Jasper Friedrich is Teaching Associate in Political Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School and a doctoral candidate in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and IR. His research concerns the politics of emotions and mental health, post-conflict reconciliation and Critical Theory. He draws on a wide range of sources in his works, including critical theory and continental political philosophy, but also analytic philosophy, sociological and psychological theory, and cognitive science, among other things. Currently, he is finishing up a DPhil thesis titled The Miserable is Political: A Critical Theory of Anger and Depression, which has been funded through the University of Oxford’s Clarendon Scholarship and the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Jacobsen Studentship. It explores how our emotions can help us understand and resist injustice and oppression, and links debates about immanent critique to work in feminist philosophy of emotions. His has published on topics like political apologies and the importance of anger for activist movements in journals like Political Theory and Hypatia.

Previously, Jasper has taught political theory at undergraduate level at various Oxford colleges. Prior to his DPhil, he completed an MSc Political Theory Research at Oxford, with a thesis on the politics of mental health and funding from an Oxford–Trygfonden Scholarship. Before that, he studied International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen.