CURRICULUM VITAE: JOHAN HENRIK TRALAU

Department of Government, Uppsala University, Box 514, SE-75120, Uppsala, Sweden

Phone: +46-(0)18-4713757 Fax: +46-(0)18-4713409 Mobile phone: +46-(0)73-6224402 Johan.Tralau@statsvet.uu.se

Current Position

Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University. Since 2008.

Education

2002: Ph.D., Department of Government, Uppsala University. Doctoral thesis: Människoskymning. Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger (Twilight of Man: Alienation, Liberty, and Hegel’s Problem in Karl Marx and Ernst Jünger). A German translation appeared in 2005.

1995-1996: Stockholms universitet: Economics and International Relations; Uppsala universitet: Political Science.

1994-1995: Freie Universität Berlin: Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Literature.

1993-1994: Uppsala universitet: Political Science.

1992-1993: Stockholms universitet: Comparative Literature.

Distinctions

2007: Swedish Research Council. Four year junior research fellowship. 2007: Johan Skytte Essay Contest in the History of Political Thought. Winner.

2005-2008: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Research funding (3 years, approximately 200.000 Euro).

2003: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Postdoctoral grant.

2003: Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education: postdoctoral grant.

1997: Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Essay prize for younger scholars.

International Experience

2009-: Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi Scienze della cultura, Fondazione San Carlo, Modena, Italy: Socio corrispondente.

2008-2009: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2 months)

2005: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (1 term)

2003-2004: New School of Social Research, New York City, USA (1 year)

2001: Swedish Institute, Alexandria, Egypt (1 month).

1999: Swedish Institute, Paris, France (1 month).

1999: Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome, Italy (2 months).

1997-1998: Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany (1 semester).

Publications

Books

• Inbjudan till politisk teori (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012).

• Järtecken. Upptäcktsfärder bland monster i myt, politik, poesi och filosofi,(Stockholm: Atlantis, forthcoming 2013).

• ed., Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt: The Politics of Order and Myth (London: Routledge, 2011).

• Draksådd. Den grekiska tragedin som politiskt tänkande (Stockholm: Atlantis, 2010).

• Människoskymning. Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger (Stockholm & Stehag: Symposion, 2002). Translated into German under the title Menschendämmerung. Karl Marx, Ernst Jünger und der Untergang des Selbst, transl. Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke (Freiburg & Munich: Alber, 2005).

Scholarly Articles

Deception, Politics and Aesthetics: The Importance of Hobbes's Concept of Metaphor, in Contemporary Political Theory, forthcoming 2013. Peer review.

• “Incest and Liberal Neutrality”, in Journal of Political Philosophy, forthcoming 2013. Peer review.

• “Hobbes Contra Liberty of Conscience”, in Political Theory, XXXIX, 1, 2011, pp. 58-84. Peer review.

• “Unabhängigkeit als ’Furie des Zerstörens’. Die Dialektik der Selbstbestimmung bei Hegel, Stirner und Marx“, in Philosophisches Jahrbuch, CXVII, 2, 2010, pp. 251-261. Peer review.

• “Introduction. Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of Politics”, in Johan Tralau (ed.): Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. The Politics of Order and Myth, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 3-16; also in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, XIII, 2-3, 2010, pp. 261-273. Peer review.

• “Order, the Ocean, and Satan. Schmitt’s Hobbes and the Enigmatic Ambiguity of Friend and Foe”, in Johan Tralau (ed.): Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. The Politics of Order and Myth, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 177-194; also in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, XIII, 2-3, 2010, pp. 435-452. Peer review.

• “Om statens undergång, Kristus och krokodilens mage. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan i ljuset av en reptilallegori”, in Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, LXXXVI, 1, 2010, pp. 26-37.

• “The Revolt of Images: Mutual Guilt in the Parodos of Sophokles’ Antigone”, in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, XLVIII, 2008, pp. 237-257. Peer review.

• ”Familjehemligheter i den liberala staten”, in Marie Cronqvist (ed.): Hållbara värden? Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds årsbok 2008, Stockholm: Makadam, 2008, pp. 81-98.

• ”Den autonoma individen i Hegels rättsfilosofi”, in Sverker Gustavsson, Jörgen Hermansson & Barry Holmström (eds.): Statsvetare ifrågasätter. Uppsalamiljön vid tiden för professorsskiftet den 31 mars 2008, Uppsala: Acta universitatis upsaliensis, 2008, pp. 59-68.

• “Leviathan, the Beast of Myth. Medusa, Dionysos, and the Riddle of Hobbes’s Sovereign Monster”, in Patricia Springborg (ed.): Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 61-81.

• ”Nihilismus als Geheimlehre: Ernst Jünger, Nietzsche und die ästhetische Flucht nach vorn im Arbeiter”, in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, LIII, 2, 2007, pp. 277-294.

• “Tragedy as Political Theory: The Self-Destruction of Antigone’s Laws”, in History of Political Thought, XXVI, 3, 2005, pp. 377-396. Peer review.

• “The Effaced Self in the Utopia of the Young Karl Marx”, in European Journal of Political Theory, IV, 4, 2005, pp. 393-412. Peer review.

• “Unterirdische Territorien der Moderne. Die Auflösung des Subjekts in Ernst Jüngers Der Arbeiter“, in Peter Koslowski & Richard Schenk (eds.): Jahrbuch für Philosophie des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover, IX, 1998, Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1997, pp. 163-190.

Selected Essays and Reviews

Numerous essays and reviews in Swedish and German journals, literary reviews, and newspapers, such as the Swedish morning papers Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish journal Axess, and the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau.

• ”Den puritanska dygdens dialektik”, in Sparsamhet, flit och hederlighet: dygder som duger? Nio unga forskares reflektioner, Stockholm: HSFR, 1998, pp. 46-51. Also in Tvärsnitt, no. 1, 1998, pp. 12-19. German translation ”Dialektik der puritanischen Tugend”, in Scheidewege. Jahresschrift für skeptisches Denken, pp. 88-96, XXVIII, 1998.

• ”Det gröna fältets krigiska schack”, Svenska Dagbladet, 30 January 2000. German translation: ”Schach des grünen Feldes”, Frankfurter Rundschau, 23 January 2003. Slovak transl.: ”Šach na zelenom poli”, in the newspaper SME, www.sme.sk/clanok.asp?rub=pr_forum&cl=796846.)

• ”En människa utan kön och samhälle”, review of Age of Empires, Svenska Dagbladet, 8 February 2001.

• ”Gnostisk dröm bakom ateistiska ideologier”, Svenska Dagbladet, 12 November 2001.

• ”Gåtans lösning. Homeros, heisan och de hemliga sällskapen”, Res Publica, No. 53, 2001, pp. 115-121.

• ”Nietzsche bevarade sin hemlighet”, Svenska Dagbladet, 8 June 2003.

• ”Politik är att peka ut statens dödsfiender”, Axess, October 2003.

• ”Den objektiva moralen är förnuftig” (interview with Vittorio Hösle), Axess, April 2004.

• ”Självmordsbomb spränger idén om laglydnad”, Svenska Dagbladet, 9 May 2004.

• ”En skenbart motsägelsefull Leviathan”, Svenska Dagbladet, 10 May 2004.

• ”Segraren skriver lagen”, review of Collins, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, Dagens Nyheter, 13 December 2006.

• ”Metaforer – farliga och nödvändiga”, Axess, 4, 2008.

• ”Märkligast är människan”, Dagens Nyheter, 20 January 2010.

• ”Drama om hur hämnd blev lag och rätt”, Dagens Nyheter, 7 March 2010.

Ph.D. Supervision

Gina Gustavsson, Department of Government, Uppsala, 2007-2011 (thesis defended in November 2011).

Christian Turesson, Department of Government, Uppsala, 2010-.

Jaakko Turunen, Department of Government, Uppsala, 2010-.

Media Experience In 2007 and 2008, I hosted my own TV show, the much-acclaimed Kanon-TV, on the Swedish channel Axess TV.

Languages

Fluent in Swedish, German, English, French, Italian. Reading knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin. Rudimentary knowledge of a few other languages. References

• Professor Patricia Springborg, Libera università di Bolzano/Freie Universität Bozen, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften/Facoltà di economia Sernesistraße 1 – Via Sernesi 1, IT – 39100 Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. Tel: +39 0471 013000. Fax: +39 0471 013009. Patricia.Springborg@unibz.it

• Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Unter den Linden 6, D – 10099 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 20931424. Fax: +49 30 20931324. Herfried.Muenkler@rz.hu-berlin.de

• Professor Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala universitet, Götavägen 4, SE – 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. Tel: +46 18 557085. Fax: +46 18 521109. Bjorn.Wittrock@scasss.uu.se

• Prof. Dr. Karsten Fischer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie, Oettingenstr. 67, D-80538 München, Germany. Tel: +49 89 2180-9020. Fax: +49 89 2180-9022. karsten.fischer@gsi.uni-muenchen.de