Practical philosophy

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Philip Hogh: "Ethical Materialism. A Critical Theory of Suffering"

July 17, 2025 Book launch: Philip Hogh presents his new book"Ethischer Materialismus. Critical Theory of Suffering" (Hamburg: Meiner 2025) at Goethe University Frankfurt. The event begins at 6 p.m. in room 731 of the IG Farbenhaus annex on the Westend campus.

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Professor
Name, ForenameContact
Prof. Dr. Hogh, Philip
Fachgebietsleitung »Praktische Philosophie« /​ Geschäftsführender Direktor IfP
Hogh, Philip
Secretary
Name, ForenameContact
Waldmeyer, Melanie
Institutssekretariat /​ IfP
Waldmeyer, Melanie
Research assistant
Name, ForenameContact
Dr. Andreozzi, Giovanni
DAAD-Prime-Fellowship: "Education to Liberation. An Attempt after Hegel and Adorno"
Andreozzi, Giovanni
Colligs, Alexandra
Research assistant: Practical Philosophy (on parental leave)
Colligs, Alexandra
Idel, Philipp
Research Assistant: Practical Philosophy
Idel, Philipp
Part-time lecturer
Name, ForenameContact
Dr. Hollewedde, Sabine
Lehrbeauftragte im Fachgebiet »Praktische Philosophie«
Hollewedde, Sabine
Özden, Önder
Lehrbeauftragter im Fachgebiet »Praktische Philosophie«
Özden, Önder

Ongoing dissertations

Initial support

David Hahn
Progress from the Catastrophe

Levente Hollos
The Concept of Dialectics in Adorno (co-supervision in the DAAD cotutelle process with the Eötvös-Loránd University of Budapest)

Alexis Ioannides
The Genus, Money and the Life of Capital

Philipp Idel - philipp.idel[at]posteo[dot]de

Limits of Freedom. Elements of a critical theory of fear

Niklas Lämmel - niklaslaemmel[at]t-online[dot]de

Cognition and Hatred of Jews. Theodor W. Adorno's philosophical reflection on anti-Semitism (second supervision by Yael Kupferberg (TU Berlin))

Thomas Lassner - th.lassner[at]posteo[dot]de

The Primacy of the Object in Relational Aesthetics: Sociality as Material (second supervision by Maxi Berger (HS Wismar)

Manuel Paß
A materialist theory of conceptual engineering

Askan Schmidt
Abstract and historical time. Studies on the historical horizon of the modern concept of truth

Secondary care

Filipe Andrade
Ideology and emancipation in opera after Adorno (co-supervision in the DAAD Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil))

Felix Brandner
"A path to materialism totally different from dogma." The foundation of critical materialism by Georg Lukács and Alfred Sohn-Rethel (first supervision by Anne Eusterschulte (FU Berlin))

Tobias Heinze -t.heinze[at]em.uni-frankfurt[dot]de

Changeable Nature. Critical Theory of Nature after Schelling, Horkheimer and Adorno (first supervision by Martin Saar (University of Frankfurt))

Markus Hennig - markus.hennig[at]uni-leipzig[dot]de

The connection between collectivity and experience in the thought of Walter Benjamin (first supervised by Dirk Quadflieg (University of Leipzig))

Henning Lampe -henning.lampe[at]mail[dot]de

The Source-Objects of a Theory. A reconstruction of Jean Laplanche's psychoanalysis as a history of repression (first supervision by Christine Kirchhoff (IPU Berlin))

Jens Paulsen - jens.c.paulsen[at]gmail[dot]com

Theology or tautology? Pseudo-progress in critical social theory (first supervision by Christoph Türcke (University of Leipzig))

Sara Sbahi
Semiotic Community Constructions. Signification in Social, Political and Cultural Practices of Israelis and Palestinians (first supervision by Josef Wallmannsberger (University of Kassel))

Alex Struwe
Totality. Marx, Adorno and the Problem of Critical Social Theory (first supervision by Stephan Lessenich (University of Frankfurt))