Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

PHILOSOPHY

Email: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

1. INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS

*Philosophy

Areas of Specialization:

1. Continental Philosophy: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Sloterdijk, Marquard, Vattimo

2. Philosophy of Culture

3. Ethics (esp. Values, applied ethics, virtue theory, & the Good Life)

4. Philosophy of Art

Areas of Competence:

1. Ancient Greek Philosophy & Renaissance Philosophy: Heraclitus, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato & Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola), Aristotle, Manetti

2. Hermeneutics (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer)

3. Metaphysics, ontology (esp. Plato, Leibniz, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger)

4. Political Philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle, Communitarianism)

*Ancient languages

*Italian culture (Language, opera, art)

*Russian literature of the 19th century

*Ancient Greek culture

*Theory and history of music

*Depth psychology (esp.: C. G. Jung)

2. PUBLICATIONS