My research is historically grounded and systematically oriented. I work on modern European philosophy from Kant to the twentieth century and on contemporary problems in perception, language, objectivity, and culture.
A central part of my work develops Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms as a phenomenologically and systematically relevant theory of perception. I focus on the elasticity of perception, the articulation of objectivity, and the symbolic normativity through which perceptual experience becomes meaningful without being reducible to propositional judgment.
My work on Nietzsche develops a reading of his theoretical philosophy as a form of hermeneutics. It treats perspectivism not as simple relativism, but as a critical account of interpretation, justification, and the conditions of philosophical sense.
My current research investigates Henri Bergson’s philosophy of language in relation to French and German life philosophy, early linguistics, and the history of language critique. A central archive-based component concerns Bergson’s unpublished 1898 course Les idées générales dans leurs rapports avec les mots, les images et les choses.
I work on Kantian and post-Kantian methods, especially the transformation of transcendental philosophy in Neo-Kantianism and its afterlives in twentieth-century debates about science, culture, and objectivity.
My intercultural work asks how philosophy of culture can be reconstructed beyond a narrowly European canon and how comparative perspectives transform classical problems concerning humanity, culture, expression, and objectivity. Kyoto in Davos is one important case within this broader orientation. The volume has also been taken up in a dedicated symposium in the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy.