How can philosophy contribute to the analysis and critique of racism? How can we rethink philosophy based on anti-racist approaches and struggles, and what institutional frameworks would be necessary for this? What are the unresolved questions and blind spots in (philosophical) critiques of racism, and in what directions can these be further explored? The volume Philosophie und Rassismus. Debatten und Kontroversen (2025, Velbrück), edited by Franziska Dübgen, Marina Martinez Mateo, and Ruth Sonderegger, offers an overview of these discussions and brings a variety of methods, approaches, and philosophical traditions into dialogue.
During the event, the editors, Marina Martinez Mateo and Ruth Sonderegger, will present the book’s central ideas and key themes and raise further questions for discussion. The focus will be on questions such as the significance of philosophical research on racism and its relationship to other disciplines; the relationship between racism (and its critique) and antisemitism (and its critique); and the institutional and practical dimensions of a racism-critical redefinition of philosophy.
© eSeL - Joanna Pianka 2022
Ruth Sonderegger has been a professor of philosophy and aesthetic theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2009. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the Free University of Berlin and subsequently taught for several years at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Her current research interests include: the origins and history of Western philosophical aesthetics (in the context of racial capitalism), theories of practice, cultural studies, critical theories, and resistance studies.
Together with Katja Diefenbach and Pablo Valdivia, she is currently working on a research project on the topic of Wahrnehmen, Rechtsprechen und Verwerten in der kolonialen Moderne. Zum Nexus von ursprünglicher Akkumulation, race und westlicher Ästhetik (Perception, Jurisdiction, and Valorization in Colonial Modernity. On the Nexus of Accumulation, Race, and Aesthetics).
Marina Martinez Mateo is a professor of contemporary philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She earned her Ph.D. in 2016 from the Institute of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt with a dissertation on Politik der Repräsentation (published in 2018 by Springer). She subsequently served as a research assistant in the Department of Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. From 2021 to 2026, she held a junior professorship in the philosophy of media and technology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her research focuses on racism and memory, the ambivalences of care, and the relationship between identity and universalism. Together with Kristina Lepold, she edited the reader Critical Philosophy of Race (2021, Suhrkamp).
The space is accessible by elevator. There are two accessible restrooms on the first floor (1.G40s and 1.G40h).
There is an all-gender restroom (1.G40n) on this floor with standing and seated toilets. There is also a FLINTA* restroom (2.G40q) on the 2nd floor of the CGC.
The CGC strives to ensure the best possible accessibility for its events. If you require assistance to participate in our event, please let us know your support needs by May 13, 2026, via email to cgcentrum@soz.uni-frankfurt.de. We will then do our best to mitigate any barriers within our capabilities.
You are welcome to attend this event with your children. Please contact us at the email address above by May 13, 2026, if you would like us to arrange childcare as well. We look forward to your participation.
