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D-45127 Essen
Phone: +49 201 183-3474
E-Mail: andreas.niederberger@uni-due.de
Office hours: Wednesday 18-19 via Zoom, please arrange specific time by e-mail.
Room: R12 V04 D93
Research Fields
- Political Philosophy
- Theories of Rationality
- Deontological Ethics
- Philosophy of Law
- Social Philosophy
Current and Recent Research Projects
2018-2021 Horizon2020-Project Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis (NoVaMigra) (Coordinator)
2017-2020 MERCATOR Forum Migration and Democracy, Foundation MERCATOR, Principal Investigator with Prof. Hans Vorländer, Prof. Andreas Blätte, TU Dresden, University Duisburg-Essen
2015-2019 “Big Risks”: Perceptions and Management of Neuralgic Societal Risks in the 21st Century, FUNK-Foundation, Principal Investigator with Prof. Achim Goerres, Prof. Rüdiger Kiesel
2015-2018 Ethics of Immigration, MERCUR, Principal Investigator with Prof. Volker Heins, Prof. Corinna Mieth, Prof. Christian Neuhäuser
2015-2016 PROBRAL-Project Deep Political Conflicts and the Role of Human Rights: The Case of the Amazon Region, DAAD/CAPES, Principal Investigator with Prof. Paula Arruda
Recent Publications
Klimawandel und Ethik, ed. with Jan Gehrmann, Ruben Langer, Münster: Mentis 2020
Internationale Politische Theorie, ed. with Regina Kreide, Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 2016
“Die Idee öffentlicher Vernunft”, in: Henning Hahn, Reza Mosayebi (ed.), John Rawls. Das Recht der Völker (Klassiker Auslegen – Vol. 70), Berlin: Akademie 2019, 159-175
“Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989”, in: Franziska Lys, Michael Dreyer (ed.), Virtual Walls? Political Unification and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Germany, Rochester/NY: Camden House 2017, 39-56
“Citizenship, Democracy and the Plurality of Means, Forms and Levels of Participation”, in: Robin Celikates, Regina Kreide, Tilo Wesche (eds.), Transformations of Democracy. Crisis, Protest and Legitimation, London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2015, 83-104
“Esse servitutis omnis impatientem – Platonism, Liberty and Human Dignity as a Path to Modernity in Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola?“, in: The European Legacy 5-6/20 (2015), 513-526
“Are Human Rights Moral Rights?“, in: Amos Nascimento, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (eds.), Human Dignity, Human Rights and the Cosmopolitan Idea, Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate 2014, 75-92
Short CV
2020 Visiting Professor, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali/LUISS, Rome/Italy
2018, 2015 Visiting professor, Department of Philosophy, Osaka University (Osaka/Japan)
2017- Full Professor of Philosophy (W3), Department of Philosophy, University Duisburg-Essen
2016-2020 Member of the Board of Directors, Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Integration and Migration (InZentIM), University Duisburg-Essen
2014-2017 Full Professor of Philosophy (W2), Department of Philosophy, University Duisburg-Essen
2012-2014 Visiting Professor of Political and Social Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University Duisburg-Essen
2009-2014 Außerplanmäßiger Professor, Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
2008-2012 Associate Professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Philosophy Department, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
2008 Habilitation in Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, with the habilitation thesis Democracy in world society? Normative foundations of legitimacy in the global political order
2006-2008 DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Political Science, Northwestern University (Evanston/USA)
2003 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University (Saint Louis/USA)
2002-2006 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Assistent C1), Philosophy Department, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
2002 Ph.D. graduation with Ph.D. dissertation Contingency and reason – Communicative action, post-phenomenology and Aristotelianism, Goethe-University Frankfurt
1999-2002 Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter BAT IIa/2) in the research project The changes in the culture of knowledge of the 12th and 13th century, DFG-Forschungskolleg Cultures of knowledge and social change, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
1998 M.A. in philosophy (minor subjects: linguistics of roman languages, sociology), Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
1996 Licence in philosophy, University Paris I (Paris/France)
1994-1999 Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)
1993-1999 Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy (Sociology, Science of Roman Languages), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, University Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris/France) and Saint Louis University (St. Louis/USA)