Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Burghardt

Vita

Lectures

• Anthropological thinking in the (New) Right - from Gehlen to Kubitschek. Lecture at the conference Pädagogisch-anthropologische Grenzziehungen of the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education. University of Innsbruck, 11.07.2025.
• Aesthetics and Education after Auschwitz. Lecture at the ^17th International Conference of Critical Theory of Rome. St. John's University Rome Campus, 14.05.2025.
• "Georg Lukács: History and Class Consciousness Today" (with Stefan Gandler, Ulrich Metschl, Daniel Roose, Sebastian Rösel). Symposium of the FZ Social Theory at the University of Innsbruck, 28.04.2025.
• What is Critical Pedagogy? Lecture as part of the lecture series Science and Responsibility of the FZ Social Theory at the University of Innsbruck, 20 March 2025.
• What is antisemitism? Lecture as part of the Critical Introduction Week of the KSV-LiLi at the University of Innsbruck, 13 March 2025.
• The necessity of half-education. Adorno on class and education (with Nina Rabuza). Lecture at the conference Adorno's Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, 4.07 - 6.07.2024.
• Voluntary submission. On the pedagogy of the authoritarian character. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Herrschaft bis in alle Ewigkeit? On the social constitution of authoritarianism" of the StuRa TU Dresden, on 06.06.2024.
• Nature and social relations. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Klimagerechtigkeit und multible Krisen" at the University of Innsbruck, 16 May 2024.
• The subject of remembering - an antisemitism-theoretical critique of memory pedagogy (with Nina Rabuza). Presentation at the conference Ticketdenken Gesellschaftskritische Perspektiven auf Antisemitismus & Bildung of the NY3A (Network of Young Academics Against Antisemitism), University of Giessen, 8.04 - 9.04.2024.
• Pitfalls of antisemitism-critical educational work. Welcome lecture to the panel discussion "The 7th of October 2023: Resonances. Possibilities and limits of critical educational work", University of Innsbruck, 23 January 2024.
• On antisemitism after 7 October 2023. Welcome lecture to the panel discussion "The 7th of October 2023: Historical background and consequences", University of Innsbruck, 16.01.2024.
• Extinction of Future. On the Extinction of Utopia in Social Criticism (with Nina Rabuza). Lecture at the annual conference Zukunft - zwischen Öffnungen und Schließungen of the Commission on Philosophy of Education of the DGfE, University of Innsbruck, 21.09 - 23.09.2023.
• Does education make good books? An ideology-critical reflection on academic theory production. Workshop as part of the summer school "Macht und (sexualisierte) Gewalt" at the University of Salzburg, 29.06.2023 - 30.06.2023.
• Something is missing? On Utopia in Adorno (with Nina Rabuza). Lecture at the philosophical café Innsbruck, 21/06/2023.
• Climate and capitalism. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Klimagerechtigkeit und sozial-ökologische Krisen" at the University of Innsbruck, 19.04.2023.
• Pedagogy of making mad? Lecture at the conference Die Lehre in der Kritischen Theorie. Leuphana University of Lüneburg, 18.11.2022 - 19.11.2022.
• Critique of class formation. On division, inequality and class theories. Inaugural lecture at the University of Innsbruck, 18/10/2022.
• "...whereby racism in particular always presupposes sexism" - Reflections on the materialist relationship between racism and sexism in Balibar and Wallerstein. Keynote at the conference: Ambivalent Identities - Educational Sciences Perspectives on Race, Class and Nation. University of Tübingen. 30.06.2022 - 01.07.2022. (Link: https://timms.uni-tuebingen.de/tp/UT_20220630_003_rkn_0001)
• Victim fantasies - On anti-Semitism in the lateral thinking movement. Lecture at the Kölnische Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit and the Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus Köln (BgA) on 23 June 2022.
• Omnipotent victims. On self-victimisation and antisemitism. Lecture at the conference "Why anti-Semitism? On the political theory of hostility towards Jews". Sponsored by Hans Böckler Foundation, Stiftung Zeitlehren, dokFORUM Essen and the Anti-Semitism Commissioner of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Casino Campus Essen, 06.05.2022 - 07.05.2022.
• Mass psychology without ego analysis. On the critical anthropology of an emotion. Lecture at the annual conference "Enthusiasm" of the Commission for Educational Anthropology of the DGfE, University of Innsbruck, 3 - 6 October 2021.
• Education after Auschwitz today. Lecture as part of the online event series "Lange Schatten? Education in and after National Socialism" organised by the Cologne Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in cooperation with the Research Training Group "Right-Wing Populism" and the Student Committee of the General Assembly of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne (StAVV), 27 April 2021. (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omNC20h3Xqo )
• On the pedagogy of the authoritarian character. Lecture as part of the online event series "Damals wie heute? Der autoritäre Charakter" by the Student Representation of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne (StAVV), the Bündnis gegen Antisemitismus Köln (BgA), the Department of Political Science at the University of Cologne and the Kölnische Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit, on 8 June 2020.
• Fragile order - vulnerable people? Perspectives of pedagogical anthropology. Lecture at the Department of Education as part of the 2019 Annual Conference of the Görres Society. University of Paderborn, 20.09.2019 - 22.09.2019.
• Remembering failure: Lecture and discussion on the closing panel "Erneuter Versuch über Befreiung?" as part of the conference "Weitermachen! On the 40th anniversary of the death of Herbert Marcuse". Ada & Theodor Lessing Adult Education Centre Hanover, 22 June 2019.
• On the dialectic of theory and practice. Workshop as part of the Salzburg Theory Forum at the University of Salzburg, 5 June 2019.
• Vulnerability in populist times: On the reversal of a pedagogical concept. Lecture at the Section Conference 2019 of the DGfE Section "General Educational Sciences": "Erziehungswirklichkeiten in Zeiten von Angst und Verunsicherung". University of Cologne, 18-20 March 2019.
• Aesthetic Education as a Craft of Distinction: on Legitimate and Illegitimate Art in Bourdieu. Lecture at the January Colloquium of the Department of Educational Science at the University of Zurich, 21-22 January 2019.
• What remains of revolutionary practice: a reconstruction of Marxist educational theories. Lecture at the annual conference "Zu Praktiken und Formen der Theorie" of the Commission on Philosophy of Education of the DGfE, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, 26-28 September 2018.
• Critical Pedagogy and Theories of Subjectivisation: Critique and Enrichment Potentials. Workshop as part of the Summer School "Bildung des Subjekts" at the University of Salzburg, 04-05 July 2018.
• The Discomfort in Pedagogy - Defining the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy. Lecture as part of the event series "Pädagogik-Psychoanalyse-Gesellschaft" of the AK Kritik der Pädagogik Halle at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 14 May 2018.
• Regression. Lecture at the symposium "Pedagogical Anthropologies of Movement" of the DGfE Congress 2018: Movements. University of Duisburg-Essen, 19-21 March 2018.
• Education, delusion, society. Lecture as part of the event series "Education and Emancipation" of the Student Committee of the General Assembly of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne (StAVV), 23 May 2017.
• On the critique of anti-fascist pedagogy from the perspective of critical educational theories (with Thomas Höhne). Lecture at the conference: "Antifaschistische Pädagogik", Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 29-30 April 2017.
• On the socio-critical potential of psychoanalysis. Lecture as part of the INTROS series of events organised by the Student Committee of the General Assembly of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne (StAVV), 13 December 2016.
• Marxist Pedagogy and Maturity - A Definition of the Relationship (with Thomas Höhne). Lecture at the workshop: "Sozialismus und Pädagogik", Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 29-30 September 2016.
• The figure of the refugee. Anthropological reflections on a problematic discourse. Lecture at the annual conference "Flucht und Heimat" of the Commission for Educational Anthropology of the DGfE, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 06-08 October 2016.
• The stadium as a pedagogical heterotopia. Lecture at the symposium "Pädagogische Heterotopien" of the DGfE-Congress 2016: Räume für Bildung. Spaces of education. University of Kassel, 13-16 March 2016.
• From character masks to the entrepreneurial self? Questions from critical pedagogy to critical sociology. Lecture at the annual conference "Bildung und Subjektivierung" of the Kommission Erziehungs- und Bildungsphilosophie der DGfE, University of Tübingen, 30.09-2.10.2015.
• Research on the pedagogical tact in Germany (with Jörg Zirfas). Lecture and colloquium at the University of Kyoto, 13/07/2015.
• "Inequality for all"? Reflections on the social contradiction of education and participation. Lecture at the 2015 Section Conference of the DGfE Section "General Educational Sciences": "Bildung und Teilhabe". University of Giessen, 09-11 March 2015.
• Pedagogical tact in Japan. Lecture at the symposium "Der pädagogische Takt" of the DGfE Congress 2014: Traditions and Futures. Humboldt University of Berlin, 10-12 March 2014.
• On the Critique of the Anthropological Justification of Capitalism. Lecture at the annual conference "Ökonomie" of the Commission for Educational Anthropology of the DGfE, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 10-12 October 2013.
• Art and catastrophe. Perspectives from ethnographic school visits in the crisis region of Tôhoku (Japan). Lecture at the network conference: Spaces of Cultural Education. University of Koblenz-Landau, 04-05 October 2013.
• Techniques of space. Lecture at the annual conference "Technik" of the Commission for Pedagogical Anthropology of the DGfE, Baden-Baden, 4-6 October 2012.
• G8 and Bologna: Institutionalised semi-education. Lecture at the conference "Kritische Theorie heute" of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. Gießen 05-06-07.2012.
• Semi-education in the supermarket (with Jörg Zirfas). Lecture at the annual conference "Nutrition" of the Commission for Educational Anthropology of the DGfE, Trier 06-08 October 2011.
• Foucault's discursive space of the tableau. Lecture at the conference "Raum als Dimension von Machtverhältnissen" of the Department of Geography of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 29-30 July 2010.

