PhD candidate
victor.auslaender@polight.uni-halle.de
Studied fine art and art history at Goldsmiths and at the Royal Academy (London); Master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland); subject of the MA dissertation: Hegel’s philosophy of labour in the Jenaer Schriften (Supervisor: Prof. Emmanuel Alloa). Works at the same time as an artist.
Reserach focus:
Philosophical anthropology, linking Rousseau with German classical philosophy and Marx; aesthetic, literature and art history
Project: Rousseau’s political concept of happiness, between Ancien Régime and Revolution