Philosophy with a focus on the History of Philosophy (University of Leipzig)
Professor for the History of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig
Director of the Research Center for Analytic German Idealism (FAGI); 2014-2015 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin; 2016-2017 Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
Research focus: German idealism (Hegel, Kant); epistemology; skepticism; theory of Bildung; concept of reason; aesthetics
Publications (selection)
Monographs
- Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 2017
- Schöne Lust: Eine Theorie der ästhetischen Erfahrung nach Kant, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2000
Edited volumes
- with Christian Kietzmann (ed.): Selbstbewusstes Leben: Texte zu einer transformativen Theorie der menschlichen Subjektivität, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 2017
- with James Conant (ed.): Varieties of Skepticism: Essays after Kant, Cavell and Wittgenstein, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2014
- with Ruth Sonderegger (ed.): Falsche Gegensätze. Zeitgenössische Positionen zur philosophischen Ästhetik, Frankfurt a. M: Suhrkamp 2002