Heimo Hofmeister

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Heimo Hofmeister (* 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian religious philosopher and professor emeritus at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Heimo E. Hofmeister studied philosophy , German studies and history at the University of Vienna after completing his military service . There he received his doctorate in 1965 . From 1966 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen with Karl Ulmer . From 1968 to 1971 he was an assistant professor at the American University , Washington DC. In 1976 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Vienna with a subsequent professorship for philosophy at the University of Vienna until 1983. In that year he was appointed full professor for Philosophy of religion at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Here he was, among other things, managing director of the scientific-theological seminar. Since 2000 Hofmeister was professor of philosophy at the State University of St. Petersburg . In 2005 Hofmeister retired.

Hofmeister is historically interested in the question of the reason for the unity of beings.

Heimo Hofmeister is one of the students of the late Viennese psychologist Peter Heintel (1940–2018). Hofmeister stands in the Viennese tradition of "Philosophia perennis".

Works (selection)

  • On moral autonomy and its limits , 1965, (Dissertation University of Vienna in philosophy).
  • Truth and belief. Interpretation and criticism of the language-analytical theory of religion. Oldenburg Vienna and Munich, 1978, (habilitation thesis University of Vienna in philosophy).
  • Think philosophically . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1997. Thinking philosophically
  • as editor: The human being as subject and object of medicine. Neukirchener Verlag Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2000. Table of contents Digitalisat
  • The will to war. Or the impotence of politics , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001. Digitized
  • with Ivan Mikirtumov (ed.): Crisis of local cultures and the philosophical search for identity. Conference brochure. Conference 2012 in St. Petersburg, Lang Frankfurt am Main 2014.

literature

  • David B. Greene: Investigations in European Philosophy: A Translation of Heimo Hofmeister's Philosophical Thinking , E. Mellen Press 2004.

Honor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimo Hofmeister: Man as measure and man according to measure. In: ders. (Ed.): The human being as subject and object of medicine. Neukirchener Verlag Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2000, p. 184 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hofmeister, Heimo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chofmajster, Chajmo; Hofmeister, Heimo E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna