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Dr. Gerald Posselt, Privatdoz. M.A.
Gerald Posselt
T: +43-1-4277-46452
http://language.univie.ac.at
Posselt, G 2026, Zeichensprache der Verletzungen: Nahtstellen sprachlicher und körperlicher Gewalt. in B Charlotte & H Georg (eds), Kritische Phänomenologien der Gewalt: Zugänge, Perspektiven, Grenzen. Hagen University Press, Hagen.
Posselt, G 2025, 'Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling', Genealogy + Critique, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.17038
Posselt, G 2025, 'Politik und Aphasie: Zur Polarität von Metapher und Metonymie', Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 369-398. https://doi.org/10.22613/zfpp/12.1.16
Posselt, G & Seitz, S 2024, 'Truth and Its Political Forms: An Explorative Cartography', Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 569-588. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-023-00669-7
Posselt, G 2024, 'Conflicts of Truth: Habermas and Foucault in Dispute', Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, vol. Special Issue, pp. 113-123. https://doi.org/10.4396/2024069P
Posselt, G, Babka, A & Seitz, S 2024, Gender und Dekonstruktion: Begriffe und kommentierte Grundlagentexte der Gender- und Queer-Theorie. UTB M (Medium-Format), 2., überarb. u. erweit. Aufl. edn, Facultas, Wien. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838560625
Babka, A & Posselt, G 2024, Gender und Dekonstruktion: Begriffe und kommentierte Grundlagentexte der Gender- und Queer-Theorie. 2 edn, UTB - Facultas, Wien.
Posselt, G & Hetzel, A 2023, 'Rhetoric as Critique: Towards a Rhetorical Philosophy', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231162046
Posselt, G 2023, Die Zerbrechlichkeit der Welt. Hannah Arendts „Wahrheit und Politik“ revisited. in I Römer & G Stenger (eds), Faktum – Faktizität – Wirklichkeit: Phänomenologische Perspektiven. Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, pp. 153-177. https://doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-4202-0
Posselt, G & Seitz, S 2023, 'Prolegomena zu einem politischen Begriff der Wahrheit', Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 12-25. https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2023.16.2.1094
Posselt, G, Was Sprache als Waffe so gefährlich für uns alle macht, 2022, Web publication. <https://hateaid.org/sprache-als-waffe>
Posselt, G 2022, 'Die Sorge um sich und die anderen: Selbstsorge und Wahrsprechen als ethisch-politische Praxis', Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 116-138. https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2022-0006
Posselt, G 2022, Sprache und Gewalt. Die ethisch-politische Wende zur Sprache. Wien.
Posselt, G & Schwikowski, M 2021, 'Wie Hassrede den Tigray-Konflikt verschlimmert' Deutsche Welle. <https://p.dw.com/p/40oiO>
Posselt, G & Mader, B 2021, 'Die neue Schrankenlosigkeit: Was Sprache mit Gewalt zu tun hat und warum das Gendern so empört' Kurier, pp. 11-11. <https://kurier.at/politik/inland/die-neue-schrankenlosigkeit/401209951>
Posselt, G 2021, 'Self-Care and Truth-Telling: Rethinking Care with Foucault', Le foucaldien: open access journal for research along Foucauldian lines , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.107
Posselt, G, Flatscher, M & Weiberg, A 2021, Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Philosophiestudium. UTB, vol. 3536, 3., aktual. u. überarb. edn, Facultas, Wien. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838556406
Posselt, G & Seitz, S (eds) 2020, Politics of Truth. Le foucaldien: open access journal for research along Foucauldian lines , no. 1, vol. 6. <https://foucaldien.net/collections/special/politics-of-truth>
Posselt, G & Seitz, S 2020, Relativism and Poststructuralism. in M Kusch (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 133-143. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351052306, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351052306-15
Posselt, G & Malle, T, Ö1 Radiokolleg. Die Macht der Worte. Wie Sprache unser Denken und Handeln bestimmt, 2019, Radio show, ORF.

Das Wahrsprechen der Parrhesia jenseits epistemischer Gefühle und politischer Emotionalisierung

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25 Sept 2025

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Jacques Derrida über Wahrheit und Lüge

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9 May 2025 → 10 May 2025

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Die Zukunft des Sozialismus: Prolegomena zu einer sozialistischen Gouvernementalität

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

25 Feb 2025 → 28 Feb 2025

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Marginalised Knowledge, Marginalised Politics

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

6 Aug 2024

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Freuds und Foucaults Ödipus: Von der Psychoanalyse zur Alethurgie

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

17 Jun 2024

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„Zeichensprache der Verletzungen“: Nahtstellen sprachlicher und körperlicher Gewalt

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11 Jan 2024

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Ästhetisches Argumentieren

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1 Dec 2023

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Politik der Rhetorik

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19 Oct 2023

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Politics of Truth

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4 Oct 2023 → 5 Oct 2023

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Wahrheitspolitik und politische Epistemologie

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2 Jun 2023

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Rhetorik und Aphasie: Zur Polarität von Metapher und Metonymie

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13 May 2023

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Political Conflicts as Conflicts of Truth

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3 May 2023

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Truth and Its Political Forms

Posselt, G. (Speaker) & Sergej, S. (Speaker)

8 Jul 2022 → 9 Aug 2022

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Sprache und Gewalt. Die ethisch-politische Wende zur Sprache

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

17 Dec 2021

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Speech, Discrimination and Neoliberal Rationality

Posselt, G. (Keynote speaker)

29 Sept 2021

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Post-Truth und Postfaktizität: Anmerkungen zu einer politischen Theorie der Wahrheit

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker) & Seitz, S. (Invited speaker)

16 Jun 2021

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Response zu Martin Oppelt: "Verrat als demokratische Praxis des Widerstands?"

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

22 Nov 2019

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Die Zerbrechlichkeit der Welt : Arendt zu Wahrheit und Politik

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

18 Sept 2019 → 21 Sept 2019

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Gewalt der Sprache – Sprache der Gewalt. Plädoyer für eine ethisch-politische Wende zur Sprache

Posselt, G. (Keynote speaker)

29 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Relativism in Poststructuralism

Posselt, G. (Speaker) & Seitz, S. (Speaker)

19 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Rhetoric as Critique: Foucault and Derrida

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

10 May 2018 → 12 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Task of Becoming-Minor. On the Politics of Representation

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12 Mar 2018

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Die Sorge um sich und die anderen. Ethik und Politik in Foucaults Spätwerk

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

20 Apr 2017

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Sprache und Gewalt

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7 Dec 2016

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Einführung: Sprache Ethik Politik. Normative Dimensionen der Rede

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

1 Dec 2016

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Verdinglichung in der Diskussion zwischen Honneth und Butler

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

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Flucht und Asyl. Sozial- und sprachphilosophische Perspektiven

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

10 Nov 2016

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Sprachen des Widerstands. Zur Normativität politischer Artikulation bei Foucault und Rancière

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

5 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Die Textualisierung diskursiver Praktiken. Zur Rhetorizität und Medialität der Sprache bei Foucault und Derrida

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

3 Nov 2016 → …

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Languages of Resistance: Foucault and Rancière

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

28 Jun 2016

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Sprache, Gender, Gewalt: Sprachphilosophische Annäherungen

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

7 Jun 2016

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Einführung: Flucht und Asyl. Sozialphilosophische Perspektiven

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

22 Apr 2016

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Hate Crime and Hate Speech as Forms of Dehumanization

Posselt, G. (Selected presenter)

7 Apr 2016

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Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit? Honneth, Habermas und die "postmoderne Ethik"

Seitz, S. (Speaker) & Posselt, G. (Speaker)

27 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Kann Hass sprechen? Zur sprachlichen Dimension von hate crime

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

30 Oct 2015

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The Paradoxes of Linguistic Violence: On the ethical and political turn to language

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2015

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Gewalt beginnt, wo das Sprechen verstummt“. Sprachliche Gewalt und Handlungsmacht bei Hannah Arendt

Posselt, G. (Selected presenter)

5 Jun 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Revisiting Consensus Building and Representational Politics from the Perspective of the Occupy Movement

Posselt, G. (Selected presenter)

16 Apr 2015

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Was hat Sprache mit Gewalt zu tun? Sprach- und sozialphilosophische Perspektiven zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

13 Apr 2015

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Verbale Aggression, sprachliche Gewalt und Handlungsmacht. Zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt im Spannungsfeld von Sprachphilosophie und Sprachwissenschaft

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

7 Dec 2014

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Reden von und über Gewalt: Zur Ent- und Begrenzung des Gewaltbegriffs

Posselt, G. (Speaker)

31 Oct 2014

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Zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt im Kontext von Hate speech und Hate crime

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

11 Sept 2014

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Lebbares, erzählbares, betrauerbares Leben. Sprachliche und körperliche Gewalt bei Nietzsche, Foucault und Butler

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 2014 → 28 Jun 2014

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Krise und Kritik der Repräsentation

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5 Jun 2014 → 7 Jun 2014

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Whistleblowing als Widerstand und Subjektivierungspraxis

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

2 May 2014 → 4 May 2014

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Workshop: Körper und Politik

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

1 Apr 2014 → 2 Apr 2014

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Zur Politik performativer Widersprüche

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

27 Mar 2014 → 29 Mar 2014

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Formen des Wahrsprechens: Von Habermas' Diskurspragmatik zu Foucaults Dramatik des Diskurses

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27 Sept 2013

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Paradoxien sprachlicher Gewalt und Verletzbarkeit

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27 Feb 2013

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Aporien sprachlicher Gewalt und Verletzbarkeit

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4 May 2012

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Die Gewalt der Tropen. Repräsentatin und Wortergreifung in Kafkas 'In der Strafkolonie'

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

12 Nov 2011

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Die Gewalt der Tropen: Sprache, Schrift, Verkörperung bei Kafka und Nietzsche

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2011

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Impossible Substitutions. Representation and Agency in Kafkas 'In the Penal Colony'

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 2011

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Die Gewalt der Repräsentation. Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Gewalt

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

3 Jun 2011

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Nietzsche und rhetorische Gewalt

Posselt, G. (Invited speaker)

23 Oct 2009

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Sprache und Bild

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25 Sept 2007

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gerald.posselt@univie.ac.at