Dr. Jan-Philipp Kruse

About

Jan-Philipp Kruse (University of Hamburg) is researching the structural change of modern societies, crisis tendencies, and pathways for transformation from a philosophical perspective. Central research questions are: how are the communicative and organizational capabilities, and the normative self-understanding, of liberal democracies shaped by digital technologies? And how can or should they respond to exceptional challenges, such as climate change?

His monograph on “Semantic Crises”, based on a summa cum laude PhD project supervised by Rahel Jaeggi, develops an updated Critical Theory framework, focusing on how successful societal problem solving and undistorted communication are dependent on each other.

Recent works cover Digital Transformations of Democracy, Requirements for Successful Problem Solving in the Age of Anthropocene and The Mumbling Machine – Towards an Adornitian Account of Generative AI.

Research Group: Digitalization and Opening up Science