Heinz-Ulrich Name

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Heinz-Ulrich Nennen (* 1955 in Rheine im Emsland ) is a German philosopher. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Institute of Philosophy.

Career

Nennen studied philosophy, sociology and education in Münster. He received his doctorate in 1989 with a dissertation entitled “Ecology in Discourse.” From 1993 to 2001 he worked in the field of discourse at the Academy for Technology Assessment in Stuttgart. In 2002/2003 he taught at the chair for philosophy of technology in Cottbus. His habilitation followed in 2003 with a study on the Sloterdijk debate entitled “Philosophy in Real Time”. Since 2004 he has been a university professor for philosophy in Karlsruhe.

Philosophical theory and practice

Courses

  • Philosophy - European history of culture and ideas (EuKliD) - Basic ethical and philosophical studies (EPG), (teaching at high school) - Seminars on self-awareness at the House of Competence (HoC).
  • Topics: Philosophical psychology - self-awareness, hero's journey - myths, fairy tales, master stories - psychogenesis, history of ideas - orientation knowledge, self-orientation - body, soul, love, self and spirit - dialogues, discourses and metaphors - hermeneutics - technology assessment - zeitgeist and discourse analyzes.

Outside the university

Nennen runs a philosophical practice in Münster and moderates philosophical cafés.

Publications (selection)

  • The human being as the measure of all things? About Protagoras, Prometheus and Pandora. (= ZeitGeister. Volume 1). Tredition, Hamburg 2018.
  • Philosophy in real time. The Sloterdijk Debate: Chronicle of a Production. About metaphor assessment, the art of the spectator and the pathology of discourse. Wuerzburg 2003.
  • Ecology in Discourse. Studies on basic questions of anthropology, ecology and the ethics of science. With a foreword by Dieter Birnbacher . Opladen 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publishing house Königshausen
personal data
SURNAME Name, Heinz-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine