Andreas Dorschel

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Andreas Dorschel (2010)

Andreas Dorschel (* 1962 in Wiesbaden ) is a German philosopher . Since 2002 he has been Professor of Aesthetics and Director of the Institute for Music Aesthetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz ( Austria ).

Studies and career

After studying philosophy, music and linguistics at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt am Main ( Magister Artium 1987, PhD 1991), Dorschel taught in Marburg an der Lahn (1993–1994), Dresden (1994–1997) and Norwich ( University of East) Anglia , England) (1997-2002). He was historic Philosophy at the Faculty of 2002 University of Bern (Switzerland) habilitation . Visiting professorships led him to Emory University (1995) and Stanford University (2006). The Graz Institute for Music Aesthetics received its new name in 2007 on Dorschel's initiative. From 2008 to 2017 Dorschel was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund ( FWF ); He was part of the Review Panel of the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Program of the European Science Foundation (ESF) (Strasbourg / Brussels) between 2012 and 2017. Dorschel has been a member of the Advisory Board of the British Royal Musical Association (RMA) since 2010 Music and Philosophy Study Group. The Hessian Minister for Science and Art appointed him to the University Council of the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main in 2019 . In the same year Dorschel was elected to the Academia Europaea . During the academic year 2020/21 he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

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Dorschel's works investigate the logical and historical connections between thinking and acting. In this respect, they do not conform to the prevailing division of labor between systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy and between theoretical and practical philosophy .

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The Idealistic Critique of the Will (1992)

In Die idealistic criticism of the will (1992) Dorschel seeks to defend the right of the will to choose against its ethical criticism in German idealism . Following a method of "critical analysis", Dorschel contradicts Kant's thesis that "a free will and a will under moral laws are the same", like that of Hegel that "freedom of will is realized as law". Freedom of will is not realized in law, but in choice guided by intelligence. In contrast to other critics of idealism , Dorschel does not take the side of determinism . If the position of a determinism is to make sense, argues Dorschel, it must be correlated with the concept of prediction . What is predicted, again, must not depend on the act of predicting. But just as one cannot skip one's own shadow, neither can he predict his own future behavior based on his present condition. Because he would change this by making the prediction. This reflection manages without the Kantian antithesis of a determinism of appearances and freedom of the thing in itself .

prejudice

Reflecting on Prejudice (2001) examines the Enlightenment's struggle against prejudice and how the Counter-Enlightenment stands up for it. "Dorschel wants to undermine this dispute by refuting an assumption shared by both of them," namely, prejudices can be characterized as bad or good, false or true, precisely because they are prejudices. In doing so, Dorschel, as Richard Raatzsch puts it, “looks for the common sources of the errors on both sides [...] by trying to make them as plausible as possible”. Prejudices , Dorschel concludes, can be true or false, clever or stupid, wise or foolish, positive or negative, good or bad, racist or humanistic, and they are each one of these or that for the sake of characteristics other than what they are Prejudice acts. “Convincing”, says Manfred Geier , is also Dorschel's “criticism of the hermeneutic rehabilitation of prejudices that Hans-Georg Gadamer undertook. Because the intrinsic prejudice of all understanding that Gadamer brought into play [...] turns 'prejudice' into an inflationary term. "As Dorschel shows, the hermeneutical salvation of prejudice blurs its differences to" hypothesis, anticipation [...], assumption or. " Expectation. "

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Design , 2nd edition (2003)

In Design - On the Aesthetics of the Usable (2002) Dorschel thinks through the design of useful things according to the question of how the results are to be assessed. According to Dorschel, Annette Geiger emphasizes, the purpose, technology and material “do not determine the design, but merely set limits to the choice of form within which it can turn out differently.” Dorschel clearly works out the difference between the useful and the works of art. Ludwig Hasler sees in Dorschel's book "a pamphlet [...] against the functionalism of modernity, which for a century revolutionized the design of everyday objects, as well as against postmodernism, which focused on the fun of arbitrary forms", carried out analytically as " argumentative precision cure ”.

transformation

With transformation. In 2009, Dorschel presented a detailed history of ideas of metamorphosis , “graduated in many shades”, for the first time in mythological views and technological intentions . The monograph published in the Göttingen New Studies on Philosophy shows how the idea of ​​metamorphosis evades rationalization through the concept of change. Dorschel understands change as a rational pattern: the thing remains, its properties change. But where does the thing end, where do its properties begin? What would that thing be without its properties? So the concept of change followed the idea of ​​transformation like a shadow. In four large case studies, Dorschel examines the metamorphosis in Greco - Roman mythology , in the New Testament , in modern alchemy and in the current developments in genetic engineering and synthetic biology .

Ideas

History of Ideas (2010)

The historical and philosophical methodology underlying the fields of his own work is explained by Dorschel in the volume History of Ideas published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2010 . New ideas are developed in response to difficulties or obstacles; From this, so Dorschel, historians can understand them. His criticism of Quentin Skinner's narrow assumption that ideas are “essentially linguistic” - is seen as a “strength of Dorschel's monograph” : “Words are only one medium of ideas among others; Musicians think in tones, architects in spaces, painters in shapes and colors, mathematicians in numbers or, more abstractly, in functions. ”Instead of analyzing in terms of time alone, Dorschel's monograph, Eberhard Hüppe notes, is the“ path to a history of ideas Integration "of the spatial dimension" leveled ". Dorschel's book is considered to be the “basic account” of the research field; it “offers”, as Tim-Florian Goslar sums up, “not only an overview of the historically most important stages in the history of ideas, but also introduces thinking about the history of ideas while reading”.

Renewal of philosophical genres

In its history of about 2500 years, the European philosophy characterized a variety of genres, according to Dorschel; Its possibilities atrophy as soon as philosophy, as in the present, largely confines itself to the genres of monographs and articles. Their conventional forms of exposure left little room for introducing philosophical positions and then, in the development of the train of thought, to distance them to varying degrees. In order to achieve this through dramatic and epic irony and a heuristic of fiction , Dorschel renewed forms such as the letter , the dialogue , the monologue and the philosophical narrative ('conte philosophique'), which had flourished in the Renaissance and Enlightenment , fell out of favor with modern academic philosophy.

Awards

Publications

Books

Essays

  • Utopia and resignation. Schubert's interpretations of the song of longing from Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister' from 1826. In: Oxford German Studies 26 (1997), pp. 132–164, doi : 10.1179 / ogs.1997.26.1.132 .
  • Emotion and mind. In: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 106 (1999), Heft 1, pp. 18–40. pdf online
  • The Paradox of Opera. In: The Cambridge Quarterly 30 (2001), No. 4, pp. 283-306. doi : 10.1093 / camqtly / 30.4.283 .
  • Music and pain. In: Jane Fulcher (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music. Oxford University Press, Oxford - New York, NY 2011, pp. 68-79. Accessed from Oxford Handbooks Online
  • Place and space. In: Saeculum . Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 61 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 1–15.
  • Get lost in the world. About musical escapism. In: Merkur 66 (2012), issue 2, pp. 135–142. preview
  • The deceived one in the garden. 'La Nouvelle Héloise': Rousseau's aporetic of love. In: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 6 (2012), Issue 2, pp. 39–47.
  • Aesthetics of Fado. In: Merkur 69 (2015), Issue 2, pp. 79–86. preview
  • Passions of the Intellect: A Study of Polemics. In: Philosophy 90 (2015), Issue 4, pp. 679–684. pdf online - Extended version: Polemics and Schadenfreude. In: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and Angelika Krebs (eds.): Philosophy of Emotion , 4 vol., Vol. IV: Specific Emotions. Routledge, London - New York, NY 2017 (Critical Concepts in Philosophy), pp. 172–178.
  • Draft theory of curse. In: Variations 23 (2015), pp. 167–175. pdf online
  • Dependents: by the grace of a person, by the grace of a cause. In: Merkur 70 (2016), issue 5, pp. 42–50. preview
  • To interrupt. Figures of interruption. In: Merkur 73 (2019), Issue 4, pp. 37-46. preview

Letters, dialogues, monologues, philosophical stories

  • Conversation between Franz Joseph Haydn from Rohrau and Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern from Vienna in the musical underworld. In: Federico Celestini / Andreas Dorschel: Work on the Canon: Aesthetic Studies on Music from Haydn to Webern. Universal Edition, Vienna - London - New York 2010 ( Studies on Valuation Research 51), pp. 9–15.
  • Open letter to Magister Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. In: Philip Alperson / Andreas Dorschel: Perfect things stay away. Aesthetic approximations. Universal Edition, Vienna - London - New York 2012 ( Studies on Valuation Research 53), pp. 9–15.
  • A Corinthian letter to Paul believed lost. In: Merkur 67 (2013), no. 12, pp. 1125–1134. preview
  • I'm so free. A conversation. In: grazkunst 01.2016, pp. 15–16. pdf online
  • The origin of the prejudice. Speech to the magic mountain. In: Variations 24 (2016), pp. 191–202. preview
  • Arkona. Conversation about mythology. In: Athenaeum 16 (2016), pp. 161–174.
  • Phantom body of abstraction. In: Zeno 37 (2017), pp. 151–166.
  • The stubbornness of the unbelievers. In: Merkur 71 (2017), no. 2, pp. 85–92. preview
  • Bad star. From the papers left by Franz Liszt. In: Music, Sense and Nonsense. Festschrift on the occasion of the homage to Alfred Brendel. Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin 2017, pp. 54–59.
  • Venere d'Urbino. Florentine Conversation on Beauty. In: Anna Maniura and Matthias Deußer (eds.): New Literature 2017/2018. Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt / M. - London - New York, NY 2017, pp. 253-269.
  • Hero & Administrator: A Dialogue. In: Marie-Therese Sauer (Ed.): Beginnings. Uni≡verse, Vienna 2018, pp. 91–100.
  • Music as Play: A Dialogue. In: Paulo de Assis (Ed.): Virtual Works - Actual Things: Essays in Musical Ontology. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2018 (Orpheus Institute Series), pp. 115-133. pdf online
  • Strong imagination. Conversation about Chatwin. In: Klaus Aringer, Christian Utz and Thomas Wozonig (eds.): Music in context. Festschrift Peter Revers for his 65th birthday. Hollitzer, Vienna 2019, pp. 845–855.
  • Wolframus. Conversation in St. Marien in Erfurt. In: Lettre International 126 (Autumn 2019), pp. 78–83.
  • Thoreau's Cottage. A philosophy of design. In: Daniel Martin Feige, Florian Arnold and Markus Rautzenberg (eds.): Philosophy of Design. Transcript, Bielefeld 2019 (series of publications by the Weißenhof Institute on Architecture and Design Theory), pp. 33–52. pdf online
  • Thinking through an object. Conversation in Padua. In: Topology. Special issue 26 (Dec. 2019 / Jan. 2020), pp. 50–59. pdf online

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Axel Schniederjürgen (Red.): Art. "Dorschel, Andreas". In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2014. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. 26th Edition, Vol. 1 (A-G). De Gruyter, Berlin - Boston, Mass. 2014, p. 663.
  2. ↑ Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professors
  3. ↑ Formerly 'Institute for Valuation Research', founded by the music researcher and philosopher Harald Kaufmann (1927-1970). Dorschel's predecessor Otto Kolleritsch reprimanded him about the renaming: This is where it will be happening. Critical aesthetics between artistic practice and research with art. Leykam, Graz 2014, pp. 339-340.
  4. ^ Wissenschaftsfonds FWF Kuratorium ( Memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF), We promote the future . FWF, Vienna 2017, p. 64.
  5. ↑ European Science Foundation HERA Review Panel ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / heranet.info
  6. ^ Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group .
  7. ↑ University Council of the HfMDK Frankfurt am Main 2019–23
  8. ^ Andreas Dorschel on the pages of the Academia Europaea
  9. ^ Andreas Dorschel on the pages of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  10. ↑ Dieter Hüning: The "hardness of abstract law". Person and property in Hegel's legal philosophy. In: Dieter Hüning, Gideon Stiening and Ulrich Vogel (eds.): Societas rationis. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2002, pp. 235-262, p. 238.
  11. ↑ Immanuel Kant : Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals AB 98.
  12. ↑ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : Lectures on the philosophy of world history. Edited by Georg Lasson . Felix Meiner, Leipzig 1923ff., P. 368.
  13. ↑ Short version of the argument in English: Andreas Dorschel: The Authority of the Will. In: The Philosophical Forum 33 (2002), No. 4, pp. 425-441.
  14. ↑ Cf. Andreas Dorschel: On the criticism of the totalizing explanatory program. In: Vierteljahresschrift Theologie und Philosophie 63 (1988), no. 3, pp. 384–395.
  15. ↑ The argument includes a turn from the intentio recta to the intentio obliqua .
  16. ↑ Cf. Andreas Dorschel: The idealistic criticism of the will. Attempt on the theory of practical subjectivity in Kant and Hegel. Felix Meiner, Hamburg 1992 (Writings on Transcendental Philosophy 10), pp. 118–121.
  17. ↑ In particular, the opposition between prejudice and experience cannot be maintained. "As Andreas Dorschel has pointed out in this context, language itself, necessary to articulate experience even to ourselves, is saturated with prejudice" (Martin Kagel: A Blank Slate. In: Publications of the English Goethe Society. 79 (2010), issue 2, pp. 79-94, p. 92).
  18. ↑ Richard Raatzsch: About the nature and value of prejudices. In: German magazine for philosophy. 50 (2002), No. 4, pp. 646-653, p. 652.
  19. ↑ Richard Raatzsch: About the nature and value of prejudices. In: German magazine for philosophy. 50 (2002), No. 4, pp. 646–653, p. 653.
    Cf. also Richard Raatzsch: Autorität und Autonomie. Mentis, Paderborn 2007, p. 95, p. 140-141.
  20. ↑ Andreas Dorschel: Thinking about prejudices. Felix Meiner, Hamburg 2001, p. 1. Cf., after Dorschel, John Arthur: Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, NY, pp. 28-29.
  21. ↑ Manfred Geier: Prejudice Physics. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 57, No. 178 (August 4/5, 2001), p.
  22. ↑ Knuth Hornbogen: Review. In: design report 10/2002. For an exemplary elaboration of an answer to this question s. Andreas Dorschel: Designing a bed. In: German Journal for Philosophy 68 (2020), no. 3, pp. 439–450.
  23. ↑ Annette Geiger: Being different. On the aesthetics of the design. Transcript, Bielefeld 2018 (Design 41), p. 24.
  24. ↑ Paolo Bianchi: Doors to the wonderful. Twelve key moments. In: Kunstforum International No. 259 (March - April 2019), pp. 46–63, p. 58.
  25. ↑ Ludwig Hasler: The beauty of the paper clip. In: Die Weltwoche 70 (2002), No. 29, pp. 60–61. On Dorschel's critique of the functional concept of functionalism in modernity, cf. Ute Poerschke: Functions and forms. Modern architecture theory. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014 (Architectures 18), pp. 10, 35 and 169; Johannes Lang: process aesthetics. Birkhäuser, Basel 2015, p. 69 u. 156; Annika Frye: Design and Improvisation. Products, processes and methods. Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, p. 164.
  26. ↑ Wolfgang Sandberger: Identity, Stability and Historicity. In: Music Concepts NF XII / 2011, pp. 73–89, p. 82; see. P. 87.
  27. ^ Klaus Ridder: History of literary ideas and problems. In: Journal for German Antiquity and German Literature. 140 (2011), no. 4, pp. 442-463, p. 447, with reference to Andreas Dorschel: Ideengeschichte. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 90.
  28. ^ Jan-Hendryk de Boer: Unexpected intentions - genealogy of the Reuchlinkonflikt. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016 (Late Middle Ages Humanism Reformation 94), p. 142.
  29. ^ Quentin Skinner : Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas. In: James Tully (Ed.): Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics. Polity Press, Cambridge 1988, pp. 29-67, p. 64. Skinner himself deviated from his orthodoxy in Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Artist as Political Philosopher. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. 72: 1-56 (1986).
  30. ^ Andreas Dorschel: History of ideas. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 43. See Ernst Müller / Falko Schmieder: Conceptual history and historical semantics. A critical compendium. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, p. 186.
  31. ↑ Eberhard Hüppe: Urbanized Music. A study of the social determinants of musical space production. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster 2012 (Scientific writings of the WWU Münster XVIII / 2), p. 103. See Andreas Dorschel: History of ideas. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, pp. 23–24, 26–29, 43, 47, 50, 73–75, 82, 89–90, 111, 136–137, 149, 151, 179, 184, 198.
  32. ^ Wolfgang Uwe Eckart / Robert Jütte: Medical history. 2nd edition, Böhlau, Cologne - Weimar - Vienna 2014, p. 165.
  33. ^ Tim-Florian Goslar: Andreas Dorschel: History of ideas. In: dis | kurs 8 (2012), no. 2, pp. 154–159, p. 159.
  34. ↑ See Robert Black: The Philosopher and Renaissance Culture. In: James Hankins (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, pp. 13-29, p. 26;
    Stéphane van Damme: Philosopher / Philosopher. In: Daniel Brewer (Ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, pp. 153-166, p. 158;
    on the connection between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, s. George Huppert: The Style of Paris: Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1999.
  35. ↑ An influential plea to ban those forms of philosophy "in the professional sense", launched Willard Van Orman Quine in Theories and Things. Belknap Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. 1981, p. 192.
  36. ↑ Research Prize of the State of Styria 2011
  37. ↑ Caroline Schlegel Prize 2014 ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jena.de
  38. ↑ Abstract Reflecting on Prejudice , also in English .
  39. ↑ Bernd Polster , Against the Rhetoric of Design , March 9, 2010
  40. ↑ Cf. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Practice and Theory of Canonization in Neighboring Disciplines: Musicology. In: Gabriele Rippl / Simone Winko (eds.), Manual Canon and Evaluation. Theories, instances, history. JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2013, pp. 371–379, p. 378.
  41. ↑ Wolfgang Böhler, review. ( Memento from September 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Codex flores , August 28, 2013.
  42. ↑ André Robinet summarizes: "Si l'opposition entre émotion et entendement ou entre le domaine des affects et celui de la réflexion paraît évidente et habituelle, c'est néanmoins un tort de durcir l'opposition, car dans l'émotion il ya de la pensée. De la même manière, toute pensée, toute réflexion sont inséparables des affects qui les soutiennent. C'est une fine analyze de ces domaines que présente cet article. " ( Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 84 (2000), p. 187)
  43. ↑ "In my opinion, Andreas Dorschel rightly pointed out in an article on 'Place and Space' that space only gives meaning, even scientific, under the condition of 'the located or - more precisely and better said - the located body'. Based on the Aristotelian theory of nature, he emphasized that only places had a top and bottom, right or left, front or back, but not space, ”summarizes Dittmar Dahlmann in his study The vastness of Siberia and the ocean in reports and records from Explorers from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century. In: Journal for East Central Europe Research 63 (2014), no. 1, pp. 55–73, pp. 57–58.
  44. ↑ Cf. Thomas Steinfeld : Der Welt loses. An amazing essay: Andreas Dorschel on escapism. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 68, No. 39 (February 16, 2012), p. 11.
  45. ↑ Cf. Martin Gessmann : The veteran of modernity. In: Philosophische Rundschau 60 (2013), Heft 1, pp. 1–34, pp. 30–31.
  46. ↑ In terms of speech act theory, Dorschel argues that “the curse oscillates constantly between illocution and perlocution. The cursing person handles more than just words that stand for things, emphasizes Andreas Dorschel; Curses are themselves 'things' that hit the cursed like bullets. In order for these projectiles to hit, they have to be sent from a sovereign subject position, which, conversely, finds the linguistic means of its self-empowerment in the curse. "Georg Mein: Aporias of oath and curse: Impossible promises in Goethe's 'Faust'. In: Modern Language Notes 131 (2016), Heft 3, pp. 630-655, p. 642.
  47. ↑ “Power” can be “transformed into necessity through dependency”, emphasize Georg Seeßlen and Markus Metz ( Freedom and Control. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, p. 331) on Dorschel's considerations.
  48. ↑ See Gustav Seibt: The heresy of demarcations. Andreas Dorschel designs a Corinthian Christianity. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 69, No. 293 (December 19, 2013), p. 14. Seibt emphasizes the “boldness” of the experiment.
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SURNAME Dorschel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden