"Hilkje Hänel ist eine echte Aufklärungsphilosophin. Sachlich, scharfsinnig und mit einem klaren Sinn dafür, dass die richtigen Worte zu größerer Freiheit führen können." ---Eva von Redecker
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Hilkje Charlotte HänelI'm a philosopher working mainly in political philosophy and epistemology, social and feminist philosophy, and applied ethics -- with a particular focus on the intersection of social and institutional injustices, epistemic oppression, recognition failures, social ontology, and marginalized agency under ideological and oppressive social structures. My other interests are in philosophy of disability and migration ethics.
I've studied philosophy at Georg-August University Göttingen, University of Sheffield, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I've taught philosophy classes at Humboldt Unibersity of Berlin, Freie University of Berlin, Potsdam University, Oldenburg University, and University of Oslo. Currently, I'm interim professor in philosophy at Georg-August University Göttingen. I've also held the Helene Lange visiting professorship at the department of philosophy at Oldenburg University and a DFG-Walter-Benjamin grant at the department of philosophy as well as the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. I've also worked as assistant professor/postdoc in political theory at Potsdam University (currently on leave) and in practical philosophy at Freie University in Berlin. Since October 2021, I'm the principal investigator of a DFG-research network with sixteen international researchers on the topic of The Relation between Theories of Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory. I'm also an associate member of the Potsdam Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy as well as Ethics in Motion. Feminist Ethics and #MeToo (EMFEM) funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. In January 2018, I have successfully finished my PhD in philosophy at Humboldt-University of Berlin. My thesis is published with transcript Publishers. I'm also the author of two public philosophy books: Wer hat Angst vorm Feminismus (C.H. Beck, 2001) and Sex und Moral (Metzler, Series #PhilosophieOrientiert, 2021). And I have just finished a book on epistemic injustices for de Gruyter (Grundthemen Philosophie, forthcoming April 2024). I'm also a novelist. I'm married to another philosopher, Jacob Blumenfeld. We live in Berlin. I'm corresponding editor of Transforming Political Philosophy (de Gruyter). The series' focus is on new and excellent work in political philosophy from marginalized philosophers and/or on marginal topics and theories; work that provides interesting and fruitful intersections of traditional and contemporary theories; and work that bridges Western political philosophy and other philosophies, particularly with an applied focus on global issues. The series is open both to theoretical as well as applied political and social philosophy. We are looking for interested authors: If you're interested, please get in touch!
I'm also co-editor of fem.phil|Gegenwärtige Feministische Philosophie (Metzler). fem.phil is the first book series in contemporary feminist philosophy in Germany and is now accepting proposals for monographs, edited collections, conference proceedings, dissertations, and textbooks.
And I'm co-editor of the Journal of Social Ontology. You can find all info here:
If you're interested in the DFG-Research Network on the Relation between Theories of Epistemic Injustice and Recognition Theory, see here:
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