Thomas Biebricher
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Freiburg, 2003
Email:biebrich@polisci.ufl.edu
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Thomas Biebricher has been at the department since Fall 2003. He got his PhD in Freiburg, Germany in the Spring of the same year. He has been teaching classes in Political Theory (undergraduate and graduate) as well as Comparative Politics (undergraduate). Among others he has taught Introduction to Political Theory, German Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics of the Welfare State and Post-Industrial Societies. His main research interests are 19th and 20th Century Political Theory and Philosophy, particularly Critical Theory, Feminism and Marxism, as well as the transformation of the Welfare State in advanced industrial societies. His dissertation was published under the title Selbstkritik der Moderne (Self-Critique of Modernity) in the series Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology and Social Philosophy edited by the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. It provides a comparison of the works of Foucault and Habermas with regard to their respective notions of critique and explores possibilities of mediating between the approaches. Currently, he works at an outline for a new book project, the topic of which will be a reassessment of Foucault's thought based on an analysis of his recently published lectures.
