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46The paper makes two theses: In the current age of the Anthropocene, the concept of sustainability, as it is widely used, has to be considered impossible. Nevertheless, the existentialist figure of the reversal of time of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard may open up a new perspective on the sustainability problem and possible courses of action.
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61Camus’s Kierkegaardian Conception of a Good LifeJournal of Camus Studies 1. 2019.The aim of this paper is to show, against contemporary comparative research, that Albert Camus' position in The Myth of Sisyphus does not correspond to the 'aesthetic stage' in the works of Søren Kierkegaard, but is structurally very close to Kierkegaard's own conception of a good life – in terms of methodology, relating to metaphysical truth via negation, the role of death, and the necessity of translation. In Camus, we see what a Kierkegaardian conception of a good life turns into when its fou…Read more
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75Albert Camus’ reading of Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and TremblingJournal of Camus Studies 1. 2018.The paper argues that a comparison of the normative concepts of a good life in Camus and Kierkegaard should be first and foremost a structural comparison, as Camus' interpretation of Fear and Trembling as both a discovery of what Camus himself calls the absurd and as an inconsequent transition from the absurd to the religious disregards the Christian paradigm the work of Kierkegaard is embedded in.
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23Philosophische Fallstricke beim Thema Bildung für nachhaltige EntwicklungIn Bettina Bussmann (ed.), Philosophiedidaktik und Bildungsphilosophie: Kontroversen und neue Aufgaben, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 55-64. 2023.Während sich exemplarisch untersuchte Bildungspläne des Unterrichtsfachs Ethik immer noch innerhalb des klassischen Nachhaltigkeitsdenkens bewegen, skizziert der Beitrag, wie sich fachwissenschaftliche Debatten im Horizont des Anthropozän grundlegend geändert haben. Eine ursprüngliche natürliche Lebensgrundlage ist weder wiederherstellbar noch langfristig erhaltbar. Stattdessen bedarf es eines Übergangs zu einer globalen institutionellen Rahmenordnung, um das Schlimmste gerade noch abzuwenden. D…Read more
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84The thesis of the paper is that regarding the question of meaning of life in our age, a study of Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death (1849) can help us to understand the methodology as well as the theoretical position of Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus´ (1942), a position that has still systematic relevance today. We see in Camus what happens to the meaning of life if a deep foundational religious layer breaks away.
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University of FreiburgDoctoral student
Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany