UMass Boston

Hilmar Schmiedl-Neuburg, Lecturer, Philosophy

Hilmar Schmiedl-Neuburg

Department:
Philosophy
Title:
Lecturer
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 05 00053
Phone:
617.287.6541

Biography

  • Since 2019  Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at UMass Boston.
  • 2018/2019  Interim-Professor, Psychoanalysis, Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg Germany
  • 2018  Habilitation in Philosophy
  • 2017  Interim-Professor for Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Kiel, Germany
  • 2006 - 2017  Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Kiel, Germany
  • 2005  Doctorate in Philosophy

Area of Expertise

Continental Philosophy, esp. Existential Philosophy, Poststructuralis, Phenomenology, German Idealism, Critical Theory, Hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis,

Asian Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Literature, Intercultural Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture

Degrees

PhD, University of Kiel (Germany), 2005

Habilitation, Dr. habil., University of Kiel (Germany), 2018

Professional Publications & Contributions

Edited Books (titles translated from German):

Body and Literature – Philosophical Perspectives. libri-nigri-series, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2020. (ed. with Markus Hodec), 331 pages.

Philosophy and Literature. libri-nigri-series. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2019, (ed. with Benjamin Kaiser), 329 pages.

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture – an Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2017, (ed. with Manfred Böge), 288 pages.

Articles (titles translated from German):

„Gestalt and Reading – Reflections on a Gestalt Therapeutic Phenomenological Hermeneutics“ Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2024, 4(10), 1., 23 pages.

„On Masters, Serfs and Slaves. Comparative Reflections on the Dialectics of Master-Serf and Master-Slave in Hegel and Nietzsche“ Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2024, 4(5), 3., 23 Seiten.

„A Reverie in Play – Playing in Reverie: Discussion of Elena Molinari’s and Violet Pietrantonio’s “Working Through Transformations in Play” Psychoanalytic Dialogues. The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, Volume 33, 2023 - Issue 4, S. 515-523, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2023.2226037

„Purity, Dirt, and Horror. The Cultural Anthropology of Mary Douglas', Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Horror“, Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2022, 2(10), 1., 18 pages.

“The Socratic Incarnation of the Eros – Remarks on the Alcibiades-Episode in the Platonic Symposion“, in: Al-Taher, Sarah, Jansche, Vanessa and Martena, Laura (Ed.): What Love can do. Philosophical Discourses of Love in Antiquity. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2022, p. 61-75.

“Gadamer‘s Philosophical Hermeneutics and its Relevance for the Therapeutic Practice of Daseinsanalysis“, Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2021, 1(11), 1., 32  pages.

“The Atopy of Socrates“, Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2021, 1(10), 3., 28 pages.

“Perspectives in Polylogue.  Philosophy – Psychoanalysis – Cultural Studies“, Y – Journal for Atopic Thought, 2021, 1(10), 1., 15 pages.

“Socrates in between Diotima and Alcibiades. Apollinian-Dionysian Structures in the Platonic Symposion“, in: Hodec, Markus / Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (Ed.): Body and Literature – Philosophical Perspectives. libri-nigri-series, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2020, p. 215-228.

“Literature and Body. Systematic Outlines“, in: Hodec, Markus / Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (Ed.): Body and Literature –Philosophical Perspectives. libri-nigri-series, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2020, p. 20-27.

“Not Knowing and the Unconscious – Psychoanalytic-Philosophical Reflections”, in: Praefaktisch.de – Philosophieblog (ed.by Paulo, Norbert / Schweiger, Gottfried). 2020, 8 pages.

Plato‘s Phaidros. Philosophical-literary Dimensions“, in: Kaiser, Benjamin / Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (Ed.): Philosophy and Literature. libri-nigri-series. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2019, p. 183-200.

Philosophy and Literature. Systematic and Historic Outline“, in: Kaiser, Benjamin / Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar (Ed.): Philosophy and Literature. libri-nigri-series. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz 2019, p. 18-26.

“Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Culture“, in: Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar / Böge, Manfred (Ed.): Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2017, p. 9-20.

“Philosophy and Psychoanalysis – Associations on their Relationship“, in: Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar / Böge, Manfred (Ed.): Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2017, p. 29-52.

“Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory – a Reacquaintance“, in: Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar / Böge, Manfred (Ed.): Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2017, p. 199-220.

“Freud: Culture and its Discontents“, in: Schmiedl-Neuburg, Hilmar / Böge, Manfred (Ed.): Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag 2017, p. 261-268.

“Man, Desire and Language – The Philosophical Foundations of Lacanian Psychoanalysis“, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie (Journal for Philosophy of Culture), Jg. 2017, vol. 2, p. 135-152.

“Negative Theology in the Works of Adorno, Derrida, Wittgenstein and Heidegger“, in: Gutschmidt, Rico / Rentsch, Thomas: God without Theism. Münster: Mentis 2016, p. 109-127.

“Virtue Ethics and Value Ethics“, in: Heidbrink, Ludger / Langbehn, Claus / Sombetzki, Janina (Ed.): Handbook Responsibility.   Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien 2016, p. 205-220.

“Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Indian Philosophy“, in: Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie (Journal for Philosophy of Culture), Jg. 2014, vol. 2. p. 343-366.

Additional Information

05/2024 Visiting Professor in the Department for German and French Philosophy at the Charles-University, Prague, Czech Republic.

2022/2023  Guest Lecturer in the MA-program Cultural Studies at the IPU International Psychoanalytic University Berlin

2022  Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow in the Department for Cultural Studies at the IPU International Psychoanalytic University Berlin

2021 –  Co-editor and co-founder of Y – Journal for Atopic Thought. Philosophy – Psychoanalysis – Cultural Studies, Berlin: IPPK-Verlag

01/2021 –  Director and co-founder of IPPK – Institute for Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Berlin

2021 – 2023  Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Psychotherapy Science at the Sigmund-Freud-University Berlin (SFU)

03/2019  Visiting Fellow at the SIF Praha - Central-European Institute of Philosophy, Prague, Czech Republic

2017/2018  Visiting Lecturer in the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Vienna, Austria

2016/2017  Visiting Professor in the Department for German and French Philosophy of Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

2003/2004  Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA