Dr Ullrich Haase

Who am I?

My main philosophical interests lie in 19th and 20th century European Philosophy, especially Phenomenology and Existentialism. I focus on the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. I also do research in the Philosophy of Literature and in Aesthetics. One of the main aims of my research into Phenomenology lies in understanding the role of the human being in the modern, technological age.

Three words to describe me are approachable, enthusiastic, and sincere.
Outside of work, I enjoy reading philosophy, literature and the occasional bike ride.

How I’ll teach you

I’ve been teaching Philosophy at MMU for 25 years. Philosophy is the traditional and contemporary core study which underlies all other endeavours of the university. It raises the most fundamental questions of our existence in the world. I have always tried to make the study of philosophy as engaging, meaningful and relevant to today as possible. While teaching on many of the great philosophers of the past, I try to make clear to students that we study these not for merely historical reasons, but in order to understand who and where we are today.

I try to bring philosophical texts alive so that students discover not only what these authors might have said and thought, but how it affects us, today, in our contemporary world. Students discover that Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, etc. as not only famous historical people, but people who help us approach the most pressing problems of today. This brings out enthusiasm in students and helps them to really understand ‘what we can know, what we ought to do and what we can hope for’.

My teaching style is lively, interactive, and challenging.

Academic and professional qualifications

BA Philosophy, English Literature and Education - Hamburg University, 1988

MA Philosophy - University of Essex, 1989

DEA Philosophy - University of Nice, France, 1991

PhD Philosophy - University of Essex, 1994

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016

Other academic service (administration and management)

Head of the Philosophy Section at MMU
Programme Leader BA (Hons) Philosophy

Languages

English, German, French

Why study Philosophy?

You’ll love Philosophy if you are passionate about the fundamental questions of our existence. What we can know, what we can do, how we can change our world and our own lives, is all covered in Philosophy. If you are open to the ideas of others, contemporary and past, then studying these questions at university will be much more exciting and productive than pondering them on your own.

Undergraduate courses

Existentialism, Literature and Style
Nietzsche and Sartre
Hegel and German Idealism
Aesthetics from Kant to Merleau-Ponty

Postgraduate teaching

Existentialism, Literature and Style
Nietzsche and Sartre
Hegel and German Idealism
Aesthetics from Kant to Merleau-Ponty

Research expertise

My interests lie mainly in 20th Century Phenomenology, especially Heidegger's thought and in the Study of Nietzsche as the philosopher with whom our contemporary age has begun. I also have a special interest in the question of literature, from whence arose the book on Blanchot. Momentarily I am finishing a book on Nietzsche and Phenomenology, which is to be followed by a reflection on the question of technology and its historial dimension.

Publications

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  . Heidegger (2016). Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation. UM. Haase. Indiana University Press.

  U. Haase (2009). Starting with Nietzsche. Continuum.

  UM. Haase, W. Large (2001). Maurice Blanchot. Psychology Press.

• Journal articles

  U. Haase (2019). Approaching Heidegger’s History of Being Through the Black Notebooks. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 51(02), pp.1-15.

  U. Haase (2010). Nietzsche on Truth and Justice. New Nietzsche Studies. 8(1), pp.78-97.

  U. Haase (2010). Sacred Communication, or: Thinking Nihilism Through Bataille. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 41(3), pp.304-318.

  U. Haase (2007). Δίκη andIustitia, or: Between Heidegger and Nietzsche. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 38(1), pp.18-36.

  UM. Haase (2006). Phenomenology. pp.80-89.

  UM. Haase (2006). Les sciences modernes et l’être. Noesis. 9, pp.143-162.

  UM. Haase (2003). Hegel and the 'Phenomenology of Spirit'. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 34(2), pp.205-208.

  UM. Haase (2003). The unity of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 34(2), pp.205-208.

  UM. Haase (2000). Fenomenologia i psychoanaliza. Prezeglad Filozoficzny. 3, pp.149-165.

  UM. Haase (2000). Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten in bedürftiger Zeit. Nietzscheforschung. 7, pp.71-87.

  UM. Haase (2000). Affects as effects in themselves. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 31(1), pp.74-91.

  UM. Haase (1999). The potencies of god(s): Schelling's philosophy of mythology. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 30(3), pp.344-346.

  UM. Haase (1999). Nietzsche and Freud: Questions of Life and Death. Journal of Nietzsche Studies. pp.33-49.

  UM. Haase (1997). Ist all Philosophie notwendig idealistisch?. Synthesis Philosophica. 12(2), pp.525-539.

  UM. Haase (1997). The life of the subject: Studies on the interpretation of Husserl in phenomenology. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 28(3), pp.326-328.

  UM. Haase (1997). Heraclitus seminar. JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY. 28(1), pp.107-109.

  UM. Haase (1996). From name to metaphor... and back. Research in Phenomenology. 26(1), pp.230-260.

  UM. Haase (1994). Nietzsche and the Ought of Phenomenology. Journal of Nietzsche Studies. pp.73-93.

  U. Haase (1991). The Providence of Language in Gadamer's Truth and Method. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 22(3), pp.170-184.

• Chapters in books

  UM. Haase, M. Sinclair (2015). History and the Meaning of Life. In: Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century. Springer,

  UM. Haase (2013). Heidegger and Nietzsche. In: The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. A&C Black,

  UM. Haase (2013). Nietzsche's Critique of Technology. In: Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science Nietzsche and the Sciences II. Springer Science & Business Media,

  UM. Haase (2011). Nietzsche and Phenomenology. A. Rehberg. In: Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

  UM. Haase (2003). Der Natur auf die Sprünge helfen? — Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung des Naturbegriffes von Schelling bis Merleau-Ponty. In: "Natur" als Politikum.

  UM. Haase (2000). Nietzsche’s Götterdämmerung. In: Nietzsche and the Divine. Clinamen PressLtd,

Editorial board membership

Managing Editor of the 'Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.