Jorg was a PhD candidate within the POLITICO programme, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship, and successfully completed his PhD thesis, ‘At once sensible and intelligible: Kant’s solution to the Third Antinomy in terms of an inclosure paradox.’
His research investigated to what extent contemporary Spinozist and Nietzschean inspired conceptions of politics are at odds with Liberal-Kantian ones, and whether the former can be linked to a recent boom in speculative or ontological (i.e. anti-transcendental) philosophies. In this light, he analysed current debates between LGBTQ+, Alt-Right and Liberal writer-activists on the values of universalism, identity politics and self-determination.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in cultural analysis (ASCA) both from the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote a thesis on the politics of (meta)modernism from Kant to Fredric Jameson. He is a cofounder of the Dutch Pomonomo Podcast, which discusses topical themes in today’s politics.
Jorg also co-hosted the podcast What Have These Concepts Ever Done for Us?
Supervisors: Dr. Beth Lord and Dr. Ritu Vij.
