Biography

Linda Lilith Obermayr is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Vienna, where she conducts research on the emancipatory role of societal contradictions in (late) capitalism as part of her FWF-ESPRIT project Liberation and Contradiction [10.55776/ESP2279224]. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the Jahrbuch für marxistische Gesellschaftstheorie (Vienna/Berlin: Mandelbaum 2021f.). She was  Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, US (Robert Pippin) in 2022 and Visiting Scholar at the Northwestern University, US (Cristina Lafont) in 2025.

Research interests: Marxist theory, Classical German philosophy, Materialist legal critique, Critical theory, Political philosophy and social philosophy, Media theory.

https://univie.academia.edu/LindaLilithObermayr
https://www.jahrbuch-marxistische-gesellschaftstheorie.net/