Urs Lindner
Dr. habil. Urs Lindner
E-Mail: urs.lindner@gast.uni-due.de
Research interests
- Memory politics
- Racism, antisemitism and colonialism
- Egalitarianism
- Affirmative action
- Materialism/realism
- Marx and Marxism
Academic career
| Since 04/2023 | Coordinator research lab on memory politics at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen (Fellow 09/24–02/25) |
| 06/2024 | Habilitation at the University of Erfurt, venia legendi in philosophy (monograph: An Egalitarian Justification of Affirmative Action: Nonideal Theory and the Scope of Political Philosophy) |
| 08/2023 – 01/2024 | Visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), University of Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 04/2023 – 05/2024 | Fellow of the Research Institute on Social Cohesion at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University of Berlin (04–07/2023 und 02–05/2024) |
| 10/2014 – 11/2018 | DAAD-Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (10/2014–01/2015 and 10–11/2018) and at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (02/2017 and 02/2018) |
| 04/2014 – 03/2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt and Scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group “Ordnung durch Bewegung” (03/2015–09/2020) |
| 10/2013 – 03/2014 | Juniorfellow of the DFG-research group “Post-Growth Societies”, University of Jena |
| 09/2010 – 08/2013 | Postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the SNF-project “Imitation – Assimilation – Transformation” at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich |
| 07/2010 |
PhD in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, grade: summa cum laude (thesis: Marx und die Philosophie. Metaphysikkritik, wissenschaftlicher Realismus und moralischer Perfektionismus) |
Recent publications (selection)
Shoah und Kolonialismus: Was sind die tatsächlichen Streitpunkte?, in: Forum Geschichtskultur Ruhr, 2025 (1), 17-22. https://www.academia.edu/129591073/Shoah_und_Kolonialismus_Was_sind_die_tats%C3%A4chlichen_Streitfragen
Deconstructing a National Hero: The Changing Representation of the Prussian Sailor and Slave Trader Joachim Nettelbeck, 1807 to Present, in: History & Memory, 36 (2), 2024, 39-74 (with Sarah Lentz).
Ist Antisemitismus (k)ein Rassismus?, Berlin: BildungsBausteine, 2024. https://www.bildungsbausteine.org/fileadmin/assets/PDF/BildungsBausteine/Urs_Lindner_2024_Ist_Antisemitismus_kein_Rassismus.pdf
Postkolonialismus und Shoah-Forschung: Wege aus der Dichotomie, in: taz, April 2nd, 2024. https://taz.de/Postkolonialismus-und-Shoah-Forschung/!5998108/
Critical Naturalism: The Manifesto and Critical Realism, in: Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 43 (1), 2023, 110-113. https://krisis.eu/article/view/40693/37834
On the French Road. Der späte Marx und der relationale Egalitarismus, in: Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 6 (1), 2023, 81-104. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42048-023-00140-7
Die Singularität der Shoah und die postkoloniale Herausforderung der deutschen Erinnerungskultur. Eine Bestandsaufnahme des „Historikerstreits 2.0“, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 48 (2), 2022, 272-300. https://www.academia.edu/129483997/Die_Singularit%C3%A4t_der_Shoah_und_die_postkoloniale_Herausforderung_der_deutschen_Erinnerungskultur
Further publications