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. Published

    A Carpet between K(C)ongo and the Moon: Planetary Notions of Ornament

    Schulz, V.-S., 2022, Sammy Baloji: K(C)ongo, Fragments of Interlaced Dialogues, Subversive Classifications: exhibition catalogue, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti. Cippitelli, L., Toti , C. & BHMF, C. C. (eds.). Milan: Giunti , p. 40–49

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

  2. Published

    On the Mythical Atmosphere of the Digital World

    Milani, B., 2022, In: Technology and Language. 3, 4, p. 21-29 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Uncanny Provenance: Art History and its Double

    Rother, L., 12.2022, In: Texte zur Kunst. 2022, 128, p. 84-97 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Thinking Against Nature: Nature, Ideation, and Realism between Lovecraft and Shelling

    Woodard, B., 01.01.2022, In: Logos (Russian Federation). 32, 2, p. 43-64 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Genealogia e critica della soggettività neoliberale

    Nigro, R., 12.09.2022, In: Studia Philosophica: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Philosophie. 2022, 81, p. 101-113 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Von echten Geschenken, falschen Verkäufen und realen Verlusten

    Rother, L., 2022, Seismografen und Orientierungsspiegel: Bilder der Welt in kurzen Kunstgeschichten. Crasemann, L., Fellmann, B. & Hadjinicolaou, Y. (eds.). 1 ed. Walter de Gruyter, p. 292-297 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  7. Published

    In favour of a hedonist post-pandemic culture: Embodying new technologies and old rituals

    Förster, Y., 01.07.2022, In: Technoetic Arts. 20, 1-2, p. 27-38 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Origins and practices of genetic risk and responsibility: Is it irresponsible not to test?

    Schües, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 57-91 35 p. (Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  9. Published

    Comparison through conversation: Thinking with different differences

    Hashiloni-Dolev, Y., Raz, A., Rehmann-Sutter, C. & Schües, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 347-372 26 p. (Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  10. Published

    Can not wanting to know be responsible? Conceptual analysis and meanings of not-knowing in Israeli and German prenatal genetic practices

    Schües, C., Reinsch, S., Raz, A. & Rehmann-Sutter, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 303-345 43 p. (Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  11. Published

    7. Socio-Cultural and Religious Views on Prenatal Diagnosis in Israel and Germany

    Weber, A. & Schües, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 199-226 28 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  12. Published

    Genetic responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of prenatal diagnosis

    Schües, C. (Editor), 18.11.2022, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 377 p. (Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    "Something is not quite right" - Two cinematic narratives about decision-making after prenatal diagnosis

    Rehmann-Sutter, C. & Schües, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 253-262 10 p. (Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  14. Published

    Introduction - How prenatal diagnosis is entangled in historical and social contexts

    Schües, C., 18.11.2022, Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Schües, C. (ed.). transcript Verlag, p. 9-25 17 p. ( Bioethik / Medizinethik; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  15. Published

    Editorial: Die intime Stadt – Kulturen queerer Verbindung

    Die Redaktion von sub/urban 2022, 10(2/3) & Trott, B., 16.12.2022, In: sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 10, 2/3, p. 7-15 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  16. Published

    Aspekte der Maschinenästhetik

    Broeckmann, A., 12.12.2022, Technik-Ästhetik : Zur Theorie techno-ästhetischer Realität. Ruf, O. & Grabbe, L. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 125-144 20 p. ( Medien- und Gestaltungsästhetik; vol. 12).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  17. Published

    "Oh, You are a Scientist!" Elsa Glaser and Art History

    Rother, L. & Koss, M., 11.2022, The Collector Curt Glaser: From Champion of Modernism to Refugee. Haldemann, A. & Rauser, J. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 14-19 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  18. Published

    „Rasse“ und Naturteleologie bei Kant: Zum Rassismusproblem der Vernunft

    Mateo, M. M. & Stubenrauch, H., 26.10.2022, In: Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie. 70, 4, p. 619-640 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Transcending the Locality of Grassroots Initiatives: Diffusion of Sustainability Knowledge and Practice through Transdisciplinary Research

    Ortíz, W. & Vilsmaier, U., 01.10.2022, In: Sustainability. 14, 19, 17 p., 12259.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Transgenerational Audiovisual Narration in Revolutionary Women: Ella

    Gerhardt, U., 2022, Lene Markusen: Mythbiographies. : I Premiati di Villa Romana 2021. Angelika Stepken, F. (ed.). Florenz: Villa Romana, p. 37-39 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  21. Published

    „Ghostly Embodiments“

    Gerhardt, U., 2021, Irina Gheorghe, Methods for the Study of What Is Not There. Quante, N. (ed.). Berlin: Bierke Verlag, 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  22. Published

    Sankt – Female Identities in the Post-Utopian (Synopsis)

    Gerhardt, U., 01.04.2019, Sisters Alike: Female Identities in the Post-Utopian. Markusen, L. (ed.). Leipzig: Spector Books, p. 30 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  23. Published

    GRAD (Synopsis)

    Gerhardt, U., 01.04.2019, Sisters Alike: Female Identities in the Post-Utopian. Markusen, L. (ed.). Leipzig: Spector Books, p. 108 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  24. Published

    Rituals of Coexistence: Bodies and Technology during Pandemics

    Forster, Y., 01.09.2022, In: INTERLITTERARIA. 27, 1, p. 84-98 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Die documenta – ein Konflikt-Feld: Beuys und die Persuasion

    von Xylander, C. & Wuggenig, U., 31.07.2022, Die Welten der documenta: Wissen und Geltung eines Großereignisses in der Kunst. Buckermann, P. (ed.). 1 ed. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, p. 130-163 33 p.

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

  26. Published

    Thesen zur Koinzidenz von Symbolwert und Marktwert der Kunst

    Wuggenig, U. & Rudolph, S., 03.01.2022, In: Bild.punkt: Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst. 59, p. 21-25 4 p., 7.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  27. Published

    Female Bodybuilding and Patriarchal Civilization. The Intrusion of a Practice in Sport into Artistic Fields and Visual Culture

    Mola, I. F. & Wuggenig, U., 2022, Arts and Power: Policies in and by the Arts. Gaupp, L., Barber-Kersovan, A. & Kirchberg, V. (eds.). 1 ed. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 155-193 39 p. 9. (Kunst und Gesellschaft).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  28. Published

    Looking at the World With You

    Koss, M., 2022, On the Edge of Time. Lyn, A. & Bird, R. (eds.). St. Gallen; Berlin: Vexer Verlag

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesTransfer

  29. Published

    The Stakes of the Stage: Piscator's Scenography as a Practice of Critique and Benjamin's Discontent with the "Zeittheater"

    Woisnitza, M., 2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 297-324 28 p. (Critical stances).

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

  30. Published

    Dramaturgies of Theatrical Imagination: Spectatorial Agency in Lessing and Kleist

    Woisnitza, M., 01.01.2020, Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft Verlag. 289 p. (Scenae; vol. 21)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

    Fritz, L., Vilsmaier, U., Clement, G., Daffe, L., Pagani, A., Pang, M., Gatica-Perez, D., Kaufmann, V., Santiago Delefosse, M. & Binder, C. R., 12.2022, In: Humanities & social sciences communications. 9, 1, 13 p., 175.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  32. In preparation

    Der Avantgardefilm. Filmgeschichte kompakt

    Kuhn, E., 2024, (In preparation) München: edition text+kritik. (Filmgeschichte kompakt)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  33. Published

    Glänzen, Blicken, Flickern. Das Prinzip der Glimpses in AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY

    Kuhn, E., 2021, In: Film-Konzepte. 61, p. 55-70 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Unerhörte Musen

    Kuhn, E., 2020, In: Filmbulletin. Zeitschrift für Film und Kino. 62, 384, p. 34-35 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  35. Published

    Structure as Infrastructure: The Interrelation of Fiber and Construction

    Neugärtner, S., 24.10.2022, Architect of Letters: Reading Hilberseimer. Strob, F. (ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 222–236 15 p. (Bauwelt Fundamente; vol. 174)(Edition Bauhaus; vol. 59).

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

  36. Published

    "foto-bauhäusler, werdet arbeiterfotografen!"

    Neugärtner, S., 24.10.2022, Linke Waffe Kunst: Die Kommunistische Studentenfraktion am Bauhaus. Thöner, W., Strob, F. & Schätzke, A. (eds.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 163-180 18 p. (Bauwelt Fundamente; vol. 175)(Edition Bauhaus; vol. 60).

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

  37. Published

    From Revolution to Reformation: From the Figurative Constructivism of the Cologne Progressives to Léna Meyer-Bergner’s Isotype in Mexico as Anti-imperialist Strategy, 1920–1946

    Neugärtner, S., 12.2022, From Posada to Isotype, from Kollwitz to Catlett: Exchange of Political Print Culture. Germany–Mexico, 1900–1968. Buchloh, B. & Harewood, M. (eds.). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, p. 400–417 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  38. Published

    Über den Gebrauch weißer Prinzipien in Kants Philosophie

    Martinez Mateo, M. & Stubenrauch, H., 2022, In: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte. 16, 1, p. 123-125 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  39. Published

    Die Zweite Kopernikanische Wende: Kritik und Affekt nach Kant, Adorno und Deleuze

    Stubenrauch, H., 2022, Göttingen: Konstanz University Press. 259 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  40. Published

    Meme Therapy: Auf der Suche nach Heilung in Geisterzeichnungen, Therapie-Notizbüchern und Trauma-Tagebüchern

    Kipke, A., 2022, In: Kunstforum international. 279, p. 104-111 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  41. Published

    Culture and Capital: Claire Bishop: Place in Plunderland: Claire Bishop on the Shed

    Kipke, A., 2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 428-437 10 p. (Zeitgenössische Kunst).

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

  42. Published

    Why Art Criticism? A Reader

    Söntgen, B. (Editor) & Voss, J. (Editor), 04.2022, Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag. 464 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  43. Published

    What Will This Century Be Known As?: Deleuze and Resistance for Theory

    Zimnik, N., 12.1998, In: Film-Philosophy. 2, 1, 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  44. Published

    Umgebungswissen. Zum Wert von Nachlässen für die Kunstgeschichte

    Söntgen, B., 10.2021, Heute, heute, nur nicht morgen...: Wer bestimmt unser Kunsterbe?. Köln: Salon Verlag , p. 30-32 3 p.

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

  45. Published

    Ein Déjà-coup-d’état-Erlebnis? Kayfabe-Politik als Netzwerkeffekt

    von Xylander, C., 2021, In: Das Argument. 63, 4, p. 530-559 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  46. Published

    Quipping Equipment: Apropos of Robots and Kantian Chatbots

    von Xylander, C., 03.2022, In: Technology and Language. 3, 1, p. 82-103 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  47. Published

    The Lawless Vitality of Sculpture, c. 1960-80. Formalism’s Monsters, Cybernetic Breakdowns and the Joys of Deviation

    Nachtigall, J., 01.01.2022, Future Bodies from a Recent Past: Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s. Dander, P. & Linhardt, F. (eds.). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, p. 113-123 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  48. Published

    Taking Care of History: Toward a Politics of Provenance Linked Open Data in Museums

    Rother, L., Koss, M. & Mariani, F., 19.12.2022, Perspectives on Data. Lew Fry, E. & Canning, E. (eds.). Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 31 p.

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

  49. Published

    Achtundsechzig antikolonial: Szenen militanter Kunst- und Filmproduktion und Implikationen für eine (Kunst)Geschichtsschreibung

    Leeb, S., 05.03.2022, Dreizehn Beiträge zu 1968: Von künstlerischen Praktiken und vertrackten Utopien. Lange-Berndt, P. & Lindermann, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 27-61 35 p. (Image; vol. 202).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  50. Published

    Die intime Stadt: Kulturen queerer Verbindung

    Beurskens, K. (Editor), Calbet i Elias, L. (Editor), El -Kayed, N. (Editor), Gribat, N. (Editor), Höhne, S. (Editor), Hoerning , J. (Editor), Hutta, J. S. (Editor), Kadi, J. (Editor), Keizers, M. (Editor), Meubrink, Y. (Editor), Michel, B. (Editor), Nettelbladt, G. (Editor), Pohl, L. (Editor), Roskamm, N. (Editor), Schuster, N. (Editor), Vollmer, L. (Editor) & Trott, B. (Editor), 12.2022, Berlin: sub\urban e. V. 296 p. (sub\urban - Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung; vol. 10, no. 2/3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch