Matthias Lievens

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, with special responsibility for the Research Programme Global Governance and Democratic Government, KULeuven

Contact Data

• Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
  KU Leuven
  Huis De Dorlodot
  Charles Deberiotstraat 34 - bus 3005
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 53 74
• Fax +32 16 32 87 26
• E-mail: matthias.lievens@ggs.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Dr. Matthias Lievens joined the Centre in November 2010 and is postdoctoral researcher with special responsibility for the research programme Global Governance and Democratic Government. Matthias studied political science, philosophy, anthropology and history, and defended his PhD in philosophy entitled ‘Spectres of the Political: Uncovering the Metapolitical in Carl Schmitt’ at the end of 2009 at K.U. Leuven. He has a long-standing critical interest in Marx and Gramsci, and has also been working on authors such as Etienne Balibar, Antonio Negri, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière. Matthias’ research interests include post-foundational political philosophy, (post-)Marxism, theories of the political and depoliticization, radical democracy, Gramsci, (alter)globalization, political ecology.