Prof. Dr. Philip Hogh

• Critical theory as interdisciplinary materialism
• Philosophy of nature, especially ethics of climate change
• Anthropology, especially psychoanalytical and body-philosophical approaches
• Philosophy of history

• 4/2022- Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Kassel.
• 11/2021 Habilitation in Philosophy and award of Venia Legendi for Practical Philosophy at Faculty IV of Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
• 4/2021-9/2021 Visiting professor of critical social theory at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
• 1/2020-6/2020 Parental leave
• 4/2018-6/2018 Parental leave
• 10/2017-3/2018 Research visit to the Philosophy Department at Columbia University in New York at the invitation of Axel Honneth.
• 10/2016-3/2021 Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg as part of the BMBF-funded project "Forschendes Lernen im Fokus (FLiF Plus)".
• 10/2015-3/2016 Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin.
• 10/2011-9/2016 Research Assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg as part of the BMBF-funded project "Forschendes Lernen im Fokus (FLiF)/Forschungsorientierte Lehre (FoL)".
• 7/2010-2/2011 Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research in New York at the invitation of Jay M. Bernstein.
• 11/2007-1/2013 PhD at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Title of the dissertation: Communication and Expression. Philosophy of Language after Adorno).
• 10/1999-12/2006 Studies of Philosophy, Political Science and Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the University of Basel/CH and the University of Durham/GB, graduated with a Magister Artium in December 2006.

Monographs:

2 Ethical materialism. Critical Theory of Suffering, Hamburg: Meiner 2024.

1b. Communication and Expression. Adorno's Philosophy of Language, London: Rowman and Littlefield 2017 (English translation of 2015).

Reviewed by George Wrisley, Choice Issue: jul 2017 vol. 54 no. 11.

1a. Communication and Expression. Philosophy of Language after Adorno, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2015.

Reviewed by Sebastian Schreull, Von einem anderen "linguistic turn", www.portalideengeschichte.de.

Publications:

Book series:

Studies in Critical Theory, edited together with Maxi Berger, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart.

Volume 1: Martin Mettin, Critical Theory of Listening. Investigations into the philosophy of Ulrich Sonnemann (2020).

Volume 2: Philipp Idel, Between "Verfransung" and "Entkunstung". Reflections on an Aesthetics of the Installation after Adorno (2022).

Volume 3: Maxi Berger and Philip Hogh (eds.), Negative Dialectics Today. The primacy of the object and mediation in dialectics (2023).

Volume 4: Dirk Stederoth, Real Avatars. On the Spinning of the Human in Net Culture (2023).

Volume 5: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Fear and Enlightenment. Marginal areas of critical theory (2024).

Single title:

3. with Sven Ellmers (ed.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017.

Reviewed by Martin Gloger, https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/24116.php

2. with Stefan Deines (ed.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016.

Reviewed by Fabian Burt, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (2016) 4, 327-332.

Reviewed by Alex Holznienkemper, The German Quarterly 91 (2018) 1, 92-94.

1. with Nils Baratella et al. (eds.), Subjekt und Gewalt im Recht, focus issue of Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 101 (2015) 4.

Journal and book contributions (* = peer-reviewed):

34. progress, materialistically understood, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie, 29 (2023) 56/57.

33 Beyond Morality. On the Relation of Indifference and Resistance, in: Mario Wenning and Thomas Byrne (eds.), The Right to Resist. Philosophies of Dissent, New York: Bloomsbury 2023.

32 Negative Dialectics of Natural History. Adorno and Ethical Materialism, in: Maxi Berger and Philip Hogh (eds.), Negative Dialectics Today. The Primacy of the Object and Mediation in Dialectics, Stuttgart: Metzler 2023.

31 Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, in: Robin Celikates, Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar (eds.), Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming, 2024).

30 Anthropology/Nature, in: Robin Celikates, Rahel Jaeggi and Martin Saar (eds.), Handbuch Kritische Theorie, Stuttgart: Metzler (forthcoming, 2024).

*29 Two Sorts of Natural History. On a Central Concept in Ethical Naturalism and Critical Theory, in: European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2022), 1248-1267.

*28 The Social Destabilization of Nature and the Return of the Terror of Nature. Critical Reflections on the Anthropocene, in: German Journal of Philosophy 69 (2021) 6, 1020-1035.

*27 "Nature is also waiting for the revolution." Approaches to an Advocatory Ethics of Nature in Critical Theory, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (2021) 5, 742-764.

26 Situation, in: Anne Eusterschulte and Sebastian Tränkle (eds.), Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie (Klassiker Auslegen, ed. by Ottfried Höffe), Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter 2021, 43-58.

*25. linguistic similarity of music, musical similarity of language. A Gap in Adorno's Music Aesthetics, in: Music and Aesthetics 1/2020, 58-78.

24. language truth discourse. On the Reception and Public Effectiveness of Three Central Aspects of Habermas' Work in Germany, in: Luca Corchia, Stefan Müller-Doohm, William Outhwaite (eds.), Habermas Global. Wirkungsgeschichte eines Werks, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019, 154-191.

23 Adorno and Language, in: Richard Klein, Johann Kreuzer and Stefan Müller-Doohm (eds.), Adorno-Handbuch, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Metzler 2019, 463-471.

*22 Forms of language. Zum Verhältnis von Philosophie, Rhetorik, Alltags- und Wissenschaftssprache, in: Marc Sommer and Mario Schärli (eds.), Das Ärgernis der Philosophie. Metaphysics in Adorno's Negative Dialectic, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2019, 77-101.

*21 Ethical materialism. Max Horkheimer and the Contradiction in Natural Normativity, in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 6 (2019) 1, 15-42.

20. with Jessica Cronshagen, André Munzinger and Timm Wöltjen, Wozu Hochschule? Interdisciplinary projects in research-based learning, in: Harald Mieg and Judith Lehmann (eds.), Forschendes Lernen. Ein Praxisbuch, Potsdam: FHP-Verlag 2018, 230-243.

19 Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language, in: SAGE-Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory 2018, 1223-1238.

18. apathy cold reification. On the Social Reality of Moral Indifference, in: Sven Ellmers and Philip Hogh (eds.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, 22-50.

17 With Sven Ellmers, Introduction, in: Sven Ellmers and Philip Hogh (eds.), Why Critique? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, 7-21.

16 Not everything and not nothing. Adorno and Habermas on Communication, in: Stefan Deines, and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016, 219-240.

15 With Stefan Deines, Language and Critical Theory. Zur Einleitung, in: Stefan Deines, and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2016, 9-28.

14 Forms of judgment. On the relationship of language to the language of art, in: Marc Grimm and Martin Niederauer (eds.), Ästhetische Aufklärung. Art and Criticism in the Theory of Theodor W. Adorno, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa 2016, 36-52.

13 The limits of habit. Reflections on Strangeness in the Experience of Art, in: Werner Fitzner (ed.), Kunst und Fremderfahrung. Alienations, Affects, Discoveries, transcript: Bielefeld 2016, 177-196.

*12 Kraft, Praxis und der blinde Fleck der Geschichte. On the understanding of history in contemporary aesthetics, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie, 3 (2016) 2, 256- 278.

*11 With Jessica Cronshagen and Timm Wöltjen, Lehre im Format welcher Forschung? Reflections on the concept of research using the examples of history, philosophy and the sociology of sport, in: Birte Heidkamp, David Kergel and Alexander Sieg (eds.), Forschendes Lernen 2.0 - Partizipatives Lernen zwischen Globalisierung und medialem Wandel, Berlin: Springer 2016, 229-244.

10 The linguistic-critical and linguistic-sociological tradition: Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas, in: Nikola Kompa (ed.), Handbuch Sprachphilosophie, Stuttgart: Metzler 2015, 69-79.

9 Expressivity, communication and linguistic content. A literature review on the current English-language reception of Adorno's philosophy of language in: Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie 38/39, 2014, pp. 235-252.

8 With Julia König, Indeterminabilità determinata. Sulla seconda natura nella prima e sulla prima natura nella seconda, in: Filippo Rancchio and Federica Gregoratto (eds.), Contesti del riconoscimento. Libertà, seconda natura, potere, Milan: Mimesis 2014 (Italian translation of a shorter version of 4.).

7 Vom Werden der Sprache zur zweiten Natur. Reflections on the Genesis of Language and Subjectivity in Adorno, in: Christine Kirchhoff and Falko Schmieder (eds.), Zur Urgeschichte der Moderne. Freud and Adorno, Berlin: Kadmos 2014, pp. 25-50.

6 Second Nature. Kritische und affirmative Lesarten bei John McDowell und Theodor W. Adorno, online publication of the XXII German Congress of Philosophy, Munich 2011, epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12604/

5 With Julia König, Der Stachel Natur. Why human freedom is inconceivable without nature, in: Myriam Gerhard and Christine Zunke (eds.), Die Natur des Menschen, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2012, 225-250.

*4 With Julia König, Determined Indeterminacy. On the Second Nature in the First and the First Nature in the Second, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 59 (2011) 3, pp. 419-438.

3 In search of the lost first. Gesellschaftsvergessenheit und Metaphysik in der Hirnforschung, in: Myriam Gerhard and Christine Zunke (eds.), "Wir müssen die Wissenschaft wieder menschlich machen". Aspects and Perspectives of Natural Philosophy, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann 2010, pp. 45-65.

2 A Forcefield between Nature, Society and Reason. Approaching Adorno's Philosophy of Language, in: Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol. 17/2010, pp. 31-43.

1 Antilogos Auschwitz. A response to Donatella di Cesare, in: Information Philosophie 2/2008, pp. 114-116.

Reviews:

8. Daniel Martin Feige, The Nature of Man. A Dialectical Anthropology, Hegel-Studien 57 (2024), 187-190.

7 Bert Zantvoort and Rebecca Comay (eds.), Hegel and Resistance. History, Politics and Dialectics, Hegel-Studien 53/54 (2020), 344-347.

6 Tom Moderlak, Intersubjectivity as a Philosophical-Anthropological Category. Arnold Gehlen and Michael Tomasello, Jahrbuch für Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, 6/2018, 243-248.

5 Filippo Ranchio, Dimensions of the Second Nature. Hegel's practical philosophy, Hegel-Studien 51 (2018), 258-261.

4 Fabian Freyenhagen, Adorno's Practical Philosophy. Living Less Wrongly, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, 2 (2014) 1, 12-21 (available online at: www.zfphl.de/index.php/zfphl/article/view/31).

3 Axel Honneth: The Pathologies of Individual Freedom, in: Studies in Social and Political Thought, Vol 19/2011, 168-172.

2 Who go the whole hog. Review of Robert Menasse: The Destruction of the World as Will and Imagination, in: Jungle World 17/2006.

1. write again! Review of Christoph Türcke: Vom Kainszeichen zum genetischen Code. Critical theory of writing, in: Jungle World 1/2006.

Translation:

Translation from the American: Jay M. Bernstein, Mimetic Rationality and Material Inference: Adorno and Brandom, in: Stefan Deines and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York 2016: Campus, 199-218.

Varia:

Reason for self-criticism. On the minor significance of anti-Semitism in contemporary critical theories, in: Neues Deutschland - Die Woche, 20. 10. 2023.

Selected research bibliography, in: Stefan Deines and Philip Hogh (eds.), Sprache und Kritische Theorie, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Frankfurt/New York 2016: Campus, 331-350.

• 10/2017-3/2018 PostDoc short-term scholarship from the DAAD for a research stay at the Philosophy Department of Columbia University in New York.
• 10/2015 Award of the prize "Geisteswissenschaften International" to my dissertation (sponsored by Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, VG Wort, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Auswärtiges Amt), which promotes translation into English.
• 5/2015 Certificate in the university didactic qualification program "Research-based Teaching and Learning" at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in cooperation with the Competence Center for University Didactics in Lower Saxony (KHN).
• 9/2011-4/2012 Doctoral graduation scholarship of the Anna-Ruths-Foundation.
• 8/2010-1/2011 Grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for a stay at the New School for Social Research in New York.
• 7/2008-6/2011 PhD scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.

Memberships

• Adorno Research Center (Oldenburg)
• German Society for Philosophy 
• German Society for Aesthetics
• Research College for Critical Theory 
• Trade Union for Education and Science 
• Academic Center for the Genealogy of the Present (Oldenburg)

Expert activities

• Constellations
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Diacritics
• Hegel Bulletin
• Journal of the History of Philosophy
• Crisis
• National Science Center Poland
• Philosophy & Social Criticism
• Psychology and Social Criticism
• Journal of Philosophical Literature
• Journal of Practical Philosophy
• Journal of Sociology