Tanja Wischnewski
PhD Project "Freedom and dependence"
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About
Tanja Wischnewski is doing her doctorate on “Freedom and Dependence” at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim. She has been a lecturer since 2023. From April 2022 to March 2025, she was a doctoral researcher at the Research Training Group “Aesthetic Practice”. With a focus on aesthetics, she was a research student during her studies and later a project assistant at the Institute for German Literature and its Didactics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She studied social sciences, philosophy and cultural studies at the University of Leipzig and at Smolny College at the University of St. Petersburg. She also completed a double master's degree in Sociology and Aesthetics at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and at the EHESS in Paris. She completed all three degrees with distinction. Her studies were supported by DAAD scholarships (PROMOS and Go East), ERASMUS+ and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Lectures
11/09/2024: Lecture “Verdrängte Medialität. Kritische Medienanthropologie nach Walter Benjamin”, together with Johann Szews, XII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik: Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien, University of Fribourg, 09-12/09/2024. program (PDF)
28-29/06/2024: Lecture “Das Spannungsverhältnis von Freiheit und Abhängigkeit”, International Conference of Simone de Beauvoir Society: Simone de Beauvoir as a Moral Philosopher, FU Berlin, 28-29/06/2024. Link to website / program
03/05/2024: Commentary in the workshop on Jörg Sternagel's book Ethik der Alterität. Aisthetik der Existenz in the lecture and workshop series Praktische Philosophie und Phänomenologie at the TU Darmstadt, 03/05/2024. Link to website
06/05/2021: Lecture “Gemeinschaft und Authentizität. Anke Stellings Romane zwischen Biographie und Fiktion” at the CIERA Junior Conference Machtverhältnisse in der Literatur. Manifestationen und Inszenierungen von Stigmatisierungs-, Herrschafts- und Widerstandsformen im literarischen Bereich, 06-07/05/2021. program (PDF)
19/02/2019: Respondence “Empfindung und Erfahrung bei Ernst Mach und Alexander Bogdanov” in the workshop of the working group “Ästhetik und Medienkultur” at the IfS of the GU-University Ffm with Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stakemeier on the topic Universelle Rezeptivität. Alexander Bogdanovs materialistische Erfahrungslehre im Horizont ihrer katastrophischen Aktualisierung.
15-17/06/2018: Workshop together with Dirk Braunstein “Kritische Theorie: Benjamin und Adorno.” Institut für Sozialforschung and Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Working Group 1: Literary Theory after 2001, Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main.
Teaching
“Hannah Arendt. Vita activa”, seminar in summer semester 2025, together with Johann Szews, Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim
“Adornos Ästhetik”, seminar in winter semester 2024/2025, Master of Aesthetics, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
“Misogynie”, seminar in winter semester 2024/2025, together with Johann Szews, Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim
“Dialektik der Aufklärung”, seminar in winter semester 2023/2024, together with Johann Szews, Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim
“Freiheit”, seminar in summer semester 2023, together with Johann Szews, Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim
Publications
Tanja Wischnewski, Johann Szews: Review of Juliane Rebentisch: Der Streit um Pluralität. Auseinandersetzungen mit Hannah Arendt, Berlin, 2022, published in European Journal of Philosophy: Volume 32, Issue 4, 1379-1383, December 2024, online access
