Prof. Dr. Philippe Büttgen

Philippe Büttgen held the Viadrina Visiting Professorship "Pensées Françaises
Contemporaines" from October 2016. In this role, he taught several courses in the Master's programme in Aesthetics and Literature
Philosophy and the Master's programme in European Studies at the Viadrina in the 2016/17 winter semester. He is Professor of
Philosophy of Religion at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research interests include
contemporary philosophy of religion, the history of the Reformation and confessional identities. Among other things,
he has studied the formality of practices in Michel Certeau, the comparative early modern
history of religion in France and Germany and the significance of Martin Luther for philosophy
.

His most recent works include, among others: " La seconde performance, ou la religion ", Archives de
sciences sociales des religions 169 (2015), p. 195-209 ; " Une autre forme de procès. La vérité et le droit dans
l'exégèse du Nouveau Testament ", Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 232 (2015), p. 325-338 ; " Religion et
philosophie en Allemagne. Le droit des confessions ", Études Germaniques 70 (2015), p. 659-670 ; " Type du
prêtre, naissance des dieux ", in Bertrand Binoche et Arnaud Sorosina (eds.), Les Historicités de Nietzsche,
Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016, p. 85-102.