Andrea Marlen Esser

Andrea Marlen Esser (born September 30, 1963 in Munich ) is a German philosopher and professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

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Esser studied philosophy , psychology and political science at the University of Munich . There she completed her master's thesis on the concept of freedom with Immanuel Kant and John Rawls . In 1994 she was in Munich with the work of art as a symbol: the structure of aesthetic reflection in Kant's theory of beauty to Dr. phil. PhD. In 2004, Esser completed his habilitation in philosophy in Munich with the work An Ethics for the Finite: Kant's Doctrine of Virtues in the Present . From 2004 she was professor for art theory and semiotics at Pforzheim University, but in the same year she switched to a chair for philosophy at RWTH Aachen University . From 2006 to 2015 Esser was professor for practical philosophy at the University of Marburg . Since 2011 she has been the managing director of the German Society for Philosophy . Esser has held the full chair for practical philosophy at the University of Jena since 2015. In addition, after a longer research stay there, she is an associated fellow of the Max Weber College .

Esser's main research interests are in the work of Immanuel Kant. Based on this, however, she also conducts research on the subjects of organ donation, death and transmortality and relates Kant's teaching to the work of philosophers of antiquity and the Enlightenment.

She is married and has one grown son.

Web links

• CV of Andrea Marlen Esser
• Andrea Marlen Esser at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
• Andrea Marlen Esser at the Max Weber College

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrea Marlen Esser is the new professor for practical philosophy at the University of Jena , accessed on January 24, 2020.
2. ↑ oscar-am-freitag.de: Andrea Marlen Esser is the new professor for practical philosophy at the University of Jena , August 5, 2015 , accessed on January 25, 2020.