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Sarah Rebecca Str?mel was born in Roding in 1993. She began studying political science and philosophy at the University of Regensburg in the winter semester of 2012/2013 and completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in the summer semester of 2016. Following her Bachelor's degree, she enrolled in the consecutive Master's program in Democratic Studies from the winter semester 2016/17 to the summer semester of 2018, which she completed with an overall grade of 1.0.
In her master's thesis, entitled "Between Guilt and Atonement: The Ambivalence of Democracy in Alexis de Tocqueville," she examined the light and dark sides of democracy in Tocqueville's main political science work, "On Democracy in America." One of the goals of the work was to find appropriate categories for analyzing Tocqueville's democracy.
Ms. Str?mel worked as a research assistant for a member of the Bavarian state parliament in Nuremberg and Munich from October 2015 to August 2016. Since January 2016, she has been working at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas at the University of Regensburg, first as a student assistant, then as a research assistant. After completing her master's degree, Ms. Str?mel started a teaching position in the winter semester of 2018/19. Since May 2019, she has initially worked part-time (50%) as a research assistant at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas. Since April 2021, she has been working there as a full-time research assistant (100%).
Teachings
Winter Term 2021/22
- Exercise: "Democracy of White Men? Race and Gender in Political Theory".
- Basic course: "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas: Plato - Tocqueville - Taylor".
Summer Term 2021
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Exercise: "Does Money Rule the World? On the Relationship between Politics and Economics in the History of Ideas" (Together with Alfred Reichenberger, M.A.; interdisciplinary seminar in cooperation with the Chair of Economic and Social History, Institute of History)
Winter Term 2020/21
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Exercise: "Class - Race - Mass: Does Democracy Live on Exclusion?" I
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Exercise: "Class - Race - Mass: Does Democracy Live from Exclusion?" II
(Due to high demand from students, the exercise was offered twice).
Ms. Str?mel's exercise was included in the DVPW's series Outstanding Teaching in German Political Science. You can access the projects in the series and a brief outline of Ms. Str?mel's project here.
Summer Term 2020
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Advanced seminar: "In Search of the Individual: Individualism in Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology" (Together with Prof. Dr. Gerson Brea)
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Basic course: "Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Rawls"
Winter Term 2019/20
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Practical seminar: "Politics and lethargy: Do we need new forms of political participation?" (Together with William Funke, M.A.)
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Basic course: "Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Arendt"
Summer Term 2019
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Basic course: "Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Rawls"
Winter Term 2018/19
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Exercise: "Religion as Opium of the People? On the Political Dimension of the Concept of Religion in Marx and Tocqueville"
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Tutorial for the lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas"
Winter Term 2017/18
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Tutorial for the lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas"
Winter Term 2016/17
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Tutorial for the lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Ideas".
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Publications
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Str?mel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2021): Demokratie als geschlossene Gesellschaft? Tocqueville und der Rassismus in Amerika, in Haus, M., Dirke, J., Trau?neck, M. et al.: Debatte: Rassismus und politische Ideengeschichte. Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 62 (4): S. 671 – 694, Springer VS.
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Str?mel, Sarah Rebecca (2021):?Querfühlen statt Querdenken? Tocqueville zu Solidarit?t, Gemeinsinn und Individualismus in Zeiten von?Corona, auf: praefaktisch.de, click for article
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Str?mel, Sarah Rebecca?(2021):?Eine Frage des Gefühls. Alexis de Tocqueville und die Emotionalisierung der Politik, in: Helfritzsch, Paul und Müller Hipper, J?rg:?Die Emotionalisierung des Politischen,?Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, S. 19-42.
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Str?mel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2020): Tocquevilles Mutma?ungen über die Zukunft der Demokratie, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft 41 (29): S. 30-34, Universit?tsverlag Regensburg.
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Str?mel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2019): Einsame Herzen. Tocqueville und die Demokratie, in: Zeitschrift für Politik (ZfP), 66 (4): S. 365-383, Nomos.
Projects
DISSERTATION PROJECT
Tocqueville and Individualism in Democracy
Ms. Str?mel's dissertation project is devoted to the phenomenon of individualism in Alexis de Tocqueville. Thereby, a text-immanent analysis of individualism in Tocqueville is performed as well as a differentiation to other theories of individualism from political science, psychology, and sociology. In addition, autobiographical references to Tocqueville are made to shed light on the phenomenon of individualism in as comprehensive and differentiated a manner as possible.
The dissertation thus sees itself both as a contribution to Tocqueville research and as an addition to the interdisciplinary debate on individualism.
Master Work
Between Guilt and Atonement: The Ambivalence of Democracy in Alexis de Tocqueville
In her master's thesis, Ms. Str?mel examines the ambivalence of democracy in Tocqueville's major work on political theory, On Democracy in America. In doing so, various threats to democracy are contrasted with their respective coping strategies. The thesis tested in the paper explores the question of whether the respective dangers and coping mechanisms result from shifts in specific tensions. Ms. Str?mel concludes that the dangers arise as the relations of democracy as a form of rule and society, the public and the private, equality and freedom, and thinking and feeling become imbalanced. In contrast, it is the achievement of coping strategies to rebalance the imbalances in these tensions, which also implies an insight into the problems of contemporary democracies.
Lectures
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Class - Race - Gender. Tocquevilles Demokratie als geschlossene Gesellschaft (June 25, 2020, Advanced Lecture "Race - Class - Gender. Schattenseiten der Aufkl?rung", University Regensburg)
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Von Kant zu Tocqueville:?Ungleichheit unter gleichen Bedingungen (June 18, 2020, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, Advanced Lecture "Race - Class - Gender. Schattenseiten der Aufkl?rung", University Regensburg)
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Zwischen Hoffnungstr?gern und Volksverführern. Der Populismus in Brasilien und Deutschland (January 24, 2020, Science Café on the topic: Populism in Latin America and Germany, organized by the Central Institute for Latin American Studies (ZILAS) of the Catholic University Eichst?tt, Eichst?tt).
You can access a video about this evening here
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Wie der Individualismus die Demokratie bei Tocqueville in den Abgrund treibt (January 23, 2020, 27th Conference of the Bavarian Doctoral College for Political Theory on the topic: Gefahr im Verzug. Aktuelle Herausforderungen an die Demokratie, January 22 - January 24, 2020, Frankenakademie Schloss Schney near Bamberg).
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Wie das Volk die Demokratie das Fürchten lehrte (January 22, 2020, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb and William Funke, M.A., keynote lecture at the 27th conference of the Bavarian Doctoral College for Political Theory on the topic: Gefahr im Verzug. Aktuelle Herausforderungen an die Demokratie, January 22 - January 24, 2020, Frankenakademie Schloss Schney near Bamberg).
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Tocqueville. Gleichheit und Demokratie (December 19, 2019, jointly with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Ideas," University of Regensburg).
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Alexis de Tocqueville und die Emotionalisierung der Politik (November 23, 2019, conference: The Emotionalization of the Political, organized by Friedrich Schiller University Jena, November 21 - November 24, 2019, Jena, Germany
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Tocqueville and the individualism within democracies (October 11, 2019, International and interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop in cooperation with Masaryk University Brno, October 11 - October 13, 2019, Tel?)
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Between populism, despotism, and individualism. Alexis de Tocqueville on contemporary questions in Brazilian and German society (October 07, 2019, Workshop: From Bavaria/Germany to S?o Paulo/Brazil: The making of science, arts, and knowledge in an entanglement perspective, 07 October - 11 October 2019, Catholic University of Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt).
- Tocqueville und der Individualismus in der Demokratie (July 25, 2019, Day of Young Scientists, organized by the PhD College of the Faculties of Philosophy PUR, Haus der Begegnung Regensburg)
- Tour d’horizon (January 31, 2019, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas", University of Regensburg).
- Einsame Herzen. Tocquevilles Mutma?ungen über die Zukunft der Demokratie (November 21, 2018, jointly with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, as part of the lecture series "Democracy - the Best Form of Rule?", University of Regensburg).
You can access a video of the lecture here?and find the program of the lecture series here.
- Tour d’horizon (July 05, 2018, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Freedom and Rule: Constellations of Political Modernity", University of Regensburg).
- Tour d’horizon (February 01, 2018, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas," University of Regensburg)
- Tour d’horizon (July 20, 2017, jointly with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Multikulti als Leitkultur?!", University of Regensburg)
- Tour d’horizon (February 02, 2017, together with Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture "Introduction to Political Philosophy and History of Ideas", University of Regensburg)
