Martin Seel

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Martin Seel, in December 2016 at the 44th Römerberg Talks in the Chagall Hall in Frankfurt am Main

Martin Seel (born September 20, 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German philosopher and university professor. He has been teaching at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt since 2004 . Seel is considered to be a representative of the "third generation" of the Frankfurt School . He has also been known since 1998 through journalistic publications.

Life

Seel studied German , philosophy and history in Marburg and Konstanz . In 1984 he received his doctorate in philosophy with Albrecht Wellmer . In 1990 his habilitation took place in Konstanz. From 1992 to 1995 he taught at the University of Hamburg as a professor of philosophy and from 1995 to 2004 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 2004 he took over a professorship for philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Seel has been a “Principal Investigator” since 2007, that is, a founding member of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University. He is married to communication scientist Angela Keppler and has one son.

Academic and journalistic philosophizing

Martin Seel published on aesthetics - in particular on the aesthetics of film -, on practical and theoretical philosophy . From 1998 to 2001 he wrote a column in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , in which he dealt with current trends and debates in and outside of philosophy. A selection of these easily accessible texts was published in 2001 under the title Vom Handwerk der Philosophie . Günter Figal gave the work linguistic polish, but saw these treatises more as a game or gimmick, albeit in a positive sense. According to Eva Weber-Guskar , Seel's journalistic philosophizing, whose “elegant” style she praises, tends to stick to “the surface of the theses” he advocates: “Dialectical sharpness is not in the foreground here.” Seel's ideas are “after the point mostly neither particularly new nor particularly exciting ”; but readers could "have Seel demonstrate these ideas in smooth sentences, along excerpts from philosophical theories, from which he generously draws."

Works

  • The art of division. On the concept of aesthetic rationality. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • An aesthetic of nature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • Try on the form of happiness. Studies on ethics. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Ethical-aesthetic studies. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • Aesthetics of appearance. Hanser, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-446-19941-1 .
  • From the craft of philosophy. 44 columns. Munich 2001.
  • Let yourself be determined. Studies in theoretical and practical philosophy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Adorno's philosophy of contemplation. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Paradoxes of Fulfillment. Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-17230-6 .
  • The power of appearance. Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29467-3 .
  • Theories S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-10-071010-9 .
  • 111 virtues, 111 vices. A philosophical review. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-071011-6 .
  • The arts of cinema. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-071012-3 .
  • Active passivity. About the scope of thinking, acting and other arts . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-000138-2 .
  • Ignore "Hollywood". From the cinema . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397224-5 .
  • Not wanting to be right. Mind games . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397223-8 .

literature

  • Martina Koch: The constellation of rationalities in the interrational educational process: J. Habermas , D. Kamper and M. Seel in a fictional conversation about an image interpretation by K. Mollenhauer (= Studies on the Philosophy and Theory of Education , Volume 21), Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1992, ISBN 3-89271-373-1 (dissertation Uni Hamburg 1992).

Web links

Commons : Martin Seel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joel Anderson: The 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School
  2. Review notes on From the craft of philosophy at perlentaucher.de
  3. Eva Weber-Guskar, 'Loud beautiful explosions. The philosopher Martin Seel likes to play with paradoxes', Die Zeit | Literature No. 41 (Oct. 2014), p. 66.
  4. Reviews: Gerhard Gamm In: Die Zeit. October 19, 2000; Michael Grossheim In: The world. December 2, 2000.
  5. Reviews: Günter Figal In: FAZ. August 12, 2002; Wolfgang Schneider In: The world. December 22, 2001.
  6. Review: Marcus Willaschek In Frankfurter Rundschau . October 19, 2002.