Christian Lotz

Christian Lotz (born 21 February 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German-American professor of philosophy 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.

Christian Lotz
Born	(1970-02-21) 21 February 1970 Wuppertal, Germany
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental Marxist philosophy Critical theory Phenomenology
Main interests	Aesthetics Social philosophy Political philosophy Continental philosophy
Website	christianlotz.info

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 to 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.

Works

Books

• Continental Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, co-ed. with Antonio Calcagno, Lanham: Rowman&Littlefield 2023
• The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning, London: Bloomsbury Press 2015 (paperback, 2017)
• The Capitalist Schema. Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction, Lanham: Lexington Books 2014 (paperback, 2016)
• Christian Lotz zu Karl Marx: Das Maschinenfragment, Hamburg: Laika Verlag 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 papers

• „Lukács und die gegenwärtigen Krisentendenzen in Westlichen Demokratien,“ in Hans-Ernst Schiller, Rüdiger Dannemann, Georg Schaefer (Eds.), Staat und Revolution bei Georg Lukács, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 109-130
• “On Arendt and Luxemburg,” in Continental Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, eds. Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno, Lanham: Lexington Books, 43-62
• “Marxismus als Methode? Lukács und die Grundlegung einer kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie heute,“ Lukács 2021-2023. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft, Münster: Aisthesis Verlag 2023, 87-111.
• “Lucien Goldmann Redivivus. Categories, History, and Resoluteness in Lukacs and Heidegger,” Metodo, 9/2, 2022, 241-273.
• “Capital as Positionality. On Marx and Heidegger,” in Marxism and Phenomenology. The Dialectical Horizons of Critique, eds. Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, Lexington Books 2021, 151-170
• “Categorial Forms as Intelligibility of Social Objects. Reification and Objectivity in Lukács.,” in Confronting Reification. Revitalizing Georg Lukács’s Thought in Late Capitalism, ed. Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Leiden: Brill/Chicago: Haymarket Books 2020, 25-47.
• “Marxist Aesthetics, Realism, and Photography. On Brecht’s War Primer.” in Capital in the Mirror: Critical Social Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension, ed. Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell, New York: SUNY Press 2020, 63-88.
• “Gewissen und Widerstand,” in Vernunft und Leben aus transzendentaler Perspektive. Festschrift für Albert Mues zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. Leonhard Möckl, Michael Gerten, Matthias Scherbaum, Würzburg: Königshausen&Neumann 2019, 283-293.
• "Culture Industry," Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, volume II, ed. Best, Beverly; Bonefeld, Werner; O’Kane, Chris; Larsen, Neil, London: Sage 2018, 973–987.
• "Sensuality, Materiality, Painting. What is Wrong with Jaspers’ and Heidegger's van Gogh Interpretations?," Van Gogh among the Philosophers: Painting, Thinking, Being, ed. David Nichols, Lanham: Lexington Books 2018, 81-97.
• "Gegenständlichkeit. From Marx to Lukacs and Back Again," Theory and Practice: Critical Theory and the Thought of Andrew Feenberg, ed. Darrell Arnold and Michel, Andreas, London: Palgrave 2017, 71–89.
• "Fiction without Fantasy. Capital Fetishism as Objective Forgetting," Continental Thought & Theory, 2, 2017, 364–382.
• “Representing Capital? Mimesis, Realism, and Contemporary Photography,” The Social Ontology of Capitalism, ed. Daniel Krier and Mark P. Worrell, London: Palgrave 2017, 173–193.
• “Art = Capital? Reflections on Joseph Beuys’ Das Kapital Raum 1970–1977,” Against Value in the Arts and Education, ed. Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay, and Emile Bojesen, Rowman & Littlefield 2016, 93-213.
• “Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke’s Woodcut,” Phenomenology and the Arts, ed. Peter Costello and Licia Carlson, Lanham: Lexington Books 2016, 91-119.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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.

Selected Media Contributions

• „Die Katastrophe ist, dass es so weitergeht; Der Populismus ist hausgemacht – und die Rezepte gegen ihn sind die falschen,“ Frankfurter Rundschau, Jan 17, 2024, 26-27
• „Das Oberste Gericht der USA: Der lange Abschied von der Politik,“ Frankfurter Rundschau, June 29, 2022, 26-27
• „Den Anforderungen nicht mehr gewachsen. Die Krise in den USA ist vor allem eine Verfassungskrise,” Frankfurter Rundschau, January 19, 2021, 22/23
• „Kartelle, Konkurrenz, Planung. Über einige Grundwidersprüche im gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftssystem,“ Neues Deutschland, July 29, 2017, 10
• „Ein Tag wird kommen. Sozialutopie bei Ingeborg Bachmann. Sozialutopie und Sprache bei Ingeborg Bachmann,” Neues Deutschland, March 4, 2017, 23

External links

• MSU Faculty Page