Teaching
Teaching
Winter semester 2024/25
- The spirit blows where it wills - Modern consciousness
- On the independence of the mind - Hannah Arendt as an introduction
- Series of lectures in philosophy: On the life of the mind: modern consciousness
Summer term 2024
- "The wind blows where it wants"
- Research colloquium on the history of ideas
- Series of lectures in philosophy
Winter semester 2023/24
- The wind blows where it wills - texts and readings for the series of lectures on philosophy
- Thinking without railings - Hannah Arendt in letters and texts
- Philosophy series of lectures: The life of the spirit: ancient beginnings and Christian horizons
Summer term 2023
- Origin and Elements of Totalitarianism - On the Topicality of Hannah Arendt's Study of Totalitarianism
- Enlightenment and piety - Spinoza's world between criticism and ethics
- Philosophy series of lectures: In praise of theory - philosophical constellations around Suhrkamp Verlag
Winter term 2022/23
Summer term 2022
- Friendship in dark times - Hannah Arendt and her Lessing speech in the context of the history of ideas
- Enlightenment, self-thinking and cosmopolitanism - Kant in his short writings
- Series of lectures: World literature in the West - From Dante to Tolstoy
Winter term 2021/22
- Piety of thought - Spinoza in his life and work
- The question of guilt, loss of the centre and the Eichmann trial. Keywords on the intellectual foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Research colloquium on the history of ideas
- Series of lectures: Philosophy and Religion - From Spinoza to Habermas
Summer term 2021
- Spinoza and his Critique of Religion - The "Theological-Political Treatise" in the Age of Radical Enlightenment
- Cultural-scientific thinking around Aby Warburg - An introduction to the history of ideas
- Research colloquium on the history of ideas
- Series of lectures: Ways of thinking in Germany since 1945 Intellectual voices in East and West
Winter term 2020/21
- On faith and knowledge: Immanuel Kant and his writing "Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason"
- Art as a traitor - the cultural philosopher Martin Warnke (1837-2019)
- Series of lectures: Writing in exile - Heine and the consequences
Summer term 2020
- Philosophy as a way of life - from Socrates to Montaigne
- Hannah Arendt as a Jewish thinker - An introduction
- Series of lectures: Königsberg - Tübingen - Jena: The Paths of Idealism
Winter semester 2019/20
- The great philosophers - Selected texts after Karl Jaspers
- Suicide as a philosophical-psychiatric problem
- Series of lectures: Philosophy as a way of life - from Socrates to Nietzsche
Summer term 2019
- Turning points of the mind - from Montaigne to Nietzsche
- Between Science and Politics - Max Weber as a Diagnostician of Modernity
- Series of lectures: Reading in digital worlds. Books and library controversy
Winter semester 2018/19
- Turning points of the mind
- Max Weber - Politics as an academic appointment
- Series of lectures: "1968 - Figures and Discourses"
Summer semester 2018
- History of ideas in modern iconography
- Enlightenment and piety. Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
- Series of lectures: "Diverse reflections of consciousness..." World literature of the modern age
Winter term 2017/18
- Philosophy and psychiatry
- Romanticism and Realism
- Series of lectures on philosophy - intellectuals in exile
Summer semester 2017
- Hannah Arendt - Introduction to her thought
- David Hume: Enquiries into the Human Mind and Selected Essays
- Research colloquium
Winter term 2016/17
Research semester
Summer term 2016
- Existential Psychotherapy - American Horizons and European Origins
- Exile and Interpretation - Erich Auerbach and Karl Löwith in Comparison
- Radical Enlightenment and Religion - Baruch de Spinoza and his Theological - Political Treatise
Winter semester 2015/16
- Thinking between the disciplines - Karl Jaspers as an introduction
- Socratic thinking in Hannah Arendt - aspects of her political philosophy
- Ambivalence of freedom - suicidal thinking in the past and present
Summer term 2015
- The young Nietzsche - introduction to his thinking
- Philosophy and literature. Relationship stories (together with Dr Ulrich von Bülow)
- Who am I - On the history of ideas of the modern subject
- Psychopathology of despair - A psychiatric-philosophical colloquium
- Research colloquium - Positions in the history of ideas
Winter term 2014/15
- Who am I? - The history of ideas of subjectivity
- Max Weber as a thinker of modernity
- Insights into the history of ideas and art - an excursion to the Oldenburg State Museum and the Bremen Art Gallery
- Psychiatry and philosophy
- Paths to communicative reason: Jürgen Habermas in dialogue with 20th century philosophy and social theory (together with Prof. Dr Stefan Müller-Doohm)
Summer term 2014
- Paul Celan, The Meridian (together with Prof. Dr Johann Kreuzer)
- Religion, politics and modernity. How secular is our world?
- Psychiatric power of judgement. Reflections after Kant and Jaspers
- The diversity of religious experience. William James as an introduction
- Karl Jaspers Colloquium
Winter term 2013/14
- Ambivalence of Modernity - Turkish Literature and European Enlightenment
- Genealogy and Dynamics of Ideas - Nietzsche's Writings on Moral Philosophy
- Research colloquium "Marburg Hermeneutics" Person and work of Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
Summer term 2013
- Positions in the history of ideas (research colloquium)
- Hannah Arendt as an introduction - On the independence of thought
- Providence Lost - Dimensions of the Modern Philosophy of History
Winter term 2012/13
- Karl Jaspers introduction - Physician, philosopher and political thinker
- Nietzsche. On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life (together with Prof. Dr Johann Kreuzer)
- History, Truth and Exile - The Marburg Circle around Martin Heidegger
- Positions in the history of ideas (research colloquium)