Martin Hartmann is professor of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne. He focuses on political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of trust, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of emotions. He has published books on trust, John Dewey, the philosophy of emotions and articles on Critical Theory, pragmatism, trust, David Hume, Adam Smith, and the philosophy of emotions. His next book, The Feeling of Inequality: On Empathy, Empathy Gulfs, and the Political Psychology of Democracy, will be published with Oxford University Press.
Arvi Särkelä is Lecturer of Practical Philosophy at the University of Lucerne and Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He focuses on social philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of nature, and the history of philosophy. He has published many articles on Adorno, Dewey, Hegel, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. He is the author of the book Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey (Klostermann, 2018) and co-editor of John Dewey, Sozialphilosophie (with Axel Honneth, Suhrkamp, 2019), John Dewey and Social Criticism (with Federica Gregoratto and Just Serrano, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2017) and Pathologies of Recognition (with Arto Laitinen, Studies in Social and Political Thought, 2015).
