Kurt Röttgers

Kurt Röttgers (born July 21, 1944 in Marienwerder / Westpr. , Kwidzyn in Polish ) is a German philosopher and was Professor of Philosophy at the Distance University in Hagen until 2009 .

Live and act

Kurt Röttgers studied philosophy , German and general linguistics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1964 to 1969 . From 1970 to 1983 he was a research assistant at Bielefeld University . In 1972 he received his doctorate from the Ruhr University Bochum. phil., in 1981 the habilitation followed at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1984 to 2009 Röttgers researched and taught as a professor of philosophy, especially practical philosophy , at the FernUniversität in Hagen . He retired in August 2009. In the same year, Röttgers took on a guest professorship at the Technical and Economic University of Budapest (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem). In 2010 he was made an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest .

Until 2007, Röttger's main focus was on the conceptual history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and continues to be on social philosophy . Röttgers understands this as research into how "sociality and subjectivity are constituted in the innumerable social relationships and their pathologies. Against the background of the relationship between self and other, the question is asked, in particular, about the constitutive role of the third party."

Röttgers began with the history of philosophical concepts in 1973 when he became the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , of which he was a member until 2007. For him, “the reconstruction of the genesis of concepts ... is also the history of a problem. This results in systematic perspectives that cannot be gained from purely subject-oriented research. "

Röttgers found the philosophy of history in 1977. Since "history ... is always one of stories", he endeavored in his research on this "to understand how narrativity and history are related, how time and memory are inscribed in communicative text."

Since about 2000 the main area of ​​work of Röttgers shifted from the philosophy of history to the social philosophy. The important works “Categories of Social Philosophy” and “The Social as Communicative Text” originate from this work area, in which Röttgers replaces the classic exit from the subject with an exit from the in-between, the medium, as the actual fluid of the social; Röttgers calls this medial of the social the “communicative text”.

Since 2016, the second volume of the “Categories of Social Philosophy” has been published as “work in progress”.

Publications

Monographs (selection)

• Criticism and practice. On the history of the concept of criticism from Kant to Marx . (Sources and studies on philosophy, Volume 8) Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 1975, ISBN 978-3-11-004604-5 (also as an e-book).
• The communicative text and the time structure of stories . Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1982, ISBN 3-495-47504-4
• Texts and people . Königshausen & Neumann publishing house, Würzburg 1983, ISBN 978-3-88479-133-2 .
• Traces of power. On the history of terms and systematics . 2nd slightly improved edition, Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1990 (2002 as a PDF file on the author's website).
• Kant's colleague and his unwritten handwriting about the gypsies . Manutius Verlag, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-925678-41-7 .
• Social philosophy. Power - soul - strangeness . The Blue Owl Publishing House, Essen 1997.
• The ruling of the story. (Philosophy & Representation Vol. 6) Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1998, ISBN 978-90-420-0514-3 .
• Categories of social philosophy . (Sozialphilosophische Studien Vol. 1) Scriptum Verlag, Magdeburg 2002, from 2003: Parerga Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-933046-55-6 .
• Metabase. Philosophy of Transitions . (Sozialphilosophische Studien Vol. 4) Scriptum Verlag, Magdeburg 2002, from 2003: Parerga Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-930450-92-3 .
• Devil and angel . (Library of basic dialectical terms). transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. 2005, ISBN 978-3-89942-300-6 .
• with Wolfgang Mack: Social life and soul life. Links to the thoughts of Georg Simmel (Philosophy and Psychology in Dialog, Vol. 1) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-45170-0 .
• Critique of Culinary Reason. A menu of the senses according to Kant . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1215-8 .
• The social as a communicative text. A post-anthropological social philosophy. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2199-0 .
• Headless in the labyrinth. THE BLUE OWL, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89924-353-6 .
• Identity as an event. To find a new concept. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3391-7 .

Editing (selection)

• Historical dictionary of philosophy. Edited by Joachim Ritter , Karlfried founder and Gottfried Gabriel . Verlag Schwabe, Basel, Stuttgart and Darmstadt, ISBN 978-3-7965-0115-9 . Vol. III-XII (1974-2005).
• Social Philosophical Studies. Scriptum Verlag, Magdeburg 2002, from 2003: Parerga Verlag Berlin. Up to 2007: 10 volumes
• with Weyma Lübbe and Hans M. Sass: Politics and culture after the Enlightenment. Festschrift Hermann Lübbe for the 65th birthday. Verlag Schwabe, Basel 1993, ISBN 978-3-7965-0946-9 .
• with Wieland Jäger : the meaning of work. Sociological and economic philosophical considerations. Vs Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15375-9 .
• Thomas Bedorf: The French philosophy in the 20th century. An author's handbook. Scientific Book Society (WBG), Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-20551-6 .
• with Monika Schmitz-Emans: Masks (Philosophical-literary reflections, Vol. 11) Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89924-262-1 .
• with Thomas Bedorf: The Political and the Political. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29557-1 .
• with Thomas R. Eimer and Barbara Völzmann-Stickelbrock : The debate about intellectual property . Interdisciplinary explorations. Law - Political Science - Philosophy. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1570-8 .
• with Monika Schmitz-Emans : Monster . (Philosophical-literary reflections, Vol. 12) Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89924-301-7 .
• Plural socio-ontology and state: Jean-Luc Nancy , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-4001-7 . doi: 10.5771 / 9783845282862

In addition, Kurt Röttgers is the editor of other publications and author of 141 articles.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ All quotations from Kurt Röttgers' website
2. ↑ Kurt Röttgers: Who or what is a medium? (PDF file; accessed December 2, 2015)
3. ↑ Kurt Röttgers: Categories of Social Philosophy II. Work in Progress. Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ Publications by Kurt Röttger

Web links

• Website by Kurt Röttgers
• Literature by and about Kurt Röttgers in the catalog of the German National Library