Dr. Nassima Sahraoui is a philosopher based in Germany. She was a fellow at the Centre for Advances Studies Imaginaria of Force at the University of Hamburg as well as at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover and taught at Goethe University’s Comparative Literature Department and at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University. Nassima Sahraoui is founding member of two international workshop series: one on the concept of Violence in Literature and Philosophy and one on Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy. She has cooperated closely with many research institutions and scholars and is regularly invited to give talks on conferences and symposia all over the globe. Her publications include essays on Derrida, Benjamin, Heidegger, Arendt, and Aristotle. Apart from her work as an academic scholar, she works as a teacher, translator, editor, moderator, and co-organises cultural events.

• Political Theory
• Political Philosophy
• History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History
• Intersections between Literature and Philosophy
• Critical Theory
• Deconstruction
• Democracy Pedagogy
• Didactics of Philosophy

Dynamis. Studien zu einer materialistischen Philosophie der Differenz (Transcript, 2022)

Heidegger in the Literary World. Variations on Poetic Thinking, ed. with Florian Grosser (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

Thinking in Constellations. Walter Benjamin in the Humanities, ed. with Caroline Sauter (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018)

“Wendungen. Zur Destruktion der Destruktion der Philosophie (Heidegger und Benjamin)”, in: Entwendungen. Benjamin und seine Quellen, ed. by Jessica Nitsche, Nadine Werner (Fink Verlag, 2019).

Kleine Philosophie der Faulheit, ed. with David Dilmaghani (S. Fischer, 2012)