Michael Albrecht (philosopher)

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Michael Albrecht (born July 19, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German philosopher .

His research areas are Christian Wolff and Wolffianism , ecletics with Johann Christoph Sturm and Jakob Brucker , Moses Mendelssohn , Kant's aesthetics and the conceptual history of “cause and effect” and “truth”.

Life

Albrecht graduated from high school in 1959, in the same year he began studying history and German at the Free University of Berlin , which he graduated in 1966. From 1966 to 1971 he studied philosophy at the Free University. From 1967 to 1971 he worked there as a research assistant. From 1971 to 1974 he was a research assistant at the University of Trier , where he received his doctorate in philosophy, modern history and older German studies in 1974. From 1986 to 1987 he worked on a project in the history department. From 1990 to 1995 and 1996 he worked on the Mendelssohn Complete Edition . In 1992 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Trier. In the winter semester 1996/7 he was a C3 professor at the University of Mannheim . In 1998 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Trier. From the winter semester 1998/9 to the summer semester 1999 he was a councilor at the University of Trier.

Albrecht is involved in Newel local politics and has received the Willy Brandt Medal .

Monographs

  • Kant's Antinomy of Practical Reason ( Studies and Materials on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 21). Hildesheim, New York 1978.
  • Christian Wolff: Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica / speech on the practical philosophy of the Chinese, translated, introduced and edited by Michael Albrecht. Latin-German (Philosophical Library, Vol. 374). Hamburg 1985.
  • Moses Mendelssohn, 1729–1786. The life's work of a Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment (exhibition catalogs of the Herzog August Bibliothek, No. 51). Weinheim 1986.
  • Moses Mendelssohn and the circles of his effectiveness, published. by Michael Albrecht, Eva J. Engel and Norbert Hinske ( Wolfenbüttel Studies for the Enlightenment, Vol. 19). Tubingen 1994.
  • Eclectic. A conceptual history with references to the history of philosophy and science ( Quaestiones, Vol. 5). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1994.
  • Moses Mendelssohn: Collected Writings. Anniversary edition. Vol. 22: Documents I: Remote contemporary texts on Moses Mendelssohn's life and work, edited by Michael Albrecht. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1995.
  • Moses Mendelssohn: Collected Writings. Anniversary edition. Vol. 23: Documents II: The early Mendelssohn biographies, edited by Michael Albrecht. With Isaak Euchel's Mendelssohn biography, translated and with a postscript by Reuven Michael. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1998.
  • Moses Mendelssohn in the field of tension of the Enlightenment, published. by Michael Albrecht and Eva J. Engel. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2000.
  • Moses Mendelssohn: Jerusalem or about religious power and Judaism . With the foreword to Manasseh ben Israel's salvation of the Jews and the draft for Jerusalem as well as an introduction, notes and register edited by Michael Albrecht. (Philosophical Library, Vol. 565). Hamburg 2005.
  • With Heinrich P. Delfosse: Kant-Index. Vol. 37: Position index and concordance on the general natural history and theory of heaven. Created in collaboration with Irina Lepp. With the participation of Bernd Straßburg and Michael Trauth ( research and materials for the German Enlightenment Section 3, Vol. 44). 2 vols. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2009.
  • Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary yearbook for research into the 18th century and its history. Vol. 23 - Vol. 2011. Topic: The natural theology with Christian Wolff, edited by Michael Albrecht. Hamburg 2011.
  • With Heinrich P. Delfosse: Kant-Index. Vol. 36: Position index and concordance on the thoughts of the true estimation of the living forces . Created in collaboration with Bernd Strasbourg. With the participation of Jeannine Huster and Michael Trauth ( research and materials for the German Enlightenment, Section 3, Vol. 43). 2 vols. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2012.
  • Christian Wolff : About the difference between a systematic and a non-systematic mind . Latin-German. Translated, introduced and edited by Michael Albrecht ( Philosophical Library , Vol. 710). Hamburg 2019.

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Endnotes

  1. ^ SPD Trier: SPD local association Newel presents list of applicants for the 2019 municipal council election, last accessed on April 17, 2019.
  2. ^ Facebook post of the SPD Trier-Saarburg
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin