Prof. Dr. Anke Graneß

Anke Graness is professor of philosophy at the University of Hildesheim and one of the directors of the DFG-funded Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World – Historical and Systematic Perspectives” (GloPhi). She studied philosophy in Leipzig and Vienna. Anke Graness is a member of the steering committee of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP), of the Curatorial Board of the “Outline of the History of Philosophy” (Ueberweg: Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie), and of the editorial board of the journal polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne (2025) and is currently Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology in the College of Human Sciences of the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Her research interests include history of philosophy, philosophy in Africa, intercultural philosophy, global justice and feminist theory. Her publications include Das menschliche Minimum. Globale Gerechtigkeit aus afrikanischer Sicht: Henry Odera Oruka (Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2011); Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Eine Einführung (Wien: Facultas 2019, with Martina Kopf and Magdalena Kraus); African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2022, edited with Edwin E. Etieyibo and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl), and Philosophie in Afrika. Herausforderungen einer globalen Philosophiegeschichte (Berlin: Suhrkamp 2023).

Philosophie in Afrika: Herausforderungen einer globalen Philosophiegeschichte [Philosophy in Africa: Challenges of a Global History of Philosophy], Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2023.

African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective, edited with Edwin E. Etieyibo and Franz Gmainer-Pranzl, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2022.

Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika: Eine Einführung, with Martina Kopf and Magdalena Kraus, Wien: Facultas, 2019.

Das menschliche Minimum. Globale Gerechtigkeit aus afrikanischer Sicht: Henry Odera Oruka, Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2011.

polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren (editorial board)

“Sklaverei und Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung,” [Slavery and the historiography of philosophy], Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71/2, 2023.

“Is the Debate on ‘Global Justice’ a Global One? Some Considerations in View of Modern Philosophy in Africa,” Journal of Global Ethics 11/1, 2015, pp. 126-140.

“Writing the History of Philosophy in Africa: where to beginn?,” Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2015, pp. 1-16.

Anke Graness: “Questions of Canon Formation in Philosophy: The History of Philosophy in Africa”, in: Phronimon. Accredited Journal of the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2015), pp. 78 – 96.

“Der Ubuntu-Diskurs in Südafrika und sein Beitrag zur Gerechtigkeitsdebatte,” Sarhan Dhouib (ed.), Gerechtigkeit in transkultureller Perspektive, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2016, p. 145–167.

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