Cluster Themes

The activities of the Social and Political Research Cluster centre around the following themes:

  1. Power and Dissent

Key research areas: authority; democracy; digital subjectification; ideas in emancipatory practice; toleration; politics of critique and criticality; politics of historiography and commemoration.

  1. Freedom, Equality and Human Flourishing

Key research areas: akrasia (weakness of will); Aristotelian ethics; care; human rights; intersectional perspectives on equality; rationality and moral responsibility.

  1. Epistemology and Methods

Key research areas: creative methods; methods for the history of political and social thought; moral dilemmas; onto-epistemology; post-structuralist discourse theory; praxeology.