Kristina Stoeckl
Ricercatrice (settore scientifico-disciplinare SPS/01 - Filosofia politica). Studio P20, telefono (06.7259)5052, posta elettronica Kristina.Stoeckl@uniroma2.it, sito www.kristinastoeckl.eu.
Biographical Notes
Starting with October 2009, Kristina Stoeckl has taken up a two-year Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, where she is conducting research on modern trajectories in Eastern Orthodox religion and culture. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies at the University of Innsbruck (2001) and obtained an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2003). From 2001 until 2003, she took part in a doctoral support programme “Ost-West-Kolleg” at the University of Bochum. She obtained her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in September 2007. Her dissertation won publication awards from the Austrian Science Community and the Otto-Seibert Foundation at the University of Innsbruck and was published in the series “Erfurt Studies in the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity” in 2008. From 2007 until 2009, she worked at the University of Innsbruck as coordinator of a research-initiative on politics and religion and taught courses in political theory. Kristina Stoeckl was born and grew up in Austria, and she received the last two years of her school-education at the United World College of the Adriatic (Duino, Italy). She has travelled widely in Eastern and Central Europe and has spent extended periods of time in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Research topic
Kristina Stoeckl's research is set at the intersection of political philosophy, comparative cultural history and sociology of religion with a special focus on East European Orthodox Christianity. Her work is motivated by a profound interest in philosophical questions of political nature, in particular the relationship between the freedom of the human subject and community, and by a genuine perplexity about the breach between Western modernity and traditional and/or religious worldviews. With her research on the Orthodox world, she wants to make a case in point about the ambiguous relationship between the modern and the traditional and she wants to explore philosophically and empirically the difficulties of negotiating modern and traditional views about legitimate authority, personal freedom and human rights.
Main publications
- (2009) Religion, Politik und Markt: Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger and Kristina Stöckl. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (Edition Weltordnung – Religion – Gewalt, Vol. 4).
- (2008) Community after totalitarianism. The Russian Orthodox intellectual tradition and the philosophical discourse of political modernity. Frankfurt, Brüssel et al.: Peter Lang (= Erfurter Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums, Vol. 5. Ed. by Vasilios Makrides).
- (2007) "The lesson of the revolution in Russian émigré theology and contemporary Orthodox thought." Religion, State and Society 4, 285-300.
- (2006) "Modernity and its critique in twentieth century Russian Orthodox thought." Studies in East European Thought 58/4, 243-269.
- (2009) „Staatskirche und Diaspora. Die zwei Erscheinungsformen von Zivilgesellschaft in der russischen Orthodoxie“. Zwischen Fürsorge und Seelsorge. Christliche Kirchen in den europäischen Zivilgesellschaften seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Arnd Bauerkämper and Jürgen Nautz: Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 237-258.
- (2009) „Modern Trajectories in Eastern European Orthodoxy: Responses to the Post-totalitarian and Post-Cold War Constellation”. Domains and Divisions of European History, edited by Johann P. Arnason and Nathalie Doyle. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 40-57.