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Discussion: Philip Hogh "Ethical Materialism. A critical theory of suffering"
July 21, 2025: Philip Hogh discusses his new book"Ethischer Materialismus. Critical Theory of Suffering" (Hamburg: Meiner 2025) at the Research Colloquium on Practical Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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| Prof. Dr. Hogh, Philip Fachgebietsleitung »Praktische Philosophie« / Geschäftsführender Direktor IfP |
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| Waldmeyer, Melanie Institutssekretariat / IfP |
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| Dr. Andreozzi, Giovanni DAAD-Prime-Fellowship: "Education to Liberation. An Attempt after Hegel and Adorno" | ![]() | |
| Colligs, Alexandra Research assistant: Practical Philosophy (on parental leave) | ![]() | |
| Idel, Philipp Research Assistant: Practical Philosophy | ![]() |
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| Dr. Hollewedde, Sabine Lehrbeauftragte im Fachgebiet »Praktische Philosophie« | ![]() | |
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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))
