Former Distinguished Fellows of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche

The following is a list of the Distinguished Fellows nominated by the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche since its establishment in 1999.

Harald Welzer
2019: “Building the Civilisational Project. The Continuation of Modernism”

Hans Joas
2018: “Religion and Empire – A History of Entanglement in the 20th Century”

Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff
2017: “Constitution, Democracy and Integration Between the Nation State and Globalisation”

Alexander Nehamas
2016: “Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth and Human Action”

Axel Honneth
2015: “The Idea of Socialism. An Attempt at an Update”

Terry Eagelton
2014: “Nietzsche and Marx: Atheism, Materialism, History and Tragedy”

Remo Bodei
2013: “Memory and Personal Identity”

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Winter 2012/2013: “Risky Thinking. Proposals on a Genealogy of Western Intellectualism”

Wolfgang Welsch
2011: “Human and World – Outside the Anthropic Ways of Thinking of Modernism”

Ryôsuke Ôhashi
Winter 2010/2011: “On the West-Eastern Philosophical Debate”

Hans Heinz Holz
2010: “Speculative Thinking, Its Basis and Methodology”

Bazon Brock
2010: “Four Major Lectures on Nietzsche”

Boyan Manchev
2009: “The Crisis of the Political and the Alliteration of the World”

Giorgio Agamben
2008: “Signatura rerum. The Signature and the Theory of Signs”

Julian Nida-Rümelin
2007: “Freedom and Responsibility”

Eveline Goodman-Thau
2006: “The Monotheism of Modernism”

Michael Hart
2005: “Democracy in the Age of Empire”

Babette Babich
2004: “Reconciliation and Power: Word, Music, Love”

Dieter Henrich
Winter 2003/2004: “Thought and Selfhood. Fundamental Philosophical Questions in Modern Consciousness”

Jean Baudrillard
2003: “The Event”

Klaus Theweleit
Winter 2002/2003: “War and What is Reality?”

Ernst Tugendhat
2002: “Ideas on an Anthropology”

Ágnes Heller
Winter 2001/2002: “The Theory of Modernity”

Slavoj Žižek
2001: “The Politics of Fantasy”

Peter Sloterdijk
Winter 2000/2001: “On Historical and Prophetic Anthropology”

Gianni Vattimo
2000: “Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Future”

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