Dr. des. Tomer Raudanski
Dr. des. Tomer Raudanski
Research assistent
Campus Am Neuen Palais / Building 15, Raum 1.05
E-Mail: Tomer.Raudanskiuuni-potsdampde
Tel.: (+49)331/977-4359
Consultation hours
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Research Areas
Existentialism, Philosophy of Religion, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Jewish–Christian Relations, Political and Ethical Philosophy, Political Theology, Phenomenology, Deconstruction. Authors include for example Kierkegaard, Buber, Lévinas, Derrida, Rancière, and Nancy.
Short Academic Biography
Tomer Raudanski received his BA in History and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University (Israel). He completed his Magister degree in Philosophy and in Ancient and Modern Jewish History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a thesis on Walter Benjamin’s concept of space. He earned his PhD at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with the dissertation “Love’s Hidden Revolution: Kierkegaard’s Critique of Power, Equality, and Community” (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ugo Perone, Prof. Dr. Daniel Weidner). He taught at the Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Summer Semester 2023) and was a visiting scholar at the Chair of Comparative Religion and Intercultural Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Apr. 2025–Mar. 2026), as well as at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen (Summer Semester 2018). He is currently developing a postdoctoral project on Jewish engagements with political theology.
Publications
Monograph (forthcoming)
Kierkegaard’s Critique of Equality and Politics in Works of Love.
Revised doctoral dissertation, accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press.
Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes
“Kierkegaard Through Lévinas: Ethics, Suffering, Love,” in: Erika Benini, Anne Eusterschulte (eds.), Kritik(en) des Leidens, Promesse – Kritische Studien zu Philosophie, Ästhetik, Geschichte und Religion, vol. 5, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2024, pp. 287–308.
“Equality, Mortality and Community in At a Graveside: Reading Kierkegaard alongside Nancy and Derrida,” in: Mélissa Fox-Muraton (ed.), Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics, Kierkegaard’s Studies Monograph Series, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 169–192.
“Kierkegaard’s Secret Politics of Anguish and Love,” in: Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart, Karl Verstrynge (eds.), Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 24 (1), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 165–192.
“Love as Power to the Powerless: Reconsidering the Relationship between the Religious and the Political in Kierkegaard,” under review at European Journal of Philosophy.
“Faith in Absence: Kierkegaard and Freud on Loss, Memory and Mourning,” under review at Harvard Theological Review
