Dr. phil. Dirk Schuck

• Social anthropology of consumption
• Genealogy of liberal government techniques
• History of psychosocial development and internalisation models
• Cultural history of capitalism
• Global and ecological approaches to the history of political ideas

Monographs and essays

• Die Verinnerlichung der sozialen Natur: zum Verhältnis von Freiheit und Einfühlung in der Sozialpsychologie des frühen Liberalismus bei Locke, Shaftesbury, Hume und Smith, Studien zum 18. Jahrhundert Bd. 40 (ed. by the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts), Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2019.
• First-order-compassion and second-order-compassion: One central difference in the social thought of David Hume and Adam Smith regarding the instalment of social stability, The Adam Smith Review, Vol. 13, London/New York: Routledge, 2023.
• Zur Genese individueller Selbständigkeit bei John Locke, in: Matthias Ernst Bähr, Dennis Sölch (eds.): Geschichte und Gegenwart der Erziehungsphilosophie, Heidelberg/Berlin: J. B. Metzler (Springer Verlagsgruppe), 2023.
• with Lorenzo Pecchi: Cultivating a Capability for Empathy in the Bologna System – The Shortcomings of Economics and the Importance of the Civil, in Journal of Philosophy of Education 58 (2024).
• Liberalism and Confucianism as Normative Powers within Chinese-European Relations, Philosophy and Global Affairs, Issue 1/2024, PDC: University of Connecticut.
• Letters from an American Farmer: An Eighteenth Century Agrarian Utopia?, in: Sofia Bianchi Mancini et al. (eds.): Relating to Landed Property, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 2024.
• Agriculture, Property and Habits. A Comparison of Adam Smith and James C. Scott, in: Bernhard Kleeberg et al. (eds.): Nomad Properties. Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today, Frankfurt Main/New York: Campus, March 2025.
• Hegel and the Notion of Retroactive Necessity in the Scottish Enlightenment, in: Tamás Demeter (ed.): The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
• Entry Liberalism, in: Cary J. Nederman,  Guillaume Bogiaris (eds.): Research Handbook in the History of Political Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elger, 2024.
• Ethische Defizite des Kosmopolitismus: Johann Georg Hamanns Kritik an Kant, in: Rebecca Pates et al. (eds.): The Persistence of the Nation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Functionality of the National in Germany, Springer VS, 2024 (forthc.).
• Von der Gleichgültigkeit zur Eliminierung - Kontinuität und Bruch zwischen bürgerlicher und nationalsozialistischer Moralphilosophie, in: Raphael Gross et. al, Zerrbilder: Zum Wirken und Fortwirken nationalsozialistischer Mentalität. Berlin: Christoph Links, 2024.

Edited Volumes

• (ed. with Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Helen A. Gibson and Markus Vinzent) Relating to Landed Property. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, 2024.
• (ed. with Raphael Gross and Bernd Ulrich) Zerrbilder: Zum Wirken und Fortwirken nationalsozialistischer Mentalität. Festschrift for Werner Konitzer. Berlin: Christoph Links. In cooperation with the German Historical Museum, 2024.
• (ed. with Anna Möllers and Bernhard Kleeberg) Nomad Properties. Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, March 2025.

Annotated edition

• John Locke, Gedanken über Erziehung, Philosophische Bibliothek vol. 736, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2020.

Google Scholar Profile

• since April 2021 Research fellow in TP A03 Besitz und Gewohnheit (Property and Habit in Western Modernity) in the SFB-TR 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums (Structural Change of Property)
• 2020 - 2021 Managing assistant at the Seminar for Scientific Policy, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
• since 2018 Associate Researcher, Franco-German Research Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
• 2017 - 2018 Adjunct lecturer, Institute for Political Science, University of Leipzig
• 2016 - 2020 Work in the field of social psychiatry, Health Department, City of Berlin
• 2012 - 2015 Scholarship holder, Walter-Rathenau-Kolleg, Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam
• 2008 - 2018 Worked in the field of political communication, BBGK Berliner Botschaft Gesellschaft für Kommunikation mbH

Education

• 2016 Doctorate (Dr phil.), Institute of Political Science, University of Leipzig
• 2007 Master's degree (M. A.), Institute of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main