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Univ.-Prof. DDr. Kurt Appel

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2023

CALL Noemi


This encounter. The problem of immanence in Spinoza as interpreted by Hegel


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SEMENIKHIN Nikita


Tragic-triumphal dialectics as NADRYW in the divine and in the human. The symbolic phenomenology of Eastern Orthodox mysticism and French Hegel


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2022

FARR Christian


Ideology in Foucault's thinking horizon. Looking for other rooms. About the re-sacralization of the self


Supervisor: Kurt Appell (University of Vienna)


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GFRERRER Michael


Perception of vulnerability in a socio-political context - A reading of selected writings by Judith BUtler from the two perspectives of vulnerability and perception


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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RETTENWANDER Susanne


Heterology as a principle of wandering. Philosophical-mystical paths with Michel de Certeau and Georges Bataille


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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ROSDOLSKY Diana


The view into Auschwitz. An interpretation based on the philosophies of Sartre and Lacan


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SCHAEFFNER Marian


The logic of the living. An examination of life and living things in Hegel's Science of Logic


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2021

AHINORA Antova


Recycling Hegel: Hegel is dead. Vive Hegel. With Malabou, Derrida and Comay on the way to Hegel's future


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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BOSOKY Isabella


The topos of transience in Walter Benjamin's "Thought Images"


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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EPSTEIN Deborah


Alterity in Hermann Cohen's thinking? A review


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2020

CIUCIU Crista


Succession in a totalitarian system. Richard Wurmbrand's path read in the light of Bonhoeffer


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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GÖNITZER Daniel


Art and cult in the age of the culture industry. A comparison of Walter Benjamin's art-philosophical theses with the critical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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HAUNSCHMID David


The Riddle of the Sphinx - Reflections on the relationship between nature and freedom in Hegel's philosophy

Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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CONTRINER Anna Maria


About violence and freedom. A reading of selected passages from Hegel's Science of Logic starting from the question of the extra-logical

Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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MONSBERGER Markus


From the judgment of knowledge to the judgment of taste or logic and aesthetics in Immanuel Kant

Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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MULLER Pauline


Subject constitution and memory - In Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood around 1900 based on the plays "The Mummerehlen" and "Hideouts"


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2019

YES Natalie


The impersonal. On the relationship between person, sovereignty and body in Roberto Esposito against the background of his concept of immunization


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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GABELBERGER Fabian


Notes on the Absolute. On the concept of contingency and time following Quentin Meillassoux


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

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HUTER Daniel Johann


Of the obedient. Philosophical reflections on the NeoBaroque preacher


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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THE RICQUE Olivia


Man as a bearer of hope. An analysis based on the Christian life model of Christoph Theobald SJ


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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METZE Miriam


Language and its silence, silence and its language. On silence in testimony with Martin Heidegger


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SAHBAZ Wemmer Merziye Cicek


N"Apocalypse without apocalypse". On a thinking of responsibility and the experience of the ghostly in Jacques Derrida


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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BROTHER Benedict


Education and freedom - a paradoxical connection. Attempts at a skeptical approach to educational promises based on Hegel and Foucault


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2018

SCAM Jose Conrado


Edith Stein's Inquiry into the Meaning of Being: A Dialogue between Faith and Reason


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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GRABNER Hannes


The devil and the fall of man. Reflections on the structure of evil


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna), co-supervisor: Jakob Deibl (University of Vienna)


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JANISCH Thomas


Penance and Eucharist via the Internet - Basic Theological Questions. Reflections on the sacraments of the Eucharist and penance and reconciliation


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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BARGERS Florian


Who is my neighbor? Responsibility and creation as philosophical-theological paradigms. Hans Jonas and Jürgen Moltmann in dialogue


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SCHWARZBÖCK Michael


"He heard the brother's spear and ran away". A theology of fraternal solidarity: An Igbo perspective to liberation theology


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2017

DEIBL Marlene


"You are not talking with me?" Towards a negative topology of exception in the tension between historical-biographical topography and general conceptual work. Attempt to link back to Giorgio Agamben's reading of the Pilate motif


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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KURAN Daniel


History between myth and messianic. Walter Benjamin's present time as a humane time


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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THIR Michael


The significance of religious symbolization systems for the substantial subject - to approach Lacan with Hegel


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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ZARZER Bernhard


AThe role of the master signifier in perversion and neurosis according to Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2016

BRUCKNER Isabella


Ivan Illich - Friendship as a topos of Christian world encounters


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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BUZINGO Sylvère


The question of God and theodicy in the mystical theology of JB Metz with an outlook on Burundi


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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ZOTTL Stephan


"Only the remnant will be saved" (Romans 9:27) - The Messiah based on Giorgio Agamben's commentary on Paul "The time that remains"


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2015

BACHOFNER Anna


Hölderlin's "To the 'ether' as a lyrical figure of revelation. An interpretation before lyrical effective structures


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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CHILUFA Paul


The mystical prospective of Metz's theology and the possible encounter with the Christian faith in Zambia


Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, Milan


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

FOR Weon Min


The future tense anterieur in Franz Rosenzweig's "Star of Redemption" as an encounter with human contingency


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SEIDL Sebastian


"Understanding of knowledge and criticism of religion in Dawkins' God delusion


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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SEIGFRIED Bernadette


Christianity as a style. Reflections on the theology of Christoph Theobald


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2014

PERDOMO REYES Vivian Andrea


The concept of liberation in Ignacio Ellacuría. A liberation theological voice from Latin America


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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PESENDORFER Simone


"Your very first word was light: then came the time." Rilke's Book of Hours in the light of biblical prehistory Genesis 1-11


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Jakob Deibl


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STADLBAUER Helene


Klaus Heinrich's "Parmenides and Jonah". Small archeology of human threats and their theological-philosophical resistance


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Jakob Deibl


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TRÖBINGER Christoph


time and soul


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2013

HUBER Bernd


The God who initiates good and evil? CG Jung and book Tobit


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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NOVAKOVITS David


The sacred in profane life


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2012

JUDGE Michaela


Meister Eckhart and the birth of God in man


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2011

KLISSENBAUR Irene


Abrahamic ecumenism


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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LEHNER Elisabeth


Mathematics, philosophy and theology as the same sciences of the one infinite incomprehensibility


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Peter Zeillinger


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2010

LAUNCH Iris


The theodicy of Leibniz and Voltaire's criticism based on the novel "Candide ou l'Optimisme"


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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PITTL Sebastian


The historical reality of the poor as a place for theology. Reflections on the hermeneutical place of the theology of liberation using the example of Ignacio Ellacuría


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2009

GRASSL Silvia


The nun in the film. On calling and succession in Fred Zinnemann's "Story of a Nun"


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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HAUSER Stefan


The paradox - discontinuity and continuity, radical belief in revelation and the unknown conveyed through processes?

an examination of Sören Kierkegaard's philosophical chunks


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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STOCKINGER Helena


About the word, love and personally experienced death to the existence of self-being. Discussion with Ferdinand Ebner and Fridolin Wiplinger


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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2008

BITZINGER Johannes


The Christologies of J. Ratzinger and J. Sobrino


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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ENDERLIN Renate


The Analogy of Advent by E. Jüngel


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

ERENS Achim


The religious concept of D. Bonhoeffer and Th. W. Adorno


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

HAIDACHER Bernd


Physical world creation as moral world creation


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)


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KAISER Rudolph


The question of theodicy in the tension between theism and atheism with special consideration of the work of A. Camus


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

LANGBAUER Cornelia


Proofs of God in Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

PALMETSHOFER Ewald


Theology and the realization of desire


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Peter Zeillinger


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ROHRINGER Thomas


Subjectivity as hospitality in the exit by Emanuel Levinas


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Peter Zeillinger


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2007

GRAL Eva-Maria


Etsy Hillesum. Crazy? Faith despite or precisely because of the Shoah?


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

co-supervised by Peter Zeillinger

STRASSER Martina


The question of God with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Johann Baptist Metz


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)

2006

KÖCK Hans


The anticipatory consciousness in the philosophical work of Ernst Bloch


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

2005

EBENHIGH Markus


From the crucified people to the people of the cross. Aspects of Latin American soteriology and ecclesiology with Oscar Romero and Ignacio Ellacuría


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

COOK Andreas


Who Christ actually is for us - What church actually is for us today? A fundamental theological investigation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's concept of church in comparison with two Catholic documents


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

MOSER Franz


Resurrection as an interruption


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

ZEILLINGER Christian


Our hope - our salvation. To the foundation and goal of our salvation in Christ


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

2004

DEIBL Helmut Jakob


Return of religion. History as a time of redemptive revelation and answering interpretation. Attempt to reply to Gianni Vattimo


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

HELLMEIER Paul


The negativity of theology as a condition of its scientific nature


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

2003

HINTERLEITNER Manfred


Horizons of Theology J. Moltmanns


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

PLZAK Martin


Dialectics of the world in Hegel's youth writings and Barth's commentary on Romans


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

STADLMANN Raimund


Ecclesiologies in discussion with the Roman explanation Dominus Iesus


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

2002

HALBARTSCHLAGER Franz


Church of the Compassion. Roots and practice of their ministry


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

2001

LANG Stefan


Contributions to the current theodicy discussion


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer

SPINDLER Wolfgang


"Theory of immediate concrete life". On the conception and criticism of Carl Schmitt's political theology


Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) with Johann Reikerstorfer and Wolfgang Treitler