Johann Kreuzer

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Johann Kreuzer (born November 29, 1954 in Lanz ) is a German philosophy historian and university professor .

Life

Kreuzer studied philosophy , German literature and comparative religion at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1984 . From 1987 to 1992 he was a research assistant and then from 1992 to 1996 senior assistant in philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . After substitute professorships at the Universities of Münster , Cologne and the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as a visiting professorship at the Charles University in Prague , Kreuzer was appointed to the professorship for the history of philosophy at the University of Oldenburg in 2002 . He is head of the Adorno Research Center and the Hannah Arendt Center there and has been a board member of the international Hölderlin Society since 2010 .

Focus

Johann Kreuzer's main research areas are the history and criticism of metaphysics from antiquity to the present, German idealism with a focus on Hölderlin , aesthetic theory and critical theory .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Memory. On the connection between Holderlin's theoretical fragments "The setting fatherland ..." and "When the poet is once master of the spirit ..." . Hain, Königstein 1985 (dissertation, Free University Berlin, 1984).
  • Pulchritudo. From the knowledge of God in Augustine. Notes on Books IX, X, and XI of the Confessions. Munich 1995 (habilitation thesis, University of Wuppertal, 1992).
  • Augustine. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1995; Revised edition: Augustine for an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2005; 2nd, supplemented edition 2013.
  • Shaping medieval philosophy. Augustine, Eriugena, Eckhart, Tauler, Nikolaus von Kues. Fink, Munich 2000.

Editorships

  • Holderlin Handbook. Life - work - effect. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2002.
  • with Georg Mohr: The Reality of Time. Fink, Munich 2007.
  • Hegel's topicality. About the reality of reason in post-metaphysical time. Fink, Munich 2010.
  • with Richard Klein and Stefan Müller-Doohm : Adorno-Handbuch. Life - work - effect. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011.
  • with Georg Mohr: On the sense of hearing. Contributions to the philosophy of music. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012.

items

  • Traces of Augustine near Wittgenstein. In: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Kirchberg am Wechsel 1995.
  • Missing links. On thinking about memory in Wittgenstein and in Benjamin and Adorno. In: Wittgenstein Studies. 1/1996. Passau 1996.
  • Wittgenstein on seeing and remembering. In: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Kirchberg am Wechsel 1998.
  • The spirit as a living mirror. On the theory of the intellect with Meister Eckhart and Nikolaus von Kues. In: Yearbook of the Meister Eckhart Society. 4/2010. Stuttgart 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Research focus , Johann Kreuzer on the website of the University of Oldenburg, accessed on August 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of philosophy and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanz (Störnstein)