Project team member prae doc Alexander Strupp, B.A. M.A.

01-2025 - 12-2026

Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion
Faculty of Catholic Theology
University of Viena
Schenkenstrasse 8-10,  5OG 6
1010 Vienna

E-Mail: alexander.strupp@univie.ac.at
Phone: 0043-1-4277-30707

Alexander Strupp has been employed as a research assistant (university assistant prae doc) for the “Mensch und Phantasie” project at the Institute for Intercultural Philosophy of Religion since January 1, 2025 and previously worked as a tutor and project coordinator at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies.
Prior to this, he studied Philosophy and German Studies as well as Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Vienna.
He is currently working on his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna and at the RPTU Landau (Cotutelle de thèse).
He specializes in cultural philosophy and philosophical anthropology as well as social philosophy, philosophy of language and ethics from a historical perspective.

Alexander Strupp's dissertation project revolves around the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset's Metaphysics of Life. The intention of this project is to examine the imagination with regard to its anthropological and cultural significance: Firstly, it will be necessary to illuminate that imagination is that which constitutes the unity of humanity and at the same time makes the factual diversity of human life forms and cultures possible in the first place. Secondly, it will be explained how the confrontation with the real problems of life through the power of imagination determines the emergence and development of culture. In this way, the study of imagination can contribute to the development of an anthropologically founded theory of the historical evolution of cultural forms of life.

Alexander Strupp is also a DOC fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and a fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM).