Professor Vasu Reddy for Professor Ulrike Kistner

Humanities 2015 Researcher of the Year Social Sciences Cluster


Professor Ulrike Kistner, Department of Philosophy

Ulrike Kistner learns and teaches in the Department of Philosophy. Her research endeavours in many fields are explorations in an archaeology of lost thought. Among the questions that are of abiding interest to her are

•  the powers that move the human heart;

•  the common of sense; •  what it is that we do when we act together;

• what it means to fight for a cause;

•  what it is that we are indicating when we say we’ve changed our minds;

• and what happens when minds change;

•  how newness comes into the world; and

•  the humanities in a critical condition.

These are some of the questions that have taken her into the fields of aesthetic theory, philosophical anthropology, political theory, philosophy and history of medicine and psychiatry, and theory of psychoanalysis. These and related questions also feature in some of the courses taught by her on Collective Action and Responsibility, Communicative Action, Populism, and Philosophy of Poverty.

 

- Author Tanita McCullough

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