Studies in Philosophy, German Language and Literature, Musicology and Literary Criticism in Zurich. 1994 Doctorate in Philosophy. 1989 to 1995 Assistant for Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Zurich. 1995 to 1996 research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the TU Darmstadt. 1997 to 2003 research assistant for Practical Philosophy and Feminist Theory at the Department of Philosophy of Freie Universitär Berlin. 2004 to 2006 assistant and lecturer in the working area »Theorie der Politik« at Humboldt University of Berlin. 2006 to 2022 scientific director at the Institute for Social Research. Co-editor of WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and coordinator of Der Utopische Raum, a co-operation between stiftung medico international, Frankfurter Rundschau and the Institute for Social Research.
