Thomas Wachtendorf is a private lecturer (Privatdozent) in Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg since completing his habilitation, where he had also previously received his PhD. His research focuses on ethics, existential philosophy, and film aesthetics. He has published on philosophical and ethical issues, including the role of metaphors and the concept of human dignity.
Among his contributions are works on existentialist ethics, such as „Umriss einer existenzialistischen Ethik“ (Outline of an Existentialist Ethics) and „Ethik als Mythologie“ (Ethics as Mythology, dissertation). In these studies, Wachtendorf examines the interplay bet…
Thomas Wachtendorf is a private lecturer (Privatdozent) in Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg since completing his habilitation, where he had also previously received his PhD. His research focuses on ethics, existential philosophy, and film aesthetics. He has published on philosophical and ethical issues, including the role of metaphors and the concept of human dignity.
Among his contributions are works on existentialist ethics, such as „Umriss einer existenzialistischen Ethik“ (Outline of an Existentialist Ethics) and „Ethik als Mythologie“ (Ethics as Mythology, dissertation). In these studies, Wachtendorf examines the interplay between ethical ideas and mythological structures, and the ways in which they shape our understanding of ethics. He has also written on Plato’s learning paradox and the significance of knowledge, contributing to a collective volume on practical philosophy in antiquity.
His latest book addresses questions concerning self-constitution under the conditions of late modernity.
He teaches philosophy at the Universities of Oldenburg and Kiel.
