Education
- BA in Philosophy and Comparative Literature — Rutgers University (2021)
- BA in Comparative Literature – Rutgers University (2021)
Jürgen Lipps
Graduate Student
Area of Interest: Kant's Ethics, Freud, and Moral Psychology
E-mail: jurgenlipps@humnet.ucla.edu
Office: Dodd Hall 363
I’m interested in Kant’s practical philosophy, particularly his philosophical anthropology and moral psychology. I’m also interested in thinking about theories of the self and self-knowledge from a psychoanalytic perspective. This involves an attempt to pay due respect to the unconscious, the opacity of desire, and the various forms of resistance that the mind uses to obscure itself from itself. Another part of me maintains an active interest in the early Frankfurt School and its affiliated writers, particularly Walter Benjamin. Along with this comes an inescapable preoccupation with literature and literary theory, with a focus on Kafka.