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This list describes my main interests. Of course, not all areas are being studied with the same intensity. Started as a political

philosopher, during the last years philosophy of medicine has taken a large part within my research.

Medical influence on daily life and the body , Biopolitics, Lifestyle and autonomy, pain,  governmentality, public health

Debate on community, question of democracy , secularization, multiculturalism, deconstruction of Christianity

Autonomy and heteronomy, Kantian ethics and utilitarianism, ethics in medicine

Rise of fitness, Man-machine relation, enhancement, Influence of genetic technology on our being and our understanding of ‘human’

Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Claude Lefort and Michel Foucault

Philosophy of Medicine

Philosophy of sports

Ethics

Social and political philosophy

Continental Philosophy

Research interests