University of Oldenburg. Institute of Philosophy

Winter semester 2026/27

• Hermeneutic anti-realism and realist philosophy
• Postcolonial Theory Under Scrutiny – Voices from the ‘Global South’ Against Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
• What is anti-Semitism?

Summer semester 2026

• A Critical Reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s ‘Provincialising Europe’

• The Question of God – Philosophy of Religion as a Critique of Religion

Winter semester 2025/26

• Postcolonial Theory under Scrutiny – from Said to Ndlovu-Gatsheni
• What is anti-Semitism?
• An Introduction to Modern Political Philosophy: From Hobbes to Mouffe

Summer semester 2025

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• Materialist Theories of Racism

Winter semester 2024/25

• Postmodern Anti-Realism: Michel Foucault’s Agonal Interpretativism
• Carl Schmitt – Philosophy of the (Geo-)Political: State, Partisan, Spatial Order
• An Introduction to Modern Political Philosophy: From Hobbes to Arendt

Summer semester 2024

• Postcolonial Theory under Scrutiny – from Said to Mbembe
• What is Anti-Semitism? Part 2
• David Hume’s Critique of Religion

Winter semester 2023/24

• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• What is anti-Semitism? Part 1
• Current Perspectives on Anti-Racism

Summer semester 2023

• Concepts of the Political. An Introduction to Modern Political Philosophy
• A classic of the Counter-Enlightenment: Joseph de Maistre’s ‘Anti-Social Contract’ – with digressions on the New Right and the debate on ‘cultural appropriation’
• Postcolonial Theory under Scrutiny – from Said to Mbembe

Winter semester 2022/23

• What is anti-Semitism?
• Silent Coercion – Concepts of Power in Marx
• Introduction to the philosophy of law

Summer semester 2022

• The Philosophy of Zionism
• An Introduction to Modern Political Philosophy
• Interest-Based Ethics

Winter semester 2021/22

• Marxism, the State and Anarchy – Max Adler’s ‘The Concept of the State in Marxism’
• What is Anti-Semitism? Philosophical, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives
• Theories of Power from Hobbes to Foucault

Summer semester 2021

• Problems of Anti-Racism: ‘Critical Whiteness’ from a Philosophical Perspective
• Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political / The Theory of the Partisan
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• Critique of Economics and Ideology in Karl Marx

Winter semester 2020/21

• A Classic of the Counter-Enlightenment: Joseph de Maistre’s ‘Anti-Social Contract’
• What is anti-Semitism? Philosophical, psychological and sociological perspectives
• Postmodern Marxism? Louis Althusser’s ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’

Summer semester 2020

• Postcolonial theory under scrutiny
• Problems of anti-racism: ‘Critical Whiteness’ from a philosophical perspective
• An Introduction to Karl Marx: Alienation – Capital – Revolution
• Dictatorship as a topic in political philosophy: Marxism – Fascism – Liberalism

Winter semester 2019/20

• From Karl Marx to Post-Marxism
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• Philosophy of Understanding. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Hermeneutics

Summer semester 2019

• What is anti-Semitism? Philosophical, psychological and sociological perspectives
• Interest-Based Ethics
• Introduction to Political Philosophy – From the Modern Era to the Present Day

Winter semester 2018/19

• From Conservatism to the ‘New Right’ – Theoretical Sources and Contemporary Contributions
• An Introduction to Karl Marx: Alienation – Capital – Revolution

Summer semester 2018

• Racism and Anti-racism from a Philosophical Perspective
• Concepts of the Political. An Introduction to Political Philosophy
• Dictatorship as a topic in political philosophy
• Research Colloquium: Political Existentialism – From Carl Schmitt to the Invisible Committee

Summer Semester 2017

• What is anti-Semitism? Philosophical, psychological and sociological perspectives
• The Moral Philosophy of Collective Guilt: From Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers to the Present Day
• What is Law? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• Fundamental themes in the political philosophy of right-wing populism and fascism – using Carl Schmitt as an example

Winter semester 2016/17

• The Political Philosophy of Populism. ‘Hegemony’ and ‘Radical Democracy’ in the Work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
• Theories of Property from Antiquity to the Present Day
• Research Colloquium on Political Philosophy and Colloquium for PhD Theses and Final Dissertations

Summer semester 2016

• Philosophical Contributions to the Theory of Fascism
• Erich Fromm: Psychoanalysis, Social Theory and Ethics
• Interest-Based Ethics – Contractualism and Utilitarianism
• Defence of Democracy: Hans Kelsen vs. Carl Schmitt

Winter semester 2015/16

• Philosophical Interpretations of the Shoah
• What is Law? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
• Alienation and Labour: Basic Concepts of Marx’s Social Philosophy
• An Introduction to Materialist State Theory

Summer Semester 2015

• Plato’s *The Sophists* on Politics and Justice
• Concepts of Power in Modern Philosophy
• Concepts of the Political. An Introduction to Political Philosophy
• Acceleration, ‘market totalitarianism’ and alienation – practices of subjectification in capitalism
• Carl Schmitt’s Political Existentialism

Winter semester 2014/15

• Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Modernity. Work, Mass Society and the ‘Banality of Evil’
• An Introduction to Materialist State Theory
• Alienation and Labour. Basic Concepts of Marx’s Social Philosophy
• Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’

Summer Semester 2014

• Concepts of the Political. An Introduction to Political Philosophy
• Jean-Paul Sartre and Moishe Postone. A Critical Theory of Anti-Semitism
• Utilitarianism – ‘Utility’ as a moral principle?
• An Introduction to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Late Capitalism – Authoritarian Character – The Culture Industry

Winter semester 2013/14

• A Critique of Commodity Aesthetics – On the Philosophy of Advertising and Consumption
• Theories of Property from Antiquity to the Present Day
• Alienation and labour – fundamental concepts of Marx’s social philosophy
• Seminar on final-year dissertations
• Thomas Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’ – The Foundations of Modern Moral and Political Philosophy in the Spirit of ‘Exact Science’

Summer Semester 2013

• Acceleration, Market Totalitarianism and Alienation – Practices of Subjectification in Capitalism
• Interest-Based Ethics
• Thesis Seminar
• John Locke – Human Rights and Individualism of Property.

Winter semester 2012/13

• Philosophy of Democracy – On the Relationship between Reason, the Public Sphere and Parliamentarism
• Jean-Paul Sartre and Moishe Postone: A Critical Theory of Anti-Semitism
• David Hume – The Origin of Morality, Law and Property
• Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ – The Foundations of Modern Moral and Political Philosophy in the Spirit of ‘Exact Science’
• Legal Positivism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

Summer Semester 2012

• Carl Schmitt – Sovereignty, the Political and Representation
• Interest-Based Ethics
• Critique of Politics – An Introduction to Materialist State Theory

Winter semester 2011/12

• Human Rights, Tolerance and Individualism of Property. John Locke’s ‘Two Treatises of Government’
• Legal Positivism – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law with Particular Reference to German Continuities
• Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ – The Foundations of Modern Moral and Political Philosophy in the Spirit of ‘Exact Science’

Summer Semester 2011

• Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
• Utilitarianism – ‘Utility’ as a moral principle?
• An Introduction to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Late Capitalism – Authoritarian Character – The Culture Industry

Winter semester 2010/11

• Aristotle: Politics
• Political philosophy as a critique of politics: An introduction to materialist state theory
• Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ – The Foundations of Modern Moral and Political Philosophy in the Spirit of ‘Exact Science’

Summer semester 2010

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Cultural Criticism and the Social Contract
• The Concept of Law – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

Winter semester 2009/10

• Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ – The Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy in the Spirit of Theoretical Reason
• The Limits of the Enlightenment? Anti-Semitism as a Philosophical Problem
• Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political

Summer Semester 2009

• Private property – rooted ‘deep in human nature’? Theories of property in modern philosophy
• Late capitalism – authoritarian character – the culture industry. An introduction to the thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Institute of Political Science

Winter semester 2017/18

• Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political – Between Right-wing Populism and Political Existentialism

• Alienation and labour – fundamental concepts of Marx’s social philosophy
• Theories of property from antiquity to the present day
• An Introduction to Materialist State Theory

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Department of Philosophy

Winter semester 2019/20

• What is anti-Semitism? Philosophical, psychological and sociological perspectives

Summer semester 2019

• An Introduction to Political Philosophy from Antiquity to the Present Day

Winter semester 2018/19

• An Introduction to Karl Marx: Alienation – Capital – Revolution

Winter semester 2017/18

• The Theoretical Foundations of Right-wing and Left-wing Populism

Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Institute for Social and Cultural Studies

Winter semester 2014/15

• Theories of Anti-Semitism (in collaboration with Sven Ellmers)

Summer Semester 2014

• Introduction to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Late Capitalism – Authoritarian Character – The Culture Industry (in collaboration with Sven Ellmers)

Winter semester 2013/14

• What Money Cannot Buy: Justice and Injustice in Market Society (with Sven Ellmers)

Summer semester 2013

• Culture and Politics in Critical Theory (with Sven Ellmers)

Winter semester 2012/13

• Classics of Social Philosophy (with Sven Ellmers)

Winter semester 2011/12

• Fundamentals of Critical Theory (with Sven Ellmers)

Summer semester 2011

• Political Philosophy: The Contract Theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls (with Sven Ellmers)

Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University of Braunschweig. Institute of Social Sciences

Summer Semester 2012

• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1

Winter semester 2011/12

• Legal positivism. An introduction to legal theory with particular reference to German continuities

Summer semester 2011

• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Winter semester 2010/11

• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Winter semester 2009/10

• The Limits of the Enlightenment? The Social Psychology of Anti-Semitism
• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Summer Semester 2009

• Introduction to Social Theory: Conceptual Foundations of the Social Sciences
• Introduction to Social Psychology
• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Winter semester 2008/09

• ‘Disenchanted Modernity’ or ‘Religion of Everyday Life’? The Concept of Ideology
• State and Society in Enlightenment Thought
• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’

Summer semester 2008

• Interdisciplinary Social Research and Critical Social Theory. An Introduction to the Thought of the ‘Frankfurt School’
• An Introduction to Materialist Theories of the State

Winter semester 2007/08

• Introduction to Materialist Theories of the State