Edith Düsing

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Edith Düsing (born September 11, 1951 in Erlangen ) is a German philosopher with lectureships at various universities. Her research focus is the philosophy of the Enlightenment and idealism . Düsing is considered a connoisseur of Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard .

Life

After her Philosophicum (1973) and her doctorate (title: opus eximium ) as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977, she received her habilitation in 1984 in the border area of ​​education - philosophy at the University of Cologne . Multiple guest professorships and professorships at the universities of Cologne, Dortmund, Marburg, Mannheim, Duisburg and Siegen followed. Düsing held a professorship at the Gustav Siewerth Academy in Weilheim -Bierbronnen from 1990 to 2003. From 2003 to 2019 she was a lecturer in the history of philosophy and intellectual history at the Free Theological University of Giessen . From 1989 to 1994 she was on the board of the International Johann Gottlieb Fichte Society.

criticism

In spring 2009, Düsing signed the Marburg declaration “For freedom and self-determination - against totalitarian efforts by lesbian and gay associations” . It then became the object of protest actions by lesbian and gay groups and the AStA of the University of Cologne .

Publications (selection)

  • Nietzsche's way of thinking: Theology - Darwinism - Nihilism . Fink, Paderborn u. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7705-4254-1 , 2nd edition 2007, 601 pages ( summary ).
  • God as the horizon or the ground of the self? From Kant's practical metaphysics to Fichte's metaphysics of the one being . In: Norbert Fischer (Ed.): Kant's Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion . Meiner, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7873-1662-0 , pp. 433-491 (Kant research; 15).
  • Intersubjectivity and self-confidence: behavioristic, phenomenological and idealistic justification theories in Mead, Schütz, Fichte and Hegel . Dinter, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-924794-04-9 .
  • with Horst W. Beck: Human dignity and emancipation: alienation and concepts of their abolition . Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7751-0561-1 .
  • The problem of the concept of the ego in the foundations of educational theory: Aspects of the constitution of personal identity in Dilthey, Nietzsche and Hegel . Diss., Cologne 1977.
as editor
  • with Hans-Dieter Klein (ed.): Geist, Eros und Agape: Investigations into depictions of love in philosophy, religion and art . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3923-2 .
  • with Hans-Dieter Klein and Werner Neuer (eds.): Spirit and Holy Spirit: Philosophical and theological models from Paulus and Johannes to Barth and Balthasar . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3924-9 .
  • with Hans-Dieter Klein (ed.): Spirit and literature: models in world literature from Shakespeare to Celan . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 3-8260-3790-1 .
  • with Hans-Dieter Klein (ed.): Mind and Psyche: Classical Models from Plato to Freud and Damasio . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3818-1 .
  • with Hans-Dieter Klein (Ed.): Spirit as cause? Mental causation in interdisciplinary discourse . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3806-8 .
  • with Klaus Düsing and Hans-Dieter Klein (eds.): Spirit and free will: Classical theories from antiquity to modernity . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3507-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See Institute for Ethics and Values ​​(Gießen) (PDF; 66 kB) and website at the FTH ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )