Martin Morgenstern (philosopher)

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Martin Morgenstern (born December 15, 1953 in Niederkirchen ) is a German philosopher and non-fiction author .

life and work

Morgenstern studied philosophy and German in Heidelberg and Saarbrücken . After his legal clerkship, he worked as a teacher at the Diakonisches Werk an der Saar. In 1984 he received his doctorate with a study on "Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Natural Science", in which he examined the importance of Schopenhauer for modern philosophy of science . From 1992 to 1998 he was a lecturer at Saarland University . Since 2002 he has been working in the school service of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Since the 1990s, Morgenstern and Robert Zimmer published introductions and textbooks on philosophy and its history as well as biographical works on Karl Popper and Hans Albert , the two main representatives of critical rationalism . He dedicated two introductory books to Nicolai Hartmann and edited the posthumous Hartmann manuscripts of the Marxist Wolfgang Harich , who was persecuted in the GDR . Morgenstern presented an overview of the most important trends in metaphysics in the 19th and 20th centuries in his book Metaphysics in Modernity . Morgenstern is co-editor of the philosophical journal Enlightenment and Criticism .

Selected publications

  • With Robert Zimmer: The Big Questions. An overview of philosophical problems , Reclam, Philipp, jun. GmbH, Verlag (June 1, 2011), ISBN 3-1502-0216-7 .
  • With Robert Zimmer (ed.): Conversations with Hans Albert , LIT-Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-10957-6 .
  • Metaphysics in the Modern Age. From Schopenhauer to the present , Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09228-9 .
  • With Robert Zimmer: Karl Popper , dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-31060-X .
  • Nicolai Hartmann for an introduction , Junius, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88506-942-3 .
  • Schopenhauer's philosophy of natural science , Bouvier, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-416-01882-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederkirchen (St. Wendel)