Herbert Hrachovec

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Herbert Hrachovec (November 2006)

Herbert Hrachovec (born March 30, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian philosopher and since 1991 associate professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna . Since 2001 he has been the deputy director of the institute, from 2005 to 2006 he was the works council for scientific staff and since 2006 he has been a member of the Senate of the University of Vienna.

Life

Herbert Hrachovec grew up in Vienna and Haugsdorf (Lower Austria) and graduated from the Hollabrunn High School in 1965 . In the same year he enrolled at the University of Vienna and took courses in German , history , philosophy and theology . From January 1970 to August 1971, Hrachovec was a student assistant at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in December 1970. phil. (German studies and history); 1974 Paragraph theol. the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna .

From 1972 Hrachovec was a university assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna and was given permanent employment at the end of 1988; He has been an associate professor since October 1991.

Hrachovec taught from 1976 as a university lecturer for formal logic and philosophy and since 1980 as a university lecturer for philosophy.

Since 1994, Hrachovec has dealt with new media both theoretically and experimentally in its courses . On the one hand, he reflects on the new media and their influence on communication and interaction processes; on the other hand, he uses them to supplement and expand his teaching methods. Among other things, he deals intensively with the use of wikis and learning platforms . In the project seminars offered by Hrachovec, philosophical content is prepared for learning platforms. The contents are worked out, discussed and systematized with the students in a wiki environment, in order to then be transformed into a SCORM object.

In addition, Hrachovec suggested the creation of a "Philosophical Audio Library", where audio recordings of philosophical content in MP3 format are offered for download. His own lectures are streamed live and archived in the audio library. Hrachovec is a Linux user and looks after several servers at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

He had research stays at Queens College , Oxford , England (1974/75); University of Münster (1979/80); School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern University , Evanston , USA, (1983); Harvard University , Cambridge Massachusetts , USA (1984); School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College , Hanover , USA (1987); Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation (1987); University of California at Santa Cruz (1990); EU-ARI Scholar at the Wittgenstein Archive of the University of Bergen , Norway (April – May 2004)

Hrachovec stayed in the academic year 1991/92 as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and was a guest at the Science Center North Rhine-Westphalia and the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen . He also worked as a visiting professor at the Bauhaus University Weimar (SS 1997) and at the University of Klagenfurt (WS 2002/3).

In the years 1982 / 83–1984 and 1986 / 87–1988 he was the spokesman for the " Mittelbaukuria " of the professors at the Faculty of Elementary and Integrative Sciences at the University of Vienna and from 1985 to 1986 and 1988 / 89–1990 / 91 deputy spokesman. From autumn 2003 to March 2005 he was deputy chairman, from April 2005 chairman of the curriculum committee of the University of Vienna. He was also from 2001, Deputy Institute board . From 2005 to 2006 he was works council for the scientific staff at the University of Vienna. From 2006 he became a member of the Senate of the University of Vienna.

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Herbert Hrachovec during a discussion at the Wikipedia Academy, August 2007

"[Philosophy] is a double movement: on the one hand we evade, do nothing directly against it, but ask questions; and on the other hand, we question. That gives (since Socrates) the peculiar mixture between lack of character and presumption." (Herbert Hrachovec as part of the project seminar "Freedom in the head")

Works on analytical philosophy , metaphysics and aesthetics as well as Wittgenstein . Current focus of work: New media .

His dissertation in German studies examined the dialect of the Pulkau Valley in Lower Austria using sonographic methods. Initially, however, he was concerned with topics at the interface between philosophy and theology, as well as dealing with Martin Heidegger . The analytical philosophy, based on modern logic from Frege to Wittgenstein, became the starting point for a new philosophical orientation and led him both to the reformulation of central themes of classical philosophy with linguistic-philosophical means (e.g. the concept of subjectivity) and to aesthetics and finally to Theory of digital communication. Characteristic of his texts is a short, playful language, the surprising turns of which often oscillate between analytical sharpness and a hermetic gesture.

