Niklas Plaetzer
Graduate Associate
University of Chicago
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Niklas is a PhD student in political theory at the University of Chicago and Sciences Po Paris. Since 2020, he has also been affiliated with the Centre Marc Bloch, a Franco-German research center in Berlin. Niklas works on contemporary political theory and the history of political thought, with a focus on theories of radical democracy and the global legacies of revolutionary republicanism. His dissertation aims to recover the institutional imagination of “plebeian internationalists” in France, Germany, the U.S., and Brazil (ca. 1848-1888). Niklas’ article “Decolonizing the ‘Universal Republic’: The Paris Commune and French Empire” appeared in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
Selected publications
- Article · 2025 Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration Contemporary Political Theory
- Article · 2023 Refounding Denied: Hannah Arendt on Limited Principles and the Lost Promise of Reconstruction Political Theory Reads Arendt's 'Civil Disobedience' as a critique of white constitutionalism and Reconstruction's failure.
- Article · 2023 Eichmann in Plettenberg: Carl Schmitt reads Hannah Arendt Modern Intellectual History Reconstructs Carl Schmitt's reading of Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem from his notes and marginalia.
- Article · 2021 Decolonizing the "Universal Republic": The Paris Commune and French Empire Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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