Publications

Monographs

• Burghardt, D. (2024): Misery and emancipation. On the politicisation of suffering. Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag. _{(Reviews: Martin Mettin: Another story of misery. In: taz, 30 November 2024, Imprint. Misery and realisation. In: Jungle World 51/2024, Gerald Mackenthun: Politicisation. Sources of suffering and their reaction. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2/2025, Tom Uhlig In: Free Association 2/2024, p. 113-116, Felix Kirchhof In: Socialnet, 13/06/2025)}
• Burghardt, D./Klepacki, L./Lohwasser, D./Krebs, M./Zirfas, J. (2021): History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 4: Modernity. Paderborn: Schöningh.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2019): The pedagogical tact. An Educational Sciences problem formula. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
• Burghardt, D./Dziabel, N./Höhne, T. et al. (2017): Vulnerability. Pedagogical challenges. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.(Reviews: Hans-Joachim Lenz In: Socialnet 11/09/2019, Thomas Senkbeil In: EWR 18 (2019), No. 2)
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J./Lohwasser, D. et al. (2016): History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn: Schönigh.
• Burghardt, D. (2014): Homo Spatialis: A pedagogical anthropology of space. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. (Reviews: Detlef Baum In: Socialnet, 04/03/2014, Barbara Zschiesche In: EWR 13 (2014), No. 5)

Editorships

• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.) (2025): Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology. Volume 34. Issue 1: Critique of Inequality. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M. (eds.) (2022): Injury potentials. Critical studies on vulnerability in neoliberalism. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag.
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M./Noack Napoles, J. (eds.) (2021): Thinking ahead - Perspectives on educational anthropology. Festschrift for Jörg Zirfas. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. (Review: Thomas Senkbeil In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy 98 (2022), pp. 404-408)
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (ed.) (2019): Pedagogical heterotopias. From A to Z. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
• Burghardt, D./Stöhr, R./Noack Napoles, J. et al. (eds.) (2019): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
• Burghardt, D./Krinninger, D./Seichter, S. (eds.) (2015): Pedagogical tact: theory - empiricism - culture. Paderborn: Schöningh. (Reviews: Dietrich Benner In: Journal of Education 63 (2017), H. 6 (6) pp. 827-829; Carsten Rensighoff In: Socialnet, 08.10.2015)

