Martin Gessmann

Martin Gessmann (* 1962) is a German philosopher . Since 2011 he has been teaching as a professor for cultural and technological theories and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main .

Life

Gessmann studied philosophy, German and Romance languages ​​at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , followed by studies abroad in Nantes and Washington and his doctorate from 1989 to 1992. Gessmann was a research associate at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (1993-1995) and on from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1996–1997), where he also worked as a television journalist for SWR, WDR and ZDF between 1993 and 1996. In 1998 he received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation; 1999–2002 he held a position as research assistant in Heidelberg, the position of senior assistant from 2003 to 2008. 2008–2009 he was a fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg of the University of Heidelberg. W. Neuser at the University of Kaiserslautern . In June 2010 he was appointed university professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Since October 2011 he has been teaching as professor for cultural and technological theories and aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main . From 2003 Gessmann was also the chief editor of the Philosophische Rundschau until he took over the editorial office of the magazine together with Jens Halfwassen and Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer . He has also been a member of the jury for the Raymond Aron Translation Prize and editor of the Philosophical Dictionary since 2007 .

Work areas

Gessmann's research areas include modern theory , the connection between phenomenology / hermeneutics and neurosciences, as well as film theory , cultural theory and the theory of technology .

Fonts

Monographs

• Montaigne and the modern age. Felix Meiner, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7873-1339-7 .
• Hegel. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1999, ISBN 3-926642-44-0 .
• Wittgenstein as a moralist. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1146-5 .
• What a person really needs. Fink, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4790-6 .
• Philosophy of football. Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5105-7 ( review ).
• On the future of hermeneutics. Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5092-0 .
• When the world goes to pieces Why we philosophize. Fink, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5658-8 .
• With Nietzsche in the stadium. Society's football. Fink, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5761-5 ( review ).
• together with Hannah Monyer: The ingenious memory. How the brain turns the past into our future. Knaus, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8135-0690-7 .

As editor

• The uninterrupted dialogue. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-12357-2 .
• together with Felix Heidenreich: Education in France and Germany: A comparison of ideals and politics. LIT, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-0006-7 .
• Philosophical Dictionary. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-01323-1 .

Web links

• Martin Gessmann: The uninterrupted dialogue: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida. In: Ruperto Carola (research magazine of the University of Heidelberg), 3/2004.
• Brief presentation on the website of the Offenbach University of Design (with list of publications).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Editorial mohrsiebeck.com