Dr. Abbed Kanoor
Research Team | Managing Director
Tel.: +49 5121 883-21106
E-Mail: kanoor[at]uni-hildesheim.de
Room: Main Campus, H.0.11

Bio
Abbed Kanoor is the managing director (Geschäftsführer) of the DFG-funded Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World – Historical and Systematic Perspectives” (GloPhi). He holds a PhD in philosophy with a focus on the phenomenology of world-time in Husserl, Merleau-Pony and Blumenberg from the universities of Paris Sorbonne and Wuppertal. Before moving to Hildesheim he was a senior research fellow, lecturer and later wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies of University of Tübingen, conducting a project on intercultural phenomenology. He worked as directeur de programme de recherche at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris (2019–2025) and visiting lecturer at the universities of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (teaching phenomenology and political philosophy) and Hildesheim (French contemporary philosophy).
Research
Phenomenology, Intercultural philosophy, World Philosophy, History of Thought in Persian, French Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Hermeneutics, Political Philosophy, Global Epistemology
Regions
West Asia & North Africa, French Speaking Philosophy in Africa, France and Germany
Languages
German, French, English, Persian (Fluent)
Arabic and Italian (Reading Comprehension)
Journals
Rue Descartes (Editorial Board)
articles
“Phenomenology of Individuation. On Husserl’s Seefeld Manuscripts,” in: Annales de Phénoménologie – Nouvelle Série / Annalen der Phänomenologie – Neue Reihe 22/2023, pp.73-91.
“Kultur, Ideologie, Ontologie. Ein interkulturell-phänomenologischer Ansatz über die Zukunft von Traditionen,” in: polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, No. 49: Futurismus und Futurität, ed. by Fernando Wirtz, Madalina Diacolu, Adrian Razvan Sandrou, 2023, pp.17-35.
“From Structure to Style. Merleau-Ponty,” in Horizon, Studies in Phenomenology 12 (1) 2023: special issue Phenomenology & Structualism, pp. 9-29.
“Le temps du monde comme problème-limite de la phénoménologie de Husserl,” in: Annales de Phénoménologie – Nouvelle Série / Annalen der Phänomenologie – Neue Reihe 21/2022, pp. 29-48.
“Gezähmte Schizophrenie. Zugehörigkeit und kulturelle Ich-Spaltung,” in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie,Band 15 | Jg. 2021 | Heft 2 Schwerpunkt: Belonging / Zugehörigkeit,Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 49-59.
“Zwischen. Ein phänomenologischer Beitrag zur Interkulturalität,” in: InterCultural Philosophy, Journal for Philosophy in its Cultural Context, Nr. 1: Special Issue, Kulturen und Methoden. Aspekte interkulturellen Philosophierens, 2020, pp. 181-191.
“Natur als erlebte Anonymität, ein Beitrag zur Idee der phänomenologischen Archäologie bei Maurice Merleau-Ponty,” in: AUC Interpretationes, Studia Philosophica Europeana, Vol. VI, No. 1-2, 2016, pp. 72-84
“Leben und Zeit, zu Hans Blumenbergs kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeitphänomenologie Husserls,” in: Discipline Filosofiche (Italy), Band XXV, Figures, Functions and Critique of Subjectivity, 2015, pp.167-196
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Activities
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Philosophy Between Continents: Ernest-Marie Mbonda on African Thought and the Catholic Church
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Rethinking Polylogue as a Philosophical Method (with Anke Graness)
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Places of African Philosophies Workshop
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Skeptical Philosophy and Its Contemporary Implications (with Lars Leeten)
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The Thought of Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (with Abbed Kanoor)
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Exploring Border Languages: Philosophy, Poetry, and Multilingual Thought (with Sool Park)
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Rethinking Philosophy with Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (Abbed Kanoor)
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Lecture Series: What is Philosophy?
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GloPhi Team Constituted