Mihnea Chiujdea M.A.
Institut / Einrichtungen:
Lehrbeauftragter
Aktuelle Funktionen und Aufgabenbereiche
I recently completed my doctoral dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin, for which I have been awarded the Elsa Neumann Fellowship of the State of Berlin. My doctoral research investigated personal identity, temporality, and agency, engaging with the thought of Martin Heidegger, Christine Korsgaard, and Derek Parfit. Currently, I am developing a research project at the crossroads of aesthetics, philosophy of emotion and metaphysics on the uncanny. In the 2025 summer semester I have been leading a research-based graduate seminar entitled Ontological Threats: Defensive Racism in The European New Right. The aim is to analyse the form racism involved by the European New Right, looking at texts by Alain de Benoist on ethnopluralism, as well as conspiracy theories such as the 'great replacement'.
Vita
* WiSe 2019-20 and WiSe 2023-24 to present Visiting Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at Freie Universität Berlin
* Nov. 2023: Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, Title: Persons, Agency, and Time. A Treatment of The Problem of Personal Identity Grounded in Martin Heidegger's Early Philosophy, Result: Magna cum Laude, Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dina Emundts (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sacha Golob (King's College London)
* Trinity Term 2019: DAAD funded Research Visit at University of Oxford, hosted by Prof. Dr. Mark Wrathall
* Sept. 2014: MA Philosophy, University College London
* July 2011: BA Politics and East European Studies with A Year Abroad, University College London
* Sept. 2009 - June 2010: Erasmus year abroad spent at Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
SoSe 2025: Ontological Threats: Defensive Racism in The European New Right (X-Student Research Group)
WiSe 2024-2025: Reductionism: From The Personal to The Political (X-Student Research Group)
SoSe 2024: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
WiSe 2023-2024: Personal Identity and Reductionism
WiSe 2019-2020: Heidegger and Pragmatism
Expertise:
Systematic: Metaphysics (especially normativity, personal identity and the metaphysics of the self, agency, transformative experience); Historical: Phenomenology (especially Martin Heidegger)
Competence:
Systematic: Aesthetics (especially everyday aesthetics and aesthetic experience); Social Ontology; Historical: Post-Kantian Philosophy (Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, phenomenology)
Chiujdea, M., (2013) “Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Violence and Marxism”, Opticon1826 15(1), doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/opt.be
• Chiujdea, M., (2015) ‘Paradoxes of Selfhood: Questions of Identity and Time with a Dash of Heidegger’, four by three magazine 1.
• ‘The Crossroads of The Uncanny – Transformative Aesthetic Experience’, Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics, Aalto University, Finland, Jun. 2025.
• ‘Historicity, Historiography, and The Problem of Personal Identity’, Time as The Horizon of Understanding, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Nov. 2023• ‘Personal Identity and Agency. A Phenomenologically Grounded Development of Reductionism’, Invited talk, Werkstatt Phänomenologie, University of Vienna, Austria Nov. 2021
• ‘Radical Freedom and Heidegger's Anti-Humanism’, Annual Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, University of Manchester, UK, Sept. 2019
• ‘Paradoxes of Identity: Persons, Selves and Time’, Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Time, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, Nov. 2017