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. 2019
  2. Published

    Sankt – Female Identities in the Post-Utopian (Synopsis)

    Gerhardt, U., 01.04.2019, Sisters Alike: Female Identities in the Post-Utopian. Markusen, L. (ed.). Leipzig: Spector Books, p. 30 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContribution of Exihibition cataloguesResearch

  3. Published

    Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of thought

    Woodard, B., 01.03.2019, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 254 p. (New Perspectives in Ontology )

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object

    Breimaier, A. (Editor), 03.2019, Berlin: Edition Living Archive. 63 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesExhibition cataloguesTransfer

  5. Published

    The Machine as Artist as Myth

    Broeckmann, A., 20.02.2019, In: Arts. 8, 1, 10 p., 25.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Orte der Nicht-Orte

    Schües, C., 15.02.2019, 10 Minuten Philosophie. Jamme, C. & Drechsler , K. (eds.). Parderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 89-93 5 p.

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

  7. Published

    Mad speculation and absolute inhumanism: Lovecraft, ligotti, and the weirding of philosophy

    Woodard, B., 01.01.2019, In: Logos. 29, 5, p. 203-228 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing Relational Aesthetics Considering Critical Ecologies

    Brunner, C. & Kleesattel, I., 2019, In: Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics. 11, p. 106-125 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Books on World Art from the 1920s: On the Ambivalence of a Discursive Awakening

    Leeb, S., 2019, Bauhaus Imaginista: Die globale Rezeption bis heute. von Osten, M. & Watson, G. (eds.). Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, p. 106-111 6 p.

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

  11. Published

    Bruderpaar der Literatur: Die populäre Rezeption Heinrich Manns und Thomas Manns in den 1920er Jahren

    Klinkenbusch, I. L., 2019, In: Thomas Mann Jahrbuch. 32, p. 109-123 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch