Cultural Studies and Philosophy

Even in the natural sciences, knowledge and beliefs are not self-evident or irrefutable, but rather handed down historically, socially formed and therefore fundamentally changeable. Cultural studies research and philosophical inquiry examine how terms, methods, images and concepts are generated, articulated and justified. You research conceptual and systemic consolidation of knowledge, ways of thinking and basic beliefs in science and society. Philosophy and cultural studies meet in the interest of this analysis.

Philosophy particularly asks about unexplained presuppositions of concepts and guiding principles. She analyzes how, for example, the human body is perceived, imagined and conceptualized as treatable in medicine. Cultural studies pay particular attention to meaning-making processes and the symbolic dimensions of reality. What is important to her is research into the material and media conditions of human experience. The problematization of knowledge and reality is the common place where cultural studies and philosophy work in Lübeck.