Marie-Luise Heuser

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Marie-Luise Heuser (also Heuser-Keßler; born June 7, 1954 in Bensberg ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Heuser studied philosophy, history, physics and mathematics. During her studies she worked as a research assistant to the technical historian Wolfgang König in the Association of German Engineers . After the first state examination, the doctorate followed with Wolfram Hogrebe and Alois Huning at the University of Düsseldorf with a thesis on Schelling's natural philosophy and the new paradigm of self-organization in the natural sciences . From 1986 she taught at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Heidelberg. From 1991 to 1993 she was a research associate in the special research area 230 Natural Constructions at the University of Stuttgart together with Hermann Haken , Arne Wunderlin and Frei Otto , where she researched the history of the concept of self-organization. At the University Clinic in Düsseldorf , Heuser worked on the history of psychiatry at the Düsseldorf clinic against the background of the general history of psychiatry. Since 2002 she has been a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

Since 2015 she has been head of the newly established working group for culture and space travel at the Institute for Space Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig . There she researched the history of ideas and philosophy of space travel since antiquity and offered interdisciplinary courses for the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities and Education.

After she founded the international cooperation group for culture and space travel in 2004, she has been the managing director of the Society for Culture and Space Travel eV since 2010

In 2020, she also took over the management of the specialist committee for space travel and culture in the German Aerospace Society (DGLR)

Heuser has two daughters.

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Heuser became known through her work on Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , whose dynamic natural philosophy she related to the self-organization models of modern physics. The reviews and international references to her work emphasize that Schelling's natural philosophy has thus received a new reading. Schelling's natural philosophy, which was forgotten in the context of a mechanistic understanding of nature and no longer understood, gained new validity and topicality. Her research has recently contributed to a Schelling renaissance in English-language philosophy. Her discovery that the concept of “self-organization” conveyed via the tradition of Schellingian crystallography into the foundation of modern mathematics and from there into modern physics is gaining increasing attention.

Her work on philosophy and the sciences in the Renaissance, which she carried out parallel to her Schelling studies, concerned, for example, early science fiction such as in Kepler's Somnium or Giordano Bruno's virtual space travel in De Immenso . In 1991 she found that Kepler's book Neujahrsgabe (New Year's Gift) or of the hexagonal snow , in which the regular shape of snow crystals is traced back to minimum principles and dense regular spherical packings, was probably influenced in this respect and right down to the graphics used by Giordano Bruno's concept of geometry and the theory of minimums.

In 1990 she received the NRW Research Prize for her achievements. She is currently working on the philosophy of space, the history of ideas in space travel and science fiction. Her teaching and research activities focus on metaphysics, the philosophy of nature and science, the philosophy of culture and technology, and aesthetics.

Awards

  • “Research Prize NRW”, awarded in 1990 by the Minister for Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Lise Meitner scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Fonts (selection)

  • The productivity of nature. Schelling's natural philosophy and the new paradigm of self-organization in the natural sciences. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1986. ISBN 3-428-06079-2 .
  • Schelling's Concept of Self-Organization. In: R. Friedrich / A. Wunderlin (ed.): Evolution of dynamical structures in complex systems. Springer Proceedings in Physics, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York (Springer) 1992, pp. 395-415.
  • Georg Cantor's transfinite numbers and Giordano Bruno's idea of ​​infinity. In: self-organization. Yearbook for Complexity in the Natural, Social and Human Sciences. Edited by Uwe Niedersen, Vol. 2: The human being in order and chaos. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1991, pp. 222-244.
  • together with Wilhelm G. Jacobs ed .: Schelling and self-organization. New research perspectives. Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1994. ISBN 3-428-08066-1 .
  • Ed. together with Frank Sparing: Hereditary Biological Selection and "Euthanasia". Psychiatry in Düsseldorf during National Socialism. Essen (Klartextverlag) 2001. ISBN 3-89861-041-1 .
  • Schelling, in: Wulff Rehfus (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Philosophie. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), Göttingen 2003.
  • The beginnings of topology in mathematics and natural philosophy. In: Stephan Günzel (Ed.): Topology. For the description of space in cultural and media studies. Bielefeld (transcript Verlag) 2007, pp. 183-202.
  • Romance and society. The economic theory of productive forces. In: Myriam Gerhard (Ed.): Oldenburger Jahrbuch für Philosophie 2007. Oldenburg 2008, pp. 253–277.
  • Transterrestric in the Renaissance: Nikolaus von Kues, Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler. In: M. Schetsche, M. Engelbrecht (Ed.): From humans and extraterrestrials. Transterrestrial encounters as reflected in cultural studies. Bielefeld (transcript Verlag) 2008, pp. 55-79.
  • Kepler's theory of the self-structuring of snowflakes against the background of Neoplatonic philosophy of mathematics. In: Self-Organization , Vol. 3, ed. v. Uwe Niedersen, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1992, pp. 237-258. ISBN 3-428-07515-3 .
  • Russian cosmism and extraterrestrial suprematism. In: Annette Tietenberg / Tristan Weddigen (eds.): Planetary Perspectives. Images of space travel. (Critical Reports Volume 37, Issue 3, 2009), Marburg 2009, pp. 62–75.
  • The Significance of “Natural Philosophy” for Justus and Hermann Grassmann. In: Hans-Joachim Petsche (Ed.): From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context. Basel / Boston / Berlin (Birkhäuser) 2011, 49–60.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, in: Wulff D. Rehfus (Ed.): History of Philosophy I-IV. Göttingen / Bristol i. USA (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht UTB) 2012, pp. 121–129. ISBN 978-3-8252-3680-9 .
  • Autopoiesis and synergetics. Concepts of self-organization :, in: Tatjana Petzer / Stephan Steiner (eds.), Synergie. Culture and knowledge history of a figure of thought, Paderborn (Wilhelm Fink) 2016, 149–166. ISBN 978-3770558964
  • Spatial ontology and space travel around 1600 and around 1900. Tübingen 2016: here .
  • Space Philosophy. Schelling and the Mathematicians of the 19th Century, in: Angelaki. Journal of the theoretical humanities, vol. 21, number 4, December 2016, Routledge / London; doi : 10.1080 / 0969725X.2016.1229417
  • Return to the Moon, in: Earth System Knowledge Platform [www.eskp.de], Volume 6. 15th July 2019, {{DOI: 10.2312 / eskp.015}}

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One result of this activity was her collaboration on the volume: Technik, Ingenieure und Gesellschaft. History of the Association of German Engineers 1856-1981 , Düsseldorf 1981 (VDI-Verlag) (co-author).
  2. ↑ See e.g. B. Marie-Luise Heuser u. Frank Sparing (ed.): Hereditary biological selection and "euthanasia". Psychiatry in Düsseldorf during National Socialism , Essen (Klartextverlag) 2001.
  3. ^ Culture and space travel
  4. ^ Technical Committee Space and Culture in the DGLR [1]
  5. ^ Marie-Luise Heuser: The productivity of nature. Schelling's natural philosophy and the new paradigm of self-organization in the natural sciences , Berlin (Duncker & Humblot) 1986. ISBN 3-428-06079-2 . See also her English contribution Schelling's Concept of Selforganization , in: R. Friedrich / A. Wunderlin (ed.), Evolution of dynamical structures in complex systems, Springer Proceedings in Physics, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York (Springer) 1992, pp. 395-415.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B .: Alois Huning, self-organization of matter. On the long tradition of a modern theory , in: VDI-Nachrichten, February 6, 1987, p. 14. Peter Eisenhardt, Schelling's natural philosophy and the new paradigm of self-organization in the natural sciences , in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, (1988) 1, p 71-75. Guenter Küppers, The productivity of nature , in: Quarterly Review of Biology, 63 (1988) 2, pp. 256-257. Emilio G. Estébanez, The Productivity of Nature , in: Estudios Filosoficos , 106 (1988) 37, pp. 618-619. Erich Mende, The re-evaluation of Schelling's natural philosophy , in: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 41 (1988) 3, pp. 309-312. Rainer Beer, The Productivity of Nature. Schelling's Natural Philosophy and the New Paradigma of Self-Organization in the Sciences , in: Philosophy and History, (1989) 1, pp. 16-18. Engelbert Schramm, The Productivity of Nature , in: Sudhoffs Archiv, 73 (1989) 2. Hermann Braun, A need for Schelling , in: Philosophische Rundschau , 37 (1990) 4, pp. 321–32.
  7. ^ Matthew David Segall: The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency . Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014, ISBN 3-659-52424-7 .
  8. ^ Marie-Luise Heuser: Space Philosophy . In: Tyler Tritten, Daniel Whistler (Eds.): Angelaki; Special Issue: nature, speculation and the return to schelling . Vol. 21, 2016. Routledge, London.
  9. ^ Arran Gare: Overcoming the Newtonian paradigm . ( ibiomath.org [PDF]).
  10. ↑ See for example Marie-Luise Heuser, Transterrestrik in the Renaissance: Nikolaus von Kues, Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler. In: M. Schetsche, M. Engelbrecht (Ed.): From humans and extraterrestrials. Transterrestrial encounters as reflected in cultural studies. Bielefeld (transcript Verlag) 2008, pp. 55-79.
  11. ↑ Quoted, for example, in Jörg Hartmann, Do astronomers dream of a man in the moon? Kepler's "Somnium" (1634) and Méliès "La lune à un mètre" (1898) in a geopoetic comparison: https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/69382 ; Landfester, U., Remuss, N.-L., Schrogl, K.-U., Worms, J.-C. (Eds.): Humans in Outer Space, Vienna / New York (Springer-Verlag) 2011, pp. 168–169.
  12. ↑ Marie-Luise Heuser, Maximum and Minimum: On Bruno's foundation of geometry in the Articuli adversus mathematicos and its further application in Kepler's New Year's gift or on the hexagonal snow, in: K. Heipcke, W. Neuser, E. Wicke (eds.), Giordano Bruno's Frankfurt writings and their requirements, Weinheim 1991, pp. 181–197.
  13. ↑ Miguel A. Granada: Kepler and Bruno on the infinity of the universe and of solar systems, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2008, p. 490f, footnote 50. Online
personal data
SURNAME Heuser, Marie-Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heuser-Keßler, Marie-Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg