Dr. Gerald Posselt, Privatdoz. M.A.
Gerald Posselt





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, 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 & Seitz, S (eds) 2019, Einleitung: Sprache - Ethik - Politik Normative Dimensionen der Rede. Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie, no. 1, vol. 6, vol. 6, 1 edn. https://doi.org/10.22613/zfpp/6.1.6


Freuds und Foucaults Ödipus: Von der Psychoanalyse zur Alethurgie

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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 20235 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

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8 Jul 20229 Aug 2022

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Sprache und Gewalt. Die ethisch-politische Wende zur Sprache

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17 Dec 2021

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Speech, Discrimination and Neoliberal Rationality

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29 Sep 2021

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker) & Sergej Seitz (Invited speaker)

16 Jun 2021

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

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22 Nov 2019

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Die Zerbrechlichkeit der Welt : Arendt zu Wahrheit und Politik

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18 Sep 201921 Sep 2019

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

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29 May 2019

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Relativism in Poststructuralism

Gerald Posselt (Speaker) & Sergej Seitz (Speaker)

19 Nov 2018

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Rhetoric as Critique: Foucault and Derrida

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10 May 201812 May 2018

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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

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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

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

1 Dec 2016

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Verdinglichung in der Diskussion zwischen Honneth und Butler

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

18 Nov 2016

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Flucht und Asyl. Sozial- und sprachphilosophische Perspektiven

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

10 Nov 2016

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

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

5 Nov 2016

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

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3 Nov 2016 → …

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Languages of Resistance: Foucault and Rancière

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

28 Jun 2016

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Sprache, Gender, Gewalt: Sprachphilosophische Annäherungen

Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

7 Jun 2016

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Einführung: Flucht und Asyl. Sozialphilosophische Perspektiven

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

22 Apr 2016

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Hate Crime and Hate Speech as Forms of Dehumanization

Gerald Posselt (Selected presenter)

7 Apr 2016

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

Sergej Seitz (Speaker) & Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

27 Nov 2015

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Kann Hass sprechen? Zur sprachlichen Dimension von hate crime

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

30 Oct 2015

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

1 Oct 2015

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

Gerald Posselt (Selected presenter)

5 Jun 2015

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

Gerald Posselt (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

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13 Apr 2015

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

Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

31 Oct 2014

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

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11 Sep 2014

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

27 Jun 201428 Jun 2014

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Krise und Kritik der Repräsentation

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5 Jun 20147 Jun 2014

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Whistleblowing als Widerstand und Subjektivierungspraxis

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2 May 20144 May 2014

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Workshop: Körper und Politik

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1 Apr 20142 Apr 2014

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Zur Politik performativer Widersprüche

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27 Mar 201429 Mar 2014

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

Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

27 Sep 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

Gerald Posselt (Speaker)

4 May 2012

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

12 Nov 2011

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

11 Nov 2011

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

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 2011

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Die Gewalt der Repräsentation. Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Gewalt

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

3 Jun 2011

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Nietzsche und rhetorische Gewalt

Gerald Posselt (Invited speaker)

23 Oct 2009

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Sprache und Bild

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25 Sep 2007

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