PD Dr. Susanne Lettow

Susanne Lettow is lecturer for philosophy and gender studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Research Associate at the Margherita von Brentano Centre for Gender Studies. At the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property“ she acts as co-spokesperson for project area C and Principal Investigator for the subproject “Property in the human body in the context of transnational economies of reproduction.” She studied Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also obtained her PhD. Later she acquired habilitation working on Biophilosophy, more specifically “Science, Technology and Gender in contemporary philosophical discourse”. After that she was visiting professor at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel, the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and at the Philosophy Department of Freie Universität Berlin. Her research currently focuses on theory and history of biopolitics, theory of science and technology, critical social philosophy and feminist philosophy.

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Activities

Publications

  • Graefe, S.; Herb, I.; Lettow, S. (eds.): Dimensions of Property in Reproductive Economies. Practices, Discourses, and Structures. Campus Verlag, (in preparation).
  • Graefe, Stefanie (2024): "Moral economies and (de)propertization in the context of transnational reproductive economies", In: Graefe, S.; Herb, I.; Lettow, S. (eds.): Dimensions of property in transnational reproductive economies: Practices, structures and discourses. Frankfurt a. Main: Campus, (in preparation). 
  • Lettow, Susanne (2024): “Hegel and the political economy of the family: Property, colonialism and subsistence”, In: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 44 (1-2), 171-194.
  • Lettow, Susanne (2024): "Beyond the Lockean paradigm. Property and propertization in reproductive economies”, In: Graefe, S.; Herb, I.; Lettow, S. (eds.): Dimensions of property in transnational reproductive economies: Practices, structures and discourses. Frankfurt a. Main: Campus, (in preparation).
  • Lettow, S., Rupik, G. (2021): “Conceiving Reproduction in German Naturphilosophie.”, Topical Collection der Zeitschrift History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
  • Lettow, S., Bock von Wülflingen, B., Brandt, C., Vienne, F. (2015): “Temporalities of reproduction. Practices and concepts from the eighteenth century to the present”, Special Issue of the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1/2015.
  • Lettow, Susanne (2015): “Biokapitalismus und Inwertsetzung der Körper – Perspektiven der Kritik”, In: Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 178, S. 33-50.
  • Lettow, Susanne (2014): Race, gender and reproduction in philosophy and the early life sciences. Albany: SUNY Press.
  • Lettow, Susanne (2012): Bioökonomie. Die Lebenswissenschaften und die Bewirtschaftung der Körper. Bielefeld: transcript 2012.
  • Lettow, Susanne (2011): Biophilosophien. Wissenschaft, Technologie und Geschlecht im philosophischen Diskurs der Gegenwart. Frankfurt/Main and New York: Campus.

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