Dr Deborah Casewell
Associate Professor
Biography
Deborah Casewell is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Chester. She works in the areas of philosophy and culture, philosophy of religion, and theology & religion, in particular on existentialism and religion, questions of ethics and self-formation in relation to asceticism and the German cultural ideal of Bildung. She has given a number of public talks and published on these topics in a range of settings. Her first book was published in 2021: it explores the theologian Eberhard Jüngel’s philosophical inheritance and how his thought provides a useful paradigm for the relation between philosophy and theology. Her second book, Monotheism and Existentialism, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press as a Cambridge Element. She is Co-Director of the AHRC-funded Simone Weil Research Network UK, and previously held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Bonn. Prior to her appointment in Bonn, she was Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Teaching Fellow at King’s College, London. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, my MSt from the University of Oxford, and spent time researching and studying at the University of Tübingen and the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Teaching and Supervision
TH4049 - The Human Condition: An Introduction to World Philosophies TH4066 - Introduction to Ethics TH5068 - Political Philosophies TH6063 - The Philosophical Imagination TH7068 - Key Texts in Christian Theological Ethics
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Deborah Casewell works on themes in 19th and 20th Century French and German thought, in particular German Idealism, existentialism, Simone Weil, and Karl Jaspers. She works in the wider area of continental philosophy of religion.