Prof. Dr. Philip Hogh

• Critical theory as interdisciplinary materialism
• Philosophy of nature, especially ethics of climate change
• Anthropology, especially psychoanalytical and body-philosophical approaches
• Philosophy of history

• 4/2022- Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Kassel.
• 11/2021 Habilitation in Philosophy and award of the Venia Legendi for Practical Philosophy at Faculty IV of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
• 4/2021-9/2021 Guest professor for critical social theory at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
• 1/2020-6/2020 Parental leave
• 4/2018-6/2018 Parental leave
• 10/2017-3/2018 Research stay at the Philosophy Department of Columbia University in New York at the invitation of Axel Honneth.
• 10/2016-3/2021 Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg as part of the BMBF-funded project "Forschendes Lernen im Fokus (FLiF Plus)".
• 10/2015-3/2016 Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin.
• 10/2011-9/2016 Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg as part of the BMBF-funded project "Forschendes Lernen im Fokus (FLiF)/Forschungsorientierte Lehre (FoL)".
• 7/2010-2/2011 Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research in New York at the invitation of Jay M. Bernstein.
• 11/2007-1/2013 PhD at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (title of dissertation: Kommunikation und Ausdruck. Philosophy of language after Adorno).
• 10/1999-12/2006 Studies of Philosophy, Political Science and Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the University of Basel/CH and the University of Durham/GB, graduated with a Magister Artium in December 2006.

Monographs:

2 Ethical materialism. Critical Theory of Suffering, Hamburg: Meiner 2024.

1b. Communication and Expression. Adorno's Philosophy of Language, London: Rowman and Littlefield 2017 (English translation of 2015).

Reviewed by George Wrisley, Choice Issue: jul 2017 vol. 54 no. 11.

1a. Communication and Expression. Philosophy of Language after Adorno, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2015.

Reviewed by Sebastian Schreull, Von einem anderen "linguistic turn", www.portalideengeschichte.de.

Publications:

Book series:

Studien zur Kritischen Theorie, edited together with Maxi Berger, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart.

Volume 1: Martin Mettin, Critical Theory of Listening. Investigations into the philosophy of Ulrich Sonnemann (2020).

Volume 2: Philipp Idel, Between "Verfransung" and "Entkunstung". Reflections on an Aesthetics of Installation after Adorno (2022).

Volume 3: Maxi Berger and Philip Hogh (eds.), Negative Dialectics Today. The primacy of the object and mediation in dialectics (2023).

Volume 4: Dirk Stederoth, Real Avatars. On the Spinning of the Human in Net Culture (2023).

Volume 5: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Fear and Enlightenment. Marginal areas of critical theory (2024).

Single title:

3. with Sven Ellmers (ed.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017.

Reviewed by Martin Gloger, https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/24116.php

2. with Stefan Deines (ed.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016.

Reviewed by Fabian Burt, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (2016) 4, 327-332.

Reviewed by Alex Holznienkemper, The German Quarterly 91 (2018) 1, 92-94.

1. with Nils Baratella et al. (eds.), Subjekt und Gewalt im Recht, focus issue of Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 101 (2015) 4.

Journal and book contributions (* = peer-reviewed):

34. progress, materialistically understood, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, 29 (2023) 56/57.

33 Beyond Morality. On the Relation of Indifference and Resistance, in: Mario Wenning and Thomas Byrne (eds.), The Right to Resist. Philosophies of Dissent, New York: Bloomsbury 2023.

32 Negative Dialectics of Natural History. Adorno and Ethical Materialism, in: Maxi Berger and Philip Hogh (eds.), Negative Dialectics Today. The Primacy of the Object and Mediation in Dialectics, Stuttgart: Metzler 2023.

31 Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, in: Robin Celikates, Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar (eds.), Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming, 2024).

30 Anthropology/Nature, in: Robin Celikates, Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar (eds.), Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming, 2024).

*29 Two Sorts of Natural History. On a Central Concept in Ethical Naturalism and Critical Theory, in: European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2022), 1248-1267.

*28 The Social Destabilization of Nature and the Return of the Terror of Nature. Critical Reflections on the Anthropocene, in: German Journal of Philosophy 69 (2021) 6, 1020-1035.

