Michael Boesch

Michael Bösch (born June 13, 1958 in Iserlohn ) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia in Paderborn .

Life

After graduating from high school, Michael Bösch studies Catholic theology and philosophy in Paderborn and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1993 he received his doctorate in theology with a thesis on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard . From 1995 to 2005 he is a research assistant and professor at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn. In 2002, Bösch completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Kassel with a thesis on Ernst Cassirer . Since 2003 he has been a private lecturer for philosophy at the University of Kassel, and since 2005 he has held the professorship for philosophy at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Paderborn. In addition to his teaching activities, Michael Bösch has been running the philosophical practice Denkwege since 1999 . Their concern is to make the practical dimension of philosophy, which otherwise takes place almost exclusively as a theoretical discipline at universities and in books, tangible in an actually completed dialogical process.

Fonts

• Søren Kierkegaard: Fate - Fear - Freedom . Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-70197-5 .
• The network of culture: The concept of system in Ernst Cassirer's cultural philosophy . Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2757-4 .