Jasper Friedrich

I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and IR. My work is in social and political philosophy with a special interest in critical theory and the politics of emotions.

I am currently working on a book about how our emotions can help us understand and resist injustice. This work will bring together debates about the normative foundations of critique with philosophy of emotions to explain how feelings are the basis for our ability to question and change the social world. I have also written and published on the politics of mental health, on post-conflict reconciliation, and on the methods of normative political theory. My work takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a wide range of disciplines and sources, including critical theory and continental political philosophy, but also analytic philosophy, sociological and psychological theory, and cognitive science, among other things.

I have taught undergraduate tutorials in political theory and critical theory at various Oxford colleges, and graduate seminars in ethics and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Before my current role, I studied for my DPhil here in Oxford funded by a Clarendon Scholarship, the Corpus Christi–A. E. Haigh Scholarship, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Jacobsen Studentship. Before that, I completed an MSc in Political Theory in Oxford, and an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen.