Nils Riecken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nils Riecken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nils |
| FAMILY NAME | Riecken |
| SIGNATURE | RIECKEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5167-2278 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feindbild postkoloniale Studien
Postcolonial studies emerged as a critical-emancipatory tradition of criticism that analyzes historical forms of imperialism and colonial forms of knowledge and practice (such as racist exclusions) as constitutive of Western modernity. By now, this tradition is often declared the enemy of Western civilization. In recent years, it has been the target of attacks from the right and those who describe themselves as left-wing in Germany and beyond. Po…
Putting Secularism's Teleology in Its Place
Euro-American discourse on secularism has come to construe it as the foundation of modern democracy and as a civilizational asset of the West. Secularism's teleology posits the secular as an epistemological space in which Western societies have arrived through a successful and completed process of secularization, which the religious and racialized Others of Western modernity must duly follow. Taking Jürgen Habermas's conception of the secular and…
Hochschulpolitische Strategien gegen Antisemitismus und das deutsche Politische
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Riecken, Nils: Hochschulpolitische Strategien gegen Antisemitismus und das deutsche Politische, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 174-175 (2-2024), S. 214-232. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.05 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.12.2026 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und…
Practices of Timing and Critical Subjectivity
This essay argues that the texts by the contemporaryMoroccan intellectual, historian, and novelist Abdallah Laroui embody a critical form of subjectivity. It interprets this form of subjectivity as a practice of cultivating a situated universalist, self-reflexive attitude towards the making and unmaking of temporal relations. To do so, the essay focuses on Laroui’s thinking with what he calls the antinomy of history – the never ceasing tension be…
Introduction
This essay outlines the analytic perspective opened up by the concept of “relational lives” that informs the contributions to this special issue. It starts by explaining how the term “relational lives” draws attention to the constitutively relational, historical, and political character of knowledge about lives. The essay then critically discusses Eurocentrism as an influential practice of relation-making that effectively obscures the fundamental…
Heterotemporality, the Islamic Tradition, and the Political
If tradition has often figured as modernity's other, the Islamic tradition has long played the role of the modern constitutive other par excellence. Modern secularizing practices of timing and spacing feed this grounding of the political beyond the conceptual grip of tradition. The works by the Moroccan historian and philosopher Abdallah Laroui (b. 1933) put forward a concept of heterotemporality that distances itself from secularizing practices …
Modernity, Ḥadāthā, and Modernité in the Works of Abdallah Laroui
The puzzle this article examines is how one can study the concept of modernity within the history of its universalization as a process of translation. For this purpose, I look at how the contemporary Moroccan historian and intellectual Abdallah Laroui has critically engaged with the history, politics, and epistemology of translating modernity (Arabic ḥadāthā, French modernité) into his intellectual and political setting of Morocco, North Africa, …
Relational Difference and the Grounds of Comparison
This article examines how the Moroccan historian and intellectual Abdallah Laroui (born in 1933) develops a critique of centrist modes of representing difference. I argue that Laroui himself is situated within hegemonic, hierarchical, and centrist practices of comparison that treat the difference between “Europe” on one hand and “Islam” and “Arab culture” on the other as foundational. Despite being situated in this context, the article argues tha…
History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame
In this essay I discuss key elements of an original and hitherto neglected contribution by the Moroccan historian, intellectual, and theorist Abdallah Laroui to historical theory in a global frame: his historical epistemology of history and his theory of time and temporalities. I argue that Laroui develops a relational and dialectical form of translation that allows for translating between multiple forms of representing history and time. His atte…
History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame
In this essay I discuss key elements of an original and hitherto neglected contribution by the Moroccan historian, intellectual, and theorist Abdallah Laroui to historical theory in a global frame: his historical epistemology of history and his theory of time and temporalities. I argue that Laroui develops a relational and dialectical form of translation that allows for translating between multiple forms of representing history and time. His atte…
History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame
In this essay I discuss key elements of an original and hitherto neglected contribution by the Moroccan historian, intellectual, and theorist Abdallah Laroui to historical theory in a global frame: his historical epistemology of history and his theory of time and temporalities. I argue that Laroui develops a relational and dialectical form of translation that allows for translating between multiple forms of representing history and time. His atte…
Relational Difference and the Grounds of Comparison
This article examines how the Moroccan historian and intellectual Abdallah Laroui (born in 1933) develops a critique of centrist modes of representing difference. I argue that Laroui himself is situated within hegemonic, hierarchical, and centrist practices of comparison that treat the difference between “Europe” on one hand and “Islam” and “Arab culture” on the other as foundational. Despite being situated in this context, the article argues tha…
Practices of Timing and Critical Subjectivity
This essay argues that the texts by the contemporaryMoroccan intellectual, historian, and novelist Abdallah Laroui embody a critical form of subjectivity. It interprets this form of subjectivity as a practice of cultivating a situated universalist, self-reflexive attitude towards the making and unmaking of temporal relations. To do so, the essay focuses on Laroui’s thinking with what he calls the antinomy of history – the never ceasing tension be…
Introduction
This essay outlines the analytic perspective opened up by the concept of “relational lives” that informs the contributions to this special issue. It starts by explaining how the term “relational lives” draws attention to the constitutively relational, historical, and political character of knowledge about lives. The essay then critically discusses Eurocentrism as an influential practice of relation-making that effectively obscures the fundamental…
Heterotemporality, the Islamic Tradition, and the Political
If tradition has often figured as modernity's other, the Islamic tradition has long played the role of the modern constitutive other par excellence. Modern secularizing practices of timing and spacing feed this grounding of the political beyond the conceptual grip of tradition. The works by the Moroccan historian and philosopher Abdallah Laroui (b. 1933) put forward a concept of heterotemporality that distances itself from secularizing practices …
Modernity, Ḥadāthā, and Modernité in the Works of Abdallah Laroui
The puzzle this article examines is how one can study the concept of modernity within the history of its universalization as a process of translation. For this purpose, I look at how the contemporary Moroccan historian and intellectual Abdallah Laroui has critically engaged with the history, politics, and epistemology of translating modernity (Arabic ḥadāthā, French modernité) into his intellectual and political setting of Morocco, North Africa, …
Hochschulpolitische Strategien gegen Antisemitismus und das deutsche Politische
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: Riecken, Nils: Hochschulpolitische Strategien gegen Antisemitismus und das deutsche Politische, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 174-175 (2-2024), S. 214-232. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i2.05 ----- Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 11.12.2026 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und…
Putting Secularism's Teleology in Its Place
Euro-American discourse on secularism has come to construe it as the foundation of modern democracy and as a civilizational asset of the West. Secularism's teleology posits the secular as an epistemological space in which Western societies have arrived through a successful and completed process of secularization, which the religious and racialized Others of Western modernity must duly follow. Taking Jürgen Habermas's conception of the secular and…
Feindbild postkoloniale Studien
Postcolonial studies emerged as a critical-emancipatory tradition of criticism that analyzes historical forms of imperialism and colonial forms of knowledge and practice (such as racist exclusions) as constitutive of Western modernity. By now, this tradition is often declared the enemy of Western civilization. In recent years, it has been the target of attacks from the right and those who describe themselves as left-wing in Germany and beyond. Po…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Modernity (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Situated (3 works)