Alexander Litschev

Alexander Litschev (also written Aleksandăr Ličev , or Aleksandar Litschew , Bulgarian Александър Личев ; * 1946 in Pleven , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian historian and university lecturer in philosophical anthropology and the history of philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf .

life and work

Alexander Litschev began studying history and philosophy at the University of Sofia in 1967 . After graduating in 1973, he worked for two years as an assistant for the history of philosophy at Sofia University. From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy. From 1988 to 1990 he taught as a private lecturer in the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology at the University of Sofia.

Since 1991 he has been a lecturer in Southeast European History at the University of Düsseldorf. As part of his teaching assignment, his main research interests are: the history of ideas of the southern Slavs , the history of ideas in Russia and philosophy. He holds seminars on Russian intellectual history and mentality.

As a historian, Litschev also sheds light on German-Bulgarian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, taking into account the German ethnic group in Bulgaria. He has published numerous publications in Bulgarian and German.

With his wife Anna, a sociologist, he has a daughter, the poet Angela Litschev .

Alexander Litschev lives and works in Düsseldorf .

reception

“The author Alexander Litschev prepared well for his study. Privatdozent for philosophy and lecturer at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, he has developed the extremely varied material alone and in interdisciplinary cooperation with historians, literary scholars and educators, and also others in impressive and well-attended courses at the university and at the Volkshochschule Düsseldorf Made accessible to circles, as well as tested in many discussions. Transcultural philosophy and comparative teaching of the history of national philosophies have a glorious tradition in Düsseldorf. You are understood here as a debt to an increasingly globalizing public. "

- Lutz Geldsetzer : Understand the preface to Russia. Düsseldorf in August 2001

Publications

Books

as an author

• Philosophy in Search of Man (The Image of Man in the History of Philosophy), Sofia 1978.
• Die Philosophen (together with R. Radev and I. Stefanov), Sofia 1998 (3 ed.)
• Understanding Russia: Key to the Russian Being , Grupello-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-933749-40-9
• Russian civilization: self-image, identity and mentality , Merus Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-939519-22-5

as editor

• The person who changed the world: 165 years since the birth and 100 years since the death of Karl Marx , (together with A. Stefanov). Sofia 1983.
• Farewell to Marxism: Soviet philosophy in transition , (together with D. Kegler). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg. 1992.

Other publications (selection)

• The image of man in Dostojevskij. In: LIK, 5/1971
• The human problem at Feuerbach . In: Feuerbach - history and actuality. Sofia 1972.
• The problem of man in Plato . In: Filosofska misal, 11/1975
• Hegel and the Dialectic of the Becoming of Man in History. In: Filosofska misal, 9/1976
• Kant and the problem of human development . In: Kant - 250 years since his birth. Sofia 1978.
• Copernican Revolution or Ptolemaic Counter-Revolution (Kant's Cosmic Humanism) . In: Darshana International, 4/1985
• Is Kant's philosophy anthropological? . In: Filosofska misal, 9/1986.
• The French Revolution and its German theory. In: Filosofska misal, 11/1989
• The philosophy of inwardness. On the self-image of Russian philosophy (together with D. Kegler). In: the blue rider, No. 20/2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Litschev in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alexander Litschev in Eastern Europe Center
2. ↑ Alexander Litschev in web archive
3. ↑ - Foreword on page 8 (PDF; 71 kB)