Georg Römpp

Georg Römpp (* 1950 in Munich ) is a German philosopher and author of specialist, non-fiction and textbooks on philosophy. There are also numerous scientific articles in journals and edited volumes. Most are in German, but some are also in English. Mainly topics from the Kantian and idealistic philosophy as well as Heidegger and Husserl are dealt with.

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According to publishers, he was born in Munich in 1950 and studied philosophy, economics and political science in Tübingen and Bonn. He received his doctorate in philosophy in Bonn and also has a degree in economics.

His dissertation dealt with Husserl's phenomenology of intersubjectivity . This was followed by a larger work on the ethics of self-consciousness that examined this topic in idealistic philosophy , with especially Kant , Fichte , Schelling and Hegel being discussed. As a result, he wrote a number of philosophical introductions. Heidegger's Philosophy was published in 2004 ; this book was re-published in 2006 in a new edition. An introduction to Husserl's philosophy with the title Husserl's Phenomenology was published in 2005. In the same year the author published an introductory study book on Kant at UTB called Kant Made Easy . This work was republished in 2007 in an improved edition.

A systematic work is Kant's Critique of Pure Freedom. A discussion of the metaphysics of morals , which deals with the position of the work mentioned in the title in Kant's philosophy. Thereafter, three more introductions to the works of various philosophers appeared. There are so-called profiles about Plato and Aristotle that were published by UTB, and the book Kant Made Easy has now been supplemented by Hegel Made Easy .

The 2009 book Der Geist des Westens. Find a story of good and bad . According to the publisher's announcement, it is a history of ideas from the West , which is interpreted as a discussion process that focuses on decisions about good and bad. In this way the reader should get an idea of ​​western identity, which is a network of argumentative disputes and cannot be understood through simple terms such as values .

Ludwig Wittgenstein provides the latest study book publication . A philosophical introduction published by UTB in 2010.

The non-fiction book Das Anti-Glücksbuch was published in autumn 2012 . Why happiness does not bring us happiness , which, stylistically and thematically, is clearly aimed at a broad audience beyond the philosophically interested reader. The central thesis here is that the search for happiness has become a kind of compulsion for many people to have to perfect themselves. That is why they do not achieve what they are actually striving for. The author attributes this to several harmful meanings of the concept of happiness, which after its long history are still effective today. Above all, he criticizes the vague generality of this goal and the tendency to look at life with it from the outside. Therefore he sees a contrast between the pursuit of happiness and the art of living . Finally, he recommends focusing on this art because it preserves the individuality of human life.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Römpp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Georg Römpp. Retrieved September 26, 2012 .