Teaching
Teaching
Winter term 2024/25
Summer term 2024
- Karl Marx: Capital
- Introduction to animal ethics
- Free will (incompatibilism, leeway compatibilism, origin compatibilism and scepticism)
- Current contributions to the ethical foundations of critical theory
Winter semester 2023/24
Summer term 2023
- Free will and determinism
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Introduction to philosophical ethics
- Key works of critical theory
Winter semester 2022/23
Summer term 2022
- Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
- Animals like us: Why we have moral duties towards animals
Winter semester 2021/22
Summer term 2021
Winter semester 2020/21
- Doubt in René Descartes and David Hume
- The discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas
- Martha C. Nussbaum: The Limits of Justice
Summer semester 2020
- Plato's Politeia
- The loss of virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre)
- Max Horkheimer: On the Critique of Instrumental Reason
Winter semester 2019/20
- Introduction to the theory of knowledge
- Karl Marx: Capital (continued)
- The discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas
Summer semester 2019
Winter semester 2018/19
Summer term 2018
- Introduction to philosophical ethics
- Recent theories of alienation
- The phenomenon of the masses (Canetti, Gasset, Le Bon, Tarde)
- The critical theory of the Frankfurt School
Winter semester 2017/18
- Plato's Politeia
- Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
- The Sophists in Plato
- David Hume: An Enquiry into the Human Mind
Summer term 2017
Winter semester 2016/17
Summer semester 2016
Winter semester 2015/16
Summer term 2015
- Classics of contract theory: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
- Adorno: On the doctrine of history and freedom
- Philosophical colloquium
Winter term 2014/15
- Introduction to Adorno's social philosophy
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Plato's Politeia
- Philosophical Colloquium
Summer term 2014
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Hannah Arendt - Vita activa or On the active life
- Philosophical colloquium
Winter term 2013/14
- Justice - How we do the right thing
- Philosophy of economics in Hegel and Honneth
- Colloquium for final theses (together with apl. Prof. Dr Hans-Georg Bensch and Dr Ingo Elbe)
Summer term 2013
Winter term 2012/13
Events at the Open University of Hagen
Winter term 2012/13
Marx and Marxism (with Prof Dr Thomas Bedorf)
Summer semester 2010 and winter semester 2010/11
Techniques of academic work in philosophy studies - reading philosophical texts and writing written exams and seminar papers
Summer semester 2009 and winter semester 2009/10
Introduction to Theoretical and Practical Philosophy
Events at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
Winter term 2014/2015
Theories of anti-Semitism (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Adorno's social philosophy (with Martin Mettin)
Summer term 2014
Late capitalism, authoritarian character, culture industry. Introduction to the thinking of the Frankfurt School (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Winter term 2013/2014
What money can't buy. Justice and injustice
in the market society (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Summer term 2013
Culture and Politics in Critical Theory (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Winter term 2012/2013
Classics of Social Philosophy (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Summer term 2012
Introduction to the theory of the state
Winter term 2011/2012
Fundamentals of critical theory (with Dr Ingo Elbe)
Summer term 2011
The contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls (with Dr Ingo Elbe)