Eckardt Lindner is a philosopher based in Berlin. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna for which he was awarded the “Award of Excellence”. He is currently a lecturer in philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna and at Webster Vienna Private University.
His work is situated between post-structuralism and critical theory, centering around contemporary forms of vitalism and anti-vitalism, materialist thought, corporeal passivity as well as the ethics and politics of aberrant expressions of life such as exhaustion, insomnia and apathy.
Research Areas
Systematic
Political Philosophy and Aesthetics
Philosophies and Politics of Exhaustion
Libidinal Economies and Affect Theory
Theories of alienation and class
Philosophical Methodologies
Historical
Poststructuralism
Frankfurt School / Critical Theory
Non-Philosophy
Transcendental Philosophy / Phenomenology
Deleuze, Marcuse, Adorno, Cioran, Kant