Carney Hall 221
Telephone: 617-552-4096
Email: hannes.kerber@bc.edu
Modern Political Theory
Th 10:30-12pm
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 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 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 “Euthyphro”: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings (2023) and Die Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (2024).
Praktiken der Provokation: Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (Practices of Provocation: Lessing’s Literary and Polemical Strategies), co-edited with Magdalena Fricke and Eleonora Travanti (Wehrhahn Verlag, 2024).
Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Euthyphro”: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings, 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.
Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums (The Enlightenment of the Enlightenment: Lessing and the Challenge of Christianity). (Wallstein Verlag, 2021. 2nd edition, 2024, forthcoming).