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Classical German Philosophy

Uncovering the roots of European Philosophy

This research cluster covers a major area of research and teaching at Essex. Many of our academic staff are experts on Kant and the post-Kantian tradition including, Schelling and Hegel, as well as later nineteenth-century philosophers, such as Marx, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Members of the Classical Germany Philosophy research cluster have published a variety of work on the reception of German and transcendental Idealism by critical theorists, on Hegel and the relationship between aesthetics and politics and on Kierkegaard’s critique of Hegel’s account of pure thought and his reading of the place of Socrates in the history of philosophy. Our members are also published authors. 

Learn more about our members research and interests through their staff profiles. You can also contact members of staff for information on research supervision opportunities.

Our members

Professor Fabian Freyenhagen
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Theory, history and practice of autonomy; Frankfurt School (especially Adorno); Ethics (particularly critique of Kant's and Kantian ethics); Political Philosophy
Professor Beatrice Han-Pile
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Agency, medio-passivity and the theological virtues; Foucault and XXth century philosophy, in particular phenomenology
Professor Wayne Martin
Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract
Dr Fiona Hughes
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Phenomenology (French and German)
Dr Matthew Burch
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.
Dr Daniel Watts
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Kierkegaard; Wittgenstein; The theory of judgement; Medical Humanities; Existentialism and phenomenology; Moral and political philosophy and; Philosophy of religion
Dr Joerg Schaub
Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy (focus on contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

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