Journal articles

• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2025): Anthropology, critique and inequality. In: Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology. Volume 34. Issue 1: Critique of Inequality. Berlin: De Gruyter. S. 9-18.
• Burghardt, D. (2025): The 7th of October. Trauma and conceptual work. In: Free Association - Journal for Psychoanalytical Social Psychology 27th Volume 2/2024: One year 7th October. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 73-77.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): Pedagogy of "Madigmachen". Theses on teaching in critical theory. In: Journal for Critical Theory. 29th vol., issue (56/57). Springe: zu Klampen. S. 113-130.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): The end of utopia? In: Free Association - Journal for Psychoanalytic Social Psychology 26th Volume 1/2023: Utopia. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 63-65.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): Critique of class formation. On division, inequality and class theories. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. Vol. 99 (2023) H. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 109-126.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): Anthropological thinking in the New Right. The example of Arnold Gehlen. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. Vol. 97 (2021) H. 2. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 204-218.
• Burghardt, D. (2020): Critical Pedagogy according to Marx: On Western Marxism, the New Marx Reading and its Connections to Pedagogy. In: Knowledge Cultures. Vol. 8 (1). New York: Addleton Academic Publishers. pp. 11-25.
• Burghardt, D. (2020): Of scarcity, breeding and leadership. On Arnold Gehlen's Anthropology, the Critique of Critical Theory and the Reception in the New Right. In: Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology. Volume 29. Issue 2: Man as a deficient being. Berlin: De Gruyter. S. 37-49. (Open Access: https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-31298)
• Burghardt, D. (2020): The resilient self? A vulnerability-theoretical attempt at a pedagogical real fiction. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. Vol. 96 (2020) H. 1. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 60-72. (Open Access: https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-31281)
• Burghardt, D. (2019): In us the growth. Notes on Stephan Lessenich's capital-logical social type. In: Free Association - Journal for Psychoanalytic Social Psychology 22nd Volume 1/2019: Climate Change. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 48-50.
• Burghardt, D (2019): Marx in the melee. A literature review. In: Journal for Critical Theory. 25th vol., issue (48/49). Springe: zu Klampen. S. 270-285.
• Burghardt, D. (2018): Acting like a girl? On the connections between body, space and gender. In: Journal of school theatre. Issue 33. Seelze: Friedrich Verlag. S. 38-39.
• Burghardt, D. (2018): Critical pedagogy after Marx. On Western Marxism, the New Reading of Marx and the pedagogical connections In: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wissenschaftliche Pädagogik. Vol. 94 (2018) H. 2. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 215-231. (Open Access: https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-31250 )
• Burghardt, D. (2018): The figure of the refugee. An essay on the world's superfluous. In: Pedagogy in times of war and terror. Yearbook for Pedagogy 2017. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang. S. 129-138.
• Burghardt, D. et al. (2016): Vulnerability in different sciences: An overview. In: Disabled people. Journal for Living, Learning and Working Together 2/2016. Graz. S. 19-31.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2015): Aesthetic anthropology. An outline of problems in Educational Sciences. In: Journal for Educational Sciences. Vol. 18, H. 1 (2015). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 27-49.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2014): Disaster pedagogy. An ethnographic report on crisis management through the arts in Japanese primary and secondary schools. In: Quarterly Journal for Scientific Pedagogy. Vol. 90 (2014) H. 2. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 191-210.

Handbook and encyclopaedia articles

• Burghardt, D. (2024): Vulnerability. In: Dederich, M./Zirfas, J. (Eds.): Optimisation. An interdisciplinary handbook. Heidelberg: Metzler Verlag. S. 403-408.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): Critical theory. In: Huber, M./Döll, M. (eds.): Bildungswissenschaft in Begriffen, Theorien und Diskursen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 305-312.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2023): Vulnerability. In: Wallenhorst, N./Wulf, Ch. (2023): Handbook of the Anthropocene. Humans between Heritage and Future. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 1565-1568.
• Burghardt, D. (2022): Opferfantasien - Zur Kritik des Antisemitismus in der Querdenken-Bewegung. CARS Working Papers #009 (ed. by Stephan Grigat and Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel), Centre for Antisemitism and Racism Studies (CARS) at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia Aachen. (doi: https://doi.org/10.17883/3690)
• Burghardt, D. (2022): Exposure. In: Dederich,M./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Glossary of vulnerability. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. S. 61-70.
  (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-30778-3_6)
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2022): Vulnerability - a Basic Category of Pedagogical Anthropology. In: Kraus, A./Wulf, Ch. (Eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Embodiment and Learning. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 179-192.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2020): Vulnerability in Intercultural Educational Sciences. In: Anastasopoulos, Ch. (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Educational Sciences Online (EEO): Intercultural Education. Beltz. S. 1-17.
• Burghardt, D. (2019): Marxism. In: Weiß, G./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Handbuch Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 431-443. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-19004-0_37)
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2019): Economy/economisation. In: Weiß, G./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Handbuch Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 503-512. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-19004-0_43)
• Burghardt, D. (2019): Stadium. In: Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.) (2019): Pedagogical heterotopias. From A to Z. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 227-239.
• Burghardt, D. (2018): Takt. In: Gödde, G./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Critical art of living. Analyses - Orientations - Strategies. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. S. 91-96. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-04644-4_13)
• Burghardt, D. (2018): Vulnerability. In: Gödde, G./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Critical Art of Living. Analyses - Orientations - Strategies. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. S. 105-110. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-04644-4_15)
• Burghardt, D. (2017): Ambivalences of independence. In: Taube, G./Fuchs, M./Braun, T. (eds.): Handbook: The strong subject. Key concepts in theory and practice. Munich: Kopaed. S. 325-330.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2016): Recognition as social practice. Symmetries and asymmetries of intersubjectivity. In: Gödde, G./Stehle, S. (eds.): The therapeutic relationship in psychodynamic psychotherapy. A handbook. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 423-440.
• Burghardt, D. (2014): Psychic space. In: Wulf, Ch./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Handbuch Pädagogische Anthropologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 403-411. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-531-18970-3_36)
• Burghardt, D. (2012): Lemmata: secret space (uncanny space); knowledge; transference. In: Günzel, S. (ed.): Lexikon der Raumphilosophie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Essays and book contributions

