Leonie Hunter (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel. She earned her doctorate in philosophy at Goethe University and the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and has held positions at Offenbach University of Art and Design, Princeton University, Istituto Svizzero in Rome, and Justus Liebig University Gießen. Her current research project “Technologies of Social Abstraction” examines, drawing on early Frankfurt School theory, the relation between aesthetic, social, and technological abstraction. Her books include Das Drama im Politischen: Hegels Ästhetik als demokratietheoretischer Traktat (2023) and Tragischer Liberalismus (2024).