Members
Achim Geisenhanslüke
Principal Investigator
Contact
Website
Geisenhanslueke@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

Achim Geisenhanslüke studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Berlin and Paris. He is Professor for Comparative Literature at the Goethe University since 2014 with a focus on Literary Theory, especially French Theory, including Foucault, Derrida and Psychoanalysis. Beside others, he has been working on ignorance, infamy and literality. He is actually working on a poetics of rhythm.

Publications

Geisenhanslüke, Achim. Das Angenehme: Für eine neue Ästhetik des Sinnlichen. Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2019, edited by Annette Simonis, Martin Sexl, and Alexandra Müller, 2021, pp. 121–31.
Geisenhanslüke, Achim. Der Geschmack der Freiheit: Kant und das politisch Unbewusste der Ästhetik. Rombach, 2024.
Geisenhanslüke, Achim. Die Sprache der Infamie III: Literatur und Scham. Fink, 2019.
Geisenhanslüke, Achim. Foucault und die Literatur: Eine diskurskritische Untersuchung. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997.
Geisenhanslüke, Achim. Narben des Geistes: Zur Kritik der Erfahrung nach Hegel. Fink, 2020.
First Supervisor for
Pauline Scholz
PhD Candidate
Working Groups

Voice

This working group’s point of departure is the proposition that democracy can be understood not primarily as a space of visibility, discursivity, or deliberation, but as an acoustic field structured by reverberation, resonance, and the distribution of what can be heard. Its ethos lies not in a self-centered, intentional gaze that administers a visible order of representation, but in a tentative, exposed voice that reconfigures what it means to appear and expose oneself in public. Following Blanchot’s claim that “to speak is not to see,” democracy may depend on the capacity to speak without the assurance of visibility, to inhabit a space where sounding precedes authoritative recognition.
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