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

    From the Precariat to the Multitude

    Trott, B., 2015, Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics. Johnson, M. (ed.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 22-45 24 p.

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    From the precariat to the multitude

    Trott, B., 12.2013, In: Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought. 3, 3-4, p. 406-425 20 p.

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  3. Published

    From the Household of the Soul to the Economy of Money: What Are Sixteenth-Century Merchants Doing in the Virgin Mary's Interior?

    Kuhn, H., 2015, Interiors and Interiority. Lajer-Burcharth, E. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 229-246 18 p.

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  4. Published

    From the ''end of art'' to historical accountability + Aesthetic ethic, philosophy, Germany

    Heidbrink, L., 1997, In: Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie. 45, 5, p. 745-757 13 p.

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  5. 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

  6. Published

    From Phenomenological Self-Givenness to the Notion of Spiritual Freedom

    Hennigfeld, I., 02.04.2020, In: PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture. 13, 2, p. 38-51 14 p.

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    From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James

    Brunner, C., 06.10.2020, Thinking the Problematic: Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences. Leistert, O. & Schrickel, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 153-178 26 p.

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

  8. Published

    Friends and Family - the Reproduction of Queer Life

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

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  9. Published

    Friedenswege in zeitlicher Diskontintuität

    Schües, C., 2016, Zeit und Frieden . Schües , C. & Delhom, P. (eds.). Freiburg, München : Verlag Karl Alber, p. 224 - 254 31 p. (Alber-Reihe Friedenstheorien; vol. 2)(Friedenstheorien; vol. 2).

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  10. Published

    Friedenspraxis: Der Praxisbezug der Friedensdenkschrift

    Schües, C., 2018, Gerechter Frieden als politisch-ethisches Leitbild: Grundsatzfragen . Jäger , S. & Strub, J.-D. (eds.). Wiesbaden : Springer VS, Vol. 2. p. 81-105 25 p.

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