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Niklas Bauer, M.A.

 

 

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Address:

Department of Philosophy
University of Freiburg
Platz der Universität 3
79098 Freiburg

Room 1065a

 

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Research Interests

 

    • Systematic: aesthetics / philosophy of art, philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, critique of religion, philosophy of science.
    • Historical: Kant, early Romanticism (esp. Novalis and Schlegel), philosophy of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries (esp. Blumenberg, Cassirer, Heidegger).
    • Current dissertation project under the title: ‘Theory as Possibility – On Philosophical Self-Contemplation in Ernst Cassirer’.

  

 

Curriculum vitae

 

    • Since 2021: freelancer for the non-fiction editorial department of the publishing house Klett-Cotta.
    • Since 2020: Assistant at the Chair in Philosophy with a Focus on Contemporary Philosophy and Technology at the University of Freiburg’s Department of Philosophy.
    • Since 2019: Research assistant at the Chair in Philosophy with a Focus on Contemporary Philosophy and Technology at the University of Freiburg’s Department of Philosophy.
    • 2013-2018: Studies of philosophy and musicology at the University of Freiburg.

 

 

Publications

 

Editorships

      • In Worten Musik machen: Begegnungen von Martin Heidegger und Carl Orff – Mit einer kommentierten Edition des Briefwechsels (with Rainer Bayreuther and Nikola Mirkovic; in preparation).
      • Davoser Dispositionen. Die Kontroverse zwischen Ernst Cassirer und Martin Heidegger aus der Sicht philosophischer Anthropologie. In: Problemata (with Oliver Müller; in preparation).

 

Articles in Journals

      • Davos, Anthropologie und ein gewundenes Band – Verwicklungen bei Ernst Cassirer. In: Davoser Dispositionen. Die Kontroverse zwischen Ernst Cassirer und Martin Heidegger aus der Sicht philosophischer Anthropologie. In: Problemata (in preparation).
      • Die Musik in Heideggers Schwarzen Heften. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 2020/2, pp. 381-406 (with Rainer Bayreuther).

 

Handbook Articles and Dictionary Entries

      • Löwen. In: Blumenberg-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. by Oliver Müller and Rüdiger Zill. Stuttgart (to be published 2024).
      • Platon. In: Blumenberg-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. by Oliver Müller and Rüdiger Zill. Stuttgart (to be published 2024).
      • Sokrates. In: Blumenberg-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. by Oliver Müller and Rüdiger Zill. Stuttgart (to be published 2024).

 

Reviews in Journals

      • Benjamin Dober: Ethik des Trostes. Hans Blumenbergs Kritik des Unbegrifflichen. Weilerswist 2019. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45/3 (2020), pp. 403-408.
      • Alessandro Iorio: Das Sein erzählt. Heideggers narratives Denken. Frankfurt a.M. 2017. In: Phänomenologische Forschungen 2019/1, pp. 225-230.
      • Rico Gutschmidt: Sein ohne Grund. Die post-theistische Religiosität im Spätwerk Martin Heideggers. Freiburg/München 2016. In: Phänomenologische Forschungen 2018/1, pp. 169-174.

 

Articles in Newspapers, Magazines, and Portals

 

 

List of Courses

 

    • SS 24: Skepticism as attitude – The philosophical works of Ludwig Marcuse (undergraduate seminar).
    • WS 23/24: The idea of the university (undergraduate seminar).
    • SS 23: Kant. Critique of Pure Reason (interpretation course, part II).
    • WS 22/23: Kant. Critique of Pure Reason (interpretation course, part I).
    • SS 22: Philosophical-Historical Introduction to the Aesthetics of Music (in cooperation with the Department of Musicology).
    • WS 21/22: Kant. Prolegomena (undergraduate seminar).
    • SS 21: Kant. Short Works and Essays (undergraduate seminar).
    • WS 20/21: Cassirer. Anthropological Writings (undergraduate seminar).