Günter Wohlfart

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Günter Wohlfart (* 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher , university professor and poet .

Life

Günter Wohlfart studied philosophy , German and psychoanalysis at the universities of Frankfurt and Tübingen .

The doctorate was on Kant's aesthetics, the habilitation on Hegel's philosophy of language. From 1983 to 1985 he was a professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , and from 1985 to 1986 professor at the University of Essen . Between 1987 and 2003 he held a chair for philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . He also taught at universities in North America and East Asia, but especially in China .

Wohlfahrt founded the Académie du Midi on March 13, 1988 , of which he was president until 2002. Wohlfahrt has been retired since 2003 and lives with his wife in a mountain farm in southern France.

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Since the beginning of the 1990s, his work has focused on East Asian thinking, in particular philosophical Daoism , but also Zen Buddhism.

His publication consists of 18 books and editions, including several on East Asia (three on Zhuangzi ). He published about 100 articles that have been translated into several languages. Wohlfart gave around 200 guest lectures at home and abroad.

He spends his free time traveling and haiku writing.

Publications (selection)

  • The moment. Time and aesthetic experience with Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger with an excursus on Proust. Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1982. ISBN 3-495-47489-7
  • Thinking of language. Language and art with Vico, Hamann, Humboldt and Hegel . Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1984. ISBN 3-495-47543-5
  • The point. Aesthetic meditations. Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1986. ISBN 3-495-47601-6
  • "Thus spoke Herakleitos". Heraklit's Fragment B 52 and Nietzsche's Heraklit reception . Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1995. ISBN 3-495-47712-8
  • Zen and Haiku or Mu in the art of herding shark cows along with other texts for nothing and again nothing . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 978-3-15-009647-5
  • The art of life and other arts. Quirky sketches of a Eurodaoist ethos without morals. Parerga Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-937262-22-9

Further publications in PDF format are available on Günter Wohlfart's private homepage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae on Günter Wohlfahrt's private homepage, accessed on May 1, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Wohlfart, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and poet, researcher of Daoism
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main