Yannik Thiem is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Villanova University, and Director of the Doctoral Studies Program in Philosophy.  Thiem's research interests include Critical Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, 19th- and 20th-Century German Philosophy, Feminist Theory,  and Digital Humanities.  Recent work includes the book Unbecoming Subjects: Judith Butler, Moral Philosophy, and Critical Responsibility, and the book project in progress, Ripples of Redemptive Time: The Ethics and Politics of Temporality in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin.

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