Johannes Rohbeck

Johannes Rohbeck (born January 21, 1947 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German philosopher and didactic specialist in philosophy. From 1993 to 2015 he was Professor of Practical Philosophy and Philosophy Didactics at the TU Dresden . From 2015 to 2018 he was senior professor for research there.

Life

After studying philosophy, German literature, sociology and art history at the University of Bonn and the Free University of Berlin , the Magister exam in philosophy followed in 1971, a time as a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1976 and there in 1976 PhD in Philosophy. In 1976 he also passed the first state examination in philosophy, German and social studies and completed a legal clerkship and second state examination by 1979. In 1985, he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, then a private lecturer there.

Professionally, from 1979–1990 he was a teacher at a Berlin high school, 1982–1992 head of teacher training for philosophy in Berlin, 1991–1993 lecturer and representative of the chair for practical philosophy at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald and since 1992 adjunct professor at the Free University of Berlin.

From 1993 to 2015 he was Professor of Practical Philosophy and Philosophy Didactics at the Technical University of Dresden (2012–2015 as Senior Professor). During this time he was also a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Technology Research; from 1995 to 2015 member of the Board of Trustees of the Outline of the History of Philosophy (founded by Friedrich Ueberweg ); From 2004 to 2014 member of the research project Una nueva filosofía de la historia at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science . From 2014 to 2018 he headed the Dresden group of the research project Philosophy of History and Globalization of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges between Europe and Latin America (short name: Worldbridges) as part of a funding program of the European Union (FP7-People-2013-IRSES). In this position he was senior professor for research at the Technical University of Dresden.

Stays abroad resulted in 1987 as a visiting professor for four months at the University of Messina , in 1989/90 a one-year stay in the USA as a visiting professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania), in 1992 as a visiting professor for one month at the University of Bari , and research stays in 1997 and 1999 Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France , 2004 in Madrid at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , 2016 to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and in 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2017 in Buenos Aires Universidad de Buenos Aires . In the 2018/19 winter semester he was visiting professor (Cátedra de Excelencia) at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.

Monographs

• Selfishness and sympathy. David Hume's social and epistemology . Frankfurt a. M. 1978.
• The Enlightenment Theory of Progress. French and English philosophy of history in the second half of the 18th century . Frankfurt a. M./New York 1987.
• Technological judgment. To an ethic of technical action . Frankfurt a. M. 1993.
• Technology - culture - history. A rehabilitation of the philosophy of history . Frankfurt a. M. 2000.
• History philosophy as an introduction . Hamburg 2004, 2nd edition 2008, 3rd edition 2015. Spanish edition: Filosofía de la historia - Historicismo - Posthistoria. Una introducción al la razón histórica . Traducción Christian Baumann, Revisión Antonio Gómez Ramos. Granada 2015.
• Marx . Leipzig 2006, 2nd edition 2014: Spanish edition: Marx . Traducción Manuel Orozco Péres. Madrid 2016.
• Didactics of philosophy and ethics . Dresden 2008, 2nd edition 2010, 3rd edition 2013, 4th edition 2016.
• Enlightenment and history. About a practical history philosophy of the future . Berlin 2010.
• Future of history. History philosophy and future ethics . Berlin 2013.

Editions

• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. About the advancement of the human mind. Frankfurt a. M. 1990 (with Lieselotte Steinbrügge).
• Philosophy and worldview. Dresden 1999.
• Methods of Philosophizing. Dresden 2000.
• Schools of thought of philosophy. Dresden 2001.
• Ethics in the classroom. Leipzig 2001.
• On the way to the university. Cultural studies in Dresden 1887-1945. Dresden 2002 (with Hans-Ulrich Wöhler).
• Thought styles of philosophy. Dresden 2002.
• Education and criticism of the education in France. Self-interpretations of the 18th century in the mirror of contemporaries. Berlin 2003 (with Sonja Asal).
• Practical philosophy. (Practical Handbooks Philosophy / Ethics, Volume 2). Hanover 2003.
• Didactic transformations. Dresden 2003.
• Philosophy of history and cultural criticism. Historical and systematic studies. Darmstadt 2003 (with Herta Nagl-Docekal ).
• Basic ethical and philosophical competence . Dresden 2004.
• Illustrative thinking . Dresden 2005.
• Philosophical education and training . Dresden 2006 (with Volker Steenblock).
• Two cultures of science - revisited . Göttingen 2007 (with Jost Halfmann).
• University Didactics Philosophy . Dresden 2007.
• Marx. Philosophical and economic writings . Stuttgart: Reclams Universal Library 2008 (with Peggy H. Breitenstein).
• Empirical teaching research and philosophy didactics . Dresden 2008 (with Urs Thurnherr and Volker Steenblock).
• Measure - measure. Assessment of performance in philosophy classes and ethics classes . Dresden 2011 (with Donat Schmidt and Peter von Runthendorf).
• Philosophy and worldview . Dresden 2011 (with Gisela Raupach-Strey).
• Philosophy. History, disciplines, skills . Stuttgart 2011 (with Peggy H. Breitenstein).
• Applied Philosophy . Dresden 2012 (with Christa Runtenberg ).
• Didactic concepts . Dresden 2012.
• Philosophy and Understanding in a Plural Society . Dresden 2014 (with Markus Thiedemann).
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The two discourses on civilization criticism . Berlin 2015 (with Lieselotte Steinbrügge).
• Experimental philosophy and philosophy didactics . Dresden 2015.
• Philosophers in Philosophy Classes - A Handbook . Dresden 2015 (with Ruth Hagengruber).
• Empirical research in philosophy and ethics didactics . Dresden 2016 (with Julia Dietrich and Cordula Brand).
• Philosophy of globalization . Dresden 2017.
• Philosophy of Globalization . Berlin 2018 (with Concha Roldán and Daniel Brauer).

school books

• Thinking about the story. Texts and questions about the philosophy of history . Hanover 1984, second edition 1992 (with Gerhard Voigt)
• Questions to history . Reading booklet for upper secondary school. Leipzig 2011.
• Adventure ethics . Saxony, Volume 1–3, Bamberg 2012–2014 (with Monika Sänger).

Editorial activity

• Outline of the history of philosophy - The philosophy of the 18th century (founded by Friedrich Ueberweg).
  • Volumes 2.1 and 2.2: France , Basel 2008 (with Helmut Holzhey )
  • Volume 3: Italy , Basel 2011 (with Wolfgang Rother )
  • Volume 4: Spain, Portugal and Latin America , Basel 2016 (with Wolfgang Rother)
• Journal for didactics of philosophy and ethics , Siebert Verlag Hannover. From 1984 to 2013 co-editor, since 2013 advisory editor with Ekkehard Martens . Editors: Vanessa Albus , Bettina Bussmann , Volker Haase , Donat Schmidt , Volker Steenblock and Markus Tiedemann .
• Yearbook for Didactics of Philosophy and Ethics . Thelem Verlag Dresden, publisher from 2000 to 2017.

Selected essays from recent years

• Explanatory Historiography and Teleology of History . In: Jörn Garber and Heinz Thoma (eds.), Between Empiricization and Construction Achievement: Anthropology in the 18th Century. Century, Halle 2004, 77–99.
• Natural history and human history. Georg Forster's philosophy of history in the context of the European Enlightenment . In: Jörn Graber and Tanja van Hoorn (eds.), Nature - People - Culture. Georg Forster in the field of knowledge of his time, Hanover 2006, 13–28.
• Universal history and globalization. On the topicality of Schiller's philosophy of history . In: Michael Hofmann, Jörn Rüsen, Mirjam Springer (eds.), Schiller und die Geschichte, Munich 2006, 79–92.
• Evolution and history . In: Jost Halfmann and Johannes Rohbeck (eds.): Two cultures of science - revisited, Göttingen 2007, 52–69.
• For a filosofía crítica de la historia . In: Isegoría. Revista de filosofía moral y política del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, N.0 36, Madrid enero-junio 2007, 63-79.
• The global space in the philosophy of history of the Enlightenment and the present . In: Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile, Joachim Gessinger and Thomas Gil (eds.): Transformations of reason. Aspects of the history of the effects of the Enlightenment, Hannover 2008, 131–153.
• Sobre el trato razonable con la contingencia histórica . In: Conca Roldán and Óscar Moro (eds.): Aproximaciones a la contingencia. Historia y actualidad de una idea, Madrid 2009, 205–220.
• The narrative function of history steleology . In: Veit Elm (Ed.), Scientific storytelling in the 18th century. History - Encyclopedia - Literature, Berlin 2010, 21–37.
• Etica para a civilização tecnológica: Em diálogo com Hans Jonas . In: Robinson dos Santos, Jelson Oliveira, Lourenço Zancanaro, São Paulo 2011, 269–284.
• Plazos de la Responsabilidad . In: Perspectivas actuales de la filosofía de la historia. azafea. Revista de Filosofía, Vol. 13, Salamanca 2011, 93-108.
• Teleology and contingency in the philosophy of history of the Enlightenment . In: Valérie Kobi (ed.), From theory to practice. Theories and their implementation in the Age of Enlightenment, Genève 2011.
• To anticipate future change . In: Stefan Deines, Daniel Martin Feige, Martin Seel (eds.): Forms of cultural change, Bielefeld 2012, 247–269.
• Filosofía de la historia y ética del futuro . In: Fina Birulés, Antonio Gómez Ramos, Concha Roldán (eds.): Vivir para pensar. Ensayosen homaje a Manuel Cruz, Barcelona 2012, 151–166.
• Acción e historia . In: Faustino Oncina Coves (ed.): Tradición e innovación en la historia intellectual. Métodos historiográficos, Madrid 2013, 95-104.
• Enlightenment and Historicism - the topicality of historical Enlightenment . In: Georg Neugebauer, Paolo Panizzo, Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (eds.): “Enlightenment” around 1900. Classical modernism disputes its history of origin, Paderborn 2014, 195–205.
• For a new philosophy of history . In: German Journal for Philosophy, Volume 62, Issue 1, Berlin 2014, 1–22.
• Experimental philosophy didactics . In: Journal for Didactics of Philosophy and Ethics. 36th year 2014, issue 2, 3–9.
• Chance and contingency in the philosophy of history . In: Gerd Jüttemann (ed.): Developments of humanity. Human sciences in the perspective of integration, Lengrich 2014, 49–56.
• Saving criticism of the philosophy of history. Immanuel Kant in a European context . In: Journal for Critical Social Theory and Philosophy, Volume 1 (2014), Issue 2, 350–376.
• Narrative and story . In: Monika Fludernik / Nicole Falkenhayner / Julia Steiner (eds.): Factual and fictional storytelling. Interdisciplinary perspectives. Würzburg 2015, 95–113.
• Didactic transformations . In: Julian Nida-Rümelin, Irina Spiegel, Markus Tiedemann (eds.): Handbook Philosophy and Ethics, Volume 1: Didaktik und Methodik, Stuttgart 2015, 48–56.
• Future and history . In: Julian Nida-Rümelin, Irina Spiegel, Markus Tiedemann (eds.): Handbook Philosophy and Ethics, Volume 2: Disciplines and Topics, Stuttgart 2015, 220–227.
• Theory of Globalization and Philosophy of History . In: Johannes Rohbeck (Ed.): Philosophy of Globalization. Dresden 2017, 155–182.
• Economy and history without telos. Marx's approach to history theory in the field of tension between philosophy of history and evolutionary economics . In: Rainer Lucas, Reinhard Pfriem and Claus Thomasberger (eds.): In search of the economic - Karl Marx for his 200th birthday, Marburg 2018, pp. 371–400 (with Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt).
• Perfection and teleology in the philosophy of history of the Enlightenment . In: Constanze Baron and Christian Soboth (eds.): Perfectionism and perfectibility. Theories of Perfection in Pietism and Enlightenment, Hamburg 2018, pp. 117–132.

literature

• Rohbeck, Johannes. In: Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 785.

Web links

• Website at the TU Dresden
• Literature by and about Johannes Rohbeck in the catalog of the German National Library