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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  • “Practical Ethics” in Anglophone Philosophy, 1960s–1990s

    My doctoral research examines the history of “practical ethics” in Anglophone philosophy from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Conceived as an intellectual history of the second half of the twentieth century, the project has two interrelated aims. First, it asks how the changing historical and political contexts of the period enabled different forms of theorizing in academic philosophy. Second, it explores the impact of a new generation of “practical philosophers” on contemporary political discourses in Western Europe and North America.

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