Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rosenmüller

Professor of Philosophy, Ethics and Education at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Faculty of Applied Social Studies (since March 2014)

• Research focus on the topic of 'Attitude and judgment' (i.E. Beltz Verlag)
• Project to raise the profile of teaching in applied ethics in social work: 'Trust ethics: concepts and conditions of trust in social work' (2014-2019)
• Spokesperson for the specialist group 'Ethics and Social Work' of the German Society for Social Work
• Member of the Society for Philosophy and Sciences of the Psyche, Berlin
• Member of the Berlin Working Group on Legal Reality at the Law & Society Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin

• Scientific collaboration in the project 'InVest' on "Trust management as a stabilizing factor in organizational innovations" at the Institute of Business Ethics IKMS of the Philosophical-Theological University of Münster in cooperation with the IAI Bochum.
• Scientific collaboration in the sociology of law pilot project "Law and Emotions" at the Institute of Philosophy of the Free University of Berlin (Prof. Dr. Hilge Landweer) and the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion".
• Teaching assignments at the Free University of Berlin (Institute of Philosophy; OSI for Political Science) and at the University of Hildesheim Foundation (Department of Political Science)
• Collaboration with the Department of Contemporary History and Democratic Development of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin.
• Doctorate with Prof. Dr. Hauke Brunkhorst (Philosophy/Sociology, University of Flensburg) and Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer (Public Law and Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court), doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
• Studied M.A. Philosophy and Law in Bielefeld and Berlin (FU)
• Assistant for the blind at the Johann-August-Zeune-School in Berlin Steglitz and at the School Psychological Service, Berlin Mitte.
• Visiting student (2 semesters) in León, GTO, México
  

Heuer, Wolfgang / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2022): Arendt Handbook. Life - Work - Impact. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. J.B. Metzler Verlag, Berlin.

Kupke, Christian / Kurth, Christoph / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2019) (eds.): Making people right. Practices of human formation in the political present. Parados publishing house, Berlin.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2013): The place of law. Public spirit and judicial judgment according to Hannah Arendt. Nomos publishing house, Baden-Baden.

Heuer, Wolfgang / Heiter, Bernd / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2011): Arendt Handbook. Life - Work - Impact. Metzler Publishers, Stuttgart.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2018): Review of: Bob Lonne, Maria Harries, Brid Featherstone, Mel Gray: Working Ethically in Child Protection .Social Work Education. The International Journal.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2015): Review of: Andrey Polyakov: On the Communication Theory of Law. In: Russian Journal of Communication, 7th vol. 3, pp. 345-346.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2012): Review of: Udo Ebert: Die "Banalität des Bösen" - Herausforderung für das Strafrecht, Stuttgart/Leipzig. In: HannahArend.net. Journal for political thought. Issue 1/2, No. 6. Online access: http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/31/66

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2008): Review of: Christian Volk: Judging in dark times. A new reading of Hannah Arendt's "Banality of Evil". Lukas Verlag Berlin. In: HannahArend.net. Journal for political thought.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2001): Review of: Herta Nagl-Docekal: Feminist Philosophy. Results, problems, perspectives. Frankfurt/M, Fischer. In: Feministische Studien, Issue 1, pp. 152-154. Online access: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/fs/19/1/html

