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. 2016
  2. Published

    Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida

    Hobuß, S., 2016, Beyond memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance. Dessingué, A. & Winter, J. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 95-110 16 p. 6. (Routledge Approaches to History; vol. 13).

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

  3. Published

    Sustainability Ethics

    Oermann, N. O. & Weinert, A., 2016, Sustainability Science: An Introduction. Heinrichs, H., Martens, P., Michelsen, G. & Wiek, A. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, p. 175-192 18 p.

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

  4. Published

    The Body as a Historiographic Writing Tool in ŽemAt’s Video Work “Imagining the Absence” (2014)

    Gerhardt, U., 2016, In: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts. 2016, 80-81, p. 169-178 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Transzendenz in Beziehung. Zur Diskontinuität der Zeit: [Kapitel IV . E.-G. Die Transzendenz und die Fruchtbarkeit; Kindschaft und Brüderlichkeit; Die Unendlichkeit der Zeit;400-416]

    Schües, C., 2016, Der Andere in der Geschichte - Sozialphilosophie im Zeichen des Krieges: Ein kooperativer Kommentar zu Emmanuel Levinas' "Totalität und Unendlichkeit". Liebsch, B. (ed.). Freiburg, München : Verlag Karl Alber, p. 323-344 22 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  6. Published

    Wie verändert sich Kunst, wenn sie zur Tätigkeit ohne Werk wird

    Nigro, R., 2016, Wie verändert sich Kunst, wenn man sie als Forschung versteht?. Siegmund, J. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 199-214 16 p.

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

  7. Published

    Wir haben ja alle Deutschland nicht gekannt: Das Deutschlandbild der Deutschen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik

    Kemp, W. K., 2016, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. 479 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  8. 2015
  9. Published

    The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art

    Förster-Beuthan, Y., 18.12.2015, From Humanism to Meta-, Post and Transhumanism?. Deretic, I. & Sorgner, S. L. (eds.). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, Vol. 8. p. 321-332 12 p. (Beyond humanism; vol. 8).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-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

  11. Published

    Interiors and Interiority

    Söntgen, B. (Editor) & Lajer-Burcharth, E. (Editor), 13.11.2015, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. 488 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Introduction: Interiors and interiority

    Lajer-Burcharth, E. & Söntgen, B., 13.11.2015, Interiors and Interiority. Lajer-Burcharth, E. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter, p. 1-13 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch