is research assistant with the cluster of excellence »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen« at the department of Philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, and until 2009 used to be a member of the collaborate research centre »Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste«. His research focus is on Kant’s critical philosophy, the faculty of imagination and the image, on power and potentiality, and on irrationality.