Gerhard Schweppenhäuser

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Gerhard Schweppenhäuser (* 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) has been Professor of Design , Communication and Media Theory at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt since 2002 and has been teaching philosophy at the University of Kassel since 2018 . Schweppenhäuser is the son of Hermann Schweppenhäuser .

Life

Schweppenhäuser studied philosophy , German and educational science at the University of Hamburg (1983–1992), where he received his doctorate in 1992 and qualified as a professor at the University of Kassel in 2000 .

His teaching activities included: Philosophical seminar at the University of Hanover (research assistant); Faculty of Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar (research assistant); Inter University Center in Dubrovnik, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, University of the State of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte (guest lecturer); University of Kassel (private lecturer for philosophy); University of Wismar (lecturer); Dresden University of Fine Arts (substitute professor); Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (Visiting Professor); Free University of Bozen (Professore Associato Confermato for Aesthetics).

He is co-editor and member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Critische Theory .

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In his books, Schweppenhäuser dealt primarily with the explicit and implicit contributions of critical theory to the discourse of ethics. His dissertation presented Adorno's negative moral philosophy (1993; 2016); it includes material from the Frankfurt Adorno archive, some of which has not yet been published. The habilitation thesis ( Die Antinomie des Universalismus , 2005) contains a critical reconstruction of the moral-philosophical discourse from Kant to Habermas and Rorty. In other writings Schweppenhäuser discusses topics of mass culture. He occasionally undertakes excursions into the realms of systems theory and cultural studies ( “Naddel” defended against their lovers, 2004). Method pluralism also characterizes his book Aesthetics. Philosophical foundations and key terms from 2007, the classic and newer concepts of aesthetics and the like. a. with a view to their application in various areas of design. In the last few years Schweppenhäuser has presented studies on topics of design theory and questions of ethics in design.

Ulrich Müller wrote in the Philosophical Yearbook : “Schweppenhäuser [...] shows [...] how elements of critical theory can be linked to one another in such a way that they expose the conditions for the possibility of a critical social theory today. His explanations rely on the power of reasoning that never lapses into abstract formalism: They start with current debates and problems and work with concrete descriptions of phenomena. Your enlightenment intention is also expressed in discursive and unpretentious language. […] Gerhard Schweppenhäuser showed the 'critical theory' […] a partly new, but in any case good and feasible path. "

Schweppenhauser's book Critical Theory , which was published by Reclam-Verlag in 2010, said in the Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger that it was “a differentiated book that depicts a broad spectrum of viewpoints and takes critical theory into account in its historical development. It is written fluently, has a high level of argumentation and is equally suitable for first-year students and interested laypeople. "

Books

  • with Dietrich zu Klampen & Rolf Johannes (ed.): Crisis and Criticism. On the topicality of Marx's theory.
  • Nietzsche's overcoming of morality. On the dialectic of moral criticism in “Beyond Good and Evil” and in the “Genealogy of Morals”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-88479-364-0
  • Emancipation theory and criticism of ideology. On practical philosophy and critical theory. Junghans, Cuxhaven 1990, ISBN 3-926848-09-X
  • Ethics after Auschwitz. Adorno's negative moral philosophy. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88619-213-X
  • (Ed.): Sociology in late capitalism. On the social theory of Theodor W. Adornos. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-12309-3
  • with Mirko Wischke (Ed.): Impulse and Negativity. Ethics and aesthetics at Adorno. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88619-229-6
  • Theodor W. Adorno as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88506-932-6 ; 5th completely revised edition, ibid. 2009, ISBN 978-3-88506-671-2
  • with Jörg H. Gleiter (Ed.): Looking away? Thinking ahead! On the Berlin memorial debate. Universitätsverlag, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-86068-110-9
  • with Jörg H. Gleiter (Ed.): Paradoxien der Globalisierung. Bauhaus University, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-86068-099-4
  • with Jörg H. Gleiter (Hrsg.): Culture-philosophical search for traces. Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-86068-131-1
  • The subject's escape route. Contributions to aesthetics and cultural philosophy. Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2001, ISBN 3-8258-4974-0
  • with Jörg H. Gleiter (Ed.): Nietzsches Labyrinthe. Perspectives on aesthetics, ethics and cultural philosophy. Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-86068-149-4
  • with Jörg H. Gleiter (Ed.): Review of postmodernism. Universitätsverlag, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-86068-171-0
  • Basic concepts of ethics as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88506-375-1 ; 2nd revised edition, ibid. 2006, ISBN 978-3-88506-632-3
  • "Naddel" defended against her lovers. Aesthetics and communication in mass culture. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-250-3
  • The antinomy of universalism. On the moral-philosophical discourse of modernity. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3014-1
  • with Gerd Zimmermann (ed.): Critical aesthetics and humane design. Festschrift for Olaf Weber on his 60th birthday. Bauhaus University, Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-86068-271-7
  • Aesthetics. Philosophical foundations and key terms. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38347-7
  • with Thomas Friedrich : Bildsemiotik. Basics and exemplary analyzes of visual communication. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0111-5 . 2., ext. Edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-0356-1220-2
  • Critical theory. Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020330-9
  • Image distortion and reflection. Studies in the critical theory of visual culture. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5250-7
  • with Christian Bauer u. Gertrud Nolte (Ed.): Ethics and Morals in Communication and Design (). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5426-6 .
  • Image and thought. Hermann Schweppenhäuser in commemoration (ed.). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-14417-3
  • Ethics after Auschwitz. Adorno's negative moral philosophy. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016 (2nd, revised edition), ISBN 978-3-658-11770-2
  • Media: theory and history for designers. av edition, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-89986-254-6
  • Design theory. Springer VS Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12659-9
  • with Martin Niederauer (Ed.): "Culture Industry": Theoretical and empirical approaches to a popular term . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-15758-6
  • with Christian Bauer: ethics in communication design. Understanding, responsibility and orientation as criteria of visual design . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6038-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 118178393
  2. ↑ U. Müller, review: Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Die Fluchtbahn des Subjects, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch , 109th year, 2002, p. 431
  3. ↑ Alexander Eilers: Review Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, Critical Theory, in: Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger , 49th year 2010
  4. ↑ Critical Theory
personal data
SURNAME Schweppenhäuser, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main