Institute of Philosophy and Art History

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.

Main research areas

Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).

The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).

With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.

The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.

  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

    Woodard, B., 18.11.2019, Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic : Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities. Greve, J. & Zappe, F. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 149-164 16 p. (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Queer Studies as Cultural Studies?

    Trott, B., 26.11.2019, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 13, 2, p. 118-121 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    „Etwas Begehrenswertes“: Zur Reproduktion queerer Lebensweisen

    Trott, B., 03.12.2019, In: Prokla - Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft. 49, 197, p. 569-584 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung.

    Bempeza, S., Brunner, C., Hausladen, K., Kleesattel, I. & Sonderegger, R., 16.12.2019, Wien: Transversal Texts. 178 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  6. 2020
  7. Published

    Decorating Charleston Farmhouse: Bloomsbury's Experiments in Forms of Life, Work, and Art

    Söntgen, B., 2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 139-176 38 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Der Wille zum Düpiertsein: Kayfabe in Coronamerika

    Ruoff, K. & von Xylander, C., 2020, In: Argument. 62, 1, p. 67-83 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  9. Published

    Die Macht der Affekte. Spinozas Theorie immanenter Individuation

    Andermann, K., 2020, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag. 357 p. (Paradeigmata; vol. 40)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Friends and Family - the Reproduction of Queer Life

    Trott, B., 2020, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 6, 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  11. Published

    Heidegger reads Goethe. A polyphonic "Dialogue" (approx. 1910 to 1976)

    Jamme, C., 2020, In: Goethe Jahrbuch. 137, p. 294-296 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  12. Published

    Karlsruher Postmoderne: Das Mensch-Natur-Distanz-Festival (ZKM Karlsruhe 22.-24. Mai 2020)

    von Xylander, C., 2020, In: Argument. 62, 1, p. 134-142 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch