Sean studied Political Theory and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich as well as German and Spanish Literature at the University of Florida, where his thesis examined Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and the deficiency of its reception by the next generation of the Frankfurt School. His research interests include Marxism, aesthetic theory, psychoanalysis, Machiavelli, Brecht, and revolution. His current work investigates the German Revolution of 1918-19 and its formative effects on social and intellectual life in the Weimar Republic.