Carney Hall 221聽聽聽聽
Telephone: 617-552-4096
Email: hannes.kerber@bc.edu
Modern Political Theory
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Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at md传媒国产剧 College, where he studies and teaches primarily 18th century political thought. Prior to joining BC, he was the academic program director at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung and a lecturer in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Munich, Germany. In 2022/2023 he held a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and in 2024 as a visiting professor at the Universit脿 degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.
His first book, Die Aufkl盲rung der Aufkl盲rung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums, was published in 2021 by Wallstein Verlag and was awarded the first Chodowiecki Prize by Interdisziplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has co-edited Leo Strauss on Plato鈥檚 鈥淓uthyphro鈥: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings (2023) and Die Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (2024).
(Practices of Provocation: Lessing鈥檚 Literary and Polemical Strategies), co-edited with Magdalena Fricke and Eleonora Travanti (Wehrhahn Verlag, 2024).
, co-edited with Svetozar Y. Minkov (Penn State University Press, 2023. Paperback 2024).
鈥淛erusalem and Athens in America: On the Biographical Background of Leo Strauss鈥檚 Four Eponymous Lectures from 1946, 1950, and 1967, And an Abandoned Book Project from 1956/1957.鈥 Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift f眉r Neuere Theologiegeschichte 29 (1) (2022): 90鈥132.
(The Enlightenment of the Enlightenment: Lessing and the Challenge of Christianity). (Wallstein Verlag, 2021. 2nd edition, 2024, forthcoming).