Peter Strasser (philosopher)

Peter Strasser (born May 28, 1950 in Graz ) is an Austrian philosopher .

biography

After studying German and philosophy, Peter Strasser completed his habilitation in philosophy in 1980. He was a university professor at the Institute for Legal Philosophy, Legal Sociology and Legal Informatics at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz . Since summer 1999 he has been teaching regularly as a lecturer and visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt . Strasser has officially retired since October 2015. He continues to work in teaching.

Strasser's main focus is on philosophy, namely ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. In the philosophy of law, he deals particularly with questions of theoretical criminology.

From 1990 to 1995 Strasser was a member of the advisory board of the avant-garde festival steirischer herbst . He conceived the nomadology of the nineties .

From 2003 to May 2013 he wrote the weekly column The penultimate things for the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse . From November 2015 to the end of October 2016, the two daily column dawn of the electronic format nzz.at . Since then, Strasser's guest posts have also appeared in the NZZ .

philosophy

Strasser's thinking revolves around a phenomenon that he calls ontological excess . According to Strasser, this is expressed on the one hand in the knowledge-guiding conviction that science must be able to show us the world as it is objectively made. On the other hand, the surplus shows itself in the metaphysical longing to realize the truth as the meaning that is inherent in the whole.

Strasser sees the dehumanizing trait of modernity in an increasing concentration of immanence , which fades out the always-already-beyond-us, which manifests itself in the form of an ontological excess in all our experiences. Strasser therefore defends the primacy of the mind against the naturalistic worldview, but admits that this primacy cannot be represented positively, for example in the form of an “alternative” scientific theory, but remains a regulative idea.

Honors

• Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism 2014.

Publications

• Construction of Reality and Rationality. An attempt on relativism. Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1980. ISBN 3-495-47431-5
• Criminal people . For the forensic generation of evil. 1984. New edition: Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-593-37747-6 .
• The playful education. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-518-11342-4 .
• Philosophy of the search for reality. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-518-11518-3 .
• The stuff of joy. A philosophy about Handke. Residence, Vienna 1990, ISBN 978-3-7017-0665-5 .
• Security in the bad. About the tension between art and religion. Deuticke, Vienna 1993.
• Great emotions. About the things that can't be bought. Residenz, Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-7017-0822-2 .
• The humanly possible. Late thoughts on humanism. Deuticke, Vienna 1998.
• Journal of Last Things. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-12051-4 .
• The way out. Skeptical, metaphysical, and religious thinking. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-12177-4 . Completely revised new edition under the title Das unreachbar Nahe. An introduction to philosophy with a view to the limits of the thinkable. Karl Alber, Freiburg - Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-495-49030-3 .
• The god of all people. A philosophical border crossing. Styria, Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3-222-12953-7 . Complete revision under the title Is Religion War? What remains of the 'God of all people'. Styria, Vienna - Graz - Klagenfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-222-13603-0 .
• Good in all possible worlds. The ethical horizon. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-71760-3 .
• Is there a life after death? Brains, computers and the real self. Fink, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 978-3-7705-4054-9 .
• Theory of salvation. An introduction to the philosophy of religion. Fink, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 978-3-7705-4238-3 .
• The penultimate things. The end of the world from Austria. Molden 2006, ISBN 978-3-85485-178-3 .
• Dark grace. Arbitrariness and benevolence. Fink, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4515-5 .
• Why religion at all? The god who created Richard Dawkins. Fink, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4676-3 .
• About self-respect. Fink, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4797-5 .
• The simple things in life. Fink, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4734-0 .
• Nostalgia. Fink, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5029-6 .
• What is happiness ? About the feeling of being alive. Fink, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5142-2 .
• Not a day without relief. Last but one thing, compiled by Astrid Kury, with drawings by Fritz Panzer. Residence, St. Pölten - Salzburg - Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7017-1589-3 .
• Innocence. The pursued ideal. Fink, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5297-9 .
• What it's like to be a philosopher. Streber's stories. Fink, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5405-8 .
• Perplexity. A mood report. Fink, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5525-3 .
• The same thing over and over and preferably nothing new. The wisdom of Austrobuddhism. Braumüller, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99200-112-5 .
• Mind your business. About self-care. Fink, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5675-5 .
• Dictatorship of the brain. For a philosophy of mind. Fink, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5758-5 .
• Lust. A propriety book. Braumüller, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99200-137-8 .
• A touch of consolation. Addenda to Bliss. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5843-8 .
• Regarding the world as creation. A silent subversion. Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5988-6 .
• Attention mindfulness! Braumüller, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99200-160-6 .
• Of gods and zombies. The search for vitality. Fink, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6026-4 .
• Ontology of the devil. With an appendix: About the radical good. Fink, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6108-7 .
• Dawn. Journal of Philosophical Household Use. Fink, Paderborn 2017 (published 2016), ISBN 978-3-7705-6144-5 .
• My Occident. Attempt over the unreachable near. Fink, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6210-7 .
• Idiots of the absolute. About the alien in us. Fink, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6259-6 .
• Spengler's visions: One hundred years of the fall of the West. Braumüller, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-99100-238-3
• Land in the middle. Mixed comments and mixed feelings for readers who escaped the fall of the West. Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-945400-51-7 .
• Brain without mind. The expulsion of man from science. Series reflexe No. 54, Schwabe, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-7965-3872-8 .
• The whole truth. Enlightenment of a paradox. Series reflexe No. 61, Schwabe, Basel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7965-3947-3 .

literature

• Franz Schuh : Review: P. Strasser: The way out