Richard Raatzsch

Richard Raatzsch (* 1957 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German philosopher . Since 2008 he has been professor and holder of the chair for practical philosophy at the private EBS University for Economics and Law at Schloss Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau (Germany).

biography

Richard Raatzsch studied philosophy and history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . After receiving his doctorate in philosophy, he taught and researched at the University of Leipzig , first at the Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science , then at the Institute for Philosophy. In 1999 he received his habilitation in Leipzig with a thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations , which was published in 2003 under the title Actually Strange. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. A comment appeared. In 2004 Raatzsch represented the chair for political philosophy and anthropology at the University of Potsdam . He also taught at times at the Universities of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland) and Bergen (Norway). A Heisenberg grant enabled him to do research at Cambridge University (England) from 2006 to 2008 . He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College Cambridge . Raatzsch has published the international periodical Wittgenstein Studies since 1996 .

Raatzsch focuses on the philosophy of language , the philosophy of mind and the "philosophy of philosophy". He is also interested in action-oriented topics such as ethics and political philosophy .

Philosophy philosophy. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000.
Strange actually. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. A comment. Vol. 1: Introduction and Commentary PU 1-64. Schöningh, Paderborn - Munich - Zurich 2003.
Authority and autonomy. mentis, Paderborn 2007.
Apologizing Evil: Iago's Case. Princeton University Press, Princeton - Oxford 2009.

PI 1 - Setting the Stage. In: Grazer Philosophische Studien 51 (1996), pp. 47–84.
About the nature and value of prejudices. In: German Journal for Philosophy 50 (2002), pp. 646–653.
Intending to act intentionally. In: conceptus 35 (2002/03), pp. 103-108.
Make the essence of the world visible. In: German Journal for Philosophy 52 (2004), pp. 445–465.
On knowing what one does. In: Grazer Philosophische Studien 61 (2006), pp. 251–283.

Lydia Goehr: The power of evil. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (2010), no. 5, pp. 811–815 (dealing with Raatzsch, Apologizing Evil: Iago's Case. )

[1] on the university's website
Eva Mahnke, Christian Kietzmann: Interview: Richard Raatzsch. In: Obstinacy. The Philosophiestudentische Zeitung from March 2005.