Emil Angehrn
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
- Literature by and about Emil Angehrn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Angehrn on the website of the Philosophical Department of the University of Basel
- Report from the symposium on the occasion of Emil Angehrn's retirement , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 11, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 19th edition (2003), vol. 1, p. 51.
- ↑ Emil Angehrn , Curriculum Vitae on the website of the Philosophical Department of the University of Basel, PDF, accessed on April 9, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Listen up, Emil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |