Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator
Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: Language and Practice of Religion. On the normative meaning of religious symbols and rituals | Research focus 3 – Frayed orders: Social cohesion under conditions of radical plurality
Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Multinormativity | Research field 1
Project management: Genesis and validity of the concept of the secular | Research field 2
Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: The School of Salamanca | Research field 1
Project management: Human dignity in the early modern period | Research field 2
Subject areas
Philosophy
Main research
Philosophy of the Middle Ages, Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory
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Biografische Angaben
Since 2017: Founding Director of the Johanna Quandt Academy for the promotion of the best internationally recognized young scientists at Goethe University (together with Prof. Enrico Schleiff)
2017: Together with Volker Mosbrugger, winner of the Hessian Culture Prize for special achievements in art, science and cultural mediation
Since 2015: Member of the Research Council of Goethe University
2015-2019: Project leader of the sub-project “Potestas, Iurisdictio and Dominium: Discourses of Weakness and Power in the 13th and 14th Centuries” in the DFG-funded CRC 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes”
Since 2012: Director of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at Goethe University in Bad Homburg
2012-2018: Project manager in the sub-project “Sustainability” in the BMBF joint project “Saisir l’Europe – Europe as a challenge”
Since 2009: Member of the Frankfurt Scientific Society
2009-2015: Vice President of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with special responsibility for research and humanities. During his time as Vice President, he founded the Academy for Educational Sciences and Teacher Training, the Institute for Studies in the Culture and Religion of Islam and the Center for Islamic Studies, the Research Center for Historical Humanities, the “Dagmar Westberg Lectures for the Humanities”, the Institut Franco-Allemand de Sciences Historiques et Sociales (IFRA) in cooperation with EHESS (Paris), the initiation of cooperation with the universities of Mainz and Darmstadt, the opening of the GU’s Brussels office at the European Union, the expansion of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften into an “Institute for Advanced Studies”, the support of the IZO through the introduction of a permanent professorship for Korean Studies, the expansion of the Institute for Jewish Studies and the preservation of the musicology and archaeology institutes at Goethe University, etc.etc.
Since 2007: Member of the Board of Directors and PI of the Cluster of Excellence 243 “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University
Since 2006: Head of the “Section for Philosophy” of the Görres Society
2004-2008: Member of the Philosophy Review Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG)Since 1999: Member of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Center: Institute for Research in Philosophy of Religion (IRF) at Goethe University
1999-2009: Project leader and deputy speaker of the DFG-funded research college SFB 435 “Knowledge Culture and Social Change” at Goethe University
1999-2003: Director of the “Institute for Religious Philosophical Research (IRF)” at Goethe University
From 1996 to 1997 and from 2007 to 2009 Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History at Goethe University (1996-1997: merger of the Departments of Philosophy and History)
Since 1994: Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at Goethe University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, St. Louis/USA (Graduate Faculty)