Daniel Schubbe

Daniel Schubbe-Åkerlund is a German philosopher and author. He teaches at the University of Hagen and is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at University of Mainz.

Life Schubbe studied political science and philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. His research focuses on hermeneutics, political philosophy, and philosophy of science.

Since 2012, he has been a member of the board of the Schopenhauer Society.

Honours 2004 – Essay Prize of the Schopenhauer Society 2017 – Teaching Award of the FernUniversität in Hagen

Selected works

Monographs Philosophie de l’entre-deux: Herméneutique et aporétique chez Schopenhauer. Translated by Marie-José Pernin. Nancy, 2018. . Philosophie des Zwischen: Hermeneutik und Aporetik bei Schopenhauer. Würzburg, 2010. .

Edited volumes With Thomas Bedorf and Anna Tuschling: Grundbegriffe digitaler Kultur. Hagen, 2025. DOI With Jens Lemanski: Schopenhauer-Lexikon. Paderborn, 2021. . With Matthias Koßler: Schopenhauer-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. 2nd edition. Stuttgart, 2018. . With Thomas Regehly: Schopenhauer und die Deutung der Existenz. Stuttgart, 2016. . With Søren R. Fauth: Schopenhauer und Goethe. Hamburg, 2016. . With Matthias Koßler: Schopenhauer-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. 2nd edition. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2018.

Editions With Judith Werntgen-Schmidt and Daniel Elon: Arthur Schopenhauer: Vorlesung über die gesamte Philosophie oder die Lehre vom Wesen der Welt und dem menschlichen Geiste, 4 vols., Hamburg, 2017–2022. .

Selected articles “Schopenhauer as an environmental ethicist?” Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 106 (2026): 103–120. “Schopenhauer as Hermeneutician? A reply to Thomas Regehly.” Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 100 (2020): 139–147. With Jens Lemanski: “Problems and Interpretations of Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation.” Voluntas: Revista Internacional de Filosofia 10.1 (2019): 199–210. Online