Horst Günther (Author)

Horst Günther (* 1945 ) is a German philosopher and translator.

Günther received his doctorate in 1977 with a thesis on the "semantics of the historical-political world" at the University of Heidelberg . He taught philosophy in Berlin and is also active at the Parisian Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris . He worked as a translator and editor for several publishing houses; he published several books in the Wagenbach publishing house in Berlin .

Günther lives in Berlin and Lyon.

Publications (selection)

• The book-reading book: from reading, lending, collecting; of books that you already have and those that you finally want , Berlin: Wagenbach 1992, ISBN 3-8031-2200-7 (Wagenbach's pocket library series).
• (Ed.): The French Revolution: Reports u. Interpretations of German writers a. Historians , Frankfurt am Main: Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag 1985, ISBN 3-618-66720-5 .
• Freedom, rule and history: semantics of the historical-political world , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1979, (Zugl .: Heidelberg, Univ., Philos.-Histor. Fac., Diss., 1977), ISBN 3-518-07523- 3 .
• (Ed.): Reading between the years. About the power of words. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-458-14376-9 .
• (Translator): Robert Darnton Shiny Businesses: The Dissemination of Diderot's Encyclopedia or: How to Sell Knowledge for a Profit , from the English and French by Horst Günther, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1998, (license from the publisher Wagenbach, Berlin), ISBN 3-596-12335-6 .
• (Translator) Jean-Pierre Vernant : The masked Dionysus: urban planning and gender roles in ancient Greece , with a foreword and from the French by Horst Günther, Berlin: Wagenbach 1996, ISBN 3-8031-5155-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Wagenbach publishing house about Günther