Winter semester 2024/25

- Semester off -

Summer term 2024

• Space and being
• Ethics of remembrance

Winter term 2023/24

• Arendt, Weil, de Beauvoir - agreement as dissonance
• Jean-Luc Nancy, Philosophy in motion

Summer term 2023

• Ethics of existence
• The effects of art

Winter semester 2022/23

• Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
• Art and memory
• Colloquium for final theses

Summer term 2022

• Sensations - the difficult path to philosophy
• Jean-Paul Sartre and the absolute commitment

Winter term 2021/22

• Arthur Schopenhauer - When philosophy redefines itself
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Aesthetics

Summer term 2021

• Existential Philosophy
• Jewish Philosophy
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter term 2020/21

• Arthur Schopenhauer - A new departure in thought
• Contemporary French Philosophy - Four Female Voices

Summer term 2020

• Answers II
• Action and non-action, intention and volition
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2019/20

• Answers
• Philosophy and sustainability

Summer term 2019

• Derrida's ethics
• Motivation, opinion formation, manipulation
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2018/19

• Spinoza's interpretation of reality
• "Building - living - thinking"

Summer semester 2018

• Committed thinking
• Philosophy under National Socialism
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2017/18

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

Summer term 2017

• I, you - the other
• Is rational thinking always thinking for the good?
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2016/17

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Transcendence - concept or phenomenon?

Summer term 2016

• Can I want what I want? Basic features of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy
• Philosophy between the world wars
• Philosophy of Romanticism
• Franz Rosenzweig
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter term 2015/16

• Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Edith Stein
• The beautiful
• Humanism and existence
• Jean-Luc Nancy
• Colloquium for final theses

Summer term 2015

• Acting, doing and leaving
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• The concept of responsibility in modernity
• Project Postmodernism
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2014/15

• Nikolaus von Kues and the thinking of the Renaissance
• Sören Kierkegaard - the pioneer of existential philosophy
• Interpreting, interpreting, interpreting - the basics of philosophical text work
• Affects
• Heidegger - a thinker under the spell of the "Black Notebooks"

Summer term 2014

• "Building, living, thinking"
• Jacques Derrida and the question of postmodern ethics
• Colloquium for final theses

Winter semester 2013/14

• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Forms of philosophy
• Moses Mendelssohn - A thinker at the time of Kant
• Arthur Schopenhauer and the search for the unconscious

Summer term 2013

• Heidegger - thinker of extremes
• Emmanuel Lévinas

Winter term 2012/13

• Karl Jaspers
• Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt - Women philosophers between the world wars
• Aesthetics
• Basic knowledge of philosophy - epochs, developments, concepts

Summer term 2012

• Spinoza - A world view is redefined
• Questions of philosophy
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Ways of thinking