Eduard Kaeser

Eduard Kaeser (* 1948 in Bern ) is a Swiss physicist and philosopher .

life and work

Kaeser studied theoretical physics and philosophy. He was a grammar school teacher for physics and mathematics at the canton school in Olten and works as a jazz musician and freelance journalist , and in addition to books, he has published essays and articles in the weekly newspaper , the Zeit and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He continued Otto Friedrich Bollnow's thoughts in body and landscape and followed the famous essay by Walter Benjamin with the title The Body in the Age of Its Dispensability . He addresses aspects of the body-mind problem and deals with the role of humans in a world of information and communication technology.

Awards (selection)

• 2006: First prize in the essay competition I work, therefore I am
• 2009: Special prize for essay writing from the City of Bern's Literature Commission
• 2018: Cogito Prize

Fonts (selection)

• Medium and matter. For a complementary concept of the human body . In: Philosophia naturalis . tape 34 . Klostermann , 1997, ISSN  0031-8027 , p. 327 .
• Body and landscape. For an understanding of nature “with your senses” . In: Philosophia naturalis . tape 36 . Klostermann, 1999, ISSN  0031-8027 , p. 117 .
• The body in the age of its dispensability: anthropology in a world of devices; Essays . Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85165-858-3 .
• Pop science: essays on science culture . Schwabe , Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7965-2607-7 .
• Head and hand: on the indivisibility of man . Manuscriptum, Waltrop 2011, ISBN 978-3-937801-64-3 .
• The consolation of boredom: the discovery of human life forms in digital worlds . Rüegger , Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7253-1016-6 .
• Unspecific subjects. Subjective experience with animals, plants and machines? Schwabe, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7965-3432-4 .
• The world riddles are not solved. The science, the unknown and the mystery. Essays . The Gray Edition, Zug / Switzerland 2017, ISBN 978-3-906336-71-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eduard Kaeser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eduard Kaeser - philosopher and physicist , DRS 3 , June 22, 2009 (radio broadcast, 60 minutes)
• Literary film interview with Eduard Kaeser about Pop Science , 2009 (video, 5 minutes)
• Cogitus interruptus , part of Pop Science. Essays on scientific culture , NZZ on Sunday , May 31, 2009
• Pulling the plug: Longing for a life without the Internet , NZZ Feuilleton, February 19, 2014
• Science shouldn't just explain: perceived knowledge - an epidemic ... Against the «epidemic of certainty» helps if science also tells ... , NZZ guest commentary, August 26, 2017
• Autonomous Artifacts , a documentary with contributions by Eduard Kaeser (2019/67 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduard Kaeser. In: NZZ. May 31, 2009, accessed February 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Schwabe Verlag on November 26th, 2009: Special prize for essay writing to Eduard Kaeser. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 . 
3. ↑ E. Kaeser: Physics from God's perspective. In: Die ZEIT 01/2011. January 4, 2011, accessed August 21, 2011 . 
4. ↑ E. Kaeser: When in doubt, against the brain. In: NZZ am Sonntag. May 11, 2008, accessed August 21, 2011 . 
5. ↑ E. Kaeser: In the ignorance factory. In: WOZ. April 8, 2010, accessed August 21, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Werner Stegmaier: Philosophy of Orientation . Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020025-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
7. ^ Gisela Febel: Human constructions: artificial people in literature, film, theater and art of the 19th and 20th centuries . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89244-762-7 , p. 10 ( limited preview in the Google book search - On January 7, 2013 SRF 1 published a half-hour talk with him. The topic was his recently published essay on the subject of “multiculturalism.” Kaeser pleaded for a second explanation of how we deal with others critically reconsiders.).
8. ↑ upj: Body-free Neognostik (review of "The body in the age of its dispensability"). In: NZZ. January 27, 2009, accessed August 21, 2011 .