Dominik Bertrand-Pfaff

Dominik Bertrand-Pfaff is a Professor at Saarland University in Germany, specializing in social ethics and political ethics. He was invited as a guest lecturer at CY Advanced Studies (CY Cergy Paris University) on December 14, 2017, to discuss the relationship between ethics and aesthetics at the Maison internationale de la recherche in Neuville-sur-Oise.

His research critically examines how aesthetic questions—spanning human senses, beauty, artistic representation, and interpretation—simultaneously legitimize and destabilize social and political orders. As a specialist in social and political ethics, he analyzes the interplay between perception, artistic expression, and ethical discourse, highlighting how aesthetic challenges often catalyze political transformation. His work bridges philosophical traditions with contemporary critiques of power structures through the lens of art and sensory experience.