Universität Konstanz
Department of History and Sociology
Universitätsstraße 10, Box 11
78464 Konstanz, Germany
E-Mail: anenka@ruc.dk
About
Anders Kampman is a research assistant at the Chair of the History of Knowledge at the University of Konstanz (since July 2022). He works with the ERUA WP 2 Research Group “Reimagining Higher Education and Research”.
Anders Kampman studied Philosophy & Science Studies and History at Roskilde University in Denmark (2015-2022) and was an exchange student at Leibniz Universität Hannover during his M.A. studies. His master’s thesis is about white ignorance as a social epistemic practice. Furthermore, his studies have been centered around the combination of philosophy and history – more specifically teleological thinking (Kant, Herder, Hegel) and other combinations of temporalities (i.e. Koselleck and Žižek). Anders Kampman has also written historical student projects on the sustainable development paradigm under the UN auspices, and the novel Robinson Crusoe as a source of modernity.
During most of his studies, he has worked as an editor, reviewer, and writer for the Danish magazine TIDskrift, which is a nationwide magazine for students of philosophy. He has also worked as a student assistant in the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA).
At the moment, Anders Kampman is working on formulating a Ph.D. project centered around utopian/early socialist thinking from around the middle of the 19th century. More specifically, the focus lies on Moses Hess and several Nordic intellectuals (especially Frederik Dreier, David Frederik Spichmann, and Marcus Thrane) – since most research focus has been given to the French, British, and of course Marxist traditions.
He is looking to reconstruct a contribution to the prehistory of degrowth. By focusing on alternative notions of work, as attractive, playful, creative, and non-productive from this utopian tradition Anders Kampman hopes to contribute to imagining other ways of organizing the social metabolism and our production, consumption, destruction, and satisfaction of human needs. He is fascinated by the specific ideas that transcend the negative critique of capitalism – and he does not consider it sufficient just to blow up pipelines.
Furthermore, Anders Kampman is part of the ERUA initiative and currently part of a working group (in WP3) which discusses ideas and practicalities about future pre-doctoral schools.
Research Interests
- Social epistemology as Ideologiekritik (i.e., white ignorance, growth-paradigm)
- Philosophy of history in modernity (conceptions of temporalities)
- Critical development studies (with a focus on climate change and racism)
- German Idealism