Prof. Dr. Veronique Zanetti
Prof. Dr. Veronique Zanetti
Professorship for Political Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
P.O. Box 100131
D- 33501 Bielefeld
Office: Building X Room A4-254
Office hours: by appointment
Tel.: 0521-106-4595
Fax 0521-106-156894
Email: vzanetti@philosophie.uni-bielefeld.de
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Research profile and functions
My research focuses on the philosophy of international relations. This subfield of philosophy deals, among other things, with questions of migration, state collapse, global poverty, the justification of military interventions, and their normative implications for the moral rights and duties of states and other international actors. This research is closely intertwined with neighboring disciplines such as international law, political science, and sociology.
In 2015, I received the Opus Magnum Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for a monograph on moral and political compromises, titled Spielarten des Kompromisses. The monograph is set to be published in 2022 by Suhrkamp. Compromises involve actors foregoing what they consider the best course of action in order to pursue an option that is at best second-best for them. When moral convictions are involved, this becomes particularly challenging: How can we coherently describe the stance of an actor who seems to give up their fundamental moral and political beliefs? The monograph examines various dimensions of compromise, develops a "cartography" of them, and applies the findings to concrete cases.
From 2015 to 2023, I was a member of the directorate of the ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld). In 2017, I was appointed managing director. In this role, I am also a member of the Steering Committee of UBIAS (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies).
From 2016 to 2019, I participated in the interdisciplinary working group “International Justice and Institutional Responsibility” organized by J. Nida-Rümelin at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). Since 2020, I have been part of the follow-up working group “Normative Constituents of Democracy” at the BBAW.
Since 2020, I have served on the advisory board “Democracy” of the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
I am also a scholarship mentor for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Teaching
SS 2025
- S (H*): Das Private (zusammen mit Martina Herrmann)
- MA: Jus post bellum/Wenn der Krieg endet (zusammen mit Ulrike Davy, Rechtswissenschaft)
- Werstattseminar (zusammen mit Benjamin Kiesewetter)
WS 2024-2025
- S (*H) Staats und Staatsbürger (zusammen mit R. Bittner)
- MA Der Libertarismus: Nozick und Huemer
- S (H*) Haben wir politische Pflichten?
- Forschungskolloquium praktische Philosophie
WS 2023-2024:
- Aristoteles Politik
- Philosophische Aspekte des Kompromisses
- Recht und Moral im Blick auf zivilen Ungehorsam
- Werkstattseminar (zusammen mit Christian Nimtz)
SS 2023:
- Gesellschaft mit Migrationshintergrund. Philosophische und soziologische Perspektiven (zusammen mit Thomas Faist)
- Solidarität in sozialen Beziehungen (zusammen mit Martina Herrmann)
WS 2022-2023:
- Demokratietheorien (zusammen mit Rüdiger Bittner)
- Kant, Rechtlehre
SS 2022:
- Philosophie der Strafe 2 (zusammen mit Valerij Zisman)
- Grad. Sem. Konsumethik (zusammen mit Tim Nissel)
A complete list of my courses from previous semesters can be found here.
Publications
Monographies:
- Spielarten des Kompromisses, Berlin 2022: Suhrkamp stw 2374
Articles:
- Buchsymposium zu Spielarten des Kompromisses. Précis und Replik zu den Kommentaren, in Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 3 (2023), Diskussionen und Berichte, 367-371; 382-385.
- Interview. „Kompromisse: Mehrwertiges durch Minderwertiges“, in: people&work. Fachmagazin für Business, Leadership, Transformation, 4 (2023), 23-27.
- „Das Paradox moralischer Kompromisse“, in: Weiter denken. Journal für Philosophie, 2 (2023), 4-10.
- „Kompromiss in der Politik und Politik des Kompromisses. Beispiel Schweiz“, in: Normative Konstituenzien der Demokratie, hrsg. von Julian Nida-Rümelin, Timo Greger und Andreas Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2024, 131-151.