• Burghardt, D. (2025): Techniques of Space. In: Bilstein, J./Winzen, M./Zirfas, J. (Eds.): Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Practices, Objects and Ways of Life. Wiesbanden: Springer VS. S. 203-212.
• Burghardt, D. (2024): Theodor W. Adorno or on the attempt to catch up with childhood transformed. In: Gödde, G./Zirfas, J. /Brock, E. (eds.): Leiden und Lebenskunst. Biographical-philosophical studies on crises, therapies and transformations. Stuttgart: Metzler. S. 251-264.
• Burghardt, D. (2024): Omnipotent victims - On self-victimisation and anti-Semitism in the lateral thinking movement. In: Vennmann, S./Krüger, A.-M./Kronau, F. (eds.): Why anti-Semitism? On the politics of hostility towards Jews in the field of tension between collective and subject. Weilerswist: Velbrück Science. S. 192-207.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): Mass residues and ego analysis. On the critical theory of an emotion. In: Peskoller, H./Zirfas, J. (eds.): The art of enthusiasm. Anthropological insights and pedagogical practices. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 121-130.
• Burghardt, D. (2023): Opferfantasien - Zur Kritik des Antisemitismus in der Querdenken-Bewegung. In: Grigat, S. (ed.): Critique of anti-Semitism in the present. Manifestations - Theories - Combating. Baden-Baden. Nomos. S. 173-195.
• Burghardt, D. (2022): Cultural Politics of the New Right. On the attempt at a "cultural revolution from the right". In: Keuchel, S./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Normativity of Cultural Education. Munich: Kopaed Verlag. S. 183-193.
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M. (2022): Potential for injury. On Optimisation and Vulnerability in the Present - A Foreword. In: This (ed.): Injury potentials. Critical studies on vulnerability in neoliberalism. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 7-22.
• Burghardt, D. (2022): Critique of vulnerability. An attempt at a critical theory of vulnerability In: Burghardt, D./Krebs, M. (eds.): Verletzungspotentiale. Critical studies on vulnerability in neoliberalism. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 53-65.
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M. (2021): Film education. On the Theory, Aesthetics and Criticism of Film in Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 4: Modernity. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 125-145.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): Aesthetics after Auschwitz. Theodor W. Adorno's negative constellation of aesthetic education. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 4: Modernity. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 201-2018.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): Aesthetic Distinction. Pierre Bourdieu's cultural and educational sociology of taste. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 4: Modernity. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 287-304.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): Theories of revolutionary practice. Philosophical reflections on the revolutionary movements of 1917 and 1968. In: Thompson, Ch./Rieger-Ladich, M./Brinkmann, M. (eds.): Practices and forms of theory. Perspectives on the Philosophy of Education. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 73-90.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): OK User. On the materialistic basis of the digital attention economy. In: Bettinger, Patrick/Hofhues, Sandra/Kaspar, Kai/Jan Keden, Helmke/Moormann, Peter/Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Microformats. Media microformats between (re-)production and perception. Munich: kopaed. S. 117-123.
• Burghardt, D. (2021): The body in space. A rejoinder. In: Westphal, K./Stenger, U./Bilstein, J. (eds.): Thinking the body. Rewriting experiences. Weinheim: Beltz/Juventa. S. 43-49.
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M./Noack Napoles, J. (2021): Foreword. In: This (ed.): Thinking ahead - Perspectives on educational anthropology. Festschrift for Jörg Zirfas. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 9-12.
• Burghardt, D. (2020): Regression. A socio-psychological reminder of the present. In: Noack Napoles, J./Krebs, M. (eds.): Thinking movements - pedagogical-anthropological sketches. Weinheim: Belz Juventa. S. 170-178.
• Burghardt, D. (2020): Techniques of space. Reflections on the technocracy and technology of pedagogical spatial constellations. In: Bilstein, J./ Winzen, M./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Pedagogical anthropology of technology. Practices, objects and forms of life. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 261-271.
• Burghardt, D. (2020): Self-victimisation and right-wing extremism. On the links between vulnerability and authoritarianism. In: Thompson, Ch. et al. (eds.): Educational realities in times of fear and uncertainty. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 208-227.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2019): Ships and mirrors or the pedagogical heterotopias of upbringing and education. An introduction. In: Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (eds.) (2018): Pedagogical heterotopias. From A to Z. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 7-18.
• Burghardt, D. (2019): From character masks to the entrepreneurial self? Questions from critical pedagogy to critical sociology In: Ricken, N./Casale, R./Thompson, Ch. (eds.): Subjectivisation. Educational Sciences Theory Perspectives. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 179-198.
• Burghardt, D. (2019): Sting and seal. An essayistic attempt to clarify flight and homeland under populist conditions In: Althans, B./Daryan, N./Sorgo, G./Zirfas, J. (eds.): Flucht und Heimat. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 261-268.
• Burghardt, D. et al (2019): The question of vulnerability. An introduction. In: Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Lohwasser, D. et al. (eds.): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 1-14.
• Burghardt, D. (2019): Unhappiness in culture. Sigmund Freud's anthropological model of grievance and suffering. In: Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Lohwasser, D. et al. (eds.): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 15-36. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-20305-4_2)
