Emil Angehrn

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Emil Angehrn (born May 9, 1946 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss philosopher and professor emeritus, who stood out primarily with work on hermeneutics .

Life

Angehrn studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1966 and graduated in 1969 with a licentiate . From 1969 to 1975 he studied philosophy, sociology and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1976 under Michael Theunissen on the subject of "Freedom and the system at Hegel ".

From 1976 to 1980 he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg as well as a research fellow and a postdoctoral fellow. From 1980 to 1986 he was a university assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he also received his habilitation in 1983 with a paper on "History and Identity" .

After substituting professorships at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Basel , in 1989 he was offered a professorship for philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1991 to 2013 Angehrn was a full professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 2004 to 2007 he was dean or vice dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Basel.

Fonts

  • Freedom and system in Hegel. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1977, ISBN 3-11-006969-5 .
  • History and identity. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1985, ISBN 3-11-010122-X .
  • Philosophy of history. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-17-010623-6 .
  • Overcoming the chaos. To the philosophy of myth. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-28871-7 .
  • The way to metaphysics. Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2000, ISBN 3-934730-09-4 .
  • Interpretation and deconstruction. Studies on hermeneutics. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2003, ISBN 3-934730-68-X .
  • The question of the origin. Philosophy between original thinking and original criticism. Fink, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4448-6 .
  • Ways of understanding. Hermeneutics and historical thinking. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3546-3 .
  • Sense and non-sense. Understanding man. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-1615-0303-0 .
  • The challenge of the negative. Between desire for meaning and deprivation of meaning. Schwabe, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7965-3400-3 .
  • Write your life. Ways of remembrance. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-465-04299-0 .
  • From the beginning and the end. Life between birth and death. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-465-04430-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 19th edition (2003), vol. 1, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Emil Angehrn , Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Philosophical Department of the University of Basel, PDF, accessed on April 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Listen up, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne