Gerhard Thonhauser is research associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the chair of practical philosophy at TU Darmstadt. From 2004-2010 he studied philosophy and political science at the University of Vienna. Graduation in philosophy with a thesis on the concept of temporality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger. Graduation in political science with a thesis on Judith Butler’s political theory. Several study and research stays at the University of Copenhagen. 2011-2012 DOC-scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 2012-2016 research associate at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (chair for social and political philosophy). 2016 PhD in philosophy. 2017-2018 Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) at Free University of Berlin and associated with the Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies.

Research Interests

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Emotions
• Political Theory
• 19th and 20th century philosophy
• Social Ontology
• Ethics

Recent Publications

• Gerhard Thonhauser: Heideggers “Sein und Zeit”. Einführung und Kommentar, Heidelberg: Metzler, 2022.
• together with Martin Weichold, “Approaching Collectivity Collectively: A Multi-Disciplinary Account of Collective Action”, Frontiers in Psychology, 12 (740664), 2021.
• “Shared emotions and the body”, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 54, 2021.
• „Ist eine existenzphilosophische Sozialtheorie möglich? Antwortversuche mit Sartre und Merleau-Ponty“ in: Dennis Sölch and Oliver Victor (eds.): Geschichte und Gegenwart der Existenzphilosophie, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021, 201-226.
• “Tuning the World: A Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung Part Two”, in: Dylan Trigg (ed.): Atmospheres and Shared Emotions, New York: Routledge, 2021, 40-56.
• “Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: A Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung”, Philosophia, 49 (3), 2021, 1247-1265.
• “A Multifaceted Approach to Emotional Sharing”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27 (9-10), 2020, 202-227.
• “Martin Heidegger and Otto Friedrich Bollnow”, in: Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotions, London/New York: Routledge, 2020, 104-113.
• „Zum Verhältnis von Phänomenologie und Massenpsychologie anhand von Max Schelers Unterscheidung von Gefühlsansteckung und Miteinanderfühlen“, Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2020 (2), 195-216.
• „Von der Unmöglichkeit der Institutionalisierung des Politischen zur ambivalenten Kraft politischer Imagination: Ein Streifzug mit Marchart, Hochschild und Castoriadis“, in: Mattias Flatscher and Steffen Herrmann: Institutionen des Politischen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020, 379-402.
• together with Michael Wetzels,“Emotional Sharing in Football Audiences”, The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 46 (2), 2019, 224-243.
• “Feeling”, in: Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve (eds.): Affective Societies – Key Concepts, London/New York: Routledge, 2019, 52-60.
• “The Power of Public Assemblies: Democratic Politics following Butler and Arendt”, in: Thomas Bedorf and Steffen Herrmann (eds.): Political Phenomenology: Experience, Ontology, Episteme, New York: Routledge, 2019, 202-219.
• “Shared Emotions: A Steinian Proposal”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 17 (5), 2018, 997-1015.
• together with Jan Slaby, „Heidegger and the affective (ungrounding) of politics“, in: Christos Hadjioannou (ed.): Philosophers in Depth: Heidegger on Affect, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019, 265-289.