• Burghardt, D. (2019): "Making suffering eloquent". Theodor W. Adorno's reflections on the damaged life. In: Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Lohwasser, D. et al. (eds.): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 36-56. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-20305-4_3)
• Burghardt, D./Krebs, M. (2019): The blood trail of education. Heinz-Joachim Heydorn's dialectic of education and domination. In: Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Lohwasser, D. et al. (eds.): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 73-90. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-20305-4_5)
• Burghardt, D./Dederich, M. (2019): Risky modernisation. Ulrich Beck's theory of social and individual vulnerability. In: Burghardt, D./Dederich, M./Lohwasser, D. et al. (eds.): Key works of vulnerability research. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 169-183. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-20305-4_10)
• Burghardt, D. (2018): Beyond the certain negation? Countering late capitalist forms of subjectivation. In: Bünger, C./Sanders, O./Schenk, S. (eds.): Bildung und Politik nach dem Spätkapitalismus. Hamburg: Argument Verlag. S. 122-139.
• Burghardt, D. (2018): With Foucault to football. The stadium as a pedagogical heterotopia. In: Glaser, E./Koller, H.-C./Thole, W./Krumme, S. (eds.): Räume für Bildung - Räume der Bildung. Contributions to the 25th Congress of the German Society for Educational Sciences. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich. S. 504-511.
• Burghardt, D./Höhne, T. (2018): Marxist pedagogy. A historical-systematic outline. In: Engelmann, S./Pfützner, R. (eds.): Socialism & Pedagogy. Relationship definitions and designs. Bielefeld: transcript. S. 197-216.
• Burghardt, D./Höhne, T. (2018): Impulses of critical educational theories for an anti-fascist pedagogy. In: Wolf, M. (ed.): Antifascist pedagogy. Aschaffenburg: Alibri publishing house. pp. 139-155 (Open Access: https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:3-31247).
• Burghardt, D. (2017): Participatory capitalism. Philosophical reflections on the social contradiction between education and participation. In: Miethe, I./Tervooren, A./Ricken, N. (eds.): Bildung und Teilhabe. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 179-195. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-13771-7_9)
• Burghardt, D. (2017): The birth of homo oeconomicus. A Critique of the Anthropological Justification of Capitalism. In: Bilstein, J./Zirfas, J. (eds.): The giving and the taking. Pedagogical-anthropological approaches to the social economy. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 178-195.
• Burghardt, D. (2017): Body and space: four perspectives. In: Sowa, H./Miller, M./Fröhlich, S. (Eds.): Bildung der Imagination Vol. 3. Embodied conceptions of space - Fundamentals. Oberhausen: Athena Verlag. S. 93-101.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2016): Anthropology and space: pedagogical approaches. In: Berndt, C./Kalisch, C./Krüger, A. (eds.): Forming spaces - pedagogical perspectives on space. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 51-62.
• Burghardt, D. (2016): Aesthetics as a catalyser. Wilhelm von Humboldt's cultural foundation of the educational ideal. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 89-103.
• Burghardt, D. (2016): Aesthetic necessity. Johann Friedrich Herbart's aesthetic ethics as the basis of pedagogy. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 145-156.
• Burghardt, D./Höhne, T. (2016): Aesthetics as revolutionary practice. The propaedeutics of a cultivated-reasonable society by Karl Marx. In: Zirfas, J. et al: History of Aesthetic Education. Volume 3.2: Classicism and Romanticism. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 223-239.
• Burghardt, D. (2016): Kaputtheilen. Homeland as a national prosthesis. In: Hinterland. Magazine of the Bavarian Refugee Council 33 (2016/17). S. 52-56. (Download: https://www.hinterland-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hinterland-magazin33-kaputtheilen_52.pdf)
• Burghardt, D. (2015): The scene of the beginning. Psychoanalytical remarks on the first interview and scenic understanding using the example of "In Treatment". In: Gödde, G./Pohlmann, W./Zirfas, J. (Eds.): Aesthetics of treatment. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. S. 191-204.
• Burghardt, D. (2015): Between the difference. On the pedagogical tact in ethnography using the example of Japan. In: Ders./Krinninger, D./Seichter, S. (eds.): Pädagogischer Takt. Theory - Empiricism - Culture. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 131-143.
• Burghardt, D./Krinniger, D./Seichter, S. (2015): Introduction. In: Ders./Krinninger, D./Seichter, S. (eds.): Pädagogischer Takt. Theory - empiricism - culture. Paderborn: Schöningh. S. 7-10.
• Burghardt, D. (2015): Localisations of the foreign. Notes on pedagogical-phenomenological border discourses. In: Brinkmann, M./Westphal, K. (eds.): Grenzerfahrungen. Phenomenology and anthropology of pedagogical spaces. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 40-54.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2015): Semi-education in the supermarket. Criticising culinary incapacitation. In: Althans, B./Bilstein, J. (eds.): Food - Education - Consumption. Pedagogical-anthropological perspectives. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. S. 245-266. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-01543-5_16)
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2014): Art and catastrophe. Perspectives from ethnographic school visits in the crisis region of Tôhoku (Japan). In: Westphal, K. et al. (eds.): Spaces of cultural education: National and transnational perspectives. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 116-134.
• Burghardt, D./Klepacki, L. (2013): Le Parkour - a subcultural form of movement between functional usefulness and dysfunctional end in itself? In: Jörissen, B/Westphal, K. (eds.): From street kid to media kid. Space and media research in the 21st century. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 218-232.
• Burghardt, D./Zirfas, J. (2012): Educational justice as participatory justice. Pedagogical reflections on equitable participation and participatory justice. In: Brenne, A./Sabisch, A./Schnurr, A. (eds.): Revisit. Fields of action in art education. Munich: Kopaed Verlag. S. 183-199.
• Burghardt, D. (2011): Youth scene today. In: Engelhardt, T. (ed.): Kindheit und Jugend im Wandel. Publication of the City Museum Erlangen, No. 60. Erlangen.

Reviews and media contributions

• Don't talk about the rope. A reply to A. Dirk Moses' essay "Erziehung nach Gaza nach der Erziehung nach Auschwitz" In: Jungle World 2025/41, URL: https://jungle.world/artikel/2025/41/gaza-auschwitz-a-dirk-moses-adorno-nicht-vom-strick-reden
• Branko Milanović: Visions of Inequality. From the French Revolution to the Present, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2024. In: sehepunkte 25 (2025), No. 5 [15 May 2025], URL: https://www.sehepunkte.de/2025/05/40255.html.
• Who suffers is right? In: Psychology Today 11/2024. https://www.psychologie-heute.de/gesellschaft/artikel-detailansicht/43729-wer-leidet-hat-recht.html
• Interview in the ARD Tagesschau (accurate): "What the AfD would change in schools (if it were allowed to)"
  In: ARD Tagesschau from 02/09/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8AJjmGcEs8&t=297shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8AJjmGcEs8&t=297s
• From antiquity to the Documenta: Review of Voigt, S. Der Judenhass. A story without end? Stuttgart: Hirzel publishing house. 2024. in: taz, 6.01.2024. https://taz.de/Geschichte-des-Antisemitismus/!5983572/
• Interview in the programme "Armutbezogene Stereoty bei Lehren" in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on 24.4.2024 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/armutsbezogene-stereotype-bei-lehrern-dlf-kultur-e268a90f-100.html
• Interview for the article "Bildungsgerechtigkeit. How important parents' income is" on DLF, 25 April 2024. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bildungsgerechtigkeit-soziales-armut-bildung-100.html
• Goetz, J./Burghardt, D. (2022): "Die neue deutsche Soziale Frage" - Rechte Deutungsmuster und Politikangebote am Beispiel der Wohn- und Mietenpolitik der AfD. In: Seng, Sebastian/Rezene, Dyana/Drücker, Ansgar (eds.): Klassismus und Rassismus - Dimensionen einer vielschichtigen Intersektion. Brochure of the Information and Documentation Centre for Antiracism Work. Düsseldorf, pp. 89-93 (Download: https://www.idaev.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/publikationen/Reader/2022_Klassismus_Rassismus.pdf)
• "40 years after the double murder". Interview with the "Jüdische Allgemeine" https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/40-jahre-nach-den-morden/
• Dammer, K. H./Vogel, T./Wehr, H. (eds.): On the topicality of critical theory for pedagogy. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. 2015. in: EWR 16 (2017), No. 2 (Published on 28 March 2017).http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978365809568.html
• Westphal, K. (ed.): Spaces of interruption. Theatre, performance, pedagogy. Oberhausen: Athena 2012. in: EWR 12 (2013), No. 1 (Published on 19 February 2013) http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978389896495.html

Memberships

• German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE)
• Society for Psychoanalytical Social Psychology (GfpS)
• Network for critical migration and border regime research (kritnet)
• Society for Historical Anthropology
• initiative critical remembrance erlangen e.V.
• Trade Union for Education and Science (GEW)
• AK Critical Educational Research of the Institute for Social Research (IfS)
• Interventions: Forum for Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis at the University of Innsbruck
• Research centre "Social Theory" at the University of Innsbruck
• Co-editor of the journal "Freie Assoziation - Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie"

Expert activities

• Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
• Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE)
• Journal for Pedagogy (ZfPäd)
• Quarterly journal for scientific pedagogy
• GENDER. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
• Advisory board of the Schriften zur kritischen Lebenskunst