Sabine Sander

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sociology

Sabine Sander is a Research Associate and former Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, working in the Lawrence Krader Research Project. The focus of the Research Project is the edition and publication of unpublished manuscripts of the late philosopher and ethnographer Lawrence Krader, archived in Mills Library. She also teaches Cultural Studies and Philosophy at the University of Koblenz in Germany. From 2008 to 2014 she worked on a German Israeli Research project on linguistic and cultural theories in the German-Jewish context, as well as in a research group on Religious Individualization in Historical Perspectives at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig. Her interests include human rights, cultural, social, and linguistic theories, philosophy of language, Jewish philosophy, anthropology, the history of ideas, sociology of knowledge, and aesthetics. Alongside of numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of Dialogic Responsibility. Concepts of Mediation and Understanding of Otherness in the German-Jewish Context (2017), for which she was awarded the Max Weber Award. She earned her Ph.D. with a thesis about the aesthetic concepts of Theodor W. Adorno and Jean-François Lyotard (2008) and is the author of Dialogische Verantwortung (2017) and the editor of Myth and Ideology (2021) as well as Language as Bridge and Border (2015).

Together with Cyril Levitt, she is currently working on an edition of Lawrence Krader’s unpublished linguistic, semantic, and aesthetic writings and on a volume of his miscellaneous philosophical writing that are under contract with Peter Lang publisher.