Christoph Asmuth

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Christoph Asmuth (born August 20, 1962 in Bochum ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Asmuth studied philosophy , German language and literature , pedagogy and history at the Ruhr University Bochum , especially with Kurt Flasch and Burkhard Mojsisch, and completed his studies with a master's degree in philosophy. In 1995 he was also at the Ruhr University Bochum with Burkhard Mojsisch with the work “The understanding of the incomprehensible. Philosophy and Religion with Johann Gottlieb Fichte ”. In 1998 he was employed as a university assistant in the Philosophy Department of the Technical University of Berlin . In 2003 Asmuth completed his habilitation with the thesis “Interpretation - Transformation. The Plato picture in Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Schopenhauer and the legitimation problem of the history of philosophy ”at the Technical University of Berlin. Asmuth has been an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Berlin since 2009 , where he headed the BMBF research projects "Translating Doping - Doping Translate" and "ANTHROPOFAKTE". Asmuth has held the chair for philosophy at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau since 2020 .

Research focus

The systematic focus Asmuths are in the areas: Philosophy of Science , Philosophy of Technology , German idealism , transcendental philosophy , philosophy of language , epistemology , philosophy of religion , philosophy and theology , practical philosophy , philosophy of science , theory of image and mind-body problem. He works on ancient authors, especially Plato , Plotinus , Augustine on medieval authors, Anselm von Canterbury , Meister Eckhart , Nikolaus von Kues as well as on various authors of modern times and modern times. One focus is on Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . In his 2011 monograph on the concept of images under the title “Images about images, images without images. A New Theory of Imagery ”, Asmuth undertakes an expansion of basic transcendental philosophical considerations into other and new problems. He also develops such a one in relation to fundamental questions of the philosophy of the body, movement, sport and feelings and affects.

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Knowledge on the move. The philosophy of the German classic at the beginning of the modern age. (Culture - System - History; 14) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6505-7 .
  • Subject and principle. Philosophy of the beginning. (Philosophische Hefte; 2) Logos Verlag: Berlin 2017, ISSN 2567-1758.
  • Pictures on pictures, pictures without pictures. A new theory of imagery. Scientific Book Society: Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24181-1 , ISBN 978-3-8260-6184-4 .
  • Interpretation - transformation. The image of Plato in Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Schopenhauer and the problem of legitimation in the history of philosophy. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-30152-4 .
  • Understanding the incomprehensible. Philosophy and religion with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 1800-1806. Stuttgart / Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog: 1999, ISBN 3-7728-1900-1 .

As editor

  • with Hartmut Traub u. Alexander Schnell : Fichte in dispute. Festschrift for Wolfgang Janke. (Culture - System - History; 15) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6602-3 .
  • with Quentin Landenne: Perspectivity as the basic structure of knowledge. (Culture - System - History; 12) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6383-1 .
  • with Lidia Gasperoni: schemes. (Culture - System - History; 11) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017
  • with Concha Roldán u. Astrid Wagner: harmony, tolerance, cultural diversity. Enlightenment basic ideas from Leibniz to the present. (Culture - System - History; 10) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017
  • with Burkhard Nonnenmacher and Nele Schneidereit: Texts on the theory of money. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-150-19370-9 .
  • with Edgar da Rocha Marques a. Álvaro Balsas, SJ: Percepção e Conceito. Perception and Concept. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2016, Vol. 72 (2-3)
  • with Peter Remmers, Aesthetic Knowledge. (Berlin Studies of Knowledge Research; 7) Berlin / Boston 2015.
  • with Wibke Ehrmann: Circle - Contradiction - Paradox. Thinking of the Self in Classical German Philosophy and in the Present. (Culture - System - History; 9) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015
  • with Simon Gabriel Neuffer: Irrationality. (Culture - System - History; 7) Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2015
  • Clean performance? - accept limits! - Eight modules for interdisciplinary lessons on the problem area of ​​doping. (Topics and materials. Federal Agency for Civic Education) Bonn 2013
  • with Christoph Binkelmann: Breaking the boundaries of what is possible? Doping at the interface between law and morality (focus on doping. The power of the feasible and modern man; 2) Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag 2012
  • What is doping? (Translating Doping - translate doping; 1). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1444-2 .
  • Transcendental philosophy and person: corporeality - interpersonality - recognition . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-691-5
  • One or the other: ›God‹ in classical German philosophy and in contemporary thinking , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150112-8
  • Subject and brain, man and nature , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4573-8 .
  • Kant and Fichte - Fichte and Kant : Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, ISBN 978-90-420-2654-4 .
  • with Hans Poser : Evolution. Model - method - paradigm. Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 2007.
  • with Wilhelm Metz: The moral doctrine of JG Fichtes. 1798 - 1812. Grüner / Benjamin: Amsterdam / New York 2006.
  • with Alfred Denker a. Michael Vater: Schelling - Between Fichte and Hegel. (Bochum studies on philosophy) Grüner / Benjamin: Amsterdam 2000.

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SURNAME Asmuth, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum