Tobias Schädel

E-Mail: tobias.schaedel@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Tobias Schädel is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology (Justus Liebig University Giessen) and a member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). His PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörn Ahrens (JLU) and Prof. Dr. Heike Delitz (University of Regensburg) puts forward a theory-driven analysis of the contemporary ‘post-truth’ moment of Western democratic societies through the historical study of truth (meta)narratives and the central imaginaries that underpin the notion of ‘modern society.’ His most recent publications include articles such as “Nostalgia and the Loss of Truth: Sketches Towards a Hauntology of the ‘Post-Truth’ Condition” (2024) and “Krise als Konstruktion. Zur Dynamik staatlichen Handelns in der Moderne” in the volume Der Staat in der Krise, edited by Joris Steg (2024, Nomos).