Günther Mensching

Günther Mensching (born March 4, 1942 in Bonn ) is a German philosopher. His focus is on the history of philosophy , metaphysics and social philosophy .

Mensching, son of the religious scholar Gustav Mensching (1901–1978), studied philosophy , sociology and ethnology at the University of Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate in 1969 with Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno with a study of the social theory of French materialism , which was published as a book in 1971 under the title Totality and Autonomy . From 1970 to 1977 Mensching was a lecturer in Frankfurt / M. In 1972 he became an academic councilor, and in 1994 he became a university lecturer at the Lower Saxony University of Education, Lüneburg Department (since 1989 University of Lüneburg). In 1979 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hanover , where he worked as an adjunct professor from 1985 and as a professor from 1997 until his retirement in 2007. He also held a visiting professorship at the Université Paris I in the semester 1984/85 .

He is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social Sciences in Hanover .

Fonts

Totality and autonomy. Investigations into the philosophical social theory of French materialism . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp 1971. ISBN 3-518-07335-4 (Diss.)
The general and the special. The origin of modern thinking in the Middle Ages . Stuttgart: Metzler 1992. ISBN 3-476-00827-4
Thomas Aquinas . Frankfurt a. M .: Campus 1995. ISBN 3-593-35261-3
Jean-Jacques Rousseau as an introduction . Hamburg: Junius 2000. ISBN 3-88506-314-X
From tautology to real reason. Reflections on Hegel's Metaphysics of Absolute Productivity. In: Andreas Knahl, Jan Müller, Michael Städtler, among others: With and against Hegel. From the non-objectivity of absolute reflection to the lack of concepts in the present. Lüneburg: on Klampen 2000. ISBN 3-924245-91-6
Soul and spirit at La Mettrie . In: Hartmut Hecht (Ed.): Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Views and Insights. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag 2004, pp. 167–178. ISBN 3-8305-0558-2

Helvétius : About people, their intellectual abilities and their upbringing. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1972
Abbé Meslier's will . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1976 ISBN 3-518-06000-7
Voltaire : Writings 1: Law and Politics. Frankfurt: Syndicate 1978 ISBN 3-8108-0086-4
Voltaire : Papers 2: Republican Ideas. Frankfurt: Syndicate 1979 ISBN 3-8108-0110-0
Jean LeRond d'Alembert : Introduction to the encyclopedia. (1751). (Philosophical Library 473) Hamburg: Meiner 1997. ISBN 3-7873-1188-2
Violence and its legitimation in the Middle Ages . Symposium of the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Hannover from 26. – 28. February 2002. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann. ISBN 3-826-02618-7

personal data
SURNAME	Mensching, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn