Projects

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Nihilism on a troubled earth. Friedrich Nietzsche and the nihilisms of the anthropocene

2021

This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
English
German
Philosophy
Narrating Sun Yat-sen: Explaining the People’s Republic of China and Republic of China’s (Taiwan) developments concerning leninism, christianity, and democracy

2021

This research strives to overcome scientific knowledge gaps related to Sun Yat-sen’s life, as well as the gaps surrounding the concepts that are crucial in understanding his persona: Leninism, Christianity, ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
Comparative
Contemporary
English
History
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Religion
Muslim Egypt in Flux - Negotiating Individual (non-)Religiosities

2021

My postdoctoral research in Egypt (2016-2019, 2023, 2024) focused on religious and non-religious identities, family structures, and intergenerational negotiations of Islamic norms. The monograph innovatively highlights the intimate spaces of ...read more
Arabic
Area studies
Contemporary
Ethics and morality
Field research
Gender
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Middle East
Philosophy
Religion
Chinese philosophy and its religious minorities. Ethnicity, religion, and national identity in modern Chinese thought and the discipline of ethnic minority philosophies

2020

This project seeks to rethink the history of modern Chinese thought by providing the first ever study of the academic discipline of “ethnic minority philosophies” in the People’s Republic of ...read more
20th Century
Chinese
Comparative
Contemporary
Far East
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Religion
Metaphor and Meaning: A Study of Zhuangzi’s Philosophy

2020

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Area studies
Philosophy
Religion
Zhuangzi's Thought on Live and Death

2020

During my BA studies, I majored in philosophy and wrote my BA thesis on the topic of "Zhuangzi's View on Liberty". In my MA and doctoral studies, I majored in ...read more
Antiquity
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
English
Philosophy
Religion
The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Area studies
Philosophy
When Chinese Buddhism Met Psychology: Pioneers of an Alternative Intellectual History (1880-1930)

2020

Modern Western psychology was first introduced to China in the 1880s. The circulation of psychology in the late Qing dynasty intertwined with religion, educational reform, and historiography, set the stage ...read more
20th Century
Area studies
Chinese
Chinese Buddhism
Comparative
English
Far East
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Religion
Science and religion
Immanuel Kant’s deduction of the categories of quantity as a stepping stone to exploring the relation between transcendental and formal logic and their respective metaphysical implications

2020

For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect ...read more
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's deduction of the categories of quantity as a stepping stone to exploring the relation between transcendental and formal logic and their respective metaphysical implications

2020

For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant's categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect ...read more
Philosophy

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