Professor Dr. Tracie Matysik

Biography

Tracie Matysik works in the field of modern European intellectual history. She is the author of 'Spinoza Met Marx: Experiments in Non-Humanist Activity' (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of 'Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930' (Cornell University Press) as well as 'German Modernities: Wilhelm Weimar - Contesting Futures' (Bloomsbury Press). In addition to her books, she has written articles on topics including Spinozism, psychoanalysis, secularism, subjectivity, international activism, and sexuality. She is currently working on a book project titled 'Bear Life,' which studies the role of nonhuman animals in the formations of law, sovereignty, and biopolitics. Since 2016, she has served as co-editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History and is a fellow of the Brian F. Bolton Professorship in Secular Studies.

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