Dr. Anton Jäger

Biography

I am a historian of political thought, with a range of interests stretching from the long nineteenth century to the present. My main area of study is the interrelation between capitalism and democracy, particularly the question of how capitalism—understood as a system of generalized market dependence—enables and constrains political thinking and action. I completed a BA in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Essex in 2012, followed by an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge in 2015. My doctoral dissertation at Cambridge, titled 'Populism, Democracy, and Producers in the United States, 1877-1925', focused on the political philosophy of the late nineteenth-century American Populist movement. I currently hold a lectureship at University College, and have also been a Wiener-Anspach Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven and Cornell University.

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