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

    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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. In preparation

    Der Avantgardefilm. Filmgeschichte kompakt

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

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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