Teaching
Teaching
Summer Semester 2026
Research semester
Winter semester 2025/26
- I Want to Understand – Hannah Arendt and Her World
- Philosophy as a Way of Life: From Socrates to Hannah Arendt
- Research Colloquium on the History of Ideas
- Series of Lectures in Philosophy – I Want to Understand – Hannah Arendt in Our Time
Summer Semester 2025
- On the Unfamiliarity of the World. An Introduction to Hannah Arendt
- Literature as Philosophy. Texts from Thomas Mann to Ingeborg Bachmann
- Research Colloquium on the History of Ideas
- Series of Lectures on Philosophy – Why Do We Need Poets in Meagre Times? Literature and Philosophy Centred on Thomas Mann and Ingeborg Bachmann
Winter semester 2024/25
- The Spirit Blows Where It Will – Modern Consciousness
- On the Independence of the Mind – An Introduction to Hannah Arendt
- Series of lectures on philosophy: On the Life of the Mind: Modern Consciousness
Summer semester 2024
- ‘The wind blows where it will’
- Research Colloquium on the History of Ideas
- Series of Philosophy Lectures
Winter semester 2023/24
- The Mind Blows Where It Wills – Texts and Readings for the series of lectures on philosophy
- Thinking Without a Handrail – Hannah Arendt in Letters and Texts
- Series of Lectures on the Life of the Mind: Ancient Origins and Christian Horizons
Summer Semester 2023
- The Origins and Elements of Totalitarianism – On the Relevance of Hannah Arendt’s Study of Totalitarianism
- Enlightenment and Piety – Spinoza’s World between Critique and Ethics
- Series of Lectures: In Praise of Theory – Philosophical Constellations around Suhrkamp Verlag
Winter semester 2022/23
Summer semester 2022
- Friendship in Dark Times – Hannah Arendt and her Lessing Lecture in the Context of the History of Ideas
- The Enlightenment, Independent Thinking and Cosmopolitanism – Kant in his Minor Writings
- Series of Lectures: World Literature in the West – From Dante to Tolstoy
Winter semester 2021/22
- The Piety of Thought – Spinoza in Life and Work
- The Question of Guilt, the Loss of the Centre and the Eichmann Trial: Key Concepts in the Intellectual Foundations of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Research Colloquium on the History of Ideas
- Series of lectures: Philosophy and Religion – From Spinoza to Habermas
Summer Semester 2021
- Spinoza and his critique of religion – The ‘Theological-Political Treatise’ in the Age of the Radical Enlightenment
- Cultural Studies Thought around Aby Warburg – An Introduction to the History of Ideas
- Research Colloquium on the History of Ideas
- Series of Lectures: Intellectual Currents in Germany since 1945 – Intellectual Voices in East and West
Winter semester 2020/21
- On Faith and Knowledge: Immanuel Kant and his work ‘Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone’
- Art as a Traitor – The Cultural Philosopher Martin Warnke (1837–2019)
- Series of Lectures: Writing in Exile – Heine and the Aftermath
Summer semester 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 by Karl Jaspers
- Suicide as a Philosophical and Psychiatric Problem
- Series of lectures: Philosophy as a Way of Life – From Socrates to Nietzsche
Summer semester 2019
- Turning Points in Thought – From Montaigne to Nietzsche
- Between Science and Politics – Max Weber as a Diagnostician of Modernity
- Series of lectures: Reading in Digital Worlds. Books and Libraries: A Controversy
Winter semester 2018/19
- Turning Points of the Mind
- Max Weber – Politics as a Vocation
- Series of lectures: ‘1968 – Figures and Discourses’
Summer semester 2018
- A History of Ideas in Modern Iconography
- The Enlightenment and Piety. Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise
- Series of lectures: “Diverse Reflections of Consciousness...” Modern World Literature
Winter semester 2017/18
- Philosophy and Psychiatry
- Romanticism and Realism
- Series of lectures: Philosophy – Intellectuals in Exile
Summer semester 2017
- Hannah Arendt – An Introduction to Her Thought
- David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selected Essays
- Research Colloquium
Winter semester 2016/17
Research Semester
Summer semester 2016
- Existential Psychotherapy – American Horizons and European Origins
- Exile and Interpretation – A Comparison of Erich Auerbach and Karl Löwith
- Radical Enlightenment and Religion – Baruch de Spinoza and his Theological-Political Treatise
Winter semester 2015/16
- Thinking Across Disciplines – An Introduction to Karl Jaspers
- Socratic Thinking in Hannah Arendt – Aspects of her Political Philosophy
- The Ambivalence of Freedom – Suicidal Thought in History and the Present
Summer Semester 2015
- The Young Nietzsche – An Introduction to his Thought
- Philosophy and Literature: Stories of Relationships (together with Dr Ulrich von Bülow)
- Who Am I? – On the Intellectual History of the Modern Subject
- The Psychopathology of Despair – A Psychiatric-Philosophical Colloquium
- Research Colloquium – Perspectives on the History of Ideas
Winter semester 2014/15
- Who am I? – The History of Ideas on 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 Kunsthalle
- 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 Semester 2014
- Paul Celan, *Der Meridian* (in collaboration with Prof. Dr Johann Kreuzer)
- Religion, Politics and Modernity. How Secular is Our World?
- Psychiatric Judgement. Reflections following Kant and Jaspers
- The Diversity of Religious Experience. An Introduction to William James
- Karl Jaspers Colloquium
Winter semester 2013/14
- The Ambivalence of Modernity – Turkish Literature and the European Enlightenment
- Genealogy and Dynamics of Ideas – Nietzsche’s Writings on Moral Philosophy
- Research Colloquium “Marburg Hermeneutics”: The Life and Work of Erich Auerbach (1892–1957)
Summer Semester 2013
- Perspectives on the History of Ideas (Research Colloquium)
- An Introduction to Hannah Arendt – On the Independence of Thought
- Providence Lost – Dimensions of Modern Philosophy of History
Winter semester 2012/13