Weis, Simone / Holzkamp, Sandra / Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Tigges, Nicole (2025): The promise of attitude in theory and practice. Research findings on school social work and the professionalization of professionals. In: Barth, Ulrike / Wiehl, Angelika (eds.): Ethos in der Pädagogik - eine professionelle Haltung reflektieren und ausbilden, Beltz Juventa Verlag Weinheim, pp. 264-275.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2022): Attitude instead of determination. In:
Klinnert, Lars/Graumann, Sigrid (eds.) (2022): Help culture(s) in transition.
Historical and current transformation processes of organized charity.
organized charity. Festschrift for Wolfgang Maaser, Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht Göttingen, pp. 77-96.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Holzkamp, Sandra (2022): Attitude - basics and discussions. In: Behrmann, Andrea/Riekenbrauk, Klaus/Stahlke, Iris/Temme, Gaby (eds.) (2022): Handbuch Psychosoziale Prozessbegleitung. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto, pp. 133-146.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2022): Edmund Husserl. In: Heuer, Wolfgang / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2022): Arendt-Handbuch. Life - Work - Impact. 2nd edition, Berlin.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2021): Philosophy. In: Ralph-Christian Amthor, Brigitta Goldberg, Peter Hansbauer, Benjamin Landes, Theresia Wintergerst (eds.): Kreft/Mielenz Dictionary of Social Work. Aufgaben, Praxisfelder, Begriffe und Methoden der Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik, 9th, revised edition, Beltz Juventa Verlag, Weinheim Basel, pp. 651-652.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2021): Compassion. In: Ralph-Christian Amthor, Brigitta Goldberg, Peter Hansbauer, Benjamin Landes, Theresia Wintergerst (eds.): Kreft/Mielenz Dictionary of Social Work. Aufgaben, Praxisfelder, Begriffe und Methoden der Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik, 9th, revised edition, Beltz Juventa Verlag, Weinheim Basel, pp. 585-587.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2020): On the reception of Arendt's thought in Germany A work in two languages 登録情報. In: Hannah Arendt Research Society of Japan (HG):『アーレント読本』(Engl.: Hannah Arendt, Handbook), Hosei University Press, Tokyo, pp. 325-330.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2019): Arendt's critique of abstraction. Human Rights as Positive Freedom Rights of the Imagination. In: Kupke, Christian / Kurth, Christoph / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (eds.): Making people right. Practices of human formation in the political present. Parados Verlag, Berlin, pp. 147-162.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2019): シュテファニー・ローゼンミュラー「ポピュリズムとアーレントにおける政治的・法的判断力--判断の欠如を矯正する可能性について」
(Eng:) "Populism and the political and juridical power of judgment after Hannah Arendt. On possible corrections of judgment deficiencies". In: Hannah Arendt Platz (vol.4), Hannah Arendt research society of Japan (HARSJ) Japan, 2018 Winter, pp.18-35.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2018): In What Way Are Human Rights Abstract? Or How to Turn Exceptions into Examples Hannah Arendt.net. In: Hannah Arendt.net , vol. 9, no. 1, online: http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/404

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2018): In what ways are human rights abstract? Philosophical consideration of defense, participation and participation rights. In: Spatschek, Christian / Steckelberg, Claudia (eds.): Human rights and social work. Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, Gestaltungsfelder und Umsetzung einer Realutopie, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen, Berlin, Toronto, pp. 85-96.

Klees, Esther/ Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2018): Trust as an essential prerequisite for an admission of guilt when working with siblings who have been sexually assaulted within the family In: Klees, Esther/ Kettritz, Torsten (eds.): Sexualisierte Gewalt durch Geschwister. Praxishandbuch, Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, pp. 107-124

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2016): On the Justice of Institutions and of Persons: Impartiality and Dependency in Martha Nussbaum and Hannah Arendt. In: The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College: Quote of the week (October). Online access: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-the-justice-of-institutions-and-of-persons-impartiality-and-dependency-in-martha-nussbaum-and-hannah-arendt-2015-11-15

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2016): Hannah Arendt's critique of free will and her 'inverted' systematics of mental activities. In: Eckle, Isolde / Heinze, Martin / Kupke, Christian / Quadflieg, Dirk (eds.): Freedom between Normativity and Creativity, Parodos Verlag, Berlin, pp. 71-90

Kozin, Alexander / Landweer, Hilge / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2015): A phenomenological ethnography of shame in the context of German criminal law. In: Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 57-75.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Gerundt, Mareike (2013): Spirituality - a spiritual resource in corporate change processes.in: Kriegesmann, Bernd (ed.): Vertrauensorientiertes Changemanagement. Gestaltungsideen für nachhaltigen Wandel in Organisationen, IAI Schriftenreihe: Innovation - Forschung und Management, Vol. 29, Bochum, pp. 238-257.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie, Gerundt, Mareike (2013): Spirituality as the basis of trust. Theological-philosophical foundation. In: Kriegesmann, Bernd (ed.): Trust-oriented change management. Gestaltungsideen für nachhaltigen Wandel in Organisationen, IAI Schriftenreihe: Innovation - Forschung und Management, Vol. 29, Bochum, pp. 47-77.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2013): Law by virtue of judgment. On law in the thinking of Hannah Arendt. In: Schulze Wessel, Julia / Volk, Christian / Salzborn, Samuel (eds.): Ambivalences of Order. The State in Hannah Arendt's Thought, Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 157-179.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2012): The Person from Arendt's Perspective. In: The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College: Quote of the week (April 16). Online access: https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-person-from-arendts-perspective-2012-04-16

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2012): Hannah Arendt. In: Pollmann, Arnd / Lohmann, Georg (eds.): Menschenrechte: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 79-83.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2011): Aristotle. In: Heuer, Wolfgang / Heiter, Bernd / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (eds.): Arendt Handbuch. Leben - Werken - Wirkung, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 189-194.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Heuer, Wolfgang (2011): Introduction. Thinking without railings. In: Heuer, Wolfgang / Heiter, Bernd / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (eds.): Arendt Handbuch. Leben - Werken - Wirkung, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, pp.VII-X.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2011): Philosophy and Politics. The Problem of Action and Thought After the French Revolution. In: Heuer, Wolfgang / Heiter, Bernd / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (eds.): Arendt Handbuch. Leben - Werken - Wirkung, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 50-52.

Heuer, Wolfgang / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2011): Between Past and Future /Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft. In: Heuer, Wolfgang / Heiter, Bernd / Rosenmüller, Stefanie (eds.): Arendt Handbuch. Leben - Werken - Wirkung, Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 70-84.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2009): 'Rights as fences'? Hannah Arendt and the problem of judgment. In: Heiter, Bernd / Kupke, Christian (eds.): Otherness, Strangeness, Exclusion, Parodos Verlag, Berlin, pp. 167-202.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Zepp, Marianne (2007): Introduction. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation (ed.): Hannah Arendt: Hidden Tradition - Untimely Topicality?, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, pp. 13-33.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2007): Virtue or Will. Two Notions of Freedom in the Concept of Arendtian Politics. in: HannahArend.net. Journal for Political Thought & mirovni-institut.si/dpu. Issue 1, Volume 3. online access: http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/109/183

Rosenmüller, Stefanie (2005): Do actor and spectator meet? On the role of the judge in Hannah Arendt's theory of judgment. in: HannahArend.net. Journal for Political Thought. Issue 1, Volume 1. Online access: http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/83/131

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Hantke, Benjamin (Fachhochschule Dortmund): Trägheit und Beweglichkeit der Haltung. Judgment in child and youth welfare. German Congress for Philosophy , Münster, September 24, 2024.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie / Weis, Simone / Holzkamp, Sandra: The promises of attitude in theory and practice. Research findings on school social work and the professionalization of professionals. Alanus University, Mannheim October 27, 2023.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Attitude instead of determination. Symposium of the Ethics Section of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA). Online conference on 30.01.2020.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: El populismo desde la perspectiva del juicio político y jurídico de acuerdo con Hannah Arendt. Posibles correcciones de déficits en la operación de la facultad mental del juicio. Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, Colégio de México, México D.F., Sesión del 4 de septiembre de 2019, de 16 a 18 horas.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Social work as a social producer of trust? Ethical and functional aspects of trust and their relevance for social work. Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA): Wandel der Arbeitsgesellschaft - Soziale Arbeit in Zeiten von Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und Prekarisierung, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, 26.04.19.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Potentialities of Political Judgement under Perspective of Arendt. Workshop on Entangled Collective Memories and political Judgement, 16 th September 2018 at the Institute of Foreign Affairs at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Populism and the Political and Judicial Power of Judgment after Hannah Arendt. On possible corrections of judgmental deficiencies. 17th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Research Society of Japan (HARSJ), September 8-9, 2018 at Chuo University (Korakuen Campus), Tokyo, Japan.

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Introduction to the topic: What is critical about critique? Conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG): What is critical about critical gerontology? Fachhochschule Dortmund, 23.02.2018

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Making people right. In what ways are human rights abstract? In which not? How exceptions can be turned into examples. Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Sciences of the Psyche (GPWP): Making people right. Practices of human formation in the political present, Berlin Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (BIPP), 16.10.2017

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: Ethical, theological and functional aspects of trust and their relevance for social work. Symposium of the Ethics Section of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA), University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, 21.09.2017

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: In what respect are human rights abstract? Philosophical reflections on rights of defense, participation and participation rights. Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA): Human Rights and Social Work, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, 28.04.2017

Rosenmüller, Stefanie: In what respect are human rights abstract? On defense rights, participation rights and participation rights. Conference of the Ethics Section of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA): The significance of human rights for the ethics of social work, Fachhochschule Dortmund, 06.02.2017