Mihnea Chiujdea
ABOUT ME
I recently completed my PhD dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin, for which I have been awarded the Elsa Neumann Stipend from the State of Berlin. My doctoral research investigated personal identity, temporality, and agency, engaging with the thought of Martin Heidegger, Christine Korsgaard, and Derek Parfit. Currently I am developing a research project at the crossroads of aesthetics, philosophy of emotion and metaphysics on the uncanny. In the 2025 summer semester I am leading a research-based graduate seminar entitled Ontological Threats: Defensive Racism in The European New Right at Freie Universität Berlin. The aim is to analyse the form racism involved by the European New Right, looking at texts by Alain de Benoist on ethnopluralism, as well as conspiracy theories such as the great replacement.

EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Metaphysics of the Self
Personal identity and the conceptualisation of the self in post-Kantian philosopy
2023
Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. phil. Philosophy
Supervisors:
Dina Emundts (Freie Universität Berlin),
Sacha Golob (KCL)
Paul Snowdon (UCL)
Time and Temporality
Especially developing Heidegger's account of temporality
'Continental Philosophy'
Especially Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt, Hubert Dreyfus.
2014
University College London
MA Philosophy
2011
University College London (and Univerzita Karlova v Praze for year abroad)
BA Politics and East European Studies