Primary research areas

  • Ethics and philosophy of religion 
  • Systematic theology (in particular theology of the Reformation, modern and post-Holocaust theology, theological anthropology and ethics) in an interreligious context
  • Continental philosophy (in particular German idealism, existential philosophy, hermeneutics, and phenomenology)
  • Kierkegaard studies
  • Environmental ethics
  • Hospitality, dialogue, and listening
  • Modern Jewish thought and German-Jewish literature
  • Theories of subjectivity, self-understanding, and personhood
  • Philosophy of emotion
  • Philosophy of psychology and psychiatry including trauma and memory studies
  • Arts-based research including poetry, visual art, and music