*27 "Nature is also waiting for the revolution." Approaches to an Advocatory Ethics of Nature in Critical Theory, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (2021) 5, 742-764.

26 Situation, in: Anne Eusterschulte and Sebastian Tränkle (eds.), Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie (Klassiker Auslegen, ed. by Ottfried Höffe), Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2021, 43-58.

*25. linguistic similarity of music, musical similarity of language. A Gap in Adorno's Music Aesthetics, in: Music and Aesthetics 1/2020, 58-78.

24. language truth discourse. On the Reception and Public Effectiveness of Three Central Aspects of Habermas's Work in Germany, in: Luca Corchia, Stefan Müller-Doohm, William Outhwaite (eds.), Habermas Global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019, 154-191.

23 Adorno and Language, in: Richard Klein, Johann Kreuzer and Stefan Müller-Doohm (eds.), Adorno-Handbuch, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Metzler 2019, 463-471.

*22 Forms of language. Zum Verhältnis von Philosophie, Rhetorik, Alltags- und Wissenschaftssprache, in: Marc Sommer and Mario Schärli (eds.), Das Ärgernis der Philosophie. Metaphysics in Adorno's Negative Dialectic, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019, 77-101.

*21 Ethical materialism. Max Horkheimer and the Contradiction in Natural Normativity, in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 6 (2019) 1, 15-42.

20. with Jessica Cronshagen, André Munzinger and Timm Wöltjen, Wozu Hochschule? Interdisciplinary projects in research-based learning, in: Harald Mieg and Judith Lehmann (eds.), Forschendes Lernen. Ein Praxisbuch, Potsdam: FHP-Verlag 2018, 230-243.

19 Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language, in: SAGE-Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory 2018, 1223-1238.

18. apathy cold reification. On the Social Reality of Moral Indifference, in: Sven Ellmers and Philip Hogh (eds.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, 22-50.

17 With Sven Ellmers, Introduction, in: Sven Ellmers and Philip Hogh (eds.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, 7-21.

16 Not everything and not nothing. Adorno and Habermas on Communication, in: Stefan Deines, and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016, 219-240.

15 With Stefan Deines, Language and Critical Theory. Zur Einleitung, in: Stefan Deines, and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016, 9-28.

14 Forms of judgment. On the relationship of language to the language of art, in: Marc Grimm and Martin Niederauer (eds.), Ästhetische Aufklärung. Art and Criticism in the Theory of Theodor W. Adorno, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa 2016, 36-52.

13 The limits of habit. Reflections on Strangeness in the Experience of Art, in: Werner Fitzner (ed.), Kunst und Fremderfahrung. Alienations, Affects, Discoveries, transcript: Bielefeld 2016, 177-196.

*12 Kraft, Praxis und der blinde Fleck der Geschichte. On the understanding of history in contemporary aesthetics, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie, 3 (2016) 2, 256- 278.

*11 With Jessica Cronshagen and Timm Wöltjen, Lehre im Format welcher Forschung? Reflections on the concept of research using the examples of history, philosophy and the sociology of sport, in: Birte Heidkamp, David Kergel and Alexander Sieg (eds.), Forschendes Lernen 2.0 - Partizipatives Lernen zwischen Globalisierung und medialem Wandel, Berlin: Springer 2016, 229-244.

10 The linguistic-critical and linguistic-sociological tradition: Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas, in: Nikola Kompa (ed.), Handbuch Sprachphilosophie, Stuttgart: Metzler 2015, 69-79.

9 Expressivity, communication and linguistic content. A literature review on the current English-language reception of Adorno's philosophy of language in: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie 38/39, 2014, pp. 235-252.

8 With Julia König, Indeterminabilità determinata. Sulla seconda natura nella prima e sulla prima natura nella seconda, in: Filippo Rancchio and Federica Gregoratto (eds.), Contesti del riconoscimento. Libertà, seconda natura, potere, Milan: Mimesis 2014 (Italian translation of a shorter version of 4.).

7 Vom Werden der Sprache zur zweiten Natur. Reflections on the Genesis of Language and Subjectivity in Adorno, in: Christine Kirchhoff and Falko Schmieder (eds.), Zur Urgeschichte der Moderne. Freud and Adorno, Berlin: Kadmos 2014, pp. 25-50.

6 Second Nature. Kritische und affirmative Lesarten bei John McDowell und Theodor W. Adorno, online publication of the XXII German Congress of Philosophy, Munich 2011, epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12604/

5 With Julia König, Der Stachel Natur. Why human freedom is inconceivable without nature, in: Myriam Gerhard and Christine Zunke (eds.), Die Natur des Menschen, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2012, 225-250.

*4 With Julia König, Determined Indeterminacy. On the Second Nature in the First and the First Nature in the Second, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 59 (2011) 3, pp. 419-438.

3 In search of the lost first. Gesellschaftsvergessenheit und Metaphysik in der Hirnforschung, in: Myriam Gerhard and Christine Zunke (eds.), "Wir müssen die Wissenschaft wieder menschlich machen". Aspects and Perspectives of Natural Philosophy, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2010, pp. 45-65.

2 A Forcefield between Nature, Society and Reason. Approaching Adorno's Philosophy of Language, in: Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol. 17/2010, pp. 31-43.

1 Antilogos Auschwitz. A response to Donatella di Cesare, in: Information Philosophie 2/2008, pp. 114-116.

Reviews:

8. Daniel Martin Feige, The Nature of Man. A Dialectical Anthropology, Hegel-Studien 57 (2024), 187-190.

7 Bert Zantvoort and Rebecca Comay (eds.), Hegel and Resistance. History, Politics and Dialectics, Hegel-Studien 53/54 (2020), 344-347.

6 Tom Moderlak, Intersubjectivity as a Philosophical-Anthropological Category. Arnold Gehlen and Michael Tomasello, Jahrbuch für Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, 6/2018, 243-248.

5 Filippo Ranchio, Dimensions of the Second Nature. Hegel's practical philosophy, Hegel-Studien 51 (2018), 258-261.

4 Fabian Freyenhagen, Adorno's Practical Philosophy. Living Less Wrongly, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, 2 (2014) 1, 12-21 (available online at: www.zfphl.de/index.php/zfphl/article/view/31).

3 Axel Honneth: The Pathologies of Individual Freedom, in: Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol 19/2011, 168-172.

2 Who go the whole hog. Review of Robert Menasse: The Destruction of the World as Will and Imagination, in: Jungle World 17/2006.

1. write again! Review of Christoph Türcke: Vom Kainszeichen zum genetischen Code. Critical theory of writing, in: Jungle World 1/2006.

Translation:

Translation from the American: Jay M. Bernstein, Mimetic Rationality and Material Inference: Adorno and Brandom, in: Stefan Deines and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York 2016: Campus, 199-218.

Varia:

Reason for self-criticism. On the minor significance of anti-Semitism in contemporary critical theories, in: Neues Deutschland - Die Woche, 20. 10. 2023.

Selected research bibliography, in: Stefan Deines and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York 2016: Campus, 331-350.

• 10/2017-3/2018 PostDoc short-term scholarship from the DAAD for a research stay at the Philosophy Department of Columbia University in New York.
• 10/2015 Award for my dissertation with the prize "Geisteswissenschaften International" (donated by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, the VG Wort, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office), which supports the translation into English.
• 5/2015 Certificate in the university didactic qualification program "Research-based teaching and learning" of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in cooperation with the Competence Center for University Didactics in Lower Saxony (KHN).
• 9/2011-4/2012 Doctoral scholarship from the Anna Ruths Foundation.
• 8/2010-1/2011 International scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for a stay at the New School for Social Research in New York.
• 7/2008-6/2011 Doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Memberships

• Adorno Research Center (Oldenburg)
• German Society for Philosophy
• German Society for Aesthetics
• Research College for Critical Theory
• Trade Union for Education and Science
• Academic Center for the Genealogy of the Present (Oldenburg)

Expert activities

• Constellations
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Diacritics
• Hegel Bulletin
• Journal of the History of Philosophy
• Crisis
• National Science Center Poland
• Philosophy & Social Criticism
• Psychology and Social Criticism
• Journal of Philosophical Literature
• Journal of Practical Philosophy
• Journal of Sociology