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