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Harry Redner (born February 1, 1937 in Tlumacz in Galicia ) is a philosopher who emigrated to Australia and teaches philosophy at various universities in Australia, the United States and Europe.

Life

Harry Redner was born on February 1, 1937 in Tlumacz near Stanislawow in Galicia (then Poland, now Ukraine). Together with his mother he survived the Nazi occupation of Galicia in the underground. In 1946 they emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where he graduated from high school in 1954.

Harry Redner received his academic training between 1955 and 1965, mainly in England and Australia, where he studied music - especially composition with Felix Werder , Alexander Goehr and Luciano Berio - as well as philosophy (BA and MA at Melbourne University ). After further postgraduate studies at Oxford University with Elizabeth Anscombe , he began his own university career from 1965 to 1967 at the Department of Philosophy at Adelaide University as a research fellow.

From 1967 until his retirement in 1996 he held various academic positions (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, most recently as Professorial Fellow) at the Department of Politics at Monash University in Melbourne. Numerous visiting professorships have taken him to the United States (Yale University, Berkeley, Harvard), Israel (Haifa), France (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris) and Germany (Darmstadt). In 2009 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel.

His book How can you live morally: History and the present of ethical cultures (Stuttgart 2006) has so far been published in German , further translations are being prepared.

Book publications

In the Beginning was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust , Berkeley 1982
Anatomy of the World (co-authored with Jill Redner), Melbourne 1983
The Ends of Philosophy: an essay in the Sociology of Philosophy and Rationality , London and New York 1985
The Ends of Science, an essay in Scientific Authority , Colorado 1987
An Heretical Heir of the Enlightenment: science, politics and policy in the work of CE Lindblom , edited by Harry Redner, Colorado 1993
A New Theory of Representation: towards an integrated theory of representation in Science, Politics and Art , Colorado 1994
Malign Masters: Gentile, Heidegger, Lukács, Wittgenstein , London and New York 1997
Ethical Life: the past and present of ethical cultures , New Jersey 2001
How to Live Morally: Past and Present of Ethical Cultures , Stuttgart 2006
Conserving Cultures: technology, globalization and the future of local cultures , New Jersey 2004 (German translation is in preparation)
Aesthetic Life: the past and present of artistic cultures , New Jersey 2007
From Auschwitz to Athens and back: Radical Evil in Western Civilization, particularly during the Twentieth Century (publication pending 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME	Speaker, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tlumacz , Galicia