Thomas Khurana

Khurana was also Heuss Visiting Lecturer at the New School for Social Research (2009), Humboldt Fellow at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (2010–11), and Max Kade Visiting Professor at Yale University (2021). Khurana is an Associate of the Research Network Critical Theory in Berlin.

Thomas Khurana studied psychology, philosophy, sociology, and comparative literature at the University of Bielefeld and the Free University of Berlin. After receiving a PhD from the University of Potsdam, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and the scientific coordinator of the doctoral program Forms of Life and the Know How of Living at the University of Potsdam from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. After holding positions at the University of Leipzig and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Khurana joined the School of Philosophy at the University of Essex, where he co-directed an EU project on "The Comedy of Political Philosophy.” From 2017 to 2020, he was a DFG Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Yale University.

Thomas Khurana (born 1975) is a German philosopher. Since 2020, he has held the position of Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam.