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

    Bemächtigung, Entnaturalisierung oder Renaturierung? Naturbegriffe in der Philosophie und den Kulturwissenschaften

    Hobuß, S., 07.2015, Neue Naturverhältnisse in der Gegenwartsliteratur?. Kramer, S. & Schierbaum, M. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 43-72 30 p. (Philologische Studien und Quellen; vol. 250).

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

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    Art, Ecology, and Sustainability - An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig

    Behnke, C., Kastelan, C. & Wuggenig, U., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 280-301 22 p.

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

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    The Return of History - An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig

    Behnke, C., Kastelan, C. & Wuggenig, U., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 174-185 12 p.

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

  4. Published

    Affect, Attachment, and Passion: An Exchange between Christoph Behnke, Cornelia Kastelan, and Ulf Wuggenig

    Behnke, C., Kastelan, C. & Wuggenig, U., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center. Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 40-55 16 p.

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

  5. Published

    Art in the Periphery of the Center

    Behnke, C. (Editor), Kastelan, C. (Editor), Knoll, V. (Editor) & Wuggenig, U. (Editor), 2015, Berlin: Sternberg Press. 629 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesTransfer

  6. Published

    Primitivism and humanist teleology in art history around 1900

    Leeb, S. A., 06.2015, In: Journal of Art Historiography. 12, 15 p., 12/SLb1.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Entangled – But How?

    Leeb, S. A., 2015, Art in the Periphery of the Center . Behnke, C., Kastelan, C., Knoll, V. & Wuggenig, U. (eds.). Berlin: Sternberg Press, p. 210-219 10 p.

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

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    Mythos als Aufklärung: Ernst Cassirer und die Politik

    Jamme, C., 2015, Mythos als Aufklärung: Ernst Kantorowitz zwischen Historismus, Emigration und Erneuerung der Geisteswissenschaften. Burkart, L., Kersten, J., Raulff, U., von Bernstorff, H. & von Müller, A. (eds.). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, p. 285-294 10 p. (Mythen, Körper, Bilder. Ernst Kantorowicz zwischen Historismus, Emigration und Erneuerung der Geisteswissenschaften.).

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

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    Big Drama - Small Spaces: Keren Cytters Theater

    Söntgen, B., 2015, Sowohl als auch dazwischen: Erfahrungsräume der Kunst. Schafaff, J. & Wihstutz, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 183 - 194 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Studien zu einer Ethik der Enttäuschung: Gedanken zu Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmanns und Philip Pichlers Installation „Drop A, Drop B“ (2012) im Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof

    Gerhardt, U., 12.2015, Is This Where It Ends?: Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof 2011-2014. Solte, F. & Busch, I. (eds.). Hamburg: Textem Verlag, p. 53-55 3 p.

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