Research
My monographs focus on the concept of the moral self: experiences and ruptures of identity and non-fictional and fictional life-stories.
I have worked on a social ethics approach to medical ethics & bioethics, concentrating on reproductive medicine and genetic diagnosis.
Recently, I have introduced a social-political-ethical approach that combines the Frankfurt School critical theory (especially Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Honneth) with the German political theologies of Metz, with feminist ethics and liberation theology. I aim to pursue a decolonial ethics from the perspective of the "North."
I aim for a critical-constructive ethics of "recognition & responsibility" that builds upon critical theory in combination with a hermeneutic ethics of storytelling and literature, seen through the lens of what I call "vulnerable agency."
I collaborate with other interdisciplinary scholars on contextual studies in social and political ethics, bioethics, and feminist ethics. These include human rights and justice in the context of refuge and migration, reparations and restorative justice, reproductive rights, genetic diagnoses and hereditary gene editing, artificial intelligence and social robots.
Currently, I am pursuing an interdisciplinary project on "Entangled Responsibility" that inquires into clergy sexual violence and the institutional responses of a university as well as the responsibility for the past, in part through oral history and a narrative ethics approach.
www.entangledresponsibility.com
My monographs focus on the concept of the moral self: experiences and ruptures of identity and non-fictional and fictional life-stories.
I have worked on a social ethics approach to medical ethics & bioethics, concentrating on reproductive medicine and genetic diagnosis.
Recently, I have introduced a social-political-ethical approach that combines the Frankfurt School critical theory (especially Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Honneth) with the German political theologies of Metz, with feminist ethics and liberation theology. I aim to pursue a decolonial ethics from the perspective of the "North."
I aim for a critical-constructive ethics of "recognition & responsibility" that builds upon critical theory in combination with a hermeneutic ethics of storytelling and literature, seen through the lens of what I call "vulnerable agency."
I collaborate with other interdisciplinary scholars on contextual studies in social and political ethics, bioethics, and feminist ethics. These include human rights and justice in the context of refuge and migration, reparations and restorative justice, reproductive rights, genetic diagnoses and hereditary gene editing, artificial intelligence and social robots.
Currently, I am pursuing an interdisciplinary project on "Entangled Responsibility" that inquires into clergy sexual violence and the institutional responses of a university as well as the responsibility for the past, in part through oral history and a narrative ethics approach.
www.entangledresponsibility.com