Eva Schürmann

Eva Schürmann (* 1967 in Essen ) is a German philosopher and university professor. Since 2011 she has held the chair for philosophical anthropology , cultural and technical philosophy at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg .

Life

Eva Schürmann studied philosophy, comparative literature and art history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After studying in Paris, Cambridge and Bologna, she graduated in 1994 with a Magister Artium on Spinoza's ethics. In 1998 she received her doctorate from the University of Witten / Herdecke with a comparative thesis on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and James Turrell . After a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago , she completed her habilitation in 2007 at the TU Darmstadt with a text on the practice of visual perception . From 2009 to 2011 she was professor for cultural philosophy and aesthetics at the HAW Hamburg . In 2014 she received the Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize . In the academic year 2014/15 she was a fellow at the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Law as Culture” at the University of Bonn . Since 2015 she has been co-editor of the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie .

Eva Schürmann: Appearance and Perception: a comparative study of the art of James Turrell and the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty . Fink, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3473-5 .
Eva Schürmann, Norbert Waszek, Frank Weinreich. (Ed.): Spinoza in Germany in the eighteenth century . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002, ISBN 3-7728-2027-1 .
Eva Schürmann, Gerhard Gamm (Ed.): From Plato to Derrida - 20 major works of philosophy . Primus, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89678-263-0 .
Eva Schürmman: Seeing as Practice: Ethical-Aesthetic Studies on the Relationship between View and Insight . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-29490-1 .
Eva Schürmman, Sebastian Spanknebel, Héctor Wittwer (eds.): Forms and fields of philosophizing - concepts, methods, disciplines . Karl Alber, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 3-495-48901-0 .
Eva Schürmann: Imagine and present - scenes of a media anthropological theory of the mind . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7705-6337-1 .