Teaching
Teaching
Winter semester 2024/25
- Antagonism and Freedom: The Enlightenment in the Works of I. Kant and F. Schiller
- Critical Theory of the 1930s: Th. W. Adorno, W. Benjamin, M. Horkheimer, H. Marcuse
- Scepticism, Knowledge, Faith and Reason: R. Descartes and P. Bayle
- Colloquium: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Summer Semester 2024
- Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx: Theory and Practice in the Early Writings
- Giambattista Vico: Writings on the philosophy of history and law
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Henry Thoreau: Understanding of Nature and Cultural Criticism
- Seminar: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Winter semester 2023/24
On leave of absence
Summer semester 2023
- Knowledge and Language: The Tradition of Plato, Augustine and Dante
- 125 Years of Herbert Marcuse: Cross-Sections – What Remains?
- Ludwig Feuerbach: New Philosophy – Works and Letters
- Walter Benjamin: Language, Violence, Art, History
- Colloquium: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Winter semester 2022/23
- Immanuel Kant: Sapere aude, Cosmopolitanism. Freedom and Peace
- Critique of the Authoritarian Character: Sigmund Freud, Siegfried Kracauer, Leo Löwenthal and Theodor W. Adorno
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Artist of ‘borrowed existence’ and natural philosopher of ‘delicate empiricism’
- Colloquium: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Summer semester 2022
- René Descartes and Blaise Pascal: Rationality and Religion
- Georg Lukács: A classic of Marxism – 100 years of ‘History and Class Consciousness’
- Colloquium: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Winter semester 2021/22
- Introduction to Stoic Philosophy
- Models of linguistic theory; Herder, von Humboldt, Engels, Vossler, Benjamin, Vygotsky, Krauss
- Seminar: Supervision of final-year dissertations
Summer semester 2021
- Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of History: B. Croce, E. Auerbach, K. Löwith and R. Bultmann
- Ludwig Feuerbach: New Philosophy
- Nature and Democracy in America: R.W. Emerson, W. Whitman and D.H. Thoreau
- Seminar: Supervision of final dissertations
Winter semester 2020/21
- Educational Issues: Human Dignity and Freedom in Lessing, Kant and Schiller
- Revolt and Eco-Socialism: Herbert Marcuse’s Late Work
- Friedrich Engels as a Critic of Modernity: Religion, Nature, Language, Science and Social Issues
- Seminar: Supervision of final dissertations
Summer Semester 2020
- Philosophy in Letters: The Letter as a Form of Reflection and Commentary on Works in the 20th Century
- Language, the Art of Memory, Reading and Interpreting the Bible, the Sense of Scripture: Hugo of St Victor and Dante Alighieri
- Aesthetic Theory of Narrative: G. Lukács, E. Auerbach and Th. W. Adorno
- Colloquium
Winter semester 2019/20
- Philosophical Aesthetics in the Novel of Modern Turkish Literature: A. Tanpinar, N. Hikmet, O. Pamuk, Z. Livaneli, A. Altan and A. Erdogan
- The Origins, Concept and Critique of Violence: G. Vico, A. Labriola, G. Sorel and W. Benjamin
- Colloquium for PhD students and final theses
Summer Semester 2019
- Transcendental Nature and Civil Disobedience: R.W. Emerson and H.D. Thoreau
- Introduction to Stoic Philosophy
Winter semester 2018/19
- Critical Theory: Key Texts of the 1930s (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin)
- Spinoza, Sufism and the Birth of Islamic Studies (together with Tilman Hannemann)
- Messianism: E. Bloch, W. Benjamin, W. Nigg
- Sigmund Freud: Psychopathological and Cultural-Critical Writings
Summer Semester 2018
- Humanism and the Reformation: Erasmus of Rotterdam and Philipp Melanchthon
- Blaise Pascal: The Concept of Humanity, Ethics and Religion in the *Pensées* and *Essays*
- Short Writings by Kant and Schiller: History, Morality, Aesthetics and Politics
Winter semester 2017/18
Summer Semester 2017
- Paths to the Self: Boethius and Augustine
- Siegfried Kracauer: Mass Ornament, Cultural Criticism and the Philosophy of History
- Judaism, Christianity and Marxism
- Art and Society in the Works of Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin and Bert Brecht
- Colloquium for final-year dissertations
Winter semester 2016/17
Summer semester 2016
- Ludwig Feuerbach: His Influence on Engels, Marx and Nietzsche
- Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci: Philosophy of Practice
- Modern Hermeneutics: Bultmann, Gadamer, Jaspers
- Seminar on final dissertations
Winter semester 2015/16
- The Ethics of the Roman Stoics: Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus and the New Testament
- The Aristotelian Left, Islam and the Enlightenment
- Ludwig Feuerbach: Philosophy of the Future – Sensuality, Love, Critique of Religion and Materialism
Summer Semester 2015
- Sigmund Freud: Writings on the Philosophy of Culture
- ‘Mimesis’ (Part 2) – Marx, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Benjamin, Gadamer and Marcuse
- Werner Krauss: A Thinker between Marxist Philosophy and Critical Philology
Winter semester 2014/15
- Kant’s Treatise on Religion: Secular-Enlightenment Interpretative Perspectives
- A comparison of Adorno’s aphorisms in *Minima Moralia* and his later reflections in *Marginalia on Theory and Practice*
- ‘Mimesis’ (Part 1) – Lecture-seminar on theories of imitation from Plato to Hegel
- Erich Auerbach: Works and Letters
Summer Semester 2014
- Introduction to Practical Philosophy (Lecture)
- Moral and Aesthetic Education. Selected Writings by Kant, Schiller, Goethe and Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Georg Lukács as an Ethicist: ‘History and Class Consciousness’ (1923) – Kantian and Hegelian Roots and Marxist Practice
- Giambattista Vico’s ‘New Science’ (Scienza Nuova, 1725/44) and minor writings as practical philosophy
Winter semester 2013/14
- “Stoic teachings on virtue, morality, freedom and education: Epicurus, Seneca, Musonius Rufus and Epictetus”
- “Herbert Marcuse’s Ethics of the Promise of Happiness (promesse du bonheur)”
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