Nora Angleys, M.A.

Personal Information

Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Heidelberg (B.A. and M.A.). Then Master's degree in Philosophy and Theoretical Philosophy at the LMU. Currently: doctorate under Prof. Thomas Buchheim as part of the DFG Schelling research project.

Research Interests

During her studies, Nora Angleys focused primarily on phenomenology in general and analyses of the imaginary in particular. In the context of the DFG-research project on Schelling's latest philosophy, she focuses on the question of the creative self-application of human consciousness activity in specific discourses such as religion, especially mythology. In this context, she is researching the question of the extent to which Schelling's latest philosophy is compatible with modern discourse and cultural philosophy, or has already anticipated them.

Selected Publications

• Schelling’s Literary Estate in Kabiri vol. 5, Spring 2024 (forthcoming)

Subject of the doctoral dissertation

In her research under the working title "Discursive Images of Truth. The Modernity in Schelling's Concept of Tautegory", Nora Angleys deals with the question of the (in)adequate handling of various approaches to a subcategory of unfounded beliefs (e.g. Foundationalism, Hinge Epistemology, Ordinary Language Philosophy). Schelling's answer to this question: the genealogy of these unfounded beliefs. Without investigation into the origin of unfounded beliefs, they appear incompatible with the holding of reasonable beliefs and their occurrence seems arbitrary. Furthermore, Schelling offers a concept for this type of unfounded beliefs, which he develops on the basis of religion, and mythology in particular, as a discourse: the tautegory as a type of processual truth whose origin lies in a larger, but not necessary, developmental framework of human consciousness.

Nora Angleys develops the tautegory further in combination with 20th century discourse theories: the tautegory as a discursive instrument complements and extends (merely) historical readings to a more profound understanding of historical processual phenomena because it places these enigmatic beliefs within a larger developmental context of human consciousness.