Biography
Lasse Thomassen is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Society and Environment at Queen Mary University of London, and Deputy Director for Training at the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership. Previously, he taught at the University of Essex and the University of Limerick. He has written on Jürgen Habermas, identity politics, and radical politics, using deconstruction and discourse theory. In addition to many journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Deconstructing Habermas (2007), Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), British Multiculturalism and the Politics of Representation (2017) and most recently Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory (2026). He edited The Derrida-Habermas Reader (2006) and co-edited Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack (2005).
