Winter semester 2024/25

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Summer semester 2024

• Space and Being
• The Ethics of Memory

Winter semester 2023/24

• Arendt, Weil, de Beauvoir – Concord as Dissonance
• Jean-Luc Nancy, Philosophy in Motion

Summer Semester 2023

• The Ethics of Existence
• The Effects of Art

Winter semester 2022/23

• Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
• Art and Memory
• Colloquium for Final-Year Theses

Summer Semester 2022

• Sensations – the difficult path to philosophy
• Jean-Paul Sartre and Absolute Commitment

Winter semester 2021/22

• Arthur Schopenhauer – When Philosophy Redefines Itself
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Aesthetics

Summer semester 2021

• Existential Philosophy
• Jewish Philosophy
• Thesis Seminar

Winter semester 2020/21

• Arthur Schopenhauer – A New Direction in Thought
• Contemporary French Philosophy – Four Female Voices

Summer Semester 2020

• Responses II
• Action and Inaction, Intention and Will
• Seminar on Final Theses

Winter semester 2019/20

• Answers
• Philosophy and Sustainability

Summer semester 2019

• Derrida’s Ethics
• Motivation, Opinion Formation, Manipulation
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations

Winter semester 2018/19

• Spinoza’s Interpretation of Reality
• “Building – Living – Thinking”

Summer Semester 2018

• Committed Thinking
• Philosophy under National Socialism
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations

Winter semester 2017/18

• Monism or Dualism – Two Models of Reality
• Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

Summer Semester 2017

• I, You – the Other
• Is rational thinking always thinking for the good?
• Seminar for final-year dissertations

Winter semester 2016/17

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Transcendence – Concept or Phenomenon?

Summer semester 2016

• Can I Will What I Will? An Outline of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
• Philosophy between the World Wars
• The Philosophy of Romanticism
• Franz Rosenzweig
• Seminar for final-year dissertations

Winter semester 2015/16

• Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein
• Beauty
• Humanism and Existence
• Jean-Luc Nancy
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations

Summer Semester 2015

• Action, Doing and Omission
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Concept of Responsibility in Modernity
• Postmodernism Project
• Colloquium for Final Theses

Winter semester 2014/15

• Nikolaus von Kues and Renaissance Thought
• Søren Kierkegaard – the Pioneer of Existential Philosophy
• Interpreting, Exegeting, Analysing – Fundamentals of Philosophical Text Analysis
• Affects
• Heidegger – A Thinker Under the Spell of the ‘Black Notebooks’

Summer Semester 2014

• ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’
• Jacques Derrida and the question of a postmodern ethics
• Colloquium for final-year dissertations

Winter semester 2013/14

• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Forms of Philosophy
• Moses Mendelssohn – A Thinker in Kant’s Time
• Arthur Schopenhauer and the Search for the Unconscious

Summer Semester 2013

• Heidegger – Thinker of Extremes
• Emmanuel Lévinas

Winter semester 2012/13

• Karl Jaspers
• Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt – Women Philosophers between the World Wars
• Aesthetics
• Introduction to Philosophy – Periods, Developments, Concepts

Summer Semester 2012

• Spinoza – A Worldview Redefined
• Questions in Philosophy
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Ways of Thinking