Dr. Marie Wuth

credits: M. Haefner

Marie Wuth is a postdoctoral researcher at “Practicing Place” based in Philosophy and Political Theory. Marie studied Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Freie Universität Berlin. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ESR and completed her PhD at the University of Aberdeen with a thesis on political agency and the concept of the political from an affect-theoretical perspective, building on Spinoza’s philosophy. Previously, Marie worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her current research examines how power relations, affects, sociocultural and ecological dynamics, shape political orders, structures of exploitation, and conditions of coexistence.

She works at the intersection of political philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory, environmental studies, and post-/decolonial thought. In her postdoctoral project “The State Otherwise,” she develops a critical genealogy of the modern state as a relational and imaginative practice of placing, grounded in the colonial and patriarchal conceptions of and relations between nature and politics. Through an examination of decolonial and feminist critiques of modernity, the project aims to open up epistemological, ontological, and material pathways for alternative democratic practices of political community grounded not in exclusion and mastery, but in relationality, reciprocity, and shared vulnerability. Her recent publications include “The Political is Affective” (Passion, forthcoming) as well as two co-edited volumes: “New Perspectives on Spinoza’s TTP: Politics, Power and the Imagination” (with Dan Taylor, Edinburgh University Press 2025) and “Decolonising Political Concepts” (with Valentin Clavé-Mercier, Routledge 2023). Marie Wuth is a political and social philosopher and a Postdoc in the RTG “Practicing Place”. She specialises in Philosophy of the Early Modern Era, Feminist Philosophy, Decolonial Theory, Environmental Ethics, and Affect Theory.

She holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, where she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher at the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History and wrote her thesis on “Acting in Concert and Conflict. Thinking ‘Political’ with Spinoza”. With Valentin Clavé-Mercier, she published the volume “Decolonising Political Concepts” with Routledge, London, in 2023.