Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze

Wissensbereiche: Philosophie, Weitere Wissensbereiche, Ethik

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schönwälder-Kuntze is an associate professor of philosophy at the LMU Munich. Systemic focuses are social philosophy and (economic) ethics, philosophical theory formation / methods / didactics. Historically, the focus is on modernity and the present: Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Luhmann and Butler. One of their research questions is: How does theory contribute to social change? 

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Short Vita

Studied philosophy, logic and theory of science as well as psychology at the LMU in Munich. Dr. phil. with a thesis on Sartre's ethics; habilitation on theory formation in practical philosophy using Kant as an example. 2010-2015 Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt as part of the DFG's Heisenberg Programme. 2012/13 Visiting scholar and lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Critical Theory Program. Further teaching assignments and guest professorships at home and abroad, including at UNAM, Mexico City, and the University of Vienna.