Dr. Michael Ivo Räber
Senior Lecturer and Researcher (Practical Philosophy)
T +41 41 229 57 07
michael.raeber@unilu.ch
Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 3.A54
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Dr. Michael Räber has been senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne since April 1, 2023. He studied philosophy, history, and political science at the University of Zurich. Between 2012 and 2015, he was employed at ETH Zurich as part of his doctoral studies through a project grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and was a visiting researcher at Yale University for one semester during this time. In 2016, he received his PhD in political and social philosophy from the University of Zurich (summa cum laude). Between 2016 and 2019, he was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich. During this time, he was also a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen HSG. From 2019 to 2022, he was a visiting fellow at UCLA in Los Angeles and at Oxford University as part of an SNF Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship.
Publications
- Räber, M. (2024). Introduction: (In)visibility: The aesthetic dimension of political participation. Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 3 (1), 1–5. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3366/jspp.2024.0068
- Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of (In)Visibility. (2023). Critical Horizons, 24 (4), 319–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286864
- Räber, M. (2023). Rupture and Response: Rorty, Cavell, and Rancière on the Role of the Poetic Powers of Democratic Citizens in Overcoming Injustices and Oppression. Philosophies, 8 (4), 62 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8389746
- Struggles Over Recognition Under Conditions of Hypervisibility: Honneth, Rancière, and Ellison on the Politics of Perception. (2023). Critical Horizons, 24 (4), 389–404. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2023.2286869
- Räber, M. (2023). Whose time is it? Rancière on taking time, unproductive doing and democratic emancipation. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8359370
- Democratic freedom as an aesthetic achievement: Peirce, Schiller and Cavell on aesthetic experience, play and democratic freedom. (2022). Philosophy & Social Criticism, 49 (3), 332–355. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10118705
- Räber, M. (2019). Political Representation from a Pragmatist Perspective: Aesthetic Democratic Representation. Contemporary Pragmatism, 16 (1), 84–103. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10200404
- Räber, M. (2013). The Art of Democracy: Art as a Tool for Developing Democratic Citizenship and Stimulating Public Debate: A Rortyan-Deweyan Account. Humanities, 2 (2), 176–192. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/h2020176
- Räber, M. (2021). Multikultureller Liberalismus. In Fest, Michael (Ed.), Handbuch Liberalismus (pp. 385–392). Stuttgart: Metzler. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10161116
- Räber, M. (2018). Kultur. In Fest, Michael (Ed.), Handbuch Pragmatismus (pp. 94–100). Stuttgart: Metzler. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10200462
- Räber, M. (2018). Philosophie der Kunst. In Fest, Michael (Ed.), Handbuch Pragmatismus (pp. 171–177). Stuttgart: Metzler. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10200464
- Räber, M. (2015). Das Eigene und Fremde bei John Locke: Lockes Legitimation von Eigentumsrechten und der britischen Kolonisierung Amerikas. In Altwicker, Tilmann, Cheneval, Francis & Diggelmann, Oliver (Eds.), Völkerrechtsphilosophie der Frühaufklärung (Vol. 12, pp. 213–226). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
- Räber, Michael (Ed.). (2024). (In)visibility: The aesthetic dimension of political participation (Special Issue). -: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy.
- Räber, Michael (Ed.). (2023). From Recognition to Aesthetics: Reimagining Social Justice and Political Emancipation (Special Issue). -: Critical Horizons.
- Räber, M. (2024). Review of: Jonathan Havercroft, Stanley Cavell’s democratic perfectionism: community, individuality, and post-truth politics (2023). Contemporary Political Theory.
- Räber, M. (2017). Jan-Werner Müller: What is Populism? Political Studies Review, 15 (4), 612–613. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917716098
