Thomas Khurana

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Thomas Khurana (born 1975) is a German philosopher. Since 2020, he has held the position of Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. [1] He is also currently the director of the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy. [2]

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Life

Thomas Khurana studied psychology, philosophy, sociology, and comparative literature at the University of Bielefeld and the Free University of Berlin. After receiving a PhD from the University of Potsdam, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and the scientific coordinator of the doctoral program Forms of Life and the Know How of Living at the University of Potsdam from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders [3] at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. After holding positions at the University of Leipzig and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Khurana joined the School of Philosophy at the University of Essex, where he co-directed an EU project on "The Comedy of Political Philosophy.” [4] From 2017 to 2020, he was a DFG Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. [5]

Khurana was also Heuss Visiting Lecturer at the New School for Social Research (2009), Humboldt Fellow at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (2010–11), [6] and Max Kade Visiting Professor at Yale University (2021). [7] Khurana is director of the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy [8] and an Associate of the Research Network Critical Theory in Berlin. [9]

Research interests

Khurana characterizes himself as a post-Kantian philosopher “in the double sense that it would be difficult to articulate my questions without using Kantian ways of putting the problem, and equally hard to formulate my responses without going beyond what might seem acceptable for a good Kantian.” [10] His areas of specialization are Kant and Hegel; post-Kantian European philosophy; social philosophy; ethics and aesthetics; [11] philosophical anthropology; critical theory; psychoanalysis. His current research projects concern the art of second nature; self-knowledge and self-objectification; the sociality of the human life-form; [12] the philosophy of the anthropocene. [13]

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References

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  2. Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy(Retrieved March 27, 2023).
  3. DFG, Project Results of Funded Projects: Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  4. CORDIS Research*eu Magazine 105 (2021), “Comedic tricks for more inspired politics” (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  5. DFG, Funded Projects: Heisenberg Project “Norm and Nature” (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  6. Humboldt Foundation, Thomas Khurana’s Feodor Lynen Fellowship at the Committee on Social Thought (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  7. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures: "Max Kade Visiting Professor Thomas Khurana joins the Faculty“ (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  8. Team - Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy (Retrieved March 27, 2023)
  9. Critical Theory in Berlin: "People" (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  10. “Freedom’s Tendency to Get Ahead of Itself”, interview of Thomas Khurana by Richard Marshall for 3am magazine, August 31, 2018 (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  11. "Researchers at University of Potsdam Report New Data on Philosophy (The Struggle for Recognition and the Authority of the Second Person)". Science Letter: 1267. 3 September 2021 via Gale Academic OneFile.
  12. “Research Interests” and “Research Projects”, Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam’s Department of Philosophy (Retrieved February 2, 2022).
  13. Critical Theory in Berlin: "People” (Retrieved February 2, 2022).