Alexander Berg, M.A., Ph.D.

Studies, Research

• Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Konstanz for a  Research project on the literary form of philosophical works

• Research stays at the University of Zurich, at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, at the Wren Library of Trinity College in Cambridge, at the University of Chicago and at the Charles University in Prague

• Studies of Philosophy, Art History and Psychology at the TU Dresden, Sorbonne Paris, University of Florence

Organisation, Publication, Presentation, Membership

Conferences, workshops

• Wittgenstein and Hegel on Normativity and Rationality, 9.–11. Sept. 2024 – University of Zagreb [mit Denis Kaidalov, Karlo Gardavski und Bruna Picas]

• Reading Philosophy – On the literary forms of philosophy, 12. April 2024 – University of Zurich [with Frauke Berndt]

• Wittgenstein and Hegel on the foundations of Logic, 11.–13. Sept. 2023 – University of Vienna [with Denis Kaidalov, Daniel Kuran, Bruna Picas]

• Wittgenstein and the Classical German Philosophy: Self-consciousness and Self-reference, 21.– 23. Sept. 2022 – University of Barcelona [with Denis Kaidalov, Jakub Mácha, Bruna Picas, Ricard Sapena, Thomas Spiegel]

• Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy, 1.–3. Sept. 2021 – University Warsaw [with Denys Kaidalov]

• Hegel and Wittgenstein – Negativity and Language, 11.–13. June 2019 – Charles University Prague [with Vojtěch Kolman]

• Wittgenstein und Hegel – Neubewertung einer Differenz, 28. – 30. June 2017 – TU Dresden [with Jakub Mácha, Louisa Herzfeld, Alexander Romahn and Marco Kleber]

• Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel: Rationalität und christlicher Glaube, 18. Nov. 2016 – Kathedralforum [with Arbeitsgemeinschaft Religionsphilosophie Dresden e.V.]

• The Night of Philosophy in Prague – Images, Sciences and Politics, 16. – 17. June 2016 – Charles University Prague [with Ondřej Švec, Benjamin Kaiser and the Institut français de Prague]

Editions

• Special Issue: Wittgenstein and Hegel on Normativity and Rationality, Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 25, nr. 2, Alexander Berg, Karlo Gardavski, Denis Kaidalov, Kenan Šljivo (eds.) [Filozofski Fakultet, Zagreb 2025]

• Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy – Logic, Language, Life, Alexander Berg, Denys Kaidalov,  (eds.) [De Gruyter, Berlin / New York Oct. 2024]

• Wittgenstein and Hegel – Reevaluation of Difference, Jakub Mácha, Alexander Berg (eds.), [in the series: On Wittgenstein (5), James Conant, Wolfgang Kienzler, Stefan Majetschak, Volker Munz, Josef Rothhaupt, David Stern, Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.) [De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2019]

• Ambivalenzen des Heiligen, Alexander Berg, Friedrich Hausen, René Kaufmann, Beatrix Kersten, Martin Krebs, Anna Maria Martini (eds.) [in the series: Journal für Religionsphilosophie (3), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Religionsphilosophie Dresden e. V. (ed.), Verlag Text & Dialog, Dresden 2014]

Monographs

• Wittgensteins Hegel, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn [2021, with the support of the VG Wort Science Promotion Fund]

• Studien zur Transzendenz – Säkularisierungstheorie bei Charles Taylor und Falk Wagner [in the series 'Libri Nigri', Hans Rainer Sepp (ed.), Bautz 2025]

• Transzendenz bei Hegel und Heidegger [in the series 'Libri Virides', Hans Rainer Sepp (ed.), Bautz 2012]

Reviews

For 'Wittgenstein and Hegel – Reevaluation of Difference', Mácha, Jakub / Berg, Alexander (eds.) De Gruyter June 2019 in: 

• Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXX 2020, Stany Mazurkiewicz (Université de Liège), pp.182-183.


• Verifiche – rivista semestrale di scienze umane, Verifiche XLIX (1-2), 2020, Guido Tana (University of Pavia), pp. 333-346.


• Wittgenstein-Studien Bd. 14 Issue 1, 2023, Diogo Ferrer (University of Coimbra), pp. 277-283.

For ‘Wittgensteins Hegel’, Wilhelm Fink 2021 in: 

• Bibliographie zur Symbolik, Ikonographie und Mythologie, Issue 54/2021, Peter Eschweiler, pp. 22-23. 

Articles

• Zur literarischen Form der Phänomenologie des Geistes – Methode und Bedeutung, in Hegel-Studien vol. 58, Birgit Sandkaulen & Brady Bowman (eds.) [Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2025]

• Possibility and Probability—Wittgenstein in Russia, and the Curious Case of the Yellow Book, in: Wittgenstein and Hegel on Normativity and Rationality, Synthesis Philosophica, vol. 25, no. 2, Alexander Berg, Karlo Gardavski, Denis Kaidalov, Kenan Šljivo (eds.) [Filozofski Fakultet, Zagreb 2025]

• Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Photography of Everyday Life, in: Wittgenstein and Popular Culture, Bernhard Stricker & Martin Urschel (eds.), in the series: Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein, Konstantin Sandis (ed.) [Anthem Press Dec. 2025]

• Wittgenstein’s 'Übersichtliche Darstellung', and Hegel’s 'Speculative Philosophy', in: Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy, Alexander Berg & Denys Kaidalov  (eds.) [De Gruyter Oct. 2024]

• Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy – or the Peculiar Nature of Philosophy, in: International conference Wittgenstein and Hegel on Normativity and Rationality, Zagreb (Croatia) 9.–11. Sept. 2024, Hrvoje Jurić & Karlo Gardavski (eds.) [Croatian Philosophical Society 2024]

• The Method of Absolute Negativity and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Wittgenstein, William James and Hegel, in: 100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death. A Critical Assessment – Contributions of the  44th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. XXIX, Esther Heinrich-Ramharter, Alois Pichler, Friedrich Stadler (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2023]

• Wittgenstein’s Photo Album as a Philosophical Experiment, in:  Zeit der Unkultur – Ludwig Wittgenstein im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit, Kókai, Károly (ed.) [NoPress, Wien 2022: 204-220]

• Wittgensteins Übersichtliche Darstellung und Hegels Spekulative Philosophie, in: Wittgenstein and Platonism –  Contributions of the  43th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XXVIII, Herbert Hrachovec & Jakub Mácha (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2022]

• Wittgensteins philosophisches Photoalbum, in: Fotografische Differenz. Interkulturelle Theorien zum fotografischen Bild, Sepp, H. R. (ed.), [Bautz 2022: 194-239]

• Wittgenstein and the Concepts of Mind in Hegel, in: Spezialsektion: Wittgenstein über das Psychische, Raatzsch, Richard (ed.), in: Wittgenstein-Studien, Vol. 11 [De Gruyter 2019: 137-168]

• Identity in Difference – Wittgenstein’s Hegel, in: Wittgenstein and Hegel – Reevaluation of Difference, Mácha, Jakub & Berg, Alexander (eds.) [De Gruyter 2019: 349-364]

• Wittgenstein, die Grundlagen der Mathematik, und Hegel, in: Philosophie der Logik und Mathematik – Beiträge zum 41. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposium, Bd. XXVI, Mras, Gabriele M., Weingartner, Paul, Ritter, Bernhard (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2018: 15 f.]

• Vom Wissen zum Denken – Wittgensteins dialektische Methode am Beispiel der Seminarnotizen G. E. Moores, in: Contributions of the  40th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XXV, Limbeck–Lilienau, Christoph, Stadler, Friedrich (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2017: 20 f.]

• Ernste Spiele – eine kleine Erzählung von Wittgenstein bis Schiller und zurück, in: Ernste Spiele [in the series: Journal für Religionsphilosophie (5), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Religionsphilosophie Dresden e. V. (ed.), Verlag Text & Dialog, Dresden 2016: 57 f.]

• Vom „pun“ zum Sprachspiel – Wittgenstein, Russell, Bradley, Hegel und der Streit um das concrete universal, in: Contributions of the  39th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XXIV, Stefa Majetschak & Anja Weiberg (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2016: 20 f.]

• Probleme in der historischen Wittgenstein-Forschung – Wunsch, Wirklichkeit und Russische Philosophie, in: Contributions of the  38th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XXIII, Christian Kanzian, Josef Mitterer, Katharina Neges (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2015: 23 f.]

• Grundlose Gewissheit und Absolutes Wissen – Wittgenstein und Hegel, in: Contributions of the  37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Vol. XXII, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Harald A. Wiltsche (eds.) [Kirchberg a. W. 2014: 24 f.]

Translations

• Hegel, the Pragmatic Turn, and the Later Wittgenstein, Christoph Demmerling, in: Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy, Alexander Berg/ Denis Kaidalov  (eds.) [De Gruyter Oct. 2024]

• Three Key Hypotheses regarding Hegel and Wittgenstein, Thomas Rentsch, in: Wittgenstein and Hegel – Reevaluation of Difference, Jakub Mácha / Alexander Berg (eds.) [De Gruyter  2019]

Presentations

• Wittgenstein Introduces Frege to Soviet Russia: Possibility, Probability, and the Curious Case of the Yellow Book [SSHAP Congress, University of Jena – July 2025]

• On the Literary Form of the Phenomenology of Spirit – Method and Meaning [University of Turin – May 2025]

• Die Bedeutung der literarischen Form des Herr-Knecht-Kapitels als Schlüssel für Anerkennung und Freiheit [XXXV International Hegel Congress, University of Tbilisi – Oct. 2024]

• Introduction to Wittgenstein and Classical German Philosophy –  Book Presentation [University of Zagreb – Sept. 2024/ Charles-University Prague Dec. 2024/ University of Bergen – Sept. 2025]

• Traduttore, Traditore: on the Translations of the Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein [round table with René J. Campis, Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Luca Oliva, Eduardo Bermúdez Barrera, XXV. World Congress of Philosophy, Rome – Aug. 2024]

• Methods for a Literary History of Philosophy [XXV. World Congress of Philosophy Rome - Aug. 2024/ XXVI. German Congress of Philosophy in Münster - Sept. 24]

• Methoden für eine Literaturgeschichte der Philosophie [University of Zurich – April 2024]

• Grundzüge einer Literaturgeschichte der Philosophie [University of Konstanz – Dec. 2023]

• Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Photography of Everyday Life [8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Saarland University – Sept. 2023]

• The Method of Absolute Negativity as a Foundation of Logic in Wittgenstein and Hegel [University of Vienna – Sept. 2023]

• The Method of Absolute Negativity and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Wittgenstein, William James and Hegel  [Wittgenstein-Symposium/ Kirchberg – Aug. 2023]

• 'Saying and Showing' as Literary Form and Philosophical Content of the Tractatus [eikones Forum – University of Basel – Oct. 2022]

• Three Types of the Self in Wittgenstein and Hegel [University of Barcelona – Sept. 2022]

• The Art of Philosophy – On the Significance of Literary Form in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit [34rd International Hegel Congress/ Zadar – Sept. 2022]

• Wittgensteins Übersichtliche Darstellung und Hegels Spekulative Philosophie [Wittgenstein-Symposium/ Kirchberg – Aug. 2022]

• About Intertextuality in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit [Charles-University Prague – June 2022]

• Book presentation: Wittgenstein's Hegel [University of Bergen/ Univesity of Helsinky – June 2022]

• Der Blick des Philosophen – Wittgenstein und die Photographie als Kulturtechnik in den 1920er und 30er Jahren [Workshop: Die Zeit der Unkultur. Ludwig Wittgenstein im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit/ University Vienna –  Oct. 2021]

• Eine philosophische Literaturgeschichte als Brücke zwischen Idee und Text – Konstellation, Intertextualität, Literarizität, Section: Metaphilosophie & Methodologie [XXV. Congress of the German Society for Philosophy – Sept. 2021]

• Wittgenstein's Synoptic View and Hegel's Speculative Philosophy [University Warsaw – Sept. 2021/ University Zagreb – Dez. 2021/ University Venice – Sept. 2022]

• Live Talk Burgtheater Vienna. On the traces of Ludwig Wittgenstein on the occasion of the premiere of ALLES, WAS DER FALL IST. Ensemble member Philipp Hauß (as Ludwig Wittgenstein). Dramaturge Andreas Karlaganis from the Akademietheater and Wittgenstein-expert Alexander Berg. Moderator Anne Aschenbrenner [ June 2021]

• Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes in einer Literaturgeschichte der Philosophie, Panel: 11. Contexts and Discussions: Classic German Philosophy [33rd International Hegel Congress Warsaw – June 2021]

• Identity in Difference – Wittgenstein’s Hegel [Workshop: Ludwig Wittgenstein and German Philosophy/ Universität Zürich – Nov. 2020]

• Philosophy in Captivity – Respondent to Alfred Nordmann [Wittgenstein's Philosophy in Times of Crisis – online event – June 2020] Youtube-link

• Wittgenstein's 'Übersichtliche Darstellung' and Hegel's System [Tokyo Metropolitan University – Apr. 2020] (postponed)

• Identity in Difference – Wittgenstein’s Hegel [Kyoto University – Apr. 2020] (postponed)

• The Role of Leo Tolstoy for Wittgenstein's Tractatus [Jagiellonian University  Kraków – Nov. 2019]

• Hegel and Wittgenstein – Idea and Text [Charles University – June 2019]

• Ernste Spiele – Wittgenstein und Schiller [Victoria University Wellington – Nov. 2018]

• The Influence of William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" on Wittgenstein’s Pictorial Thinking [SoPheRE Congress – Prague Nov. 2018]

• Psyche, Seele, Geist – Wittgenstein und Hegel [5. Wittgenstein-Forum der Internationalen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft – Oct. 2018]

• Wittgenstein, die Grundlagen der Mathematik, und Hegel [Wittgenstein-Symposium/Kirchberg – Aug. 2018]

• Wittgenstein and Photography - The Early Picture Theory and the Late Photo Album [Masaryk University Brno – Nov. 2017]

•  Hegel's "good nose" - the law of contradiction in Wittgenstein and Hegel [DG Phil Congress Berlin - Sept. 2017]

• Vom Wissen zum Denken – Wittgensteins Dialektische Methode am Beispiel der Seminarnotizen G. E. Moores [Wittgenstein-Symposium/Kirchberg – Aug. 2017]

• Wittgensteins Hegel – vom Wortspiel zum Sprachspiel. [TU Dresden/ Conference: Wittgenstein and Hegel – June  2017] Video

• Wittgenstein und Fotografie – von Bildtheorie bis Fotoalbum [Charles University Prague – Apr. 2017] 

• Serious Games – Wittgenstein and Schiller [Masaryk University Brno – Nov. 2016]

• Vom „pun“ zum Sprachspiel – Wittgenstein, Russell, Bradley, Hegel und der Streit um das concrete universal [Charles University Prague – May 2016/  Wittgenstein-Symposium/ Kirchberg – Aug. 2016]

• Traces of speculative philosophy in Wittgenstein's thinking [Univesity of Chicago – Feb. 2016/ University of Peradenia – March 2016]

• Spuren der spekulativen Philosophie in Wittgensteins Denken [TU Dresden Oct. 2015/ University of Leipzig – Feb. 2016]

• Probleme in der historischen Wittgenstein-Forschung – Wunsch, Wirklichkeit und Russische Philosophie [Wittgenstein-Symposium/ Kirchberg – Aug. 2015/ Charles University Prague – Oct. 2015]

• What Wittgenstein thought of Hegel's philosophy [University of Bergen – May 2015]

• Farben – Flüssige Zeit [Laudatio zu Weg ins Grüne – Lucia Fischer, Malerei & Zeichnung – Berlin – Oct. 2014]

• Absolutes Wissen und Grundlose Gewissheit – Hegel und Wittgenstein [Charles University Prague Apr. 2014/ TU Berlin – Apr. May 2014]

• Heideggers System [5.Meßkircher Heidegger-Konferenz Freiheit und Geschick – Meßkirch – May 2014]

• Hegels Transzendenz [I Congreso Germano-Latinoamericano sobre la Filosofía de Hegel – Buenos Aires – May 2014]

• Absolutes Wissen und grundlose Gewissheit [Werkstatt Philosophie TU Dresden – Dec. 2013] 

• Philosophie des Nichts [Werkstatt Philosophie TU Dresden – June 2012]

• Philosophie des Nichts [Symposium ‘nichts-in-Pieschen’, Dresden – June 2012]

• Implikationen zu einer Theorie der Säkularisation bei Charles Taylor [Werkstatt Philosophie TU Dresden – Apr. 2010] 

Online Edition, Proofreading of normalized transcription of Wittgenstein Nachlass, coded in XML

• Ms-115: XI, Philosophische Bemerkungen (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) under the direction of Alois Pichler. Bergen (ed.), Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen 2016-.

• Ms-139b [so-called Lecture on Ethics] (ÖNB, Cod.Ser.n.37.936). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-148 [so-called C4] (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-149 [so-called C5] (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-150 [so-called C6] (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-152 [so-called C8] (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-153a: Anmerkungen (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-153b (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-154 (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-155 (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ms-156a (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

• Ts-213 [so-called Big Typescript] (WL). In: Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical Nachlass [wittgensteinonline.no]. WAB (ed.) 2016-.

Languages

• Fluent: German, English, Italian, French. Basic: Latin, Czech, Norwegian, Russian

Memberships

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Religionsphilosophie Dresden e.V. 

• Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS)

• British Wittgenstein Society (BWS)

• Deutsche Gesellschaft Philosophie 

• German Humboldt-Network e.V. 

• Internationale Hegel-Gesellschaft 

• Internationale Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft (ILWG)

• Italien-Zentrum der Technischen Universität Dresden

• Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP)

• The Central-European Institute of Philosophy (Charles-University, Prague)

• Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy