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Dr. Samantha Fazekas

Dr. Samantha Fazekas

Teaching Fellow, Philosophy

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Biography

Samantha is a Teaching Fellow in Political Philosophy. She has taught at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany; Dublin City University; and Trinity College Dublin.

Her research areas are in political and moral philosophy, Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. She completed her Ph.D. at TCD in 2023.
Her thesis justifies Hannah Arendt's appropriation of Immanuel Kant's aesthetic reflective judgment as a means for political decision-making.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Samantha Fazekas, This philosophical theory can help you stop taking criticism personally, 2023, -Miscellaneous, 2023, URL
  • Samantha Fazekas, Leaving Phronesis Behind: Arendt's Turn to Kant, Works of Philosophy and Their Reception, 2024Journal Article, 2024, URL
  • Samantha Fazekas, Maria Robaszkiewicz, Michael Weinman: Hannah Arendt and Politics, Review of Hannah Arendt and Politics, by Maria Robaszkiewicz, Michael Weinman , Phenomenological Reviews, 2025Review, 2025, URL
  • Samantha Fazekas, Sacrificing the Truth to Friendship, 2025, -Miscellaneous, 2025, URL
  • Samantha Fazekas, Kants Liebe zur Welt/Kant's Love for the World, Internationale Politische Theorie, 2025Journal Article, 2025
  • Samantha Fazekas, Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging, Thinking with Arendt, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025Book, 2025
  • Samantha Fazekas, Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Theory of Political Judgment, Trinity College Dublin, 2023Thesis

Research Expertise

Samantha's research interests are in political and moral philosophy, Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. Her Ph.D. thesis has been published as a book (Fazekas, Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Chapter on Judging, Boston/Berlin: De Grouter, 2025).

Her book develops a new reading of Hannah Arendt's interpretation of Immanuel Kant's aesthetic reflective judgment. I justify Arendt's claim that she brings Kant's unwritten political philosophy to fruition by appropriating reflective judgment as a model for political judgment. The novelty of this claim is that it situates reflective judgment in Arendt's political thought - without compromising the integrity of Kant's aesthetics or Arendt's conception of politics. By developing an Arendtian phenomenology of privacy, I offer a new reading of Arendt's public-private distinction. It has the potential to square the formality of reflective judgment with the publicity and worldliness of political judgment.

Recognition

  • Academic Achievement Award (Loyola University Maryland) 10/2011 and 10/2014
  • Postgraduate Teaching Award (Trinity College Dublin) 04/2019
  • DAAD Doctoral Research Scholarship 10/2021-10/2022
  • Postgraduate Research Studentship (Trinity College Dublin) 08/2018-08/2021
  • Lonergan Scholarship (Boston College) 08/2015-05/2017
  • Alice M. Lage Memorial Scholarship (Loyola University Maryland) 08/2014-05/2015
  • Academy of American Poets Prize 05/2015
  • Travel Grant (Trinity College Dublin Trust) 11/2023
  • Travel Grant (Trinity College Dublin Trust) 11/2024
  • Ayd Philosophy Medal (Loyola University Maryland) 05/2015
  • National Fellows Summer Research Grant (Loyola University Maryland) 04/2014
  • Junior Scholar Research Grant (Boston College) 04/2016
  • Presidential Scholarship (Loyola University Maryland) 08/2011-05/2015
  • Dermot McAleese Teaching Award (Trinity College Dublin) 09/2019
  • Catholic Studies Research Grant (Loyola University Maryland) 04/2014