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Prof. Dr. Marcus Llanque

 

1985-1992: StudiedpPhilosophy, history and political science at the university of Tuebingen and Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, additional studies in jurisprudence.

1992: Diploma in political science: „The concept of the constitution in Carl Schmitt“ (in German)

1997: Ph.D. Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Subject: „The Debate on Democracy During World War I“ (in German)

1999: Assistant professorship in political theory at Humboldt-Universität Berlin

2003: Temporary professorship for political theory at the Technical University Darmstadt

2004: Habilitation in Political Science, Humboldt-University at Berlin (Classical Republicanism and the Modern Constitutional State)

2004/2005: Temporary professorship for political theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2005 October: Heisenberg-Scholarship (German Science Foundation)

2005/2006: Visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York

2007: Visiting scholar at London School of Economics and Political Science, London

2008 September: Full Professor for Political Theory and the History of Political Ideas, University of Augsburg

 

Writings

Monographs

The Debate on Democracy During World War I, Berlin 2000 (Akademie) (in German)

Political Theory and History of Ideas. A commentated textbook (together with Herfried Münkler), Berlin 2007 (Akademie) (in German)

The History of Political Ideas. A Web of Political Discourses, München/ Wien (Oldenbourg-Verlag) 2008 (in German)

ed., Concepts of Justice: Culture, History of Political ideas, Modernity (together with Herfried Münkler), Baden-Baden (Nomos) 1999 (in German)

ed., The Democratic Nation State in Times of Globalization (together with Herfried Münkler and Clemens K. Stepina), Berlin (Akademie) 2002 (in German)

ed., Sovereign Democracy and Social Homogeneity. The Political Thought of Hermann Heller, Baden-Baden 2010 (Nomos) (in German)

 

Articles (selection)

The Role of Elites in Legitimizing Violence, in: International Handbook of Violence, edited by Wilhelm Heitmeyer and John Hagan, Dordrecht/ Boston/ London 2003, pp. 973-987 (together with Herfried Münkler)

The debate on Nazi imperialism before Word War II, in: Richard Faber, ed., Imperialism, Wuerzburg 2004, pp. 101-121 (in German)

Republican Rhetoric as a Theory of Democratic Deliberation, in: Redescriptions. Finnish Yearbook of Political Thought, Bd. 9 (2005), pp. 27-50 

Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, in: Marcus Llanque / Herfried Münkler, eds., : Political Theory and the History of Political Ideas, Berlin 2007, pp. 426-444 (in German)

Max Weber and the Relationship between Power Politics and Political Ideals, in: Constellations, Bd. 14 (2007), pp. 483-497

Max Weber‘s Impact on the emergence of Weimar Political Science, in: Manfred Gangl, ed., The Political. The Emergence of Political Science in Weimar Republic, Frankfurt/M. u.a. 2008, pp. 193-215. (in German)

Dictatorship perceived by democrats in the interwar period, in: Christoph Gusy, ed., Constitution and Politics in the interwar period, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 52-87 (in German)

The genealogical relationship between democracy and Human Rights, in: Andre Brodocz / Marcus Llanque / Gary Schaal, eds., Challenges to Democracy, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 311-333 (in German)

The Rhetoric of Intellectual Manifestoes from the First World War to the War against terrorism, in: Kari Palonen/ Tuija Pulkkinen / José Maria Rosales, eds., The Politics of Democratization in Europe. Concepts and Histories, Aldershot 2008, pp. 185-198

Schumpeter‘s idea of political economy and socialism, in: Berliner Debatte/Initial, Bd. 20 (2009), pp. 24-31 (in German)

On constitutional membership, in: Petra Dobner / Martin Loughlin, eds., The Twilight of Constitutionalism: Demise or Transmutation?, London 2010, pp. 162-178

Brecht and Marxism, in: Mathias Mayer, ed., Bertolt Brecht – the Philosopher, Wuerzburg 2011, pp. 227-244 (in German)

German republican thinking (1793-1933), in: Rolf Groeschner / Oliver W. Lembcke, Hg., Republicanism, Tuebingen 2011, pp. 41-72 (in German)

The Political, in: The New Handbook of philosophical concepts, eds., Hermann Krings, neu hg. von Petra Kolmer und Armin G. Wildfeuer, Freiburg/Munich 2011, Bd. 2, pp. 1761-1774

Rhetorical Spaces, in: Historical Handbook of Rhetoric, Tuebingen (Niemeyer) (forthcoming)

The Concept of the People in John Rawls, in: Michael Becker, ed., The Political Thought of John Rawls, Wiesbaden 2012 (Seiner) (forthcoming)

 

Current research: political commitment studies, ideology of democracy, modern history of ideas.

 

Co-founder and editor of Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie

Speaker for the Section „Political Theory and History of Political Ideas“ of the German Political Science Association

 

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