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Univ.-Prof. DDr. Kurt Appel
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