Jürgen Goldstein

Jürgen Goldstein (* 1962 in Beckum ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Goldstein studied philosophy, sociology and Catholic theology at the University of Münster from 1984 to 1991 , where he was a student assistant at the Philosophical Seminar with Manfred Sommer and Karl-Heinz Gerschmann from 1987 to 1991 . From 1991 to 1992 he received a doctoral scholarship from the graduate scholarship of this university. From 1992 to 1994 he received a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation .

After receiving his doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on nominalism and modernity supervised by Johann Baptist Metz . For the constitution of modern subjectivity with Hans Blumenberg and Wilhelm von Ockham , he became a member of the German Society for Philosophy in 1997 . From 2000 to 2003 he received a habilitation grant from the DFG . From 2000 to 2006 he held a continuous teaching position for philosophy at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Koblenz-Landau (Koblenz Department).

After completing his habilitation in 2005 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with a thesis on contingency and rationality in Descartes , supervised by Wolfram Hogrebe . From 2008 to 2009 he was research assistant to Wolfram Hogrebe at the chair for theoretical philosophy at the University of Bonn for a study on the genesis of Cartesianism . From 2009 to 2010 he had a Research Fellowship at the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover (project: reasonable pluralism). In 2010 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau ( Landau campus ). In 2015, the transfer to the chair of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz .

Fonts (selection)

• Nominalism and Modernity. On the constitution of modern subjectivity in Hans Blumenberg and Wilhelm von Ockham . Munich 1998, ISBN 3-495-47863-9 .
• Contingency and rationality in Descartes. A study on the genesis of Cartesianism . Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-7873-1836-4 .
• Perspectives of Political Thought. Six portraits . Weilerswist 2012, ISBN 978-3-942393-30-0 .
• The discovery of nature. Stages of an experience story . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-992-0 .
• Georg Forster. Between freedom and the force of nature . Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-090-1 (3rd edition 2016).
• Hans Blumenberg . A philosophical portrait. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-758-0 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Goldstein

supporting documents

1. ↑ Short biography and reviews of works by Jürgen Goldstein at perlentaucher.de