograph

Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen

Simon, Hendrik (2026): Das Recht der Gewalt. Warum Waffen allein keinen Frieden schaffen. Ditzingen: Reclam.

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Publication
10.07.2026 | Anthology

Schnittstellen im Gesundheitsrecht

Kießling, Andrea (Hrsg.) (2026): „Schnittstellen im Gesundheitsrecht“. Nomos.

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News
19.06.2026

International symposium honours the lifework of Jürgen Habermas

On Friday 19 June 2026, the Research Centre Normative Orders, in collaboration with Suhrkamp Verlag, paid tribute to the late Jürgen Habermas with an international symposium at Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Publication
13.06.2026 | Monograph

Identitätsbasierte Führung: Vom ICH zum WIR. Als Führungskraft gesunde und leistungsstarke Gruppen, Teams und Organisationen fördern

van Dick, Rolf; Kratzer, Benedik E., Steffens, Niklas K., Kerschreiter, Rudolf (2026): „Identitätsbasierte Führung: Vom ICH zum WIR. Als Führungskraft gesunde und leistungsstarke Gruppen, Teams und Organisationen fördern“. Springer Berlin.

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Publication
28.05.2026 | Monograph

Rethinking World Order: Political Ordering as Global Ecology

Hellmann, Gunther; Jacobi, Daniel (Hrsg.) (2026): „Rethinking World Order: Political Ordering as Global Ecology”. Bristol University Press

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Publication
21.05.2026 | Working Paper

EU Law’s Future in a Fraying International Legal Order

Armin von Bogdandy (2026)

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Publication
19.05.2026 | Journal article

Inclusive messaging from leadership reduces discriminatory attitudes and norms: A mixed-methods social identity analysis of a fitness facility

Cruwys, Tegan; Rathbone, Joanne. A.; Quayle, Anika; Butalia, Radhika; Hardacre, Stephanie. L.; van Dick, Rolf (2026): „Inclusive messaging from leadership reduces discriminatory attitudes and norms: A mixed-methods social identity analysis of a fitness facility”. In: British Journal of Social Psychology, 65.

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