Of particular importance in the work of Herbert Hrachovec have his publications, interventions and projects in the area of Digital Media , Digital Communications : He recognized one of the first that the development of digital media in general, the PC and its functionality in particular, and finally the Internet , the challenge philosophical reflection in a variety of perspectives. His focus is on fundamental questions about the terms information, language and communication as well as the media of film and television - and above all the consequences that technical development, especially software development , has for the self-image of philosophical research and teaching . Examples of the breadth of the spectrum: the legendary 'considerations when installing a network card' (In: Die Zeit, 1996); the 1997 publication of The Monist's Interactive Issue; an essay from 2003, which is probably in the running for the philosophical publication with the most beautiful title: 'What is information? A social problem '. The essay 'Evaluating the Bergen Electronic Edition', which was published in 2006 in the anthology 'Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and His Works' (Ed.Pichler, Saatela), is to be emphasized - and recommended to everyone who is interested in the problems of organized research in philosophy. appeared. A precise representation of the interweaving of philosophical interpretation , software and economy of the publication.

The “digital turn” in his scientific biography has not only steered his approach to Wittgenstein's philosophy in new directions, but also his changing but constant preoccupation with classical texts such as Hegel's “ Phenomenology of Spirit ”. Using the concept of " knowledge ", which is also essential for his work , he creates a multitude of references between philosophical, social and university-political issues that respect the temporal and content-related differences, but do not bow to them.

Publications (selection)

Independent publications

  • Plato's Unequal Heirs: Education and Databases . Löcker, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3854095552
  • Philosophy of the Information Society: Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium, Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 2007. (Ed. Together with Alois Pichler). Ontos, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3868380026
  • Small stories and their media . (Ed. Together with Wolfgang Müller-Funk and Birgit Wagner). Turia and Kant, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85132-370-X
  • Filming locations: working on films . Synema, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901644-02-4
  • Measuring: Studies on Subjectivity . Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-87877-317-X
  • Past: Heidegger, Frege, Wittgenstein; 4 attempts . Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-87877-160-6
  • Sonographic investigations on the dialect of the middle Pulkau valley, Lower Austria . VWGÖ, Vienna 1975

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on logic, analytical philosophy and philosophy of science

  • The philosophy of language analysis on the way back to metaphysics, observed in more recent studies on the logic of modalities, in: Philosophische Rundschau 28 (1981). Pp. 67-83
  • Irreconcilable Similarities. Man and Semantic Machines in: Raritan. A Quarterly Review V (1986). Pp. 103-117
  • On the way to speech analysis. About Jacques Derrida to Ernst Tugendhat, in: On the philosophical topicality of Heidegger. Volume 2 (edited by Dietrich Papenfusz and Otto Pöggeler). Frankfurt / Main 1990. pp. 284-295
  • Risking Truth in: Science and Philosophy in Shaping Modern European Culture I-II (edited by Egon G´al, Miroslav Marcelli, Peter Michalovic). Bratislava 1994. pp. 233-243. German version: Risk the truth. A dispute, in: Mesotes 4/1993. Pp. 476-486
  • Holistic Reductionism. The Case against the Case against Carnap, in: La Philosophie autrichienne. Specificit´es et influences. Colloque du 4 au 6 mars 1999 (edited by Mélika Ouelbani). Tunis 2000. pp. 109-125 ISBN 9789973922533 online
  • Picture This! Words versus Images in Wittgenstein's estate, in: Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy. In Honor of JC Nyíri (edited by Tamás Demeter). Amsterdam 2004, pp. 197-209
  • Gotthard Günther's validity, or: the limits of patience in cybernetics — cybernetics. The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. Volume II / Volume II. Essays and Documents / Essays and Documents (edited by Claus Pias). Zurich-Berlin 2004. pp. 263-275
  • Communication difficulties. With Wittgenstein and psychoanalysis, in: sinn makes unconscious - unconscious makes sense (edited by U. Kadi and G. Unterthurner). Würzburg 2005. pp. 85-101

