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Currently, I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project “The Emergence of Relativism” (PI: Martin Kusch) at the University of Vienna. I completed my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 2012. My thesis on the young Walter Benjamin was published in 2013 (Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin). From 2012 to 2014 I was postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL), first as the editor of the philosophical writings of Susan Taubes, then I was awarded a research fellowship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the project “Discourses of Life. Paradigmatic Concepts around 1900 and their Significance for the Present”.

My current research centers on the history of the “philosophy of life” (Lebensphilosophie): from its first systematic formulations in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, through its main forms at the turn of the twentieth century (Dilthey, Simmel, and Bergson) and in the Weimar Republic, all the way to its entanglement with National Socialism. I focus on the contribution of philosophy of life to the emergence of the problem of relativism. I explore historical, systematic, and political aspects of this neglected chapter of the history of modern philosophy. It is my goal to show that both the history of the concept of life and the historical debates on relativism should be brought to bear on current debates.

For details about my former projects see: http://www.zfl-berlin.org/discourses-of-life.html http://www.zfl-berlin.org/susan-taubes-edition.html