Teaching
Teaching
Winter term 2022/23
- Introduction to the philosophy of the Middle Ages
- Pre-Socratic thought: Heraclitus, Parmenides
- Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit (selected sections)
- Colloquium for dissertations and theses
Summer term 2022
Research semester
Winter term 2021/22
- Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (Selected sections)
- Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
- Kant, Critique of Judgement (§§ 30-60)
- Plato
- Colloquium for dissertations and theses
Summer term 2021
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Hegel, Science of Logic: The Doctrine of Essence
- Hölderlin and German idealism
- Colloquium for dissertations and theses
Winter semester 2020/21
- L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- St Augustine, De trinitate
- Th. W. Adorno, Meditations on Metaphysics (Negative Dialectics)
- The beginning of philosophy
- Colloquium for dissertations and theses
Summer term 2020
- Plato, Symposium
- Hölderlin and German idealism
- Hegel, Science of Logic IV
- Colloquium for doctoral candidates and 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 doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2019
- Aristotle, Metaphysics Book IV (I)
- Aesthetic Theory (II) - Fundamentals: (After) Kant and Hegel
- G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic II
- M. Horkheimer/Th. W. Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 2018/19
- Aesthetic theory (I): Basic questions of the theory of beauty in antiquity
- St Thomas Aquinas: De veritate (introduction to the doctrine of transcendentals)
- G.W.F. Hegel, Science of Logic (I)
- Theory(ies) of Tragedy: Hegel, Nietzsche, Hölderlin (together with Nils Baratella)
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2018
Research semester
Winter semester 2017/18
- Augustine, Confessiones
- Classics of the philosophy of time
- Hegel, Introduction to Dialectics
- G.B. Vico: Philosophy as the semantics of culture
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2017
- Presence of the past: Introduction to medieval philosophy
- Plato, Politeia (Book I, Book VI and VII: the parables)
- Dialectics and judgement (Kant, Critique of Judgement)
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 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 doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2016
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason: The Mind on the Way to Dialectics II
- Negative Didactics: Concept and History II
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 2015/16
- Negative dialectics: concept and history
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason: The Mind on the Way to Dialectics
- W. Benjamin: On language in general and on the language of man
- Heidegger: On the way to language
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2015
- The beginning of philosophy
- Introduction to the doctrine of transcendentalism (Thomas Aquinas, De veritate)
- Walter Benjamin, On the Critique of Violence
(together with Prof. Dr Antonia Grunenberg) - Sophistics
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 2014/15
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- Augustine
- Introduction to Nicholas of Cusa ("Cusanus Day")
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (transcendental analytic)
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Summer term 2014
- Plato
- Between Nature and Freedom: Kant, Critique of Judgement (Introduction)
(together with Dr Philip Hogh) - W. Benjamin, Works on Anthropology and Moral Topics
- Paul Celan, Der Meridian
(together with Prof Dr Matthias Bormuth) - Classics of Contemporary Philosophy
(together with Dr Nils Baratella and Dr Silke Wulf) - Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 2013/14
Research semester
Summer term 2013
- Adorno, Problems of Moral Philosophy
(together with Dr Philip Hogh) - Hegel's Critique of Morality (Phenomenology of Spirit)
- The question of time (Augustine, Confessiones)
- Walter Benjamin, on some motifs in Baudelaire
- Colloquium for doctoral students and theses
Winter term 2012/13
- Series of lectures - Hölderlin
- Hermeneutics of the Lifeworld (Heidegger, Being and Time)
(together with Prof. Dr Thomas Alkemeyer) - Nietzsche. On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life
(together with Prof. Dr Matthias Bormuth) - The Origin of Criticism in the Spirit of Language. Walter Benjamin
(together with Dr Silke Wulf) - Colloquium for doctoral candidates and theses
Summer term 2012