Burghart Schmidt (philosopher)

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Burghart Schmidt (born November 30, 1942 in Wildeshausen ) is a German philosopher . He is professor for language and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

Life

Burghart Schmidt spent his childhood and school days in Wilhelmshaven . From 1962 to 1970 he studied biology , chemistry , physics and then philosophy and art history at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He was a long-time employee of Ernst Bloch , about whom he later published numerous publications, including the standard work Ernst Bloch (1985). From 1968 to 1977 he worked as a research assistant for the philosopher in the publication of his complete works in the Suhrkamp publishing house . After completing his doctorate with the dissertation The Resistance of Reality in the Work Structure of Recognition on the Method Problem of Practice-Oriented Knowledge in 1982 at the University of Tübingen for Dr. phil. He completed his habilitation in 1984 with the thesis Critique of Pure Utopia - a socio-philosophical investigation in the field of the effectiveness of anticipatory consciousness at the University of Hanover . In 1986 he became President of the Ernst Bloch Society and in 2006 he became Honorary President.

Schmidt taught from 1971 to 1975 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , from 1975 to 1997 at the University of Hanover, whose architecture faculty appointed him honorary professor after his habilitation in 1985 . He took on further teaching activities in Vienna : from 1977 to 1997 at the University of Applied Arts and from 1983 to 1997 at the Academy of Fine Arts . Since 1997 he has been professor for language and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main and is its vice-president.

From 1984 to 1997 he worked as a visiting professor at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt , and from 1991/1992 at the Graz University of Technology , at the University of Applied Arts and at the International Center for Culture and Management (ICCM) Salzburg.

Burghart Schmidt has lived in Offenbach am Main and Vienna since 1997.

Fonts

As a student and employee of Ernst Bloch, Burghart Schmidt supervised a large part of his work by Ernst Bloch and published it in Suhrkamp-Verlag as well as wrote secondary literature about it. Schmidt later dealt with the phenomenon of postmodernism. Current focal points are the importance of the image in art and media studies as well as ornament.

  • as editor: Ernst Bloch work edition / complete edition in 16 volumes, Suhrkamp
  • as editor: Materials on Ernst Bloch's Hope Principle , Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-518-07711-2 .
  • The resistance of the real in the work structure of cognition to the method problem of practice-oriented knowledge , dissertation, Tübingen 1982
  • as editor: Seminar on Ernst Bloch's philosophy , Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-27868-1 .
  • Benjamin for introduction , Hanover 1983 (2nd edition 1984, ISBN 3-88209-052-9 )
  • Critique of pure utopia - a socio-philosophical investigation in the field of the effectiveness of anticipatory consciousness , habilitation thesis, Hanover 1984
  • The argument of resistance in epistemology. An attack on the automation of knowledge , Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-518-57704-2 .
  • Ernst Bloch , Metzler Collection, M 222: Dept. D Literary History, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-476-10222-X .
  • Postmodern - Strategies of Forgetting. A critical report , Darmstadt and Neuwied 1986 (4th, revised new edition 1994, ISBN 3-518-28736-2 )
  • Critique of pure utopia. A socio-philosophical investigation , Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-476-00624-7 .
  • About: "LAB-ART ist" , Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-901190-10-4 .
  • as editor together with Gérard Raulet : Critical Theory of Ornaments , Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-205-98104-9 .
  • At home in the hereafter. Against the prevailing hostility towards utopia in the deconstructive. An essay with appendix , Darmstadt and Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-216-30062-5 .
  • together with Eugen Gomringer : Schriftbild in Collage , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-901190-12-0 .
  • Kitsch and gossip. Five Viennese lecture essays on art, architecture and conversation , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-901190-11-2 .
  • Image in the absence. On an art theory of the almost negative in the difficult appearance of the “ban on images” , Vienna 1996, ISBN 3901190511
  • Time economy of individualism. Giordano Bruno and the consequences. A Viennese lecture in the Orangery of Schönbrunn Palace in 1993. With an appendix on the present in art , Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901190-22-8 .
  • Philosophy of Children , Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901190-27-9 .
  • Teddy bear & garden gnome. On the philosophy of cleanable and washable handiness or: on the Pope and Walser debate 1998, a diatribe on the millennium , Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901190-57-0 .
  • as editor together with Gérard Raulet : From Parergon to Labyrinth. Studies on the critical theory of ornament , Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99256-3 .
  • Head stand - book stand. Memories of Ernst Bloch in anecdotal records , Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-901190-81-3 .

literature

  • Burghart Schmidt. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists, 19th edition. Volume II: K-Scho. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 2936.
  • Peter Mahr, Christian Allesch: Austrian aesthetics: 19 interviews. Ritter theory, Klagenfurt, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3854153457 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Burghart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildeshausen