Dr. Andreas Belwe

Image analysis, reflection on and interpretation of images, global digitalisation, digitalisation and the design process, the concept of humanity/design in a social context, understanding the role of design and the concept of competence in design, interdisciplinary approaches to design, philosophy and design

Career history

Studied philosophy, psychology and communication studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at Witten/Herdecke University under the supervision of Prof. Dr Franco Volpi (University of Padua)

Supplementary course in Adult Education at the Hochschule München

Professional experience

1998: Founding of the consultancy firm KYON (Philosophical and Scientific Consultancy)

Philosophical management consultancy for clients such as Continental, BMW, Hugo Boss and HypoVereinsbank

Lecturing and seminar work for foundations and further education institutions such as AKAD/Universities for Working Professionals, the Bavarian Elite Academy, the Evangelical Educational Institute, the Hanns Seidl Foundation and the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing

Working as a journalist and writer since 1999 (print and online, blogs, radio)

Lecturer at Landshut University of Applied Sciences since 2002

Lecturer at the Technical University of Munich since 2004

Since 2010, development and supervision of the philosophy course at the Laudius Distance Learning Institute

2011–2012 Lecturer at the International School of Management, Munich

Since 2012, he has been teaching at the University of Applied Sciences München

Key areas of research

Forms of guidance and teaching of research methods in academic work

Techniques of academic writing

Anthropology, social philosophy, digitalisation and autonomy, ethics and business ethics

Key topics

Lifestyles in a changing society

What holds a society together? (The struggle for recognition as a central social motive; inclusion and exclusion)

An objectified world (through economisation and technologisation)

Anthropotechnology (To what extent can human beings be optimised?)

Performance (Why is performance important to people? The performance principle versus the social principle; the subjectification of work)

The Anthropology of Possession (Why do people want to own things?)

Post-materialism (‘Ecotopia’, alternative economic concepts, the obsolescence of material things)

Societal implications of technology (on thinking, perception and communication)

Publications

• Belwe, Andreas: ‘Eigensinn – Hermann Hesse’s Philosophical Impulse with a Practical Purpose’, in: Hermann Hesse Yearbook, Vol. 18, ed. by Michael Limberg, Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2026
• Belwe, A. (2025): Hermann Hesse’s intellectual game with cards, in: ALG Umschau 72, pp. 22–23
• Belwe, A. & Zitzmann, H. (2024): A Conversation with Kafka. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann
• Texts for photographic and literary explorations along Vienna’s Danube Canal, in: Hetzmannseder, P. & Belwe, A. (2018): Donaukanal – Eine Hommage, Vienna: folio
• Promoting writing skills, in: Kreulich, K./Lödermann, A. (eds.) (2016): Prepared for the Future. Measures for Better Study Conditions, Bielefeld: wbv
• Belwe, A. & Schutz, T. (2014): Smartphones Come First – How schools and universities can deal with this attention-grabber. Bern: HEP
• Luxury – Why we need the non-essential. An interview with the philosopher Andreas Belwe by Marie-Luise Wenzlawski, in: emotion, January 2013 issue
• What are the benefits of reading? In: PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE, February 2012 issue
• "The World is Hell" – A Conversation with Arthur Schopenhauer, audiobook, komplett-media-verlag, Grünwald 2010
• How did I become who I am? – A review of Wolfgang Schmidbauer’s book *One Country – Three Generations: A Psychogram of the Federal Republic* (Herder, Freiburg 2009), in: *PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE*, August 2009 issue
• The Return of the Herostrates. Winnenden in shock. What caused the rampage? In: PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE, June 2009 issue
• The perpetrators want to take revenge on society. Rampages and their social causes raise philosophical questions. – Interview with the Landshuter Zeitung, 22 April 2009
• The Future of Dying: Where and how will we rest in peace? in: PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE, January 2009 issue
• A Lifetime of Balance – On the Philosophy of Financial Reporting, in: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, Vol. 61, November 2008, No. 22/2008, pp. 17–19
• Are good years on the horizon? Philosopher Andreas Belwe predicts a generation of ‘experience-deprived’ people – a threat to society? In: P.M. Magazine, January 2008
• Living Playfully, in: The Inspiration Book 2008. Being Lighter, edited by Gabriele Hartlieb, Herder Spektrum, Freiburg 2007
• "God laughs at everything" – An interview with the cabaret artist Bruno Jonas, in: P.M. Magazine, August 2007
• Living Playfully, in: PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE, May 2004 issue
• Thinking with Courage and Heart. Philosophy in Everyday Life, in: jevNET, Issue 1/2004 (Published by Jesuit European Volunteers)
• Luxury – The Richness of the Senses, in: doin' fine. The finer things in life, Issue 1/2004
• Success breeds success – life’s going well. The finer things in life, Issue 5/2003
• Give Optimism a Chance – Why the Easy Things Are the Hardest, in: doin’ fine. The Fine Things in Life, Issue 4/2003
• Going a long way – but where will I end up? And how? Reflections on the journey and the destination in: *Unser Auftrag*, Issue 7/8 2003 (Published by the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria)
• Life beyond the ordinary, in: doin' fine. The finer things in life, issue 2-3/2003
• What is a way of life? In: doin’ fine. The finer things in life, Issue 1/2003
• In harmony with life, in: doin' fine. The finer things in life, Issue 4/2002
• In Search of the Time We’ve Gained, in: doin’ fine. The Fine Things in Life, Issue 3/2002.
• University support: a poor mark. Why universities would do well to expand their services, in: *Bayerische Staatszeitung*, 26 July 2002
• ‘Daring to Seize the Moment’, in: doin’ fine. The Fine Things in Life, Issue 7–8/2002
• Is everything meaningless without money? In: ‘doin’ fine. The finer things in life’, Issue 3/2001
• Back to the Future – The Joy of the 1970s, in: doin' fine. The finer things in life, Issue 2/2001
• All about friendship, in: doin' fine. The finer things in life, Issue 4/2000
• Philosophy – the rock ’n’ roll of the new century, in: doin’ fine. The finer things in life, Issue 2/2000
• Cheerful Scepticism – Lively Silence. Those who philosophise live differently, in: ISNESS, Special Issue 1/2000 to September
• Unsociable Sociability. Kant: Why people ‘cannot stand one another’ but also ‘cannot do without one another’, Würzburg 2000
• Against the Division between Internal and External Democracy, in: In Good Shape? ‘Unrestrained Speeches’ by Mature Citizens. Edited by Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (dtv – Modernes Leben, 36140) Munich 1999
• Article for the GROSSE WERKLEXIKON DER PHILOSOPHIE (ed. Franco Volpi), Stuttgart 1999
• Man is the opposite. An antagonistic conception of history, following Kant’s socio-anthropological concept of ‘unsociable sociability’ in *Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose*, Egelsbach near Frankfurt am Main, 1998