Research interests
- Comparative Western European history (esp. France, Britain, Germany).
- 18th and 19th century intellectual history.
- History of 19th century political communication.
- Historical semantics and discourse analysis.
- History of time.
- Philosophy, theory and methodology of the humanities.
Projects
Current
Habilitation Project, Freiburg University
A comparative history of the uses of silence in political communication in nineteenth century Europe.
Workshop Project
In/action: social and political practices of non-participation in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.
Workshop Project, Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (with Anna Karla and Jörn Eiben)
Temporalities of the Event: New Vistas on a Historical Category.
Previous
PhD-Thesis, Bielefeld University (2010), summa cum laude
“Signs of Decadence: Semantical Studies on the Emergence of Cultural Criticism in the 18th and early 19th Centuries” (in German)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. W. Steinmetz (Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. W. den Boer (Amsterdam)
MA-Thesis in Philosophy, Leiden University (2006)
“Considering the Horizon: Science and Art in Nietzsches Second Untimely Meditation” (in Dutch)
Supervisor: Dr. Th. C. W. Oudemans
MA-Thesis in History, Leiden University (2005)
“Human Truth: Gadamers Philosophical Hermeneutics as Humanism” (in Dutch)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. P.H.H. Vries
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