New Fellow: Eva von Redecker

16 January 2025

Photo: Shore Mehrdju

Eva von Redecker is a philosopher and nonfiction writer. Her work, translated into more than a dozen languages, focuses on property, social change, domination and liberation. Her latest book, Bleibefreiheit (“The Freedom to Stay”) proposes to think of freedom in temporal terms as “abundance of fulfilled time”. Bleibefreiheit has been named “book of the year” by the magazine Der SPIEGEL and shortlisted for the NDR non fiction prize. In 2020/2021, Eva held a Marie-Słodowska-Curie fellowship at University of Verona, Italy, during which she pursued research on the theory of authoritarian character. Eva hosts a philosophical talk series at Hamburg Theater and occasionally writes essays and op-eds for Die ZEIT, le monde diplomatique and The Guardian.