From 2009 to 2014, he was an assistant professor at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders[3] at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
[5] Khurana was also Heuss Visiting Lecturer at the New School for Social Research (2009), Humboldt Fellow at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (2010–11),[6] and Max Kade Visiting Professor at Yale University (2021).
[7] Khurana is director of the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy[8] and an Associate of the Research Network Critical Theory in Berlin.
[9] Khurana characterizes himself as a post-Kantian philosopher “in the double sense that it would be difficult to articulate my questions without using Kantian ways of putting the problem, and equally hard to formulate my responses without going beyond what might seem acceptable for a good Kantian.”[10] His areas of specialization are Kant and Hegel; post-Kantian European philosophy; social philosophy; ethics and aesthetics;[11] philosophical anthropology; critical theory; psychoanalysis.
His current research projects concern the art of second nature; self-knowledge and self-objectification; the sociality of the human life-form;[12] the philosophy of the anthropocene.