Prof. Dr. Matthias Schloßberger

By appointment. Registration at: schlossberger@europa-uni.de

Publications

Academic career

From 11/2021
Appointment to the Professorship of Social Philosophy at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Winter semester 2019/20
Representation W3 Professorship for Philosophy of Culture and Philosophy of Cultures (interruption of the Heisenberg position for one semester)

Summer semester 2019
Guest professorship in Anthropology and Social Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin (interruption of the Heisenberg position for one semester)

from 02/2018
Research assistant at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (conversion of the fellowship into a position within the Heisenberg Programme)

from 10/2016
Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Research project: „The experience of reality through resistance“

07/2016 - 09/2016
Alumni Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation: Visiting Researcher at the Husserl Archive in Leuven

07/2016
Guest Lectures at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo

01/2016 - 06/2016
Guest Professorship Universität Vienna

02/2016
Habilitation colloquium

06/2015
Delivery of the habilitation thesis: „Anthropology and ethics. Draft of a material anthropology.“

10/2014 - 03/ 2015
Representation of a Professorship at the University of Cologne at the Research Training Group ARTES

2013 – 2014
„Glücksargumente in der Naturschutzkommunikation“, Expert opinion for the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BFN). R&D project. 12 months, funding amount 80.000 € (self-funded).

June 2013
Guest Lectures in Cagliari (as part of the Erasmus Lecturer Exchange)

12/2006 - 09/2014
Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy Potsdam, Chair of Political Philosophy/Philosophical Anthropology (Prof. Krüger)

12/2005 - 11/2006
Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a thesis on natural law with
Giambattista Vico (Rome, University of Tor Vergata)

11/2004
PhD: „The Experience of the Other. Über die Formen menschlichen Miteinanders im Anschluß
an Lipps, Dilthey, Husserl und Scheler“ (referees: Hans Joas and Hans-Peter Krüger). Grade: summa
cum laude.

10/2001 - 11/2005
Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Chair of Political Philosophy/Philosophical Anthropology.

05/1999 - 09/2001
Scientific assistant at the chair of systematic theology at the LMU München.
Collaboration on the edition of Ernst Troeltsch: „Der Historismus und seine Probleme“

1996
Project tutorial in cooperation with biologists: „Philosophy and Evolutionary Biology“

10/1991 - 02/1999
Studied Philosophy as a major, Sociology and Journalism as minor subjects at the FU Berlin and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Degree: M. A. Title of thesis: „Problems of Historical Anthropology“. Grade: very good.


Third-party funding and scholarships received

1) R&D projects „Glücksargumente in der Naturschutzkommunikation“. Funding period 12 months, funding amount 80,000 € (July 2013-August 2014).

2) DFG Heisenberg Fellowship 2016-2019, original funding amount 158,400 € (calculated for 3 years, possibility of extension for another 2 years, since February 2018 as Heisenberg position)

3) DFG grant in kind for the project „The Experience of Reality through Resistance“: 14,600 €. From February 2018, 1000 € „flexible research funds“ per month as part of the Heisenberg project.

Foreign scholarships

1) 2006 Rome: Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Project: Natural Law with Giambattista Vico)

2) 2016 Leuven: Humboldt Foundation Alumni Fellowship: Visiting Researcher at the Husserl Archive in Leuven (Project: Husserl and Scheler)

Additional activities and memberships

1) Member of the international Network for Phenomenological Research

2) Managing Director of the Max Scheler Society (since 2018)

3) Member of the following societies: Max Scheler Society, Helmuth Plessner Society, German Society for Phenomenology, Ernst Troeltsch Society, Nietzsche Society, German Society for Philosophy.

4) Member of the DFG network „Sociology of Sustainability“ (Head: Alexandra Henkel, 2016-)

5) Editor of the International Yearbook of Philosophical Anthropology, edited by Bruno Accarino, Hans-Peter Krüger and Jos de Mul (2006 to 2016)

6) Secretary General of the Helmuth-Plessner-Society (2005-2011)

Geplante Lehrveranstaltungen im Wintersemester 2024/2025

Selection of lectures

2023

 „Unreal Reality“ at the annual conference of the German Society for Phenomenological Research, 20. 22. 09., Heidelberg.

„Intellektuellenbriefe – Max Scheler und sein Umfeld“, workshop in the framework of the DFG-ANR project „Deutsch-französische Konstellationsforschung. 18 to 19 September, Max Scheler digital, Europa-Universität Viadrina.

„Prekäre Zukunft: der Mensch und die Natur“, at the conference „Zur Frage des Prekären zwischen Kontingenz und Medialität“, Bauhaus Uni, 6 to 8 July, Weimar.

„Where does the revolutionary break lead? Löwith über Ernst Jünger“ at the conference: Being human in the midst of history. Karl Löwith und die Kritik der historischen Vernunft, Katholische Akademie Berlin, 10-12 May 2023.

„Phänomenologie des Lebendigen“, lecture as part of the lecture series „Geschichte und Gegenwart der Lebensphilosophie“, Universität Düsseldorf, 08.05.

„Ökologisierung und Unverfügbarkeit“, at  the 5th network meeting of the network „Soziologie des Un/Verfügbaren, in Delmenhorst, on 23 March 2023.

 „Zurück zur Natur. Necessity and Possibility of a New Ästhetics of Nature“, inaugural lecture on 10 January 2023, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.