Daniel Loick
Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Spring 2027
Loick is an Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. After receiving his PhD in 2010 from Goethe University Frankfurt, he held positions at multiple institutes in Germany, Switzerland, and the US, such as Harvard University, the New School for Social Research in New York, the Center for Humanities and Social Change in Berlin, and Barnard College, New York. His main research interests are in political, cultural, legal and social philosophy, social theory, and political theory. He is particularly interested in critiques of state-inflicted violence (prisons, police, borders) and politics of forms of life. Among his publications are five books, Kritik der Souveränität (Frankfurt 2012, English translation as A Critique of Sovereignty, 2018), Der Missbrauch des Eigentums (Berlin 2016, English translation as The Abuse of Property, 2023), Anarchismus zur Einführung (Hamburg 2017), Juridismus. Konturen einer kritischen Theorie des Rechts (Berlin 2017) and most recently Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen. Eine Theorie der Gegengemeinschaften (Berlin 2024, English translation forthcoming in 2027 as The Ethical Life of Counter-Communities).
More information can be found on his personal website: danielloick.net .