Holger Zaborowski

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Holger Zaborowski (born March 24, 1974 in Haldern ) is a German philosopher .

Life

After graduating from St.-Josef-Gymnasium Bocholt and studying philosophy, Catholic theology and classical philology in Freiburg, Basel and Cambridge as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , he received his doctorate in 2002 at Oxford University in 2002 and in 2010 at the University of Siegen 2010 as Dr. phil. From 2001 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . From 2005 to 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC , USA.

Zabrowski held the chair for the history of philosophy and philosophical ethics at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar from January 2012 . From April 1, 2017 to April 1, 2020 he was also rector of the university.

In 2020 he followed a call to the chair of philosophy at the theological faculty of the University of Erfurt . There he became the successor of Eberhard Tiefensee .

Scientific work

Zaborowski's main focus is on the philosophy of religion , political philosophy , phenomenology and hermeneutics .

Among other things, Zaborowski is co-editor of the Heidegger yearbook, the Martin Heidegger letter edition, the yearbook for the philosophy of religion and the interpretations and sources. He is the second chairman of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft e. V. , member of the board of the Martin Heidegger Foundation, the Comité scientifique des Bulletin Heideggérien (Bhdg), the Board of Directors of the Review of Metaphysics, the Editorial Board of the New Heidegger Research Series and of Gatherings. The Heidegger Circle Annual, the editorial board of the international Catholic magazine Communio and Diakonia.

He has been a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2014 .

Works

  • Scope of freedom. On the hermeneutics of being human . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2009, ISBN 3-495-48242-3 .
  • A question of error and guilt? Martin Heidegger and National Socialism . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18017-2 .
  • Robert Spaemann's Philosophy of the Human Person. Nature, Freedom, and the Critique of Modernity . Oxford 2010, ISBN 0-19-957677-7 .
  • Does atheism undermine the foundations of society? Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2131-8 (= Church and Society; No. 368)
  • with Alfred Denker: Serenity: on the 125th birthday of Martin Heidegger. Heidegger's Messkirch speech from 1955 . Alber Verlag, Freiburg, Br./München, ISBN 978-3-495-48670-2
  • Live reverently. Food for thought for everyday life . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31307-3 .
  • with Martin W. Ramb: Heroes and Legends or: Whether they still have something to say to us today. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1691-1 .
  • with Martin W. Ramb: Beyond Irony. Dialogues of Mercy. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 3-8353-1907-8 .
  • Be human. Philosophical essays. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2016, ISBN 3-495-48815-4 .
  • Tragedy and transcendence. Traces in contemporary literature. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 3-7867-3091-1 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 89.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Zaborowski is the new professor of philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty , message from the University of Erfurt dated April 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Zaborowski, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Haldern