I am a philosopher interested in the philosophy and history of critique. In my philosophical work, I try to understand how we may react critically to catastrophic states of the world. In my historical work, I tell microhistories about critique in early modern and modern philosophy.
I have written three books: Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2026), Social Wrongs and Social Pathologies: From Structural Injustice to Metabolic Rift (co-authored with Arto Laitinen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), and Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey (Klostermann, 2018). …
I am a philosopher interested in the philosophy and history of critique. In my philosophical work, I try to understand how we may react critically to catastrophic states of the world. In my historical work, I tell microhistories about critique in early modern and modern philosophy.
I have written three books: Vicious Circles: Disclosing a History of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2026), Social Wrongs and Social Pathologies: From Structural Injustice to Metabolic Rift (co-authored with Arto Laitinen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), and Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey (Klostermann, 2018). The articles that exemplify my current work the best are “’The Truly Apocalyptic View’: Kinesics of a Critical Gesture in Wittgenstein” (Critical Times, vol. 9, no. 3) and “Undeceivable without Doctrine: Dialectic of Enlightenment as Philosophical Montage” (Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, vol. 9, no. 2).
I studied at the University of Helsinki and the University of Frankfurt, where I got my PhD. I then got my habilitation at the University of Lucerne. Before joining Iméra I worked at ETH Zurich. I am Privatdozent at the University of Lucerne and Docent at Tampere University.
