Peter Engelmann (publisher)

Peter Engelmann (born April 30, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German philosopher, editor and publisher. Engelmann founded the Wiener Edition Passagen in 1985 and the Wiener Passagen Verlag in 1987 .

Life

Peter Engelmann studied philosophy in East Berlin . For political reasons, Engelmann was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the GDR in 1972 , one year of which he had to spend in a Stasi prison . In 1973 Engelmann came to the Federal Republic of Germany through the release of prisoners . He continued studying philosophy and sociology in Paris and Bremen and received his doctorate on Hegel in 1979 .

In 1985 Engelmann founded Edition Passagen in Vienna, and in 1987 Passagen Verlag . As editor of Jacques Derrida , Jean-François Lyotard , Jean Baudrillard , Sarah Kofman , Peter Eisenman , Slavoj Žižek , Paul Virilio , Jacques Rancière , Jean-Luc Nancy , Gianni Vattimo and other authors of postmodernism and deconstruction , he made a significant contribution to the spread the works of French contemporary philosophy in the German-speaking area. Engelmann is the author of philosophical texts and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, Austria and the USA.

Awards

• 1994: Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 1999: Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2004: Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2010: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2009: Publishing Prize
• 2012: Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• 2013: Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
• 2017: Golden City Hall Man of the City of Vienna

Fonts

• Philosophy and totalitarianism. On the critique of dialectical discursiveness. A hegemonic reading. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900767-49-1 .
  • Hungarian translation: Hegel - Filozófia és totalitarianism. Osiris Kiado, Budapest 1997, ISBN 963-379-260-6 .
• Deconstruction. Jacques Derrida's semiotic turn in philosophy . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85165-957-3 .

Series In conversation with Peter Engelmann

• Alain Badiou : Philosophy and the Idea of ​​Communism. In conversation with Peter Engelmann . Passages Talks 1. Passagen Verlag, Vienna, 2nd, revised edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0107-7 .
• Colin Crouch : Market and Morals. In conversation with Peter Engelmann. Passages Talks 2. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0110-7 .
• Angelo Bolaffi : crisis as an opportunity. Rethink Europe. In conversation with Peter Engelmann . Passages Talks 3. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0131-2 .
• Jean-Luc Nancy : Democracy and Community. In conversation with Peter Engelmann . Passages Talks 4. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7092-0159-6 .
• Jacques Rancière : Politics and Aesthetics. In conversation with Peter Engelmann . Passages Talks 5. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7092-0142-8 .

As editor

• Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern. Selected texts. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007 (universal library).
• Jacques Derrida: The différance. Selected texts. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-018338-3 (universal library 18338).
• Postmodern and deconstruction. Texts by contemporary French philosophers. Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-008668-X (universal library volume 8668).

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Engelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• The philosopher and publisher Peter Engelmann , conversation with Joachim Scholl on June 2, 2013 in the series Zwischenentöne des Deutschlandfunk ( mp3 , 66 MB, approx. 72 min)