on metaphysics and the philosophy of history

  • Teilhard de Chardin and the theology of the future. A chapter in the controversy over ontology in theology, in: Word and Truth XXVII (1972). Pp. 273-284
  • Learning not to Learn from History, in: Raritan. A Quarterly Review IV (1984). Pp. 109-122
  • For Descartes. To the educated among his despisers, in: Conceptus XIX (1985). Pp. 51-62
  • The Vienna Roundabout: On the Significance of Philosophical Reaction, in: Topoi 6 (1989). Pp. 121-129. Reprinted as Viedenske "Chodenie v Kruhu": O V-yznname filozofickej Reakcie in: Filozofia 46 (1991). Pp. 273-286
  • Home, Time and Difference in: The Fall of the Intellectual (edited by Isolde Charim and Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhoff). Vienna 1996. pp. 11-31
  • Could Democracy be a Unicorn ?, in: The Monist 80: 3 (1997), pp. 423-447
  • Solidarity subversion, in: On the current meaning of the philosophy of Theodor W. Adornos. Communications from the Institute for Science and Art 54/4 (1999) pp. 8–13
  • Technology: Success story, horror picture, scope in: Philosophische Rundschau 51/1 (2004). Pp. 27-52

to aesthetics

  • Ornament and promise, in: Happy is he who forgets. . . ? The other Vienna around 1900 (edited by H.Ch.Ehalt , G. Heiß and H. Stekl) Vienna 1986. pp. 375–390
  • Defiance. Odysseus and the German shipping on the Rhine, in: Denkbie Antike (edited together with Wolfgang Pircher and Gerburg Treusch-Dieter). Berlin 1989. pp. 83-93
  • Sentimentality. Affection by looks, in: Myths of Rationality. Thinking with Klaus Heinrich (edited by René Weiland and Wolfgang Pircher), Vienna - Berlin 1990. pp. 117–134. Reprinted in: Émile. Zeitschrift für Erziehungskultur 3/2 (1990). Pp. 39-54
  • The language of the professional official. The triumph of the status quo. The Guilty Parade. The battle of the sexes, in: Grillparzer pictures 1991. Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies. Germanistic Series Volume 46 (edited by Monika and Michael Klein). Innsbruck 1993. pp. 49-58
  • Apocalyptic Athletes, in: Sport and Aesthetics. Conference of the dvs section on sport philosophy from 25. – 27. June 1992 in Cologne (edited by Volker Gerhardt and Bernd Wirkus). St. August 1995. pp. 31-51
  • Photogenic disappointments in: German Journal for Philosophy 43 (1995). Pp. 455-463
  • Hans Scheugl: "The place of time" in: Avantgardefilm Austria. 1950 until today (edited by A. Horwath, L. Ponger and G. Schlemmer). Vienna 1995. pp. 245-249
  • Home electronics and home disadvantage. Michael Hanekes “Benny's Video“, in: (Ed.): The New Austrian Film (Ed. By G. Schlemmer). Vienna 1996. pp. 286-299
  • Comics on the Bosnian War, in: Medien und Zeit 16 (2001) / 3. Pp. 43-50
  • Grip and concept. On the logic of logos. Comments on visual and linguistic symbols in the market economy, in: Quo Vadis Logo?! (Ed. by Günther Friesinger and Johannes Grenzfurthner ). Vienna 2006

Awards

  • 1987 Research Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
  • 2001 University Prize for "Innovative Teaching"
  • 2002 University Prize for "High Innovation Potential"

Web links

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  1. ↑ Course catalog of the University of Vienna. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / online.univie.ac.at  
  2. ↑ http://audiothek.philo.at
  3. ↑ http://philo.at/wiki/index.php/Die_Debatte_in_der_edition_suhrkamp
  4. ↑ Herbert Hrachovec: Considerations when installing a network card. In: zeit.de . April 26, 1996. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hrachovec, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna