Dr. Gabriel Mehmel
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Dr. Gabriel Mehmel
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Professur für Praktische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. Tamara Jugov)
Professur für Praktische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. Tamara Jugov)
Visiting address:
Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg (BZW), A 420 Zellescher Weg 17
D-01062 Dresden
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Professur für Praktische Philosophie
Philosophische Fakultät
Helmholtzstraße 10
D-01069 Dresden
Fields of Work
Phenomenology; Social Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Emotions
Main Areas of Research
Experience, Normativity, and Critique; Phenomenology of Powerlessness and Marginalisation; Theories of Political Agency under Non-Ideal Conditions
Curriculum Vitae
- since 04/2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Practical Philosophy, TU Dresden
- 10/2025–03/2026: Lecturer (Critical Theory), Institute of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 08/2024: PhD in Philosophy, University of Essex. Dissertation: Social Disorientation: A (Critical) Phenomenological Study. Awarded without corrections.
- 01–04/2020: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin (with Hilge Landweer)
- 11/2019: Visiting Researcher, Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University (with Fredrik Svenaeus)
- 04–07/2017: Visiting Researcher, Interdisciplinary Working Group “Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy”, University Hospital Heidelberg (with Thomas Fuchs)
- 09/2016: MA in Continental Philosophy, University of Warwick
- 06/2015: BA in Philosophy & Politics, Durham University
Teaching
- Summer Term 2026: What is Critique? Normativity, Ideology, Emancipation (in German), BA seminar, TU Dresden
- Summer Term 2026: John Stuart Mill: Liberty and the Right to Self-Determination (in German), BA seminar, TU Dresden
- Winter Term 2025/2026: What is Critique? Normativity, Ideology, Emancipation (in German), BA seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt
- 2020/2021: Modern Revolution in Science, Politics and Culture, BA course, University of Essex (Assistant Lecturer)
- 2018/2019: Death, God, and the Meaning of Life, BA course, University of Essex (Assistant Lecturer)
Publications
- ‘Grief, Disorientation, and Futurity’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22, 991–1010 (2023)
- ‘Transformation through Dialogue: Gadamer and the Phenomenology of Impaired Intersubjectivity in Depression’, in: The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, ed. Robyn Bluhm and Şerife Tekin, London: Bloomsbury, 155–173 (2019)
- ‘Possibility of Hermeneutic Conversation and Ethics’, Theoria and Praxis 4(1), 16–31 (2016)