Political Science Faculty

Hannes Kerber

Assistant Professor

Biography

Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Ϲ College, where he studies and teaches primarily 18th century political thought. Prior to joining BC, he was the academic program director at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung and a lecturer in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Munich, Germany. In 2022/2023 he held a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and in 2024 as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.

His first book, Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Christentums, was published in 2021 by Wallstein Verlag and was awarded the first Chodowiecki Prize by Interdisziplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has co-edited Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Euthyphro”: The 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings (2023) and Die Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (2024).