SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Philosophy
Position:Associate Professor





In 2008, Luka Nakhutsrishvili obtained his BA in Philosophy from the Ilia State University. 2008-2010 he studied for his MA degree in Philosophy at Charles University Prague, Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaurès and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2010-2013 he obtained his PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the universities of Perpignan and Tübingen.  Since 2013 Luka teaches at the Ilia State University and is a researcher and project coordinator at the Institute for Social and Culturual Research. In 2015-2017, he was a research fellow at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin and the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater Thurnau, Universität Bayreuth within the framework of a two-year postdoctoral scholarship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation

Scientific interests / research interests

Critical Theory, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, history of Marxism

Featured publications

“შტრაიკბრეხერი [Streikbrecher]. Ortlos im georgischen Fremdwortschatz“. In: Falko Schmieder, Georg Toepfer (Hg.), Wörter aus der Fremde. Begriffsgeschichte als Übersetzungsgeschichte, Kadmos, Berlin, 2017

“Richard Wagner als Kulturheros. Metonymien und Inflationen einer brüchigen Identität“ in: Zaal Andronikashvili, Giorgi Maisuradze, Franziska Thun-Hohenstein, Matthias Schwartz (Hg.), Der Kulturheros. Genealogien. Konstellationen. Praktiken, Kadmos, Berlin, 2017

“Gesamtkunstwerk mit Stimmendämmerung. Für eine aporetische Perspektive der Wagner-Rezeption“ In: Sven Friedrich (Hg.), Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft, wagnerspectrum, „Wagner in der Diskussion“, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2014

“Corps propre et corps technique(s) – Jean-Luc Nancy et la phénoménologie“ In: Elizabeth A. Behnke, C. Ciocan (éds.), Studia Phaenomenologica XII/2012, « Possibilities of Embodiment », Romanian Society for Phenomenology & Humanitas, 2012

Current Courses

Course Catalog

  • Summer semester 2018:
  • The Revolution of 1848 in Philosophy, History, Social Theory and Culture (BA)
  • Walter Benjamin’s Theses “On the Concept of History” (MA)
  • Introduction to Modern Thought II (BA)
  • Winter semester 2017-2018:
  • Philosophy of history. The idea of progress and its critique (BA)
  • “Religion of art”. The relation between the aesthetic and sacred in German theory of art (MA)
  • Introduction to Modern Thought I (BA)
  • Winter semester 2014-2015:
  •  Hegel’s “Aesthetics” (BA)
  • Heidegger and Hölderlin (MA)
  • Summer semester 2013-2014:
  • Ontology and Ethics (Tillich – Heidegger – Levinas) (MA)