Lisa Blum

I am a PhD student at the Center for Advanced Studies “Applied Humanities” at the Humboldt-Universität. Before coming to Berlin, I studied history and philosophy in Tübingen, Uppsala, and Cambridge, focusing on twentieth-century ethics and its history, traces of the colonial past in Europe, and historical responsibility.

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  • Ethics and the Environment in West Germany, 1960s–1990s

    My doctoral research examines the development of environmental ethics in West Germany from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Conceived as a contextual history of philosophy, the project pursues two interrelated aims. First, it explores how growing environmental concerns encouraged philosophers to reengage with the “practical” and “applied” dimensions of their discipline. Second, it analyzes how this new generation of practical philosophers contributed to shaping the contemporary ecological discourse in the Federal Republic.

  • ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5238-4235

    Forthcoming (2026). With Rahel Gerrens and Katharina Stefaniw. “Sinn des Leidens? Perspektiven zum Umgang mit menschlichem Leid in Geschichte und Gegenwart.” In Religion und Weltanschauung im wissenschaftlichen Zeitalter. Veröffentlichung des Studienkollegs, edited by Michael Herrmann. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press.

    2022. “Marco Polo and the Culinary Wonders of the World.” Historischer Augenblick, Blog “Koloniales Erbe.” February 15.  

    2020. “Von Tübingen in die Welt? Eduard Haber und der Kolonialrevisionismus.” Historischer Augenblick, Blog “Koloniales Erbe.” February 18.

  • lisa.blum[at]hu-berlin.de
    phone: +49 (0) 30 2093 65866