Stefan Knauß

Author: Stefan Knauß

Dr. Stefan Knauß (* 1983) is a research associate for Sustainable Landscape Development at the Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg. He studied Political Science, Media and Communication Science in Halle, Catania and Parma and received his PhD in Philosophy 2015 from the University of Halle for the dissertation "From Conquista to Responsibility while Protecting - The Debate of Humanitarian Justified Warfare from a Latin American Perspective". From 2017 to 2020 he held the research position "Eigene Stelle" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the research project "A Physiocentric Founding of Law - With the Latin American Buen Vivir Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature?". His areas of special interest are legal philosophy (in particular human rights and humanitarian interventions), Intercultural Philosophy and Decolonial Thinking (in particular Latin America) as well as environmental ethics.

"Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge" by Boris Wille and Stefan Knauß shows how Marine-Biologists are trying fix the coral calamity by “coral cultivation”. These iniatives are particularly feasible to think with about Gaia 2.0 and the Technosphere.