Peter Lothar Austria
Peter Lothar Oesterreich (born March 10, 1954 in Wesel ) has been a philosophy professor at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau since 1995 .
Professional background
Austria studied philosophy , German literature , art history , education and theology at the universities of Tübingen , Düsseldorf , Cologne , Wuppertal and Essen . At the latter university he received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on the universal historical idealism of the world ages Schelling . After a scientific assistant in philosophy at the University of Essen, the habilitation followed in 1990 with a thesis on fundamental rhetoric . He then held a university professorship at this university, and in the 1995 summer semester he was an endowed visiting professor at the University of Ulm .
Austria is u. a. Member of the International Johann Gottlieb Fichte Society , the Rhetoric Working Group and the International Schelling Society . Austria has held an honorary professorship at Ulm University since 2008.
Research priorities
His research focuses on German idealism and rhetoric . He published numerous studies on Fichte , F. Schlegel , Schelling and Kant . His participation in the two-volume Fichte edition of the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag , in which he commented on his writings on applied philosophy, deserves special mention .
In rhetoric, he represents a broad term that deviates from what is `` commonly '' understood as rhetoric: rhetoric is not only concerned with cladding thoughts in words ( elocutio ), but also deals with finding them of arguments ( inventio ), the structure of the lecture ( dispositio ), its memorization ( memoria ) and the lecture itself in its vocal, facial and gestural performance ( actio ). Austria goes even further and postulates that the existence of man is essentially based on the ability to speak and can thus speak of homo rhetoricus : Every person reinvents himself and the world through speech.
Publications (selection)
- Philosophy, myth and lifeworld: Schelling's universal historical idealism of the world ages and the idea of a new myth , Frankfurt am Main; Bern; New York; Nancy: Lang 1984. ISBN 3-8204-5244-3
- Person and style of action: a rhetorical meta-critique of Gilbert Ryle's "The concept of mind" , Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule 1987. ISBN 3-89206-166-1
- Fundamental rhetoric. Study on person and speech in public , Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-7873-1009-6
- Philosophers as political teachers. Examples of the public use of reason from antiquity and German Idealism , Darmstadt 1994. (PDF; 1.0 MB) ISBN 3-534-12110-4
- The learned absolute. Metaphysics and rhetoric in Kant, Fichte and Schelling , Darmstadt 1997. (PDF; 1.0 MB) ISBN 3-534-13378-1
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Writings on Applied Philosophy, Works II , ed. u. come over. v. Peter L. Austria, Frankfurt a. M., 1997. ISBN 3-618-63080-8
- Philosophy of Rhetoric , Bamberg 2003. ISBN 3-7661-6656-5
- PL Austria / H. Traub: The whole spruce. The popular, scientific and metaphilosophical development of the world , Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 978-3-17-018749-8
- Varieties of self-invention: the art of romantic philosophizing in Fichte, F. Schlegel and Schelling , Berlin; New York, NY: De Gruyter 2011. ISBN 978-3-11-025123-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Lothar Oesterreich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile of PL Austria on the website of the Augustana University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Austria, Peter Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rhetorician, professor of philosophy at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |