Katrin Flikschuh

Katrin A. Flikschuh FBA is professor of political theory at the London School of Economics (LSE). Flikschuh's research interests relate to the political philosophy of Immanuel Kant, metaphysics and meta-level justification in contemporary political philosophy, global justice and cosmopolitanism, and the history of modern political thought.[1]

Education

Flikschuh earned her BA at the University of Essex and her MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Essex.

Professional career

Flikschuh was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Essex and has held lectureships in philosophy at the University of Bristol and in politics at the University of Manchester. She joined the LSE Government Department in 2003.[1]

In 2014, Flikschuh was elected a fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[2]

She has travelled a lot in West Africa and was appointed Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme Trust International Networks Project that explores connections between African and Western social and political thought.[3]

She fluently speaks French and German languages.[4]

Books

She published her book "Kant and Modern Political Philosophy" in 2000 (paperback edition was published in 2008). In this book she speaks about the relevance of Kant's political thought to major issues and problems in contemporary political philosophy.[3]

Selected publications
  • Kant and Modern Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 9780521662376
  • Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives. Key Concepts. Polity, Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 9780745624372[5]
  • What is Orientation in Global Thinking? A Kantian Inquiry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017. ISBN 9780511777264
  • "Reason, right, and revolution: Kant and Locke." Philosophy and Public Affairs, 36 (4), 2008, pp. 375–404.
  • "On the cogency of human rights", Jurisprudence, 2 (1), 2011. pp. 17–36.

References
  1. Professor Katrin Flikschuh. London School of Economics. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. British Academy Fellows. Archived 2015-09-27 at the Wayback Machine British Academy. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/people/academic-staff/katrin-flikschuh
  4. http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=k.a.flikschuh%40lse.ac.uk
  5. Freedom: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives. Polity. Retrieved 22 June 2015.


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