Lothar Kreimendahl

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Lothar Kreimendahl (* 1949 in Wuppertal ) is a German philosopher. His research focuses on modern philosophy , British empiricism ( David Hume ), the German ( Christian Wolff , Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten ) and French Enlightenment ( Pierre Bayle ) as well as Kant's transcendental philosophy , which he genetically investigates, which is why he also wrote the so-called pre-critical writings pays great attention. Kreimendahl also tries to find a philosophically and historically appropriate interpretation of Mozart's music-dramatic work in the spirit of the Enlightenment.

Life

In 1981 Kreimendahl received his doctorate with the dissertation Hume's hidden rationalism . In 1990 he received his habilitation with the font Kant. The breakthrough of 1769 . He and his teacher Günter Gawlick in Bochum have been working together for decades. From 1995 to 2017 he was full professor of philosophy at the University of Mannheim , where he headed the Lambert Edition department from 2005 to 2014. In collaboration with Norbert Hinske , Michael Oberhausen and other researchers from the University of Trier , he worked on the Kant index at the University of Mannheim .

Works

Monographs

  • Hume's hidden rationalism , Berlin / New York 1982.
  • with Günter Gawlick : Hume in the German Enlightenment. Outline of a reception history , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1987.
  • Kant. The breakthrough of 1769 , Cologne 1990.
  • Major works of philosophy: Rationalism and Empiricism , Stuttgart 1994 ("Interpretations" series).
  • "I hate the church". Studies on the Philosophy of Religion David Humes , Würzburg 2012.

Editorships

  • Étienne Bonnot de Condillac : Treatise on Sensations , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 1983.
  • Christian Wolff : Discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere. Introductory treatise on philosophy in general , translated, introduced and edited by Lothar Kreimendahl and Günter Gawlick, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1996.
  • David Hume : The Natural History of Religion . About superstition and enthusiasm. About the immortality of the soul. About suicide , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 1999.
  • 17th century philosophers. An introduction, edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Darmstadt 1999.
  • 18th century philosophers. An introduction , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Darmstadt 2000.
  • Pierre Bayle : Historical and Critical Dictionary . A selection, translated and edited by Günter Gawlick and Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2003.
  • Enlightenment, Volume 15. Arkanwelten in a political context , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2003.
  • Enlightenment, Volume 16 , The Philosophy in Pierre Bayle's "Dictionnaire historique et critique" , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2004.
  • Christian Wolff : Introductory treatise on philosophy in general , translated, introduced and edited by Lothar Kreimendahl and Günter Gawlick, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005.
  • Enlightenment, Volume 17 , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2005.
  • Enlightenment, Volume 18: John Locke. Aspects of his theoretical and practical philosophy , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2006.
  • Pierre Bayle: Historical and Critical Dictionary. Second part of the selection, translated and edited by Günter Gawlick and Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2006.
  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten : Metaphysica / Metaphysics , translated, introduced and edited by Günter Gawlick and Lothar Kreimendahl, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2010.
  • Mozart and the European Late Enlightenment , edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2010.
  • Immanuel Kant : The only possible evidence for a demonstration of the existence of God . Historical-critical edition , annotated, annotated and edited by Lothar Kreimendahl and Michael Oberhausen, Hamburg 2011.
  • David Hume: Dialogues on Natural Religion , translated, introduced, commented and edited by Lothar Kreimendahl, Hamburg 2016.
  • Immanuel Kant: New Reflections. The early Notate zu Baumgarten's "Metaphysica ", with an edition of the third edition of this work, ed. by Günter Gawlick, Lothar Kreimendahl and Werner Stark in collaboration with Michael Oberhausen and Michael Trauth, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Mannheim: Office Lambert Edition. August 1, 2016, accessed February 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreimendahl, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal