Konrad Cramer

Konrad Niklas Cramer (born December 6, 1933 in Breslau ; † February 12, 2013 in Göttingen ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Career

The son of the philosopher Wolfgang Cramer studied philosophy , sociology , law , Latin and Hispanic studies at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, Tübingen, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and Heidelberg as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1967 he was in Heidelberg in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Dieter Henrich with a study on the Critique of Pure Reason to Dr. phil. PhD.

Until 1974 he worked as a research assistant at the philosophical seminar there. In 1975 the habilitation followed. After two years as a university lecturer, Cramer accepted a position as full professor at the University of Education Westphalia-Lippe , Münster department, in 1977 . In 1980 he moved to the University of Münster as a professor of philosophy . Two years later, Cramer was offered a professorship at the Georg August University of Göttingen , where he researched and taught until his retirement as professor of philosophy.

From 1970 to 1975 he was also secretary of the International Hegel Association . In addition, he worked for several years in various working groups of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 1991 he was appointed to the position of expert for the coordination and processing office for the institutes and facilities of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR . He was a member of the appointment committee for the reorganization of philosophy and political science at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and of the appointment committee there for the appointment of C4 founding professorships in philosophy.

In addition, Cramer took on numerous guest professorships such as 1991/92 at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, 1993/94 at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 1996 and 1998 at the philosophical department of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. In 1999 he became the first holder of the Christian Wolff endowed professorship at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

plant

Cramer specialized in the history of modern philosophy from Descartes to Husserl. Other focal points of his work were questions of subjectivity , metaphysics , philosophical theology and ethics . Cramer researched and published on Immanuel Kant , Baruch Spinoza , Thomas Hobbes , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Friedrich Schleiermacher , Edmund Husserl , Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp . In 1998, as chairman of the management committee of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, he was in charge of the academy's edition of Kant's writings. As co-editor from 1971 to 1985 he was in charge of the Neue Hefte für Philosophie and individual volumes of the monograph series Neue Studien für Philosophie and, from 1996, the critical complete edition of Schleiermacher's writings.

Honors and memberships

• 1970–1975 Secretary of the International Hegel Association
• 1983 Honorary member of the Center for Ethical Research Dr. Riziero Frondizi, Buenos Aires
• 1987 Honorary member of the "Centro de Investigaciones Éticas" of the "Cuadernos de Ética" at the National University of Buenos Aires
• 1997 Full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
• 1998 Awarded the Commemorative Medal by the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow
• 1999 member of the scientific advisory board of the International Schleiermacher Society
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg

Fonts

• Materials on Kant's “Critique of Practical Reason” , (with Rüdiger Bittner ), Frankfurt am Main 1975.
• Non-pure synthetic judgments a priori. A problem in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant , Heidelberg 1985.
• Kant , Bogotá 1987.

Editorships

• Spinoza's ethics and their early effects. Lectures held on the occasion of the 8th Wolfenbütteler Symposium from 6. – 8. December 1979 in the Herzog August Library. Herzog August Library , Wolfenbüttel 1981.
• Theory of subjectivity: Dieter Henrich on his 60th birthday. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990.
• with Christian Beyer : Edmund Husserl 1859-2009. Contributions on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the philosopher's birthday. International symposium in November 2009 organized by the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in conjunction with the Philosophical Seminar of the Georg-August University. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011.
• with Titus Oliver Cramer: Wolfgang Cramer: The absolute reflection: writings from the estate. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2012.

literature

• Jürgen Stolzenberg (Ed.): Subject and Metaphysics: Konrad Cramer in honor of his 65th birthday , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2001
• Ulrich Barth : The subjectivity-theoretical premises of the 'doctrine of faith'. A reply to K. Cramer's Schleiermacher study , in: ders .: Enlightened Protestantism , Tübingen 2004, 329–351.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stolzenberg (Ed.): Subject and Metaphysik , p. 10.