Critical theory, Critique of civilisation (starting with Rousseau), Empiricism, German idealism, Hermeneutics, History of historical understanding, Modern aesthetics (starting with Baumgarten), Modernity, late modernity and post-modernity, Natural law and contract theory (social perceptions in the Age of Enlightenment), Philosophy of enlightenment, Pragmatism, Republicanism, State and sovereignty, The idea of progress, Theories of democracy
Critical theory, Anthropological psychology (specific to Man) (Philosophical anthropology, Plessner, Gehlen, Cassirer, Heidegger), Classical metaphysics and ontology (cosmology), Classical philosophy (particularly Plato and Aristotle), Critique of metaphysics, Current philosophy of history and contemporary diagnostics, German idealism, Hermeneutics, Modern philosophy of history, Phenomenology