[GS] = Graduate Seminar — [UG/G] = Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar — [UG] = Undergraduate Class — [IS] = Independent Study — [H] = Honors Research Seminar — [HUM] = Integrative Studies in the Humanities (Iah) — [LC] = Lecture Course
2027 (Spring)
Phl 850 [GS]
tbd
2026 (Fall)
Phl 357 [UG]
Marx for Beginners
Iah 231b [HUM/LC]
Theories of the Political Left and Political Right
2026
 | Phl 820 [GS] Heidegger, Being and Time |
2025 (Fall)
On Leave
2025
![“The Greek polis will continue to exist at the bottom of our political existence—that is, at the bottom of the sea—for as long as we use the word ‘politics.’ Says Hannah Arendt in her essay ‘Walter Benjamin’ in the monthly review ‘Merkur’ No. 240 (Stuttgart, Klett 1968, p. 313). X1 This is what the semanticists do not understand, she continues, they fight the confusion of language; they attack it, the only bulwark behind which the past hides; they (the semanticists) are right; all problems are in the final analysis linguistic problems; they simply do not know the implications of what they are saying.—Arnold Kanne (1773–1824): ‘Language still knows it.’ Attachments: 2. X1: Πόλɛμος [pólemos] = Enemy comes from the root Πόλ–ις [pól-is] (the adversary in a civil war, στάσις [stasis]) (in distinction to ɛχθρός [echthrós]).”](https://christianlotz.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/schmitt-note-1-max-planck-gesellschaft.jpg) | Phl 850 [GS] Politics of Exception: Arendt vs. Schmitt |
 | Phl 355 [UG] Philosophy of Technology |
2024
 | Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Capitalism, Globalization, Geopolitics |
 | Phl 820 [GS] Reification 2.0. Of Abstraction(s) and Things. |
2023
 | Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Capitalism, Globalization, Geopolitics |
 | Phl 820 [GS] Architecture and Politics |
2022
 | Iah 231A [HUM/LC] Think Like a Stoic! Existential Issues of Human Life |
2021
 | Phl 820 [GS] Marx Grundrisse |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] Death, Anxiety, Freedom. Existential Problems of Human Life |
2020
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Adorno’s Social Philosophy and Theory of Society |
 | Phl 820/850 [GS] Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy |
 | Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Is another World possible? Capitalism and Post-Capitalism |
2019
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] The Question of the Political: Arendt and Luxemburg |
 | Phl 357 [UG] Marx’s Theory of Society |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] German Philosophical Anthropology |
2018
On leave
2017
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Jean-Paul Sartre Lecture Notes and Handouts |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] On Being Human |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Heidegger: Being and Time |
 | Phl 220 [UG] Existentialism: From Camus to Fanon |
2016
 | Iah231b [HUM/LC] Global Capitalism |
 | Phl 850/820 [GS] Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (and Marx) [cancelled] |
 | Phl 220 [UG] Existentialism From Bonhoeffer to Fanon |
 | Phl 357 [UG] The Philosophy of Karl Marx |
 | Phl 820 [GS] Foucault and Marx |
2015
 | Iah231b [HUM/LC] Capitalism and Globalization |
 | Phl 850 [GS] Rationality and its Other: Critical Theory II |
 | Phl 357 [UG] The Philosophy of Karl Marx |
 | Phl 810 [GS] Teaching Workshops |
2014
 | Phl 810 [GS] Rationality and its Other: Critical Theory I |
 | Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Capitalism and Globalization |
 | Phl 421 (G/UG) Herbert Marcuse |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] What does it mean to be human? |
 | Phl 350 [UG] Introduction to Modern Social-Political Philosophy |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Hannah Arendt |
 | Phl 357 [UG] The Philosophy of Karl Marx |
2013
 | Phl 820/850 [GS] Recent European Political Philosophy |
| Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Capitalism and Globalization |
Summer 2013, BTU Cottbus
 | Lecture course [LC, GS] Kapital, Materialismus und Kritik: Die Philosophie von Karl Marx |
 | Graduate seminar [GS] Marx Das Kapital I |
 | Graduate seminar [GS] Malerei als eine Form von Denken. Philosophie und Kunst im Werk Gerhard Richters |
 | Undergraduate seminar [UG] Continental Political Philosophy: Anarchism and Radical Democracy |
2013
 | Phl 200 [UG] Introduction to Philosophy |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] State, Democracy, Power: Radical European Political Thought |
 | Phl 347 [UG] Aesthetics: Nietzsche – Heidegger – Deleuze |
 | Phl 810/820/850 [GS] Marx, Capital |
 | Iah 231b [HUM/LC] Critical Analysis of Capitalism |
 | Phl 820 [GS] Intentionality and Beyond: From Husserl to Levinas |
 | Phl 200 [UG] Introduction to Philosophy |
2011
on leave
Summer 2011, BTU Cottbus
 | Undergraduate seminar [UG] The Meaning of Photography: Recent US-American Discussions |
 | Graduate seminar [GS] Heidegger: Sein und Zeit |
 | Graduate seminar [GS] Recent Anglo-American Philosophy of Technology |
 | Lecture course [LC, GS] Heidegger |
2010
 | Phl 820 [GS] Heidegger and Adorno |
 | Phl347 Aesthetics [UG] Aesthetics: Adorno |
| Iah 231a [HUM/LC] The Culture of Capitalism |
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Phl 421 [G/UG]Gadamer and Hermeneutics
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 | Phl200 [UG/H] Introduction to Philosophy |
2009
 | Phil 347 [UG] Aesthetics: Kant – Nietzsche – Heidegger |
| Iah 231a [HUM/LC] On Being Human |
 | AL 892 [GS] Philosophy of Culture |
 | Phl 491 [G/UG] Philosophy of Poetry |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] The Culture of Capitalism |
2008
 | Pro 200 [UG/H] Honors Research Seminar Photographic Representation |
 | Phl 820 [GS] Heidegger Being and Time |
 | Phl 347 [UG] Aesthetics: Kant vs. Hegel |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] The Culture of Capitalism |
 | Phl 420 [G/UG] Hermeneutics of Life: The Early Heidegger |
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] Human Nature |
2007
on leave
2006
 | Phl 820 [GS] Intersubjectivity from Hegel to the Present |
| Iah 231a [HUM/LC] The Culture of Capitalism |
 | Pro 200 [UG/H] Honors Research Seminar: Power, Discipline, and Institutions |
| Iah 231a [HUM/LC] Human Nature |
 | Phl 416 [G/UG] Hegel |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Foucault |
2005
 | Iah 231a [HUM/LC] Human Nature and Art |
 | Phl 421 [G/UG] Heidegger and Phenomenology |
2005: University of Kansas
Introduction to Philosophy
Augustine’s Confessions and Contemporary Philosophy [pdf] [GS]
19th Century European Philosophy [pdf]
Introduction to Philosophy [pdf]
2004
20th Century Continental Philosophy [pdf]
Introduction to Philosophy
Husserl and Heidegger [pdf] [GS]
Introduction to Philosophy [pdf]
2003
19th Century European Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
2002-2003: Seattle University
Philosophy of the Human Person
Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy
Christian Lotz 