Faculty of Philosophy

The Faculty of Philosophy sees itself as an academic teaching and research institution that, within the framework of the Reform University of Erfurt, reflects new orientations in the humanities and cultural studies and tests and profiles these new approaches to teaching and research in its own way. The starting point is the insight into the diverse tensions between cultural, i.e. perspective interpretations of the world tied to historical spaces and universally applied, and the symbolic and material orders of their practice (ways of life, religious practices, [self]-representations, literatures and other representational practices, forms of knowledge, etc .). Interculturality requires and enables dialogic forms of exchange and mediation based on scientifically reflected comparison.