Mathias Hein Jessen

Presentation

Mathias Hein Jessen is a post doc at the Department of Business and Politics, CBS, and part of the CISTAS-project (Civil Society in the Shadow of the State - http://cistas.dk/). He holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Philosophy from CBS and an MA and PhD in The History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He has worked extensively on the history of political and economic thought as well as contemporary sociology and political theory and philosophy. He works in the cross-field between philosophy, politics, economics, law, sociology and history (of ideas). He is interested in the interrelation between state, market and civil society. His current work concentrates on how the distinction and demarcation between state, market and civil society is constantly produced and constructed and how this entails a construction of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ civil society.

Primary research areas

• History of political and economic thought
• State and civil society
• Political thought and philosophy
• Corporations, organizations, associations
• Business and society