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Themes

Cultural History of Aerospace (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
Aesthetics: Eva Geulen, Robert Mitchell
Basic Concepts of Aesthetics: Lydia Schmuck
History of Aesthetics: Robert Mitchell, Ernst Müller
Psychological Aesthetics: Tobias Wilke
Afterlife: Falko Schmieder
Alternative Histories: Eva Stubenrauch
Animals/Humans: Georg Toepfer
Anthropocene: Falko Schmieder
Anticapitalism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Antiquity: Martin Treml
Architecture (Theory and History): Detlev Schöttker
Archive (Theory): Detlev Schöttker
Art and Political Action: Alma Itzhaky
Auto sacramental (Spanish and Latin American Corpus Christi Plays): Johanna Abel
Autobiographical Writing (Russia): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Autosociobiography: Christina Ernst
Historical Avantgarde: Tobias Wilke
Biodiversity: Georg Toepfer
Biology: Georg Toepfer
Biopolitics: Eva Geulen, Robert Mitchell
Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea: Zaal Andronikashvili
Border Regions: Zaal Andronikashvili
Brazilian Literature: Oliver Precht
Literary Discourse on the Caucasus Mountains: Zaal Andronikashvili
Class: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Classical Literature: Claude Haas
Climate: Hanna Hamel
Communism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Composting: Rabea Kleymann
Collectivity and Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
History of Concepts: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Contemporary Literature (Berlin): Hanna Hamel
Contemporary Literature (German-speaking): Claude Haas
Contemporary Literature (Poland, Russia): Matthias Schwartz
Cosmos: Alexandra Heimes
Critical Theory: Pola Groß, Falko Schmieder, Sebastian Truskolaski
History of Cultural Theory: Barbara Picht
Cultural and Social Anthropology: Andreas Lipowsky
Cultural Philosophy: Leander Scholz
Cybernetics: Alexandra Heimes, Robert Mitchell
Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic/Slovakia: Anna Förster
Diagnostics of Time: Eva Stubenrauch
Diffraction: Rabea Kleymann
Digital Humanities: Rabea Kleymann
Disaster: Lukas Schemper
Early Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
East Central European Literature: Anna Förster
Ecocriticism: Alma Itzhaky, Salome Rodeck
Ecoligical Art: Alma Itzhaky
Ecology: Alexandra Heimes, Falko Schmieder
Editorial Theory/Practice: Anja Keith, Friederike Wein
Embodiment: Johanna Abel
German Enlightenment: Ernst Müller
European Enlightenment: Maud Meyzaud
Islamic Enlightenment: Maud Meyzaud
Ethnography: Andreas Lipowsky
Europe: Barbara Picht
Evolution: Georg Toepfer
Exile/Emigration: Barbara Picht
Modes of Existence: Alexandra Heimes
Externalization: Katrin Trüstedt
Creation of Fame: Detlev Schöttker
New Formalism: Eva Axer
French Philosophy in the 20th Century: Moritz Gansen
French Theory: Oliver Precht
Near Future: Alexandra Heimes
Future: Eva Stubenrauch
Politics of Genre: Claude Haas (primarily Tragedy), Katrin Trüstedt (primarily Comedy)
Theory of Genres: Eva Axer
Georgia: Zaal Andronikashvili
Global History: Jonathan Stafford
The Grotesque: Eva Axer
Hegelianism in France: Moritz Gansen
Heiterkeit in Literature and Philosophy: Pola Groß
Hermeneutics: Ernst Müller
Heroism (Theory and History): Claude Haas
Historical Semantics: Ernst Müller
History of Historical Studies: Barbara Picht
Methods and Critiques of the Historiography of Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
Theory of History: Henning Trüper
Humanitarism: Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper
(German) Idealism: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller
Identity Politics: Leander Scholz
Imagology: Gianna Zocco
Individuality / Individuation: Alexandra Heimes
Internationalism: Lukas Schemper
Labor Camp Literature (Russian): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Law and Literature: Katrin Trüstedt
Letter Edition: Anja Keith
Letter Culture (The letter as literary work): Anja Keith
Life and Life Knowledge: Georg Toepfer
Philosophy of Life and Vitalism: Andreas Lipowsky, Robert Mitchell
Life-Saving from Nautical Distress: Nebiha Guiga, Alexandra Heimes, Lukas Schemper, Jonathan Stafford, Henning Trüper
African-American Literature: Gianna Zocco
Minor/Small Literature(s): Zaal Andronikashvili
Russian Literature: Zaal Andronikashvili
Literature and Philosophy: Eva Geulen
Literary Theory: Eva Geulen, Katrin Trüstedt
Maritime Space and Landscape: Jonathan Stafford
Marxism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
History of Marxism: Ernst Müller
Media Philosophy: Leander Scholz
Media (Theories): Tobias Wilke
Memory (Theories): Eva Axer
Cultures/Literatures of Memory (Eastern Europe, World War II): Matthias Schwartz
Politics of Memory: Eva Axer
History of Military Surgery: Nebiha Guiga
Model Theory: Eva Stubenrauch
(Classical) Modernity: Patrick Eiden-Offe
History and Theory of Modernity: Jonathan Stafford
Morphology: Alexandra Heimes
Mythos: Martin Treml
Napoleonic Wars: Nebiha Guiga
Neighborhood/Neighborship: Hanna Hamel
Networks: Alexandra Heimes
Theory of the Novel: Maud Meyzaud
Paris Commune: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Periodicals (Journalism): Moritz Neuffer
Philately: Dirk Naguschewski, Detlev Schöttker
The Philosophy of Art: Alma Itzhaky
The Political in Literature: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Eva Stubenrauch, Sebastian Truskolaski, Katrin Trüstedt
Political Ecology: Alma Itzhaky, Leander Scholz
Political Philosophy: Leander Scholz
Concepts of Population: Robert Mitchell
Pragmatism in France: Moritz Gansen
Precariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Presence Effects: Johanna Abel
Probability (around 1800): Eva Stubenrauch
Progress: Falko Schmieder
Proletariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Prototyping/Prototypes: Rabea Kleymann
Doctrines of Prudence: Leander Scholz
Psychoanalysis: Martin Treml
Theory of the Public Sphere: Alma Itzhaky
Realism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
History of Religion (Christianity, Judaism, Islam): Martin Treml
Representation: Katrin Trüstedt
French Revolution: Maud Meyzaud
Romanticism (Concept): Ernst Müller
Jena Romanticism: Maud Meyzaud
Political Romanticism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Philosophy of Science: Georg Toepfer
Science Fiction: Robert Mitchell
Science Fiction (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
Secularization (Theories): Maud Meyzaud, Ernst Müller
Small Forms: Eva Axer
Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Sound: Tobias Wilke
Sovereignty: Lukas Schemper
Soviet Union: Zaal Andronikashvili
Structuralism: Anna Förster
Style: Pola Groß
Typologies of Style: Eva Axer
Subject (Theories): Zaal Andronikashvili
Sustainability: Falko Schmieder
Swing Riots/Luddites: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Theory / Philosophy of Technology / Cultural History of Technology: Alexandra Heimes
Thanatology: Leander Scholz
Time Models: Eva Axer
Cultural Topography (Eastern Europe): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Translation: Anna Förster
History of University (around 1800): Ernst Müller
Utopia: Falko Schmieder
Visual Culture: Tobias Wilke
Volk: Maud Meyzaud
Vormärz: Patrick Eiden-Offe
War: Claude Haas
Window (literary motif): Gianna Zocco

People

Theodor W. Adorno: Eva Geulen, Pola Groß, Falko Schmieder, Sebastian Truskolaski
Giorgio Agamben: Eva Geulen
Hannah Arendt: Eva Geulen, Robert Mitchell, Sigrid Weigel, Friederike Wein
Bettine von Arnim: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Erich Auerbach: Martin Treml
James Baldwin: Gianna Zocco
Karen Barad: Rabea Kleymann
Karlheinz Barck: Lydia Schmuck
Roland Barthes: Katrin Trüstedt
Georges Bataille: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Leander Scholz
Ludwig van Beethoven: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Walter Benjamin: Detlev Schöttker, Sebastian Truskolaski, Sigrid Weigel, Tobias Wilke
Max Bense: Tobias Wilke
Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Eva Axer
Auguste Blanqui: Alexandra Heimes
Hans Blumenberg: Alexandra Heimes
Fernand Braudel: Barbara Picht
Bertolt Brecht: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Hildegard Brenner: Moritz Neuffer
Hermann Broch: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Barbara Picht
Emily Brontë: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Martin Buber: Martin Treml
Georg Büchner: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Maud Meyzaud
Edmund Burke: Robert Mitchell
Ernst Cassirer: Alexandra Heimes
Werner Conze: Barbara Picht
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Robert Mitchell
Ernst Robert Curtius: Barbara Picht
Gilles Deleuze: Moritz Gansen
Jacques Derrida: Oliver Precht
Denis Diderot: Maud Meyzaud
Heimito von Doderer: Eva Geulen
W. E. B. Du Bois: Gianna Zocco
Friedrich Engels: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Didier Eribon: Christina Ernst
Annie Ernaux: Christina Ernst
Ludwig Feuerbach: Falko Schmieder
Ludwik Fleck: Ernst Müller
Theodor Fontane: Eva Geulen
Michel Foucault: Robert Mitchell
Sigmund Freud: Martin Treml
Juri Gagarin: Matthias Schwartz
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Eva Geulen, Alexandra Heimes
Franz Grillparzer: Eva Geulen
Friedrich Gundolf: Claude Haas
Oskar Halecki: Barbara Picht
Johann Georg Hamann: Ernst Müller
Donna Haraway: Rabea Kleymann
Raoul Hausmann: Tobias Wilke
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Robert Mitchell, Ernst Müller, Leander Scholz
Martin Heidegger: Robert Mitchell, Oliver Precht, Leander Scholz
Heinrich Heine: Eva Axer
Klaus Heinrich: Martin Treml
Johann Gottfried Herder: Hanna Hamel
Moses Hess: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Albert O. Hirschman: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Thomas Hobbes: Leander Scholz
Friedrich Hölderlin: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Arno Holz: Eva Axer
Michel Houellebecq: Hanna Hamel
André Jolles: Eva Axer
Ernst Jünger: Anja Keith, Detlev Schöttker
Gretha Jünger: Anja Keith
Immanuel Kant: Robert Mitchell, Ernst Müller
Ernst Kantorowicz: Barbara Picht
Ernst Kapp: Leander Scholz
Søren Kierkegaard: Ernst Müller
Alexandre Kojève: Robert Mitchell, Leander Scholz
Max Kommerell: Claude Haas
Karl Korsch: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Reinhart Koselleck: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Werner Krauss: Barbara Picht
Nella Larsen: Gianna Zocco
Bruno Latour: Hanna Hamel, Leander Scholz
Claude Lefort: Eva Stubenrauch
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Oliver Precht
Hans Liebeschütz: Barbara Picht
Clarice Lispector: Oliver Precht
Stanisław Lem: Matthias Schwartz
Georg Lukács: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Merab Mamardašvili: Zaal Andronikashvili
Walter Markov: Barbara Picht
Karl Marx: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Marshall McLuhan: Tobias Wilke
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Oliver Precht
Jules Michelet: Maud Meyzaud
Czesław Miłosz: Barbara Picht
Robert Minder: Barbara Picht
Karl August Möbius: Leander Scholz
Stéphane Mosès: Sigrid Weigel
Chantal Mouffe: Eva Stubenrauch
Robert Musil: Maud Meyzaud
Friedrich Nietzsche: Leander Scholz
Erwin Panofsky: Barbara Picht
Fernando Pessoa: Oliver Precht
Wilhelm Raabe: Eva Geulen
Friedrich Ratzel: Leander Scholz
Milo Rau: Eva Stubenrauch
Kathrin Röggla: Pola Groß
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Maud Meyzaud, Robert Mitchell
Warlam Schalamow: Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Friedrich Schiller: Claude Haas
Friedrich Schlegel: Maud Meyzaud
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Ernst Müller
Carl Schmitt: Leander Scholz
Arnold Schönberg: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Percy Ernst Schramm: Barbara Picht
Kurt Schwitters: Tobias Wilke
W. G. Sebald: Kyoung-Jin Lee
William Shakespeare: Katrin Trüstedt
Mary Shelley: Robert Mitchell
Gilbert Simondon: Alexandra Heimes, Robert Mitchell
Adam Smith: Robert Mitchell
Adalbert Stifter: Eva Geulen
Leo Strauss: Leander Scholz
Jacob Taubes: Martin Treml
E. P. Thompson: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Ludwig Tieck: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Paul Tillich: Martin Treml
Flora Tristan: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Ibn Tufail: Maud Meyzaud
Rahel Levin Varnhagen: Friederike Wein
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Oliver Precht
Max Leopold Wagner: Dirk Naguschewski
Jean Wahl: Moritz Gansen
Robert Walser: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Oskar Walzel: Eva Axer
Aby Warburg: Barbara Picht, Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel
Georg Weerth: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Wilhelm Weitling: Patrick Eiden-Offe
William Wordsworth: Robert Mitchell
Joseph Wulf: Anja Keith
Juli Zeh: Eva Stubenrauch