Christoph Henning

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Christoph Henning (* 1973 in Salzgitter ) is a German philosopher and author.

Henning received his doctorate from TU Dresden in 2003 . From 2004 to 2006 he was an assistant in cultural studies at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, and from 2006 to 2009 he was an assistant in the philosophy department at the University of St. Gallen . He completed his habilitation in 2014 at the University of St. Gallen. He has been a private lecturer at the University of St. Gallen and Junior Fellow at the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt since 2014 . In 2015 he also represented the chair for cultural theory and analysis at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen .

Henning received the Erfurt Max Weber Prize in 2016 and was awarded 3rd place in the Prize of Good Teaching at the State Science Faculty of the University of Erfurt in 2018.

The focus of his work lies in the field of political philosophy and social philosophy .

Publications (selection)

  • Philosophy according to Marx. 100 years of Marx reception and the normative social philosophy of the present in criticism , Bielefeld 2005. Translated as Philosophy after Marx. 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy , Brill: Boston / Leiden 2014, Paperback 2015.
  • with Dieter Thomä and Olivia Mitscherlich (eds.): Glück: Ein interdisciplinary handbook , Stuttgart, Metzler 2011.
  • (Ed.): Gottfried Salomon-Delatour: Writings. Series: Classics of the Social Sciences , Wiesbaden, VS-Verlag 2011.
  • with Dieter Thomä and Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.): Social Capital, Social Identities: From Ownership to Belonging , DeGruyter; Berlin / New York 2014.
  • Freedom, equality, development: the political philosophy of perfectionism , Frankfurt / M. 2015.
  • Theories of Alienation as an introduction , Hamburg 2015.
  • Marx and the Consequences , Stuttgart 2017.
  • with Hartmut Rosa (Ed.): The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives , Routledge 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Henning, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzgitter