Juliane Rebentisch (b. 1970, Bonn) is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Offenbach University of Art and Design where she was vice president from 2014 until 2020. She is a member of the Research Council at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main, a Regular Visiting Professor in the German Department of Princeton University and was president of the German Society of Aesthetics between 2015 and 2018. Her main areas of research are aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy. Her recent publications include Der Streit um Pluralität. Auseinandersetzungen mit Hannah Arendt (Suhrkamp, forthcoming); Negativität. Kunst, Recht, Politik (co-ed., Suhrkamp 2019); The Art of Freedom. On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence (Polity 2016); Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einführung (Junius 2013); Aesthetics of Installation Art (Sternberg 2012); Kreation und Depression. Freiheit im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus (co-ed., Kadmos 2010). In 2017 Rebentisch was the first woman to be awarded the city of Hamburg’s Lessing Prize since it was given to Hannah Arendt in 1959.

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