Bénédicte Zimmermann Editor

Lisa Herzog is professor of political philosophy and works at the intersection of political philosophy and economic thought. Since 2019 she has worked in the Faculty of Philosophy and the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen. She holds a Master’s degree in economics from LMU Munich and a Master of Studies in philosophy and a PhD in political theory from the University of Oxford. She has worked at or been invited to lecture at the universities of St. Gallen, Leuven, Frankfurt/Main, Utrecht and Stanford. She was a Rhodes Scholar(2007-2011) and in 2019 she received the Tractatus-Preis and the German Award for Philosophy and Social Ethics; in 2021 she received the Ammodo Science Award for her groundbreaking research. Herzog has published on the philosophical dimensions of markets (both historically and systemically), liberalism and social justice, ethics in organizations and the future of work. She is currently focusing on workplace democracy, professional ethics and the role of knowledge in democracies. Her publications include Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (2013), Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society (2018).

Bénédicte Zimmermann is professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She holds a Master’s degree in history from University Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, another one in political sciences and a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris. Her main research interests are in the social history of categories of public action; the sociology of work, organizations and workers’ life courses; and epistemologies and methodologies of the social sciences. Her publications include La constitution du chômage en Allemagne. Entre professions et territoires (2001), Ce que travailler veut dire. Une sociologie des parcours et des capacités (2014).