Dr. theol. Daniel Kuran MA MA BA BA
Dr. theol. Daniel Kuran MA MA BA BA
Academic Position:
University Assistant (Post-Doc) at the Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics, (Faculty of Catholic Theology), University of Vienna
CV (short):
- Since 2022: Habilitation-Project in Fundamental Theology, University of Vienna
- 2022-2023: Teacher in Catholic Religion at Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Wien BORG3
- 2017-2022: Doctoral Studies in Catholic Theology (Dr. theol.)
- 2017-2021: University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics, (Faculty of Catholic Theology), University of Vienna
- 2010-2022: Studies in Philosophy, Theology, and History, University of Vienna
Key Areas of Research:
- G.W.F. Hegel and the Philosophy of German Idealism
- Philosophy of Religion
- Aesthetics
- Fundamental Theology
- Question of God
- Political Theology
- J. Derrida and Deconstruction
- W. Benjamin
Most important publications:
Monographies
- Kuran, Daniel: Geschichte zwischen Mythos und Messianischem. Walter Benjamins Jetztzeit und die Zeit der Toten als humane Zeit (Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society 15), V&R Vienna University-Press, Göttingen 2019.
Articles
- Kuran, Daniel, “Religion and the Expressionless – A Religious Perspective on Art in Benjamin”, in: Religion 2023, 14(6), 703, DOI: doi.org/10.3390/rel14060703
- Kuran, Daniel, “The Bonds of absolute Freedom. Traces of Abraham in Hegel’s Reading of the French Revolution”, in: Michael Staudigl, Jason W. Alvis (Hrsg.), The Bonds of Separation: Religion and the Crisis of Community, Columbia UP, forthcomming.