Christian Lotz

Christian Lotz (born 21 February 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German-American philosopher currently teaching at Michigan State University. Lotz's work primarily focuses on 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy (esp. German Philosophy), Continental Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Marxism, Philosophy of Culture, and Philosophical Anthropology.

Academic Career

Lotz earned his M.A. in Philosophy, sociology, and art history at Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg (1997) before going on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy at Philipps University of Marburg (Germany) in 2002. He was also an Emory University Research Fellow from 2000-2002. Previously, Lotz taught at Seattle University and The University of Kansas before going on to teach at Michigan State University. He was awarded a DAAD visiting professorship at the Brandenburg University of Technology in 2011.

Books

• From Affectivity to Subjectivity. Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited, London: Palgrave 2008
• Vom Leib zum Selbst. Kritische Analysen zu Husserl and Heidegger, Freiburg: Alber 2005
• Phenomenology and the Non‐Human Animal. At the Limits of Experience, Christian Lotz and Corinne Painter (eds.), Contributions to Phenomenology, Dordrecht: Springer 2007
• Erinnerung. Philosophische Positionen, Perspektiven und Probleme, Christian Lotz, T.Wolf, and W.Ch. Zimmerli (eds.), München: Fink 2004
• Subjektivität ‐ Verantwortung ‐ Wahrheit. Neue Aspekte der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls, Christian Lotz and D. Carr (eds.), Frankfurt/M.: Lang 2002.
• Philosophie als Denkwerkzeug. Zur Aktualität transzendentalphilosophischer Argumentation, Christian Lotz, M. Götze, K. Pollok ,and D. Wildenburg (eds.), Würzburg: Königshausen&Neumann

Selected Essays

• “The Photographic Attitude. Barthes with Husserl,” in Phenomenology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus, ed. Sebastian Luft and Pol Vandevelde, Continuum 2010, 152-167.
• “The Historicity of the Eye. A Phenomenological Defense of the Culturalist Conception of Perception,” Phänomenologische Forschungen - Phenomenological studies - Recherches Phénoménologiques, 2010, 107-122.
• “Representation or Sensation? A Critique of Deleuze’s Philosophy of Painting,” Symposium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy, 13/1, 2009, 59-73.
• “Im-Bilde-sein: Husserls Phänomenologie des Bildbewusstseins,” in Das Bild als Denkfigur. Funktionen des Bildbegriffs in der Philosophiegeschichte von Platon bis Nancy, ed. Sabine Neuber, München: Fink 2010, 167-181.
• “Depiction and Plastic Perception. A Critique of Husserl’s Theory of Picture Consciousness,” in Continental Philosophy Review, 2/2007, 171-185.
• “Existential Idealism? Fichte and Heidegger,” in Epoché, Vol. 12, 1/2007, 109-135.
• “Psyche or Person? Husserl’s Phenomenology of Animals,” in Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Phänomenologie, ed. D. Lohmar and D. Fonfara, Phänomenologica, Boston: Springer, 2006, 190-204.
• “Responsive Life and Speaking To the Other. A Phenomenological Interpretation of Book One of Augustine’s Confessions,” in Augustinian Studies, 37/1, 2006, 89-109.
• “The Events of Morality and Forgiveness: Kant and Derrida,” in Research in Phenomenology, 36/2006, 255-273.
• “L’assoluto postmoderno. Heidegger, Derrida e I limiti interni del linguaggio,”in Limnatis N., Pastore L. (a cura di), Prospettive sul Postmoderno, Milano: Edizioni Mimesis 2006, 149-175 .
• “Action: Phenomenology of Wishing and Willing in Husserl and Heidegger,” in Husserl Studies, 2/2006, 121-135.
• “Tod, Wille, Zeit. Die praktische Konzeption des Selbstbewusstseins bei Lévinas’”, in Lévinas’ Ethik im Kontext, Christian Kupke (Hrsg.), Berlin: Parodos Verlag 2005, 73-92.
• “Non-Epistemic Self-Awareness. On Heidegger’s Reading of Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” in Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol 36, No. 1, 2005.
• “Certainty of Oneself. On Fichte’s Conception of Conscience as Non-epistemic Self-Understanding,” in Southwest Philosophy Review, 20/1, 2004, 25-36.
• “Recollection, Mourning and the Absolute Past: Husserl, Freud and Derrida,” in New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol.3, Nr. 4, 2004, 121-141.
• “Husserls Genuss. Über den Zusammenhang von Leib, Affektion, Fühlen und Werthaftigkeit,” in: Husserl-Studies, 18/1, 2002, 19-39.
• “Versprechen - Verzeihen, Erinnern - Vergessen. Zur ethischen Konstitution der Subjektivität,” in: Studia Philosophica 60/2001, 77-94.
• “Erinnerte Zukunft. Über die Möglichkeit der Verzeihung im Angesicht des Holocaust,” in: Universitas. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Wissenschaft 1/2001, 62-71.

Awards and Distinctions

Lotz was awarded the Teacher‐Scholar Award from the Office of the Provost at Michigan State University in 2009. He received two fellowships: The DFG Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (1999‐2002) and a Young Scholar Fellowship from Land Hessen (1997‐99).

External Link

MSU Faculty Page

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