Senior Scientist Dr. Zanan Akin

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Dr. Zanan Akin
Senior Scientist
Faculty of Law, Business and Economics
Department of Legal Theory, International and European Law
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Churfürststr. 1, A-5020 Salzburg
Tel: +43 662/8044-3556
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Room: 120

Consulting Hours
Wednesdays, 3–4 pm

About Zanan Akin

Zanan Akin is a Senior Scientist in the fields of legal philosophy and social philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He previously taught at the University of Hamburg, the FernUniversität in Hagen and Masaryk University in Brno. Working at the intersection of contemporary French philosophy, German Idealism and phenomenology, his research focuses on current issues in political philosophy, ethics and metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of technology and media.

Curriculum Vitae Zanan AKIN

Current Research Interests
Modern European philosophy, philosophy of law and modern equality, metaphysics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of technology and digital media.

PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND APPEARANCES

Monographs

  • Gleich-Gültigkeit: Metaphysics of Modern Equality with Hegel, Marx, Heidegger and Badiou, Leiden/ Boston: Brill–Fink. [Forthcoming in Nov 2026]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Selection):

  • “The World is (Ge-)Mine: The Speculative Life of the sensus communis with Arendt and Hegel”. HannahArendt.net. Journal for political thought, Vol 14 (2) 2025, pp. 94-116.
  • “The Question of Plurality and Universal Affirmation: A Dialogue of Thought between Arendt and Badiou.” HannahArendt.net. Journal for political thought, Vol 13(1) 2024, pp. 97-115.
  • No One, Someone, The One: Am I always the same ‘one’, when I am alone, or in the companionship of a friend, or in the presence of my lover?” In: Revue PSN. Psychiatrie, Sciences Humaines, Neurosciences, Vol. 22, N° 2. 2024, pp. 127-147.
  • “Capital Matters: The Middle-Class between Welcome Culture and Ukrainian Refugee Crisis.” International Studies– Journal for International Relations and Humanities, Vol. XXIII 2023, No 1, pp. 109-130
  • “#MakeAnImpact! The Actuality of the World between online presence and the search for impact of the Self.” Journal of PSN. Psychiatry, Humanities, Neurosciences, Vol. 21, N° 3. 2023, pp. 47-63. [In French]
  • “#MeOnlyForMyself: The paradox of Solitude in the Age of Social Media.”  Journal of PSN. Psychiatry, Humanities, Neurosciences, Vol. 20, N° 3 2022, pp. 55-67. [In French]
  • “Reaction, Progression and Vaccination, or: What can Squid Game tell us about pandemics?”  International Studies – Journal for International Relations and Humanities, Vol. XXII 2022, No. 1, pp. 61-80.
  • “Two World Pictures in Lived Experience: City and Countryside in Late Modernity.“ Berliner Debatte Initial: Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 (3), pp. 16-27. [In German]
  • “Thus posted Zarathustra. Übermensch and the Herd of the ‘Rare’.” Logoi.ph – Journal of Philosophy, N. IX, 22, 2023 (Special Issue), pp. 152-159.

Book chapters:

  • “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: A Lesson on the Gigantic and Capital” In: Douglas F. Peduti (ed): Heidegger Circle Proceedings. Volume 59, pp. 164-176. Pittsburgh. 2025.
  • “The Ukulele-Effect: A Critique of the ideology of ‚Creativity’ in Form of Andreas Reckwitz’ Concept of Creative Labor.” Yearbook of Marxist Social Theory #2: Labor und Technocracy. Vienna: Mandelbaum, pp. 67-87. 2023. [In German].
  • “Can there be a Digital ‘In-between’? A reflection on the ‘thing’ and world as a political space.” In: Constantino Pereira Martins (ed): Technopolitics: Charting the Unknown, pp. 329-343. São Paolo: Dialética. 2024. 
  • “What can Heidegger tell us about Elon Musk? Unfolding the diagnosis of Indifference in Heidegger’s Beiträge: The Gigantic and Lived Experience Today.” In: Daniel Dahlstrom (ed) Heidegger Circle Proceedings. Volume 57, pp. 3-11. Boston. 2023.
  • „Eine kommunaristokratische Antwort auf den Ruf der Gaia: Die Herausbildung einer vornehmen Indifferenz gegen religiöse Ohnmachtsnarrative der Natur.“ In: Vanessa Lemm & Antonia Ulrich (Hrsg.): Nietzsches Naturen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, S. 69–99.

(Selected) Forthcomings:

  • “Gültigkeit and Geltung: The Ethical Difference in the Legal Principle of Modern Equality.” In: Brady Bowman, Myriam Gerhard and Jure Zovko (eds.): Hegel Yearbook 2024, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. Accepted / Forthcoming in 2027. [In German.
  • “Kant’s Wigmaker and Barber and Modern Equality.” In: Christoph Horn, Margit Ruffing, Rainer Schäfer (eds): Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress ‘Kant’s Project of Enlightenment’ (Bonn, 8-13 September 2024). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. [Accepted / Forthcoming in 2026; In German]
  • “Dialectics of (In)Difference: What can Hegel’s Concrete Universality tell us about Identitarianism?” In: Zdravko Kobe & Luca Illeterati (eds): Between Substance and Subject: The presence of Spinoza in Hegel, Leiden/ Boston: Brill. [Accepted / Forthcoming in 2026.]
  • “Indifference and Event. Heidegger, Badiou and the Crisis of Historical Time”. In Miklós Nyírő (ed.): Event and its Mediations. [In Press].
  • “(Un)Faith and (Non)Knowledge: Essay on Trust in the Age of General Distrust, with Arendt, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, and Hegel.” In: Andreas Kalina & Kinza Khan (eds.): Know-it-all Society. On the Credibility Crisis of Experts in Times of Transformations and Crises, Baden-Baden: Nomos. [In Press; In German]

INVITED (UPCOMING AND PAST) TALKS:

  • “What is an egalitarian hubris? A dialogue between Badiou and Deleuze on Identity, Borders, Limits and Infinity.” Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, May 2026. [In German]
  • “The Link between Judgment, Opinion and Distrust in a Disoriented World“. Individual Universality? Sensus communis and reflecting Judgement in Kant and Arendt, University of Freiburg, December 2024. [In German]
  • „Dialektik von Individualität und Gleichheit: Zum aktuellen Aufstieg des Rechtspopulismus“. Gastvortrag im Kolloquium für Politische Theorie, Universität Kiel, Dezember 2023, December 2023.
  • “Is authoritarian Liberalism a Concept of weak negation? Colloquium of the working group Places of the Political, Philosophical Research Institute of Hannover, February 2023.
  • “Poetry Slam Personality and Big Picture Personality: Two online expressions of the same desire of making an impact on the world” Le Soi entre incarnation (embodiment) et présence offline, University of Paris I, May 2023. [In French]

OTHER UPCOMING AND PAST PRESENTATIONS (Selected):

  • “Content Production as a Work of Producing Contentment”, Critical Philosophies of Technology, Florence, October 2026.
  • “When the Common Turns (Ge-)Mine: The Nonplace of the Common World — and the Place of the Non-World”, Un/Common Places, Eichstätt, February 2027
  • Badiou with Deleuze on (In-)Difference and the Power of Equality”. Deleuze 100. A Deleuzean Century?, Vienna, November 2025. [In German]
  • “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: A Lesson on Capital and the Gigantic”. 59th Heidegger Circle Conference, Pittsburgh, May 2025.
  • “Content Creation and Commodification of Lived Experience: What if life becomes a work of its production as a ‘content’?” Working Democracy, Groningen, October 2025
  •  “The Ethical Difference: Gültigkeit [legal validity] und Geltung [social validity] and the Legal Principle of Modern Equality“. XXXV. Hegel Congress, Tbilisi (Georgia), October 2024. [In German]
  • “What can Kant’s Barber and Wigmaker teach us about the modern concept of equality?” 14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, September 2024. [In German].
  • Kant and Modern Equality: The shift of labor form from equal validity to indifference. Immanuel Kant, 300 Years from Now, Congress, Catania, October 2024.
  • “Can there be a digital in-between?  A reflection with Hannah Arendt on the relation between loss of worldly reality and fanatical searches for ‘alternative truths’ in our present times” 29. DVPW Congress, Göttingen, September 2024.
  • “Hegel, Jacobi’s Spinoza and Equality: Jacobi’s silent trace in Hegel’s conception of concrete universality and the modern equality ‘between equivalence and indifference’.” Between Substance and Subject. The presence of Spinoza in Hegel. Conference, Ljubljana, October 2023.
  • “Equal Validity [Ger. Gleich-Gültigkeit].” Political Concepts, Conference in New School for Social Research, New York, March 2023.
  • “Dialectic of Limitation and De-Limitation in Quentin Meillassoux’ thought of the Absolute.” Thinking at the Limit, Duquesne University, March 2023 (Online).
  • “The Disorientation of the World: Inequality and Alain Badiou on Limits and Ecopolitical Narratives.” Political Theory in Uncertain Times, International Political Theory Conference, Bremen, September 2023.
  • “Flat World, round World: Offers of Reality and the Question of worldliness with Arendt.” TINA, “alternative Facts” and Sciences, Conference in Academy of Political Education, Tutzing-Bavaria, February 2023. [In German].
  •  “Slave Morality or a new egalitarian Aristocracy? Two Ways of Humanizing the Nature in Nietzsche“, 32nd International Nietzsche Congress, Naumburg, October 2022. [In German]
  • “Übermensch today: What if Zarathustra had an Instagram account?” Nietzsche oggi / Nietzsche Today, Conference, Messina-Italy, October 2022.
  • “What does the human relation to nature have in common with the right to difference?” On the relationship between nature and spirit in Hegel: historical and current perspectives. Conference, Freiburg, December 2021. [In German.]
  • „“German Culture of ‘Erinnerung’: Repetition as a Way of Forgetting?” Memories for the Future? Narrating Horizons of Hope in Politics out of History, Conference, Gießen, December 2020 [In German]
  • “Two Offers for the ‘true’ European: Hospitality and Hostility.” Migration, Rights Democracy: Conceptual Reappraisals, Conference, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, June 2020.