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Email: hannes.kerber@bc.edu
Modern Political Theory
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Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College, where he studies and teaches primarily 18th century political thought. Prior to joining 51²è¹Ý, 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 Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.
His first book, Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: 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’s “Euthyphroâ€: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings (2023) and Die Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (2024).
(Practices of Provocation: Lessing’s 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).
“Jerusalem and Athens in America: On the Biographical Background of Leo Strauss’s Four Eponymous Lectures from 1946, 1950, and 1967, And an Abandoned Book Project from 1956/1957.†Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 29 (1) (2022): 90–132.
(The Enlightenment of the Enlightenment: Lessing and the Challenge of Christianity). (Wallstein Verlag, 2021. 2nd edition, 2024, forthcoming).