Christian Lotz

Christian Lotz
Born	Wuppertal
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental Marxist philosophy Critical Theory Phenomenology
Main interests	aesthetics social philosophy political philosophy continental philosophy

Christian Lotz (born 21 February 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German-American philosopher currently teaching at Michigan State University. Lotz's work primarily focuses on 19th and 20th Century European philosophy (esp. German philosophy), continental aesthetics, critical theory, Marxism, and contemporary European political philosophy.

Academic career

Lotz received his M.A. in philosophy, sociology, and art history from Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg in 1997 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Philipps University of Marburg in 2002. He was Research Fellow from 2000-2002 at Emory University. Lotz taught at Seattle University and The University of Kansas, and held DAAD visiting positions at Brandenburg University of Technology in 2011 and 2013.

Books

• The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning, London: Bloomsbury Press 2015
• Christian Lotz zu Karl Marx: Das Maschinenfragment, Hamburg: Laika Verlag 2014
• The Capitalist Schema. Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction, Lanham: Lexington Books 2014
• Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen Theorie, Christian Lotz, Hans Friesen, Markus Wolf, and Jakob Meier (eds.), München: Fink 2012
• From Affectivity to Subjectivity. Husserl’s Phenomenology Revisited, London: Palgrave 2008
• Vom Leib zum Selbst. Kritische Analysen zu Husserl and Heidegger, Freiburg: Alber 2005
• Phenomenology and the Non‐Human Animal. At the Limits of Experience, Christian Lotz and Corinne Painter (eds.), Contributions to Phenomenology, Dordrecht: Springer 2007
• Erinnerung. Philosophische Positionen, Perspektiven und Probleme, Christian Lotz, T.Wolf, and W.Ch. Zimmerli (eds.), München: Fink 2004
• Subjektivität ‐ Verantwortung ‐ Wahrheit. Neue Aspekte der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls, Christian Lotz and D. Carr (eds.), Frankfurt/M.: Lang 2002.
• Philosophie als Denkwerkzeug. Zur Aktualität transzendentalphilosophischer Argumentation, Christian Lotz, M. Götze, K. Pollok, and D. Wildenburg (eds.), Würzburg: Königshausen&Neumann

Selected Essays

• “The Return of Abstract Universalism. A Critique of David Graeber’s Concept of Society and Communism,” Radical Philosophy Review, 18/2, 2015, 245-262.
• “Is Capital a Thing? Remarks on Piketty’s Concept of Capital,” Critical Sociology, 42/2, 2015. 375-383.
• “The Transcendental Force of Money. Social Synthesis in Marx,” Rethinking Marxism, 26/1, 2014, 130-139.
• “An der Oberfläche der Tauschgesellschaft. Kritik der Kritischen Theorie,“ Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 180/2015, 453-469.
• “Klasse und Gewalt. Kritische Anmerkungen aus Marxistischer Sicht zum Verschwinden des Klassenbegriffs in Kritischer Theorie und Post-Marxismus,“ Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 176/2014, 383-403.
• “Capitalist Schematization. Political Economy, Exchange, and Objecthood in Adorno,” Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie, 36/37, 2013, 110-123
• “Distant Presence. Representation, Painting and Photography in Gerhard Richter’s Reader,” Symposium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy 1/2012, 87-111
• “Warentausch und Technik als Schematisierung von Gegenständlichkeit bei Adorno und Heidegger,“ in Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen Theorie, ed. Hans Friesen, Christian Lotz, Jakob Meier and Markus Wolf, München: Fink 2012, 191-211
• “Poetry as Anti-Discourse. Formalism, Hermeneutics, and the Poetics of Paul Celan,” Continental Philosophy Review, 4/2011, 491-510.
• “The Photographic Attitude. Barthes with Husserl,” in Phenomenology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus, ed. Sebastian Luft and Pol Vandevelde, Continuum 2010, 152-167.
• “Representation or Sensation? A Critique of Deleuze’s Philosophy of Painting,” Symposium. Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy, 13/1, 2009, 59-73.
• “Im-Bilde-sein: Husserls Phänomenologie des Bildbewusstseins,” in Das Bild als Denkfigur. Funktionen des Bildbegriffs in der Philosophiegeschichte von Platon bis Nancy, ed. Sabine Neuber, München: Fink 2010, 167-181.
• “Depiction and Plastic Perception. A Critique of Husserl’s Theory of Picture Consciousness,” in Continental Philosophy Review, 2/2007, 171-185.
• “Existential Idealism? Fichte and Heidegger,” in Epoché, Vol. 12, 1/2007, 109-135.
• “Responsive Life and Speaking To the Other. A Phenomenological Interpretation of Book One of Augustine’s Confessions,” in Augustinian Studies, 37/1, 2006, 89-109.
• “The Events of Morality and Forgiveness: Kant and Derrida,” in Research in Phenomenology, 36/2006, 255-273.
• “Non-Epistemic Self-Awareness. On Heidegger’s Reading of Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” in Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol 36, No. 1, 2005.
• “Recollection, Mourning and the Absolute Past: Husserl, Freud and Derrida,” in New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol.3, Nr. 4, 2004, 121-141.

Awards and Distinctions

• Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, MSU, 2014
• Teacher‐Scholar Award, MSU, 2009
• Fellowship, DFG, 1999‐2002
• Young Scholar Fellowship, Land Hessen, 1997‐99

External links

• MSU Faculty Page