• CV

      Education

      Doctoral Studies in Political Science, University of Münster (Doctoral Thesis: "The normativity of agonistic politics. Conflict regulation and institutional design in pluralist democracy")
      Studies in Political Science, Communication Science, and Modern and Contemporary History (M.A.), University of Münster (Master Thesis: "Democracy without consensus? An examination of models of agonistic democracy")
      Studies in Political Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

      Positions

      Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie mit dem Schwerpunkt Politik und Religion, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
      Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Theoretische Grundfragen der Normenbegründung in Medizinethik und Biopolitik", Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
      Gastforscherin am Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, Großbritannien (Betreuer: Prof. Graham Smith)
      Student and Graduate Assistant at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics, University of Münster
      Student Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Chair for Political Theory and Politics and Religion (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems)
      Student Assistant in the Research Project "Risk Perception in the Case of Nanotechnology: Analysis of Media Coverage", Institute of Communication Science, University of Münster (Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohring, Prof. Dr. Frank Marcinkowski)

  • Teaching

    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [064868]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Dr. Markus Patberg, Dr. Max Schulte, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Tobias Albrecht, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein, Carsten Wegscheider, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz, Dr. Felix Petersen, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Jun.-Prof. Svenja Ahlhaus, Dr. Ivo Hernandez)
    • Lektürekurs: Political Theory of Revolution [064145]
    • Lektürekurs: The Theory and Practice of Political Participation [064144]
    • Standardkurs: Basics of the history of political ideas [062149]
    • Standardkurs: Introduction to the theory of democracy [062148]
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [060122]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer, Henning Höber, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Max Schulte, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Karsten Mause, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein, Dr. Mareike Gebhardt, Dr. Mitja Sienknecht, Prof. Doris Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Mariano Barbato, Thomas Altmeppen, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, apl. Prof. Oliver Hidalgo, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt)
    • Bachelorseminar: Who are we in Crisis? Democracy and University in times of Corona [060130]
    • Lektürekurs: Let's talk about Capitalism. A Conversation with Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi [068042]
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [068122]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Prof. Doris Fuchs, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Thomas Altmeppen, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Marius Dotzauer, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein, PhD Le Anh Nguyen Long, Dr. Mareike Gebhardt)
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [068115]
      (in cooperation with Franz Henne, Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Dr. Max Schulte, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Marius Dotzauer, Dr. Karsten Mause, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein, Svenja Hense, Dr. Mareike Gebhardt, Dr. Hendrik Meyer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Prof. Doris Fuchs, apl. Prof. Oliver Hidalgo, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems)
    • Hauptseminar: Political theory (2 courses) [068089]
    • Lektürekurs: Political Representation [066038]
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [066101]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Dr. Max Schulte, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Karsten Mause, PhD Le Anh Nguyen Long, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schubert, Dr. Hendrik Meyer, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Prof. Doris Fuchs, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Joachim Benedikt Pahl, Thomas Altmeppen, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Uwe Hunger, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems)
    • Hauptseminar: The Politics and Ideology of the New Right [066071]
    • Hauptseminar: Political theory (course 2) [064029]
    • Hauptseminar: Political theory (course 1) [064028]
    • Lektürekurs: Populism as a Challenge to Democracy [062081]
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [062091]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Dr. Max Schulte, Dr. Claudia Ritzi, Dr. Karsten Mause, PhD Le Anh Nguyen Long, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schubert, Dr. Mujtaba Isani, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Dr. Hendrik Meyer, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Prof. Doris Fuchs, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Uwe Hunger, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt)
    • Hauptseminar: Dancing with Wolves: Social Contract Theory since Hobbes [062046]
    • Lektürekurs: Populism as a Challenge to Democracy [060028]
    • Hauptseminar: Political theory (course 1) [060039]
    • Lektürekurs: State instead of war – the taming of violence in Thomas Hobbes [068018]
    • Hauptseminar: Module Structure of Matter [068105]
    • Lektürekurs: Agonistic democracy: theorising politics as conflict [066183]
    • Lektürekurs: Power and politics in Macchiavelli and Hobbes [064105]
    • Hauptseminar: Political Theory (Course 2) [062065]
    • Praktikum: Internship Report [065674]
      (in cooperation with Priv.-Doz. Ingo Take, Gabi Krichel, Bernhard Frevel, Norbert Konegen, Dr. Ricardo Lagos Andino, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Matthias Teichert, Detlef Braun, Erich Röper, Rainer Frey, Dr. Ludger Vielemeier, Prof. Dr. Dirk van den Boom)

  • Research Areas

    • Political Theory
    • Democratic Theory, esp. Agonistic Democracy
    • Pluralism and normative disagreements
    • Political conflict regulation
    • Institutions and democratic innovations

  • Publications

    Review articles (Journals)
    • Westphal, Manon; Willems, Ulrich. . ‘Doing Realist Political Theory: Introduction.’ Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) 26, No. 3: 319–334. doi: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2120654.
    Special issues of Journals

    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Westphal Manon (Hrsg.): . Agonale Demokratie und Staat. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
    Articles
    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘For an Agonistic Element in Realist Legitimacy.’ Social theory and practice (online first). doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract20211217150.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Transformative Contextual Realism.’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (online first). doi: 10.1007/s10677-021-10248-7.
    Research articles (Book Contributions)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Uniting Through Opposition: The Chains of Equivalence Politics of the Populist Right and Its Use of Religion.“ In Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond. Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives, herausgegeben von Hennig Anja, Weiberg-Salzmann Mirjam, 93–124. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Das Politische, agonale Politik, und das Widerständige der politischen Praxis.“ In Das Politische (in) der Politischen Theorie, herausgegeben von Flügel-Martinsen Oliver, Martinsen Franziska, Saar Martin, 121–139. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Modus Vivendi Toleration.’ In The Palgrave Handbook on Toleration, edited by Sardoč Mitja, 1–20. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03227-2_14-1.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Einleitung: Agonale Demokratie – Institutionen(kritik) – Staat.“ In Agonale Demokratie und Staat, herausgegeben von Westphal Manon, 9–22. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Kritik- und Konfliktkompetenz als Auftrag politischer Bildung.“ Journal für politische Bildung 4: 28–33.
    Research articles (Book Contributions)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Politische Institutionen als Gegenstand agonaler Demokratietheorie: Kritik und Design.“ In Institutionen des Politischen. Perspektiven der radikalen Demokratietheorie, herausgegeben von Herrmann Steffen, Flatscher Matthias, 203–224. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Populismus in der politischen Theorie.“ In Populismus – Staat – Demokratie. Ein interdisziplinäres Streitgespräch, herausgegeben von Panreck Isabelle-Christine, 157–175. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Agonistic Compromise.’ In Compromises in Democracy, edited by Baume Sandrine, Novak Stéphanie, 95–120. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Digitale Öffentlichkeiten und politisches Handeln.“ In Demokratieerziehung und die Bildung digitaler Öffentlichkeit, herausgegeben von Binder Ulrich, Drerup Johannes, 13–27. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Horton John, Westphal Manon, Willems Ulrich (Eds.): . The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi. Heidelberg: Springer VDI Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-79078-7.
    Articles
    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Overcoming the Institutional Deficit of Agonistic Democracy.’ Res Publica. A Journal of Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy 25, No. 2: 187–210. doi: 10.1007/s11158-018-9397-2.
    Research articles (Book Contributions)
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘What Bonds Citizens in a Pluralistic Democracy? Probing Mouffe’s Notion of a Conflictual Consensus.’ In New Perspectives on Distributive Justice. Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem of Consensus, edited by Knoll Manuel, Snyder Stephen, Șimşek Nurdane, 259–274. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Institutions of Modus Vivendi Politics.’ In The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi, edited by Horton John, Westphal Manon, Willems Ulrich, 255–272. Heidelberg: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Theorising Modus Vivendi.’ In The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi, edited by Horton, John, Westphal Manon, Willems Ulrich, 1–27. Heidelberg: Springer VDI Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Antagonism on Animal Farm. Illustrating Chantal Mouffe's Hegemony Theory with George Orwell's Classic.’ In The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies. Bridging Two Worlds, edited by Hamenstädt Ulrich, 79–94. Heidelberg: Springer VDI Verlag.

    Books (Monographs)
    • Westphal Manon. . Die Normativität agonaler Politik. Konfliktregulierung und Institutionengestaltung in der pluralistischen Demokratie. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
    Articles
    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Kritik- und Konfliktkompetenz. Eine demokratietheoretische Perspektive auf das Kontroversitätsgebot.“ Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 68, No. 13-14: 12–17.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Verfassungen in pluralistischen Demokratien. Unbestimmtheit als politische Ressource.“ Zeitschrift für Politik (Sonderband, herausgegeben von Michael Hein, Felix Petersen und Silvia von Steinsdorff) Sonderband 9: 103–120.
    • Levente, Balogh László; Rojek, Tim; Westphal, Manon. . ‘Politikai döntések a gyorsuló idöben.’ Metszetek 7, No. 4: 185–205. doi: 10.18392/metsz/2018/4/11.
    • Müller-Salo Johannes, Westphal Manon. . „Zeitpolitik. Beschleunigung als Herausforderung der politischen Philosophie.“ Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 5, No. 2: 15–40. doi: 10.22613/zfpp/5.2.1.
    Research articles (Book Contributions)
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Compromise as a Normative Ideal for Pluralistic Politics.’ In Compromise and Disagreement in Contemporary Political Theory, edited by Rostbøll Christian, Scavenius Theresa, 79–94. New York: Routledge.

    • Westphal Manon. . „Recht in einer Politik des Konfliktes.“ In Politik und Recht. Umrisse eines politikwissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldes, herausgegeben von Frick Verena, Lembcke Oliver W., Lhotta Roland, 377–394. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
    • Westphal Manon. . „Reform und Innovation als Strategien einer radikaldemokratischen Kritik staatlicher Institutionen.“ In Radikale Demokratie. Zum Staatsverständnis von Chantal Mouffe und Ernesto Laclau, herausgegeben von Hetzel Andreas, 107–126. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . ‘Egyetértés a pluralizmus feltételei mellett: a „konfliktusos konszenzus“ gondolata.’ Meditor 6: 131–147.
    Research articles (Book Contributions)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Antagonismus auf der Animal Farm. Chantal Mouffes Hegemonietheorie veranschaulicht an der Verfilmung des Klassikers von George Orwell.“ In Politische Theorie im Film, herausgegeben von Hamenstädt Ulrich, 253–275. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

    • Westphal Manon. . „Jenseits des Konsens-Ideals: Deliberation in der agonalen Demokratie.“ In Deliberative Demokratie in der Diskussion. Herausforderungen, Bewährungsproben, Kritik, herausgegeben von Schmalz-Bruns Rainer, Landwehr Claudia, 305–337. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

    Research articles (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Pluralismus und A(nta)gonismus: Chantal Mouffes agonale Demokratietheorie.“ Preprints and Working Papers of the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics 56: 1–34.
    Reviews (Journals)
    • Westphal Manon. . „Karen Zivi: Making Rights Claims. A Practice of Democratic Citizenship.“ Politische Vierteljahresschrift 54, No. 1: 194–196.

  • Talks

    • Westphal, Manon (): „Can the Idea of Democratic Resistance be Institutionalised?“ Workshop "Widerstand und Demokratie. Zur Normativität politischen Protests", Universität Wien, Wien, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Context and Critique in Realist Political Theory’. Workshop "Political Normativity: Realism meets Critics", University of Milan, Milan, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Uniting Through Opposition: The Chains of Equivalence Politics of the Populist Right and Its Use of Religion’. ECPR General Conference, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Modus Vivendi, Toleration, and the Politicised Relationship Between Liberal Democracy and its Critics’. ECPR General Conference, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Political Realism and Contextualism’. Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) 2019 Annual Conference, Newcastle University, Newcastle, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „Political Institutions as a Subject of Agonistic Democratic Theory: Critique and Design“. Tagung "Institutionen des Politischen. Theorie und Kritik", Universität Wien, Wien, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘For a Realist Turn in Agonistic Democracy’. CPP Colloquium, Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, Leiden, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Agonistic Compromise’. ECPR General Conference, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘The Political, the Social, and Realist Assessments of the Status Quo’. Conference "Doing Realist Political Theory", University of Münster, Münster, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Realism and the Embeddedness of the Political’. Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) 2018 Annual Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Democracy and Agonistic Compromise’. Workshop "How do compromise and democracy get along?", University of Lausanne, Lausanne, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Legitimacy, Domination, and the Case for an Agonistic Element in Realist Political Theorising’. Workshop "Vocations of Realistic Political Theory", Bilkent University, Ankara, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „Democracy and Disagreement. Potentials of Agonistic Politics“. "Wilde Theorie" (Bremer Kolloquium für Politische Theorie), Universität Bremen, Bremen, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „The Political and the Resistance of Political Practice“. "Das Politische (in) der politischen Theorie" Tagung der DVPW-Sektion "Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte", Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘For an Agonistic Element in Realist Legitimacy’. MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, Manchester, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘For an Agonistic Element in Realist Legitimacy’. 11th ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, .
    • Müller-Salo, Johannes; Westphal, Manon (): „Time Politics. The time-sociological challenge to political philosophy“. Workshop für politische Philosophie, Flensburg, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Compromise and the Problem of Power’. Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) 2017 Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Compromise and the Problem of Power’. Conference "Compromise and Moral Conflict: Theory and Practice", Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Compromise and the Problem of Power’. Workshop "Peace beyond Justice. Compromise and Modus Vivendi", Centre for Studies in Ethics and Politics, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, .
    • Westphal Manon (): „Constitutions in pluralistic democracies. Indeterminacy as a political resource“. 6. Tagung der DVPW-Themengruppe „Politik und Recht“: Die Grenzen der Verfassung, Berlin, .
    • Westphal Manon (): ‘Institutions of Modus Vivendi Politics’. MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester, .
    • Westphal Manon (): ‘Relating Modus Vivendi Theory and Institutional Design’. 24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science „Politics in a World of Inequality”, Poznan, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Institutions of Modus Vivendi Politics’. International Conference "Modus Vivendi" (Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics), Münster, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Dealing with deep disagreements in pluralistic democracies: The political value of compromising’. Association for Social and Political Philosophy (formerly ALSP) 2015 Annual Conference, Amsterdam, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Compromise as a normative ideal for pluralistic politics’. International Conference "Compromise and Disagreement" (University of Copenhagen), Copenhagen, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Overcoming the Institutional Deficit of Agonistic Democracy’. Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory (University of Princeton), Princeton, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Applying principles of agonistic politics to institutional design’. ECPR General Conference (University of Glasgow), Glasgow, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Dealing with Pluralism – Conceptual and Normative Dimensions of Political Theory’. 23rd IPSA World Congress of Political Science "Challenges of Contemporary Governance", Montréal, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Contestation and Deliberation. Political Participation under Conditions of Pluralism’. CSD Encounter with James Tully (Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster), London, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Pluralism and the Idea of a 'Conflictual Consensus'’. International Conference "Pluralism and Conflict: Distributive Justice beyond Rawls and Consensus", Istanbul, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): ‘Concepts of Pluralism as Foundations of Political Theory’. International Conference "Pluralism and Democracy" (Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics), Münster, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „Beyond the Ideal of Consensus: Deliberation in Agonistic Democracy“. Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für politische Wissenschaft "Die Idee Deliberativer Demokratie in der Bewährungsprobe" (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Hannover, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „Deep Pluralism and Politics of Becoming: William E. Connolly's Agonistic Democracy“. Bioethik – Pluralismus – Religion: Workshop mit H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Normenbegründung"), Münster, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „Pluralism and the limits of liberal justice“. Philosophische Studienwoche "Gerechtigkeit und Differenz" (Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing), Tutzing, .
    • Westphal, Manon (): „On the role of autonomy in models of democratic conflict regulation: liberal and pluralistic perspectives“. Workshop "Liberalismus und Pluralismus" (Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Normenbegründung"), Münster, .