Foucault Studies

Thomas Biebricher
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Germany

Thomas Biebricher studied Political Science, Economics and Public Law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He received both an M.A. (2000) and his PhD (2003) from Freiburg University. His dissertation was published under the title ‘Selbstkritik der Moderne. Habermas und Foucault im Vergleich’ by Campus Publishing Company in a book series edited by the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt in 2005. From 2003 to 2009 he worked as a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Florida in Gainesville. Since June 2009 he is a Junior Research Group Director at the interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence ‘Formation of Normative Orders’ at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. The theme of the research group is ‘Varieties of ‘Neoliberalism’ and their Transformation’. At the moment he is working on a book-length project that is tentatively entitled ‘The Normative Worlds of Neoliberalism’ in which he aims to scrutinize the normative dimension of neoliberal thought and how this dimension is reflected in contemporary forms of neoliberal government(ality).