Projects
How can the radical Enlightenment be actualized without losing its radical character? Fichte's "radical Enlightenment" and its significance for the contemporary philosophical debate about individual freedom, tolerance and pluralism. Ghent University
This project examines the historic conceptual conditions of possibility for a new concept of "radical Enlightenment" which, unlike the traditional view and the most recent researches on the Enlightenment, can a)also include enlightened philosophies with a religious dimension, and b) contribute to a critical view of the contemporary debate about the relations between individuals, society/ societies and State.
Beyond Liberal and Radical. The Complex Relationship between Radical Thinking and Attitudes towards Liberal Democracy among European Muslims. KU Leuven
The project aims to understand the emergence of radical belief systems among native majority (radical right) and Muslim minority members (radical Islamism). To this end, we develop a model of dual radicalization that conceptualizes radical belief systems of majority and Muslim minority group members as mirror-images and emphasizes that both radical belief systems are crucially intertwined. This project involves the collection of new survey ...
Why so radical? Nature, causes, and consequences of radical belief systems. KU Leuven
Over the past three decades, radical left- and right-wing parties have re-emerged as pivotal electoral forces across Europe. This dissertation aims to contribute to the literature by providing new insights into the nature, the causes, and the consequences of radical belief systems through achieving five objectives: (1) Exploring the constitutive elements of radical belief systems and understanding how particular configurations of these ...
“See What I Mean”: Mapping Textual Space in Radical Poetry AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Pseudo-journalistic political communication. An analysis of the content, production and reception of the use of journalistic genres in populist radical right party political communication in Germany and Austria Vrije Universiteit Brussel
communication, focusing on Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) as populist radical right (PRR)
parties that are key players in the contemporary hybridization of
political communication. Bridging journalism studies and political
communication, it proposes the term pseudo-journalistic political
...
Radical Tender Sound. Exploring the Critical Potential ofTenderness Through Hysteric Sound Art. KU Leuven
Group Relations and Radical Ideas KU Leuven
This project analyzes how feelings of unease, perceived threat and attitudes towards (the integration of) immigrants contribute to radicalization, as well as how radical ideas in turn influence voting behavior among both the majority and minority groups in Belgium. It focuses on a broad set of radical ideas (feelings of superiority and rejection of others, perceived illegitimacy of traditional political authorities or conspiracy thinking), ...
Loss, Myth, Awakening. Towards a cultural-philosophical analysis of contemporary radical embraces of myth KU Leuven
In a post-1968 context, there has been in both the radical right and radical left spectrum of European culture a tendency to embrace symbols and myths about origin, identity and community in order to defend irreducible difference against the totalizing tendencies of an increasingly homogenized, rationalized world. Rather than unambiguously rejecting this return to myth as dangerously regressive, this project aims to distinguish problematic ...
Worldmaking in Radical Environmental Movements: Juxtaposing Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Resistance. Ghent University
Ethnographers concerned with Indigenous thought have called for the radical acceptance of other ontologies. This move—which echoes the increasing acceptance amongst philosophers of science that different and multiple worlds might coexist—has been referred to as “the ontological turn.” Combining the ontological turn in anthropology with the world-ecological approach to capitalism and the counter-hegemonic theory of Antonio Gramsci, this ...