(2025):
Basale Gemeinschaft: Zusammengehörigkeit aufgrund (mit)erlebter Fremdheit und Vertrautheit.
In: phainesthai – Gemeinschaft und soziales Leben, vol. 1.
(Online-Publikation)
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Preface
Georg Harfensteller researches and teaches at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, focusing on phenomenology, social theory, and violence research. His work explores the structure of collective identity formation, shared affectivity, and the mechanisms by which shared spaces of meaning and experience operate.
In my dissertation, “Performative Vergemeinschaftung: Ansätze zu einer Phänomenologie religiöser und politischer Zusammengehörigkeit”, supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Stenger and PD Dr. Michael Staudigl, I developed a socio-phenomenological approach to religious and political gatherings as a descriptive starting point for community-building beyond mediated ideological content.
§ 1 Selected Publications
(2025):
Risse im Bezugsgewebe: Gewalt als Gründungsmoment politischer Gemeinschaft.
In: Michael Staudigl (eds.): Phänomenologien des Politischen: Konturen, Konstellationen, Kontexte. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, pp. 107–135.
(Peer-reviewed Sammelbandbeitrag)
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(2023):
The Genesis of a Shared World Through Event Infrastructure: A phenomenological investigation of communitarisation in shared and extraordinary experiences.
In: Ian R. Lamond and Jonathan Moss (eds.): Events and Infrastructure: Critical Interrogations, (Critical Event Studies Research Series). Routledge, London, pp. 131–144.
(Routledge Critical Studies in Events)
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(2022):
Praying Together, Hating Together: Transforming Hostility through the Effective Direction of Religious Communitarization.
In: Religions, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 630.
(Special Issue: Phenomenology of Religious Experience (Open Access))
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§ 2 Lectures & Conference Papers
Plate I
Universität Konstanz – Fachbereich Philosophie (2026)
Violence, Empathy, and the Affective Conditions of Social Critique
Occasion: Phenomenology and Social Critique - A joint conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS) and the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP)
Plate II
Universität Wien – Institut für Soziologie (2025)
Decoupling the Political from Politics
On the Emergence of a Substantiating Province of Meaning
Occasion: VII. International Alfred Schutz Circle Conference
§ 3 Teaching
I teach at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna. My teaching covers seminars and lectures in phenomenology, social philosophy, argumentation theory, and academic writing.
Detailed information about current and past courses is available on u:find ↗.
Note: All courses are taught in German. The content below remains in the original language.
§ 4 Curriculum Vitae
Selected milestones of my academic trajectory — from the dissertation on phenomenology and political community to the present lectureship at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna.
§ 5 Fragments & Notes
The three most recent notes
November 2026
Hello world
§ 6 Correspondence & Office Hours
Georg Harfensteller, PhD, BA MA
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien
Institut für Philosophie, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Wien
Email: georg.harfensteller@univie.ac.at
Office hours by appointment via email or via the form below.
Bibliographic Note
Georg Harfensteller, PhD, BA MA
Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Institut für Philosophie, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Wien
Contact: georg.harfensteller@univie.ac.at