Research

Aporetic Anthropology: Dialectical Subjectivity in Kant and Adorno
Committee Chair: Dr. Julie Klein

My dissertation examines the problem of human subjectivity in Kant and Adorno. It argues that the human being must be understood neither as a purely autonomous rational subject nor as a merely socially determined object, but as an aporetic being formed through the tension between reason, nature, history, and social life.

Current Projects

Kant, Adorno, and Moral Anthropology
A project on autonomy, social formation, and the limits of moral subjectivity.

Adorno and Education
A project on formation, non-domination, and the possibility of critical self-reflection after damaged life.

Ancient Philosophy and Self-Formation
A developing project on virtue, education, and the humanistic formation of the self.