Dr. S. (Stefan) Niklas
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Critical Cultural Theory
Visiting address
- Oude Turfmarkt 145
- Room number: 1.07
Postal address
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Postbus 94201
1090 GE Amsterdam
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Profile
I am University Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Philosophy (Critical Cultural Theory) at the University of Amsterdam.
Before joining the University of Amsterdam in February 2017, I held post-doc positions at the Univerity of Cologne and the University of Oxford. I received my PhD (Dr. phil.) from the University of Cologne in 2014 (for a dissertation on the aesthetic experience of mobile music headphone listening) and my M.A. degree (Magister Artium) from Leipzig University in 2009.
I specialize in philosophy of culture and aesthetics, with a broad understanding of both these fields. I have been working on aesthetic experience and the methodology of the philosophical study of culture/civilization. More recently, I have turned to investigating the transformations of mythical consciousness, with a particular interest in its aesthetic expressions in pop-culture.
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Publications
2023
Niklas, S. (2023). Adorno (and Horkheimer) on Barbarism. In M. Winkler, & M. Boletsi (Eds.), Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. - Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (pp. 203-221). (Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature; Vol. 15). J.B. Metzler Verlag. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04611-6_2 [details]- Niklas, S. (2023). Cassirer, Star Wars, and the Aesthetic Transformation of Mythical Consciousness. Manuscript in preparation. In G. S. Moss (Ed.), Mythologizing the Absolute: Studies in the Philosophy of Mythology (Hermeneutics and Reality). Mohr Siebeck.
- Niklas, S. (2023). Concrete Negation: The Dialectic of Culture's Self-Destruction in Cassirer and Adorno. In G. S. Moss (Ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy (pp. 469–486). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13862-1_27 [details]
- Winkler, M., Boletsi, M., Herlth, J., Moser, C., Niklas, S., Reidy, J., Rohner, M., Broillet, G., Bierl, J., Lonsdale, L., & Stewart, N. (2023). Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. - Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. (Schriften zur Weltliteratur; Vol. 15). J.B. Metzler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04611-6
2022
2021
- Niklas, S. (2021). Mammoth, or: The Dialectic of Human Afterlife. Krisis : Journal for contemporary philosophy, 41(2), 98–101. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.41.2.38064 [details]
- Niklas, S. (2021). On the Reissue of The Authoritarian Personality: [Review of: T.W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswik, D.J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford (2019) The Authoritarian Personality] . Krisis : Journal for contemporary philosophy, 41(1), 202-209. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.41.1.37213 [details]
2019
- Breyer, T., & Niklas, S. (Eds.) (2019). Ernst Cassirer in systematischen Beziehungen: Zur kritisch-kommunikativen Bedeutung seiner Kulturphilosophie. (Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Sonderband; Vol. 40). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549478 [details]
- Niklas, S., & Freyberg, S. (2019). Rekonstruktive Synthesis: Zur Methodik der Kulturphilosophie bei Ernst Cassirer und John Dewey. In T. Breyer, & S. Niklas (Eds.), Ernst Cassirer in systematischen Beziehungen: Zur kritisch-kommunikativen Bedeutung seiner Kulturphilosophie (pp. 47-68). (Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Sonderband; Vol. 40). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549478-004 [details]
2018
- Breyer, T., & Niklas, S. (2018). Einleitung der Herausgeber: Zur kritisch-kommunikativen Haltung der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers. In T. Breyer, & S. Niklas (Eds.), Ernst Cassirer in systematischen Beziehungen: Zur kritisch-kommunikativen Bedeutung seiner Kulturphilosophie (pp. 1-5). (Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie – Sonderbände; Vol. 40). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549478-001 [details]
2017
- Niklas, S. (2017). Pragmatismus. In S. Luft, & M. Wehrle (Eds.), Husserl-Handbuch: Leben–Werk–Wirkung (pp. 360-365). J.B. Metzler Verlag.
2016
- Niklas, S. (2016). Fremdwerden: Zum Nachleben der kulturellen Formen im Zustand der Fremdheit. In W. Fitzner (Ed.), Kunst als Fremderfahrung: Verfremdung – Affekte – Entdeckungen Transcript Verlag.
- Niklas, S. (2016). The Anticipated Past in Historical Inquiry (A. O. Lovejoy, C. I. Lewis, and E. Wind). European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 97-119.
- Niklas, S. (2016). The Quest for Certainty in the Age of Aesthetics. Aesthetic Investigations, 1(2), 242-260.
2014
- Niklas, S. (2014). Die Kopfhörerin: Mobiles Musikhören als ästhetische Erfahrung. Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
2019
- Niklas, S. (2019). Schichten. In C. Kramer (Ed.), Points, Lines, Planes (pp. 84-99). Köln: Verlag Bernd Detsch. [details]
Prize / grant
- Niklas, S. (2015). Prize of the Offermann-Hergarten-Stiftung.
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Niklas, S. (2023). Adorno (and Horkheimer) on Barbarism. In M. Winkler, & M. Boletsi (Eds.), Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. - Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (pp. 203-221). (Schriften zur Weltliteratur/Studies on World Literature; Vol. 15). J.B. Metzler Verlag. Advance online publication.