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University of Halle-Wittenberg
Post-Doc, Institute for Systematic Theology
Dilthey-Fellow
Thesis Title: Sociality as the Human Condition. Anthropology in Economic, Philosophical and Theological Perspective (Brill 2011)
About
Rebekka A. Klein is Dilthey-Fellow at the Institute for Systematic Theology in Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). Her first book "Sociality as the Human Condition" offers a substantial discussion of empirical research programs within current economics (experimental and neuroeconomics), with special regard to the themes of reciprocity and altruism. It discusses economic research on human nature from a philosophical perspective informed by phenomenology and hermeneutics, and links it to theories of social contract, conflict, recognition and alterity in social philosophy. In a concluding chapter, the book introduces the concept of the neighbor in Christian theology and shows how this figure brings a new perspective to the examination of human sociality.
Rebekka A. Klein's current book project is entitled "Precarious Sovereignty. Deconstruction and Critique of a Basic Figure of Political Theology". This project aims to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and poststructuralist thought on the theologico-political concept of sovereignty. Viewing crisis and transformation of the state’s sovereignty in pragmatic politics today poststructuralist thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben try to dismantle the ontological and theological legacy of sovereignty. But beyond critical deconstruction poststructuralist discourse also offers attempts to dialectically invert the classical concept of sovereignty (Claude Lefort, Slavoj Žižek). The output of this multifaceted argument has not been systematically debated in German theology so far. Hence, this project assumes that theology can refer to the external perspective of philosophy in order to give a new and timely re-description of the Christian reference to the sovereign God in political contexts. Based on a critical analysis of modern theologico-political works in Germany (Karl Barth, Emanuel Hirsch) the book will introduce additions, corrections, emendations and revisions into the current philosophical debate.
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