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. 2020
  2. Published

    Provenance Research in Museums: The Long Run

    Rother, L. & Schmeisser, I., 2020, Provenance Research Today: Principles, Practice, Problems. Tompkins, A. (ed.). London: Lund Humphries, p. 106-116 10 p.

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

  3. Published

    Queer Berlin and the Covid-19 Crisis: A Politics of Contact and Ethics of Care

    Trott, B., 2020, In: Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements. 12, 1, p. 88-108 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. 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

  5. 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

  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. 2019
  8. Published

    Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung.

    Bempeza, S., Brunner, C., Hausladen, K., Kleesattel, I. & Sonderegger, R., 16.12.2019, Wien: Transversal Texts. 178 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    „Etwas Begehrenswertes“: Zur Reproduktion queerer Lebensweisen

    Trott, B., 03.12.2019, In: Prokla - Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft. 49, 197, p. 569-584 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Queer Studies as Cultural Studies?

    Trott, B., 26.11.2019, In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 13, 2, p. 118-121 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  11. 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

  12. Published

    Liebe: Zu Geschichte und Erscheinungsformen einer rätselhaften Emotion

    Jürgens, A. (Editor), 11.2019, 1 ed. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Karl Alber. 216 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch