Janosch Prinz joined FASoS as an Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy in August 2019.
Janosch’s research interests lie at the intersection between normative and empirical inquiry into politics. He works on the relationship between philosophy and politics and on the basis of the critical edge the former may have for the latter (if any).
Current focal points of research include democratic legitimacy (e.g. of European debt politics), interpretive methods in political and social philosophy (in particular ethnographic methods), and the concept of ideology. His long-term project aims to bridge methodological and disciplinary divides between normative-analytical, critical-reflective and interpretive political thought, in order to provide reliable orientation for political judgment.
Before joining Maastricht, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of East Anglia (2017-2019) and a temporary lecturer in political theory at Queen’s University Belfast (2015-2017). His doctoral thesis (“Radicalizing Realism in Political Theory”, Sheffield, 2015) examined the potential of recent developments in political realism to challenge moralist and idealist political theory.
Janosch maintains a longstanding interest in global politics, in the political geography of new forms of warfare, from his time as a research assistant at the Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn. He is an Associate Researcher at the Bonn International Center for Conversion.
Janosch is excited about interdisciplinary environment at FASoS. Please get in touch at j.prinz@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
