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Ludger Hagedorn

Ludger Hagedorn studied Philosophy and Slavic Languages in Berlin at the Technical University (TU) and the Free University (FU). He obtained his doctoral degree from TU Berlin in 2002. For many years he has been actively involved in Patočka-Research at the IWM, where he was appointed as a Junior Fellow in 1997 and later became a Research Associate and Research Director. From 2005 to 2009, Hagedorn was holder of the Purkyne-Fellowship awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences. As a lecturer, he has worked at Gutenberg-University Mainz and, for a number of years, at Charles University in Prague. He has also been a Guest Lecturer at Södertörns Högskola (Stockholm) in 2010 and in recent years at NYU Berlin.

5 Publications

Beyond myth and enlightenment

Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

Ludger Hagedorn, Michael Staudigl (eds)

2018

Phenomenologies of sacrifice

Metodo

Ludger Hagedorn, Christian Sternad (eds)

2018

This issue investigates the key concept of sacrifice, drawing on the philosophical tradition of phenomenology and exploring the historical, sociological, political, and religious dimensions of sacrifice. Over recent decades, the question of sacrifice has prominently been addressed in the works of René Girard.

Exploring the undisclosed meanings of time, history, and existence

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

Ludger Hagedorn, Paul Marinescu (eds)

2017

Religion, War and the Crisis of Modernity. A Special Issue Dedicated to the Philosophy of Jan Patočka

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

Ludger Hagedorn, James Dodd (eds)

2015

Überzivilisation und Differenz

Michael Staudigl, Ludger Hagedorn (eds)

Königshausen & Neumann - Würzburg

2008

5 Publications