Gastprofessorin Dr. Ana Honnacker
Romano Guardini Visiting Professor
Romano Guardini Visiting Professorship
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Personal information
Ana Honnacker is Romano Guardini Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion as well as a research associate on the DFG-funded project "Politics in Search of Evidence: The role of Political Philosophy and Public Health in the political responses to COVID-19" at the Chair of Practical Philosophy of the Hochschule für Philosophie München. Her research and teaching focus in particular on contemporary problems of practical philosophy which arise against the background of a pluralistic society. Her areas of expertise lie in philosophy of religion (religion and modernity, criticism of religion, humanism), political philosophy (theories of democracy, science and politics, emancipatory movements) as well as environmental philosophy (foundations and resources of social-ecological transformation, human-nature-relations, the anthropocene).
Curriculum vitae
- 2023
- Romano Guardini Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies, LMU Munich
- 2023
- Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Columbia University of New York
- 2021 -
- Research Associate on the DFG-funded project "Politics in Search of Evidence. The role of Political Philosophy and Public Health in the political responses to COVID-19", Chair of Practical Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie München
- 2015 -
- Teaching Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim
- 2015
- Visiting Scholar, German-Japanese Cultural Center, Kyoto
- 2014 - 2020
- Research Assistant, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover
- 2012 - 2014
- Scholar, DFG graduate school 1728 "Theologie als Wissenschaft. Formierungsprozesse der Reflexivität von Glaubenstraditionen in historischer und systematischer Analyse", Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2009 - 2013
- Research Associate, Institute of Theology and Social Ethics, TU Darmstadt
- 2008 - 2010
- Research Assistant on the project "Der Staat als weltliches Absolutes" at the "Politics and Religion" excellence cluster, WWU Münster
- 2008 - 2015
- Teaching Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, WWU Münster
- 2014
- Doctorate in Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2003 - 2008
- Studied Philosophy (major), Catholic Theology (minor) and General Linguistics (minor) at WWU Münster, earning an MA
Selected publications
- Honnacker, A.: Pragmatic Humanism Revisited. An Essay on Making the World a Home. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Honnacker, A.: Post-säkularer Liberalismus. Perspektiven auf Religion und Öffentlichkeit im Anschluss an William James. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015.
- Honnacker, A: Why Mourning for Minks Matters: Rebellious Grief as Practice of Solidarity. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 6: 311–324 (2023).
- Honnacker, A.: Beyond Evidence: Experimental Policy-Making in Uncertain Times. Inquiry. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (published online on 25.04.2023).
- Honnacker, A.: Von Klimasünden, Flugscham und moralischen Streckübungen: Ökologisches (Schuld-)Bewusstsein im Anthropozän. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 96 (2): 143-158 (2021).
- Honnacker, A.: Religiöse Vielfalt im Pluriversum: Eine pragmatistische Perspektive, in: S. Gäb (ed.), Religion und Pluralität. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2020, 179-192.
- Honnacker, A.: Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls, in: A. Pinn (ed.), Humanism and the Challenge of Difference. Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 135-164.
- Honnacker, A.: Unterwegs auf der via negativa. Pragmatismus als erfahrungsgesättigte Kontingenzbewältigung, in: A.Lucci, Antonio / J. Knobloch (eds.), Gegen das Leben, gegen die Welt, gegen mich selbst. Figuren der Negativität. Heidelberg: Winter 2021, 151-168.
- Honnacker, A.: Pragmatic Humanism and the Posthumanist Challenge: Between Biocentrism and the New Human Being, in: Contemporary Pragmatism 17 (2020), 70-84.
- Honnacker, A.: Die Legitimität des Exzessiven. Überlegungen zur Inklusion partikularer Traditionen in den öffentlichen Diskurs, in: J. Könemann / S.Wendel (eds.), Religion, Öffentlichkeit, Moderne. Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Transcript 2016, 207-222.
Teaching
You can find Dr. Ana Honnacker's current courses on LSF.
If you wish to write a thesis (BA or MA) under Dr. Honnacker's supervision, please contact her by email in order to arrange an appointment, and give a brief sketch of your proposed thesis project.
Other activities
- 2021 - member, DFG network "Zukunft der Religionsphilosophie"
- 2019 - member, European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment (EFSRE)
- 2017 - Executive Board Member, German Pragmatism Network
- 2015 - 2020 member, research forum "Religion im kulturellen Kontext", Leibniz University Hannover
- 2014 - member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie
- 2012 - 2014 member, Cluster Initiative Project "Pragmatism and Theology", University of Frankfurt/University of Cologne as part of the Analytic Theology Cluster, University of Zurich
Editorial Boards/Comittees: Multilingual Section of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (since 2018), AGATHEOS: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (since 2024), book series "Schriften zur Kritischen Lebenskunst" (Metzler, since 2021)