Gerhard Gamm

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Gerhard Gamm (* 1947 ) is a German philosopher . From 1997 to 2014 he was professor for practical philosophy at the TU Darmstadt . The central themes of his writing are socio-philosophical studies on indefinability and indefiniteness.

Life

Gamm studied philosophy , psychology and sociology at the University of Tübingen and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1979 he received his doctorate in philosophy with the philosopher Alfred Schmidt at the Goethe University with the thesis "The madness in reason: historical and epistemological studies on the dimension of being different in the philosophy of Hegel". After various research and teaching activities in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main, he completed his habilitation in 1993 on the concept of indeterminacy in the philosophy of modernity and the present at the TU Darmstadt . Reviewers were the philosophers Gernot Böhme , Helmut Fleischer and Bernhard Waldenfels . The work “Escape from the Category. The Positivation of the Unspecified as the Outcome of Modernity ”, published in 1994 by Suhrkamp . In 1995 Gamm was appointed to the professorship for ethics and philosophy of technology at the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau , where the philosophy faculty was founded only a year earlier. In 1997, Gamm accepted the chair for practical philosophy at the TU Darmstadt. There he taught and researched until his retirement in 2014. In Darmstadt, Gamm was one of the applicants and leading researchers of the interdisciplinary graduate college 309 of the DFG "Technization and Society", which was based at the TU Darmstadt from 1997 to 2005. In this, more than 40 doctoral students in various fields completed their doctorates.

Scientific Research

In his scientific work, Gamm deals with the philosophy of German idealism , the philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries, social philosophy and the philosophy of technology. A central focus of his work is the philosophical thinking of modernity and postmodernism, which he tries to define as a thinking of indeterminacy. He is considered one of the most important thinkers in German-speaking philosophy on this subject of indeterminacy and negativity. Based on Hegel, Gamm's thinking is strongly influenced by the critical theory of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adornos and by the more recent French philosophy of post-structuralism , in particular Cornelius Castoriadis , Michel Foucault , Jean-François Lyotard , Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille .

Gamm's academic students include: a. the philosophers Andreas Hetzel, Eva Schürmann and Dieter Mersch .

Fonts

Monographs:

  • Embarrassed sanity. A philosophy of the social world. Fink: Munich 2017
  • Philosophy in the Age of Extremes: A History of Philosophical Thought in the 20th Century. WBG: Darmstadt 2009.
  • From Plato to Derrida. 20 major works of philosophy. Together with Eva Schürmann. Primus: Darmstadt 2005.
  • The indefinite man. On the media construction of subjectivity. Philo: Berlin 2004.
  • Major works of social philosophy. Together with Andreas Hetzel and Markus Lilienthal. Reclam: Stuttgart 2001.
  • Not nothing. Studies on the semantics of the indefinite. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / M. 2000.
  • German idealism. An introduction to the philosophy of Fichte, Hegel and Schelling , Reclam: Stuttgart 1997. 3rd, bibliographically supplemented and updated edition 2015.
  • Escape from the category. The positiveization of the indefinite as the outcome of modernity. Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / M. 1994.
  • The power of metaphor. In the labyrinth of the modern world. Metzler: Stuttgart 1992.
  • One-Dimensional Communication: Reason and Rhetoric in Jürgen Habermas' Interpretation of Modernity. Königshausen and Neumann: Würzburg 1987.
  • Truth as difference. Studies on another theory of modernity: Descartes - Kant - Hegel - Schelling - Schopenhauer - Marx - Nietzsche. Grove near Athenaeum: Frankfurt / M. 1986. Reprint: Philo: Berlin 2002.
  • The madness in reason: historical and epistemological studies on the dimension of being different in the philosophy of Hegel , Bouvier: Bonn 1981.
  • Alienated Objectivity: A Critique of Scientific Rationality and its anarchist innovators. Together with Gerd Kimmerle. Campus: Frankfurt / M. and New York 1980.

as editor:

  • Yearbook Technology Philosophy 2016: List and Death. Edited with Petra Gehring, Christoph Hubig, Andreas Kaminski and Alfred Nordmann, diaphanes: Berlin / Zurich 2016.
  • Ethics - what for and how next? Edited with Andreas Hetzel, transcript: Bielefeld 2015.
  • Yearbook Technikphilosophie 2015: Ding und System. Edited with Petra Gehring, Christoph Hubig, Andreas Kaminski and Alfred Nordmann, diaphanes: Berlin / Zurich 2015.
  • Philosophy in experiments. Try exploratory thinking. Edited with Jens Kertscher, transcript: Bielefeld 2011.
  • Philosophy in the mirror of literature. Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History (ZÄK), special issue 09, edited with Alfred Nordmann and Eva Schürmann. Meiner: Hamburg 2007.
  • Engineering indeterminacy signatures. A new interpretation of the technological world. Edited with Andreas Hetzel, transcript: Bielefeld 2005.
  • Between anthropology and social theory. On the renaissance of Helmuth Plessner in the context of modern life sciences. Edited with Mathias Gutmann and Alexandra Manzei, transcript: Bielefeld 2005.
  • Society in the 21st Century: Perspectives on Work, Life, Politics. Edited with Andreas Hetzel and Markus Lilienthal. Campus: Frankfurt / M. and New York 2004.
  • Science and society. Edited with Gerd Kimmerle, edition diskord: Tübingen 1991.
  • Ethics and aesthetics. Post-metaphysical perspectives. Edited with Gerd Kimmerle, edition diskord: Tübingen 1990.
  • Regulation and autonomy. On the civilization history of morality. Edited with Gerd Kimmerle, edition diskord: Tübingen 1989.
  • In the face of objective delusion. About the paradoxes of critical theory. Bankruptcy book publisher: Tübingen 1985.

literature

  • Negativity and indeterminacy. Contributions to a philosophy of ignorance. Festschrift for Gerhard Gamm. Edited by Andreas Hetzel, transcript: Bielefeld 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://idw-online.de/de/news129964

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personal data
SURNAME Gamm, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1947