Juhan Hellerma

Juhan Hellerma is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Tartu (Estonia). He has been a visiting researcher at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and the University of Würzburg (Germany). He holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Tartu, where he wrote his M.A. thesis on phenomenology.  Parts of his master’s studies he spent at the University of Konstanz and the University of Freiburg (both Germany). He has a B.A. in Philosophy from University of Tartu, where he minored in Estonian Literature.

At Yale Mr. Hellerma will continue working on his doctoral thesis on temporality. His thesis presents a critical analysis of conceptual and methodological issues in current disputes on time and temporal experience. In his thesis he pays special attention to the works of Reinhart Koselleck.  A section of his thesis has been published in his article “Kas aeg on liigestest lahti? Uuemad arutelud aja üle ajaloos ja ajaloofilosoofias” [Is Time Out of Joint? Recent Discussions on Time in History and the Philosophy of History], which appeared in 2017 in Ajalooline ajakiri. Estonian Historical Journal.

Mr. Hellerma is also gaining note in Estonia as a creative prose writer and poet. He is the author of Tühjusse, kaugusse [Into emptiness and distance] (Tallinn: Tuum, 2016).