Cornelia Klinger studied Philosophy, Literature and Art History at the University of Cologne, and obtained her doctorate in 1981 for her research on "Die politische Funktion der transzendentalphilosophischen Theorie der Freiheit". She received her habilitation in 1992 at the University of Tübingen (Germany) with a study on "Ästhetische Modernität und 'Wiederverzauberung der Welt'. Der Ort der Romantik im Prozeß der Moderne". From 1978 to 1983 she served as Assistant Professor at the Department of German Language and Literature at Cologne University. Klinger taught and gave lectures as Visiting Professor for Women Studies at the Universities of Vienna, Zürich, Bielefeld, Frankfurt, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Tübingen and Munich. Since 1983 she is Permanent Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna and, since 2003, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen.

While working in several research areas, she focuses mainly on Gender Studies, Political Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Selected Publications

Die Erfindung des Subjekts, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp (forthcoming)

Über-Kreuzungen. Fremdheit, Ungleichheit, Differenz (edited with Gudrun-Axeli Knapp), Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2008

Achsen der Ungleichheit. Zum Verhältnis von Klasse, Geschlecht und Ethnizität (edited with Gudrun-Axeli Knapp and Birgit Sauer), Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2007

Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarden (edited with Wolfgang Müller-Funk), München: Fink Verlag, 2004

Flucht - Trost - Revolte. Die Moderne und ihre ästhe­tischen Gegenwelten, München: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1995.