Teaching
Teaching
Winter semester 2022/23
- Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
- Pre-Socratic Thought: Heraclitus, Parmenides
- Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (Selected Passages)
- Colloquium for PhD theses and final dissertations
Summer Semester 2022
Research semester
Winter semester 2021/22
- Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (Selected Passages)
- Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
- Kant, Critique of Judgement (§§ 30–60)
- Plato
- Colloquium for doctoral theses and final dissertations
Summer Semester 2021
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Hegel, Science of Logic: The Doctrine of the Essence
- Hölderlin and German Idealism
- Colloquium for doctoral theses and final dissertations
Winter semester 2020/21
- L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- Augustine, *De trinitate*
- Th. W. Adorno, Meditations on Metaphysics (Negative Dialectics)
- The Beginnings of Philosophy
- Colloquium for doctoral theses and final dissertations
Summer Semester 2020
- Plato, Symposium
- Hölderlin and German Idealism
- Hegel, Science of Logic IV
- Colloquium for PhD students and final-year theses
Winter semester 2019/20
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Aesthetic Theory III – Post-Idealist Concepts
- Hegel, Science of Logic III
- Theory of Tragedy: Hegel–Hölderlin
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2019
- Aristotle, Metaphysics Book IV (I)
- Aesthetic Theory (II) – Foundations: (After) Kant and Hegel
- G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic II
- M. Horkheimer/Th. W. Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2018/19
- Aesthetic Theory (I): Fundamental Questions of the Theory of Beauty in Antiquity
- Thomas Aquinas: De veritate (An Introduction to the Doctrine of the Transcendentals)
- G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic (I)
- Theory(ies) of Tragedy: Hegel, Nietzsche, Hölderlin (in collaboration with Nils Baratella)
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2018
Research semester
Winter semester 2017/18
- Augustine, Confessions
- Classics of the Philosophy of Time
- Hegel, Introduction to Dialectics
- G.B. Vico: Philosophy as the Semantics of Culture
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2017
- The Presence of the Past: An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
- Plato, The Republic (Book I, Books VI and VII: the allegories)
- Dialectic and Judgement (Kant, Critique of Judgement)
- Seminar for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2016/17
- The Ontological Proof of God: Anselm’s Argument and its Critics
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
- Kant, The Dialectic of Reason
- W. v. Humboldt; On the Nature of Language
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2016
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason: The Understanding on the Path to Dialectic II
- Negative Didactics: Concept and History II
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2015/16
- Negative Dialectic: Concept and History
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason: The Understanding on the Path to Dialectic
- W. Benjamin: On Language in General and on Human Language
- Heidegger: On the Way to Language
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2015
- The Beginnings of Philosophy
- An Introduction to the Doctrine of the Transcendentals (Thomas Aquinas, *De veritate*)
- Walter Benjamin, On the Critique of Violence
(in collaboration with Prof. Dr Antonia Grunenberg) - Sophistry
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2014/15
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- Augustine
- Introduction to Nicholas of Cusa (“Cusanus Day”)
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Transcendental Analytic)
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2014
- Plato
- Between Nature and Freedom: Kant, Critique of Judgement (Introduction)
(in collaboration with Dr Philip Hogh) - W. Benjamin, Writings on Anthropology and Moral Topic
- Paul Celan, The Meridian
(in collaboration with Prof. Dr Matthias Bormuth) - Classics of the Philosophy of Time
(in collaboration with Dr Nils Baratella and Dr Silke Wulf) - Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2013/14
Research semester
Summer semester 2013
- Adorno, Problems in Moral Philosophy
(in collaboration with Dr Philip Hogh) - Hegel’s Critique of Morality (Phenomenology of Spirit)
- The Question of Time (Augustine, Confessions)
- Walter Benjamin, On Certain Motifs in Baudelaire
- Seminar for PhD students and final theses
Winter semester 2012/13
- Series of lectures – Hölderlin
- Hermeneutics of the Lifeworld (Heidegger, Being and Time)
(in collaboration with Prof. Dr Thomas Alkemeyer) - Nietzsche. On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
(in collaboration with Prof. Dr Matthias Bormuth) - The Origin of Criticism in the Spirit of Language. Walter Benjamin
(in collaboration with Dr Silke Wulf) - Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2012