(cultural scientist) philosopher, art historian, literary translator, permanent Senior Research Scholar and principal investigator of the “Ethics and Architecture”-project at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz / Max-Planck-Institut. In her PhD entitled Die Dunkelheit der Episteme. Zur Kunst des aufmerksamen Sehens she investigated the complex dialectics between ethics, seeing and art. Beside her focus on the relationship between art and philosophy, she has worked extensively on the history and concept of drawing, as well as on art historiographical and theoretical questions. Her list of publications includes a monograph on the visual and artistic vocabulary in Wittgenstein’s late philosophy, several articles on the epistemic dimension of drawing, the prehistory of the sublime as well as on Levinas and art.

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Home & Exoticism
Tue, 10. July, 17:00, Studio 1 (Kunstquartier Bethanien)