13.11.2016

Institutskolloquium: Europe, Anti-Power

Michael Loriaux (Northwestern University) at Wednesday, 16 November 2016 · 16 h c.t., Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Michael Loriaux is <link http: www.polisci.northwestern.edu people core-faculty michael-loriaux.html external-link-new-window external link in new>Professor of Political Science and director of the undergraduate Paris Program in Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought at Northwestern University, Illinois.

His research focuses on studying European unification from the perspective of critical theory. In his most recent publication Europe Anti-Power: Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate (Routledge, Interventions, 2016) he scrutinizes the EU debate on power using phenomenological and post-phenomenological analysis and pleads for the concept of Europe as “anti-power”.

His other publications include the books France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform (Cornell, 1991), Capital Ungoverned (co-authored: Cornell, 1997) and European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (Cambridge, 2008), winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for best book employing interpretive methods.