Mika Ojakangas
Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Political Thought, University of Jyväskylä
Mika Ojakangas received his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki
in 1997. Before his appointment as
Professor of Political
Thought at the University of Jyväskylä in 2010, he worked as a
Research Fellow of
the Academy of Finland (2005–2010) and of
the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2002–2005).
Ojakangas’ research areas are continental political theory,
the history of political and ethical thought,
conceptual history
and political theology. Ojakangas’ books include The Voice of
Conscience: A Political
Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience
(2013) and A Philosophy of Concrete Life: Carl Schmitt and the
Political Thought of Late Modernity (2006). He is a co-editor (with
Susanna Lindberg and Sergei Prozorov)
of the volume Europe
Beyond Universalism and Particularism (2014).
Ojakangas is currently the director of the project ‘The
Intellectual Heritage of Radical Cultural Conservatism’,
financed
by the Academy of Finland (2013–2017). He has also been the
director of the project ‘Rethinking
Cultural Diversity in Europe:
Beyond Universalism and Particularism’, financed by the University
of Helsinki
(2010–2012).
During his stay at SCAS, Ojakangas will work on biopolitics in
ancient Greece, focusing particularly on the
political thought of
Plato and Aristotle.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.
