Ernst Wolfgang Orth

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Ernst Wolfgang Orth (born August 9, 1936 in Bonn ) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Trier .

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After studying German , history , philosophy and psychology at the universities of Mainz and Freiburg i. Br . Orth received his doctorate in Mainz in 1965 with a dissertation on the philosophy of language by Edmund Husserl and Richard Hönigswald . From 1962 to 1970 he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz, and since 1970 he has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Trier . There he was chairman of the assembly of the University of Trier from 1975 to 1979 and from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1989 Dean of Faculty I.

Orth was visiting professor at Penn State University, USA (1983), the University of Ottawa (Canada, 1985), the University of Milan (Italy, 1989), the University of Graz (Austria, 1995) and at the Neesima Lectures at Dōshisha University (Kyoto, Japan, 1998). Teaching assignments on philosophy of culture and technology 1991/92 at the University of Weimar.

Ernst Wolfgang Orth's areas of research are: Neo-Kantianism (in particular Ernst Cassirer , Richard Hönigswald and Heinrich Rickert ), phenomenology ( Edmund Husserl , Martin Heidegger , Max Scheler ), history and systematics of philosophical anthropology (including Hermann Lotze , Helmuth Plessner , Arnold Gehlen ), Development of the humanities and cultural philosophy ( Wilhelm Dilthey , Georg Simmel ), philosophy of language , conceptual history , media philosophy , French philosophy , history of the philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries .

Orth was the founder and head of the Philosophical Research Institute for Media and Culture at the University of Trier and is on the advisory board of the Humboldt Study Center at the University of Ulm . He is on the scientific advisory boards of the German Society for Phenomenological Research and the Max Scheler Society, of which Orth was president from 2007 to 2009. From 1978 to 1983 he was Vice President and from 1983 to 1987 President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research, from 1981 to 1988 managing director of the General Society for Philosophy in Germany , from 1992 to 2000 chief reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for philosophy and of 1995 to 2000 chairman of the committee of experts.

Publications

Monographs
  • Meaning, sense, object. Studies on the philosophy of language by Edmund Husserl and Richard Hönigswald . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1967 (= dissertation Mainz 1965)
  • From epistemology to cultural philosophy. Studies on Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms . (Studies and materials on Neo-Kantianism, vol. 8) Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1996, 2nd exp. Edition. 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2944-5 .
  • Culture and organism. Studies on Richard Hönigswald's philosophy. (Treatises on philosophy, psychology and pedagogy, vol. 245) Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02688-8 .
  • Nature, culture, time. (Japanese / German) Neesima Lectures, Kyoto / Japan. (Edition of Doshisha University) Kyoto 1999.
  • Edmund Husserl's "Crisis in European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology". Reason and culture. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-534-12002-7 . (Japanese: Koyo Shobo-Verlag, Kyoto 2000)
  • What is and what does “ culture ” mean? Dimensions of culture and mediality of human orientation. (Trier studies on cultural philosophy, vol. 4) Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1908-3 .
  • The trace of man. Cultural anthropological considerations between 'world' and 'crisis' , Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann) 2014, ISBN 978-3-8260-5516-4
Published books (selection)
  • Dilthey and the philosophy of the present. Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1985, ISBN 3-495-47572-9 .
  • with Helmut Holzhey: Neo-Kantianism. Perspectives and Problems. (Studies and materials on Neo-Kantianism, Vol. 1) Königshausen and Neuman, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-88479-887-1 .
  • with Dariusz Aleksantrowicz: Studies on Richard Hönigswald's philosophy. (Studies and materials on Neo-Kantianism, Vol. 7) Königshausen and Neuman, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1155-4 .
  • with Ralf Becker : media and culture. Media worldview. (Trier studies on cultural philosophy, vol. 13) Königshausen and Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3116-4 .
  • with Wolfgang Marx: Hermann Cohen and epistemology . (Studies and materials on Neo-Kantianism, vol. 18) Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2178-9 .
Published series
  • Phenomenological Studies / Phenomenological Studies / Recherches Phénoménologiques. Edited on behalf of the German Society for Phenomenological Research (DFG)
    • Volume 1 to 30. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ Munich 1975 to 1996.
    • with Karl-Heinz Lembeck and Karl Mertens : New series Volume 1 to 10 ff. Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2001 to 2010 ff.
  • with Helmut Holzhey: Studies and Materials on Neo-Kantianism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 1993 ff. (Up to 2008: 26 volumes)
  • with Karl-Heinz Lembeck: Trier studies on cultural philosophy. Paradigms of Human Orientation. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 1997 ff. (Until 2011: 20 volumes)
  • with Karl-Heinz Lembeck and Hans Rainer Sepp until 2005: Phenomenology. Texts and contexts. Publisher Karl Alber: Freiburg i. Br. / München 1997 ff. Texts department : 4 volumes, Contexts department : 11 volumes. (From 2006 the series will be published by Verlag Karl Alber by Jean-Luc Marion, Mario M. Olivetti and Walter Schweidler.)

Festschrift

  • Christian Bermes, Julia Jonas, Karl-Heinz Lembeck (Hrsg.): The position of people in culture. Festschrift for Ernst Wolfgang Orth on his 65th birthday. (Trier studies on cultural philosophy, vol. 7) Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2232-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Orth, Ernst Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn