Prof Ruth Sonderegger
Prof Ruth Sonderegger
Ruth Sonderegger is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Until 2009, she held the chair of "Metaphysics and its History" at the University of Amsterdam.
After studying philosophy and literature in Innsbruck, Constance and Berlin, she received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1998. From 1993-2001 she was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and from 2001-2009 a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
Her current research focus is on aesthetics and art theory, cultural studies, political philosophy as well as critical theories and theories of resistance.
She is currently working on a monograph with the working title Vom Leben der Kritik (On the Life of Critique) and is also researching the coloniality of European aesthetics and art philosophy.
Recent book publications
- Foucault's Present. Sexuality - Care - Revolution (with Gundula Ludwig and Isabell Lorey, Vienna: transversal texts 2016.
Editor (with Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster and Suzana Milevska): Spaces for Criticism (= Art in Society book series) Amsterdam: Valiz 2015.
- Editing and introduction (with Jens Kastner): Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière. Thinking Emancipatory Practice, Vienna: turia+Kant 2014.
- Editing and introduction: Art and the Critique of Ideology After 1989 / Kunst und Ideologiekritik nach 1989, edited by Eva Birkenstock, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Jens Kastner, and Ruth Sonderegger;published by Kunsthaus Bregenz, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Bregenz and Cologne 2013.
- Editing and introduction (together with Karin de Boer), Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Houndmills Basingstroke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011.
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Recent book and journal articles
"Foucault's Cynics", in: Foucault's Present. Sexuality - Care - Revolution, Vienna: transversal texts 2016, pp. 47-75.
"The challenge of (not) speaking for others. What Jacques Rancière could learn from Gayatri Spivak", in: Apropos Jacques Rancière (ed. by Christian Sternad and Siegfried Mattl), Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 27/2016/1, pp. 23-46.
"Analyses of agility. A conversation about exercises and de-exercises of identity and difference. Ruth Sonderegger in dialogue with Stefan Müller and Janne Mende", in: Stefan Müller and Janne Mende (eds.): Differenz und Identität. Constellations of Critique, Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa 2016, pp. 221-243.
"Plädoyer für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik aus Perspektive der culturalstudien" (with Susanne Leeb), in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 1/2016, pp. 63-70.
Review of Jacques Rancière, Moments politiques. Interventions 1977-2009: in: Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 23, 3, September 2016, pp. 461-463.
"Art. Critique. Educational justice. Reflections on the Field of Art Education" (with Barbara Rothmüller, Philippe Saner and Sophie Vögele"), in: Andrea Lange-Vester and Tobias Sander (eds.), Soziale Ungleichheiten, Milieus und Habitus im Hochschulstudium, Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa 2016, pp. 89-10.
"Practices in Execution, in Theory and as an Object of Criticism. A very brief introduction to theories of practice", in: Jens Kastner and Elke Gaugele (eds.), Critical Studies. Cultural and Social Theory in the Art Field, Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag 2016, pp. 303-323.
"Criticising instead of classifying. Adorno's Kaleidoscope", in: Marc Grimm and Martin Niederauer (eds.): Ästhetischen Aufklärung. Kunst und Kritik in der Theorie Theodor W. Adornos, Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa, 2016, pp. 18-35.
"Anything But A Safe Space", in: Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Tom Vandeputte (ed.), Politics of Study, London: Open Editions 2015, pp. 40-48.
"Emanzipation von ihren Extremen her denken Ein einleitendes Plädoyer für Bourdieu und / mit Rancière" (with Jens Kastner), in: Jens Kastner and Ruth Sonderegger (eds.), Pierre Bourdieu und Jacques Rancière. Emanzipatorische Praxis denken, Vienna: turia+Kant 2014, pp. 7-30.
"Death struggles of the publication industry? Experiences of a small multiplicity (with Isabell Lorey, Otto Penz, Gerald Raunig and Birgit Sauer), in: Kamion 00, 2014, pp. 11-20.
"The labour of critique. Oder die kynische Praxis der parrhesia", in: Anja Lemke and Alexander Weinstock (eds.), Kunst und Arbeit. Zum Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Arbeitsanthropologie vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Munich: Fink 2014, pp. 209-223.
"Do We Need Others to Emancipate Ourselves? Remarks on Jacques Rancière", in: Krisis. Journal for current philosophy.
"New Forms of Organisation. Art and Politics after Jacques Rancière", in: Cornelia Klinger (ed.), Blindness and clairvoyance. Künstlerkritik an Politik und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart, Berlin: Akademie Verlag (= Volume 16 of the Wiener Reihe. Themen der Philosophie, ed. by Herta Nagl-Docekal, Cornelia Klinger, Ludwig Nagl and Alexander Somek), 2014, pp. 285-301.