Toon Braeckman

• Co-director of RIPPLE
• Professor in Contemporary Political Philosophy at the K.U.Leuven Institute of Philosophy
• Coordinator of the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy (CESPF)
   

Contact Data

• Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte
  KU Leuven
  Kard. Mercierplein 2
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 63 43 
• E-mail: toon.braeckman@hiw.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Antoon Braeckman (°1958) is co-director of RIPPLE. He is professor in contemporary political philosophy at the K.U.Leuven Institute of Philosophy, and co-ordinator of its Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy (CESPF). Over the years he published (in Dutch, English and French) on a variety of authors such as F.W.J. Schelling, Max Weber, Hans Blumenberg, Niklas Luhmann, Marcel Gauchet, Ulrich Beck, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Mann, Chantal Mouffe, etc. and on equally divergent issues like the German romanticist reception of the French Revolution, charisma and rationality, pluralism in the age of individualization, reflexive modernization, Kant’s Enlightenment, democracy and the populist challenge, myth and modernity, bourgeois novelist art and irony, etc.