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

    Social and Epistemic Control in Collaborative Research — Reconfiguring the Interplay of Politics and Methodology

    Herberg, J. & Vilsmaier, U., 03.07.2020, In: Social Epistemology. 34, 4, p. 309-318 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened?

    Bammer, G., O’Rourke, M., O’Connell, D., Neuhauser, L., Midgley, G., Klein, J. T., Grigg, N. J., Gadlin, H., Elsum, I. R., Bursztyn, M., Fulton, E. A., Pohl, C., Smithson, M., Vilsmaier, U., Bergmann, M., Jaeger, J., Merkx, F., Vienni Baptista, B., Burgman, M. A., Walker, D. H., Young, J., Bradbury, H., Crawford, L., Haryanto, B., Pachanee, C. A., Polk, M. & Richardson, G. P., 13.01.2020, In: Humanities & social sciences communications. 6, 1, 16 p., 5.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Diderot, or The Power of Critique

    Söntgen, B. E., 2019, The Value of Critique: Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour . Graw, I. & Menke, C. (eds.). 1. ed. Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, p. 53-72 20 p. (Normative Orders; vol. 26).

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

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Transindividuality: The affective continuity of the social in Spinoza

    Andermann, K., 2021, Critical theory and New Materialism. Rosa, H., Henning, C. & Bueno, A. (eds.). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 84-94 11 p. (Routledge studies in social and political thought; vol. 161).

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

  6. Published

    Wissen. Wahrheit. Macht. Foucaults "Morphologie des Willens zum Wissen": Der Wille zum Wissen (1970/71)

    Andermann, K., 2020, Fragmente eines Willens zum Wissen: Michel Foucaults Vorlesungen 1970-1984. Vogelmann, F. (ed.). Berlin: J.B. Metzler, p. 19-33 15 p. (Philosophie & Kritik. Neue Beiträge zur politischen Philosophie und Kritischen Theorie).

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

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Jungfräuliche Membranen: Vom Pergament zum iPad

    Kuhn, H., 2021, Hautlichkeit : Oberflächen in Wissenschaft und Design. Schnödl, G. & Windgätter, C. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos , p. 161-180 20 p. (DesignWissen; vol. 3).

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

  9. Published

    III. FORMAL CREATURES: GILLES CHÂTELET ’S METAPHORS

    Woodard, B., 23.09.2019, Ghosts of Transparency: Shadows cast and shadows cast out. Doyle, M. R., Savic, S. & Bühlmann, V. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, p. 53-62 10 p. ( Applied Virtuality Book Series; vol. 13).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  10. 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