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Dr. Heiko Stubenrauch

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.404
Fon +49.4131.677-1519, heiko.stubenrauch@leuphana.de
Research associate, Professorship of Philosophy, especially Continental Philosophy

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Vita

Heiko Stubenrauch is a research associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Art History (IPK) and a Postdoc at the DFG Research Training Group Culture of Critique. He is currently working on a habilitation project on critical theory, ecology and authoritarianism under the working title "Desire and Nature". He studied philosophy, sociology, art history, economics and cultural studies in Frankfurt am Main, Lüneburg and Hamburg. From 2016-2019, Heiko Stubenrauch was a doctoral student at the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique. After a research stay at the Université de Montreal, he received his PhD in May 2021 with a thesis on the relationship between critique and affect in Kant, Adorno and Deleuze (supervised by Christoph Menke, Erich Hörl and Daniel Loick, graded "summa cum laude"). His research focuses on Critical Theory and its actualization, the critical self-reflection of the Enlightenment (especially Kant's legacy), the philosophy of climate change, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis as well as the Frankfurt School and post-structuralism. Further information can be found here: leuphana.academia.edu/HeikoStuberauch

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung: Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Editor) , Tobias Heinze (Editor) , Ricarda Biemüller (Editor) , Thomas Barth (Editor) , 2026

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  2. Die Zweite Kopernikanische Wende: Kritik und Affekt nach Kant, Adorno und Deleuze
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 2022 Göttingen , 259 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research

  3. What's legit?: Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights
    Roberto Nigro (Editor) , Heiko Stubenrauch (Editor) , Liza Mattutat (Editor) , Nadine Schiel (Editor) , 2020 Zürich , 304 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Naturschrecken beredt werden lassen. Überlegungen zu Kritischer Theorie und Ökomarxismus in einer eskalierenden Klimakrise
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 03.09.2026 , in: Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie, 13, 1 , p. 79–102 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. The Unconscious of Critique: Adorno and Deleuze as Readers of Kant and Freud
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 02.07.2026 , in: Philosophy and Social Criticism , 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Regressing to Nature. Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 12.02.2026 , in: Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 33, 2 , p. 254-262 , 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. Repressive Entsublimierung im Wandel: Über die kontrollierte Freigabe des Selbstgenusses im Postfordismus
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 01.01.2024 , in: Leviathan, Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, 52, 2 , p. 295-319 , 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Teleological Judgment between Racism and its Critique: On the Status of Race in Kant's Work
    Marina Martinez Mateo (Author) , Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 01.01.2024 , in: Rivista di Estetica, 87, 3 , p. 81-98 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung: eine Programmatik
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , Ricarda Biemüller (Author) , Thomas Barth (Author) , Tobias Heinze (Author) , 28.05.2026

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  2. Verbundenheit als Zwang: Die Kritische Theorie spätkapitalistischer Subjektivität im ökologischen Diskurs
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 28.05.2026

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Vernunft kann es nur in Verzweiflung und Überschwang aushalten: Zum Verhältnis von Kritik und Affekt bei Adorno und Deleuze
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , 01.01.2024 Berlin , p. 359-372

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research

  4. Is Code Law? Kritik in Zeiten algorithmischer Gouvernementalität
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , Liza Mattutat (Author) , Clara Lotte Warnsholdt (Author) , 01.01.2023 Lüneburg , p. 21-42 , 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  5. What's legit?: Introduction
    Roberto Nigro (Author) , Heiko Stubenrauch (Author) , Liza Mattutat (Author) , Nadine Schiel (Author) , 28.07.2020 Zürich , p. 7-20 , 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

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Activities

  1. Unlimited Fantasies: Social Psychology in Postfordist Society
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Unbegrenzte Phantasien: Triebstruktur und neoliberale Gesellschaft
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  3. On the idea of a second Copernican turn
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  4. Werkstattgespräch
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research

  5. Response to Philip Hogh: Suffering, Pain and the Idea of Progress
    Heiko Stubenrauch (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

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Courses

Colloquium PLG
Steffi Hobuß, Sven Kramer, Roberto Nigro, Emer O'Sullivan, Ulrike Steierwald, Heiko Stubenrauch
Promovierende des Forschungskollegs für Philosophie, Literatur und Geschichte präsentieren ihre Projekte und erläutern sie in der folgenden Diskussion mit den Teilnehmenden des Kollegs. Darüber hinaus diskutiert das Kolleg relevante Forschungsliteratur und richtet Workshops mit geladenen Gästen aus.
Next appointment:
Wednesday, 2026-10-14 at 14:00
Room: C 3.121 Seminarraum
Energy and Emancipation: Enlightenment between Fossil Modernity and a Solar Future
Heiko Stubenrauch
The promises of the European Enlightenment—autonomy, freedom, and equality—are historically intertwined with the rise of fossil capitalism. Autonomie was frequently understood as liberation from natural constraints, freedom as unrestricted mobility, and equality as participation in growing consumption. The material prerequisite for this was the extraction and combustion of immense quantities of fossil energy—coal, oil, and gas—within a short period of time. The first goal of this seminar is to critically discuss this connection through foundational texts, tentatively including works by Timothy Mitchell, Pierre Charbonnier, Andreas Malm, and Daniela Russ.

With the onset of the climate crisis, this fossil order—and with it the traditional understanding of Enlightenment values—has come under severe pressure. At the same time, political movements are attempting to defend fossil-based ways of life and notions of freedom against ecological limits, often in authoritarian and regressive forms. In a second step, we will analyze these dynamics of defense using theoretical perspectives from the Zetkin Collective, Jacob Blumenfeld, and Cara Daggett.

Finally, the seminar asks how Enlightenment values can be liberated from their fossil-capitalist framework and reconceptualized. A purely technological energy transition (“green capitalism”) that replaces fossil fuels with renewable energy sources without transforming social modes of production and living leads into new dead ends of extractivism (Thea Riofrancos). A viable concept of future emancipation must therefore think energy and the social system together. Against this backdrop, we will discuss approaches toward a solar Enlightenment and an ecological socialism/communism, drawing on works by Oxana Timofeeva, John Bellamy Foster, and Jason W. Moore, among others.
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 12:15
Room: C 14.006 Seminarraum