Christoph Demmerling

Christoph Demmerling (born August 17, 1963 in Olpe / Westphalia) is a German professor for theoretical philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

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After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium in Olpe (Westphalia), Demmerling studied philosophy from 1983 to 1988, with the minor subjects of modern German literature and theoretical linguistics, at the University of Konstanz and graduated with a master's degree. He then completed a postgraduate course in philosophy before receiving a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in 1990 . After studying and researching at the University of Florence (1991–92), he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Konstanz in 1992.

From 1992 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy / Ethics at the Institute for Philosophy at TU Dresden . After his habilitation (with the license to teach philosophy) at the Philosophical Faculty of the TU Dresden, he was senior assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the TU Dresden from 1998 to 2003. Between 2001 and 2008 he held various substitute professorships in Berlin (FU), Frankfurt am Main, Giessen, Leipzig, Marburg and Osnabrück. From 2008 to 2015 he was a full professor at the University of Marburg. In 2015 he switched to a chair for philosophy with a focus on theoretical philosophy at the University of Jena.

Research priorities

In his work Demmerling deals with problems of the philosophy of language , the philosophy of feelings, philosophical anthropology and questions about the theoretical foundations of practical philosophy. His understanding of philosophy is shaped by dealing with Ludwig Wittgenstein , various varieties of phenomenology and critical theory . He is co-editor of the German magazine for philosophy . At the center of Demmerling's analysis of questions of language philosophy is a criticism of various approaches to analytical language philosophy and the formulation of a hermeneutically and anthropologically enlightened philosophy of language that pays special attention to processes of linguistic articulation and performance. His studies on the philosophy of feelings are among others. a. in the context of the question of how non-linguistic processes of understanding are to be understood against the background of classic language-philosophical questions.

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Monographs

• Language and reification. Wittgenstein, Adorno and the project of a critical theory . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Basic problems of the analytical philosophy of language. From Frege to Dummett . (Co-author: Thomas Blume). UTB / Schöningh, Paderborn 1998.
• Sense, meaning, understanding. Investigations into the philosophy of language and hermeneutics . mentis, Paderborn 2002.
• Philosophy of feelings. From respect to anger . (Co-author: Hilge Landweer). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2007.

Anthologies

• Critique of reason according to Hegel. Analytical-critical interpretation of dialectics . (Co-editor: Friedrich Kambartel ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• Reason and Life Practice. Philosophical studies on the conditions of a rational culture . (Co-editors: Gottfried Gabriel and Thomas Rentsch ). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
• The presence of justice. Discourses between law, philosophy and politics . (Co-editor: Thomas Rentsch ). Academy, Berlin 1995
• Truth, Knowledge, and Understanding in Literature. Philosophical contributions . (Co-editor: Ingrid Vendrell Ferran). De Gruyter, Berlin 2014

Web links

• Homepage Christoph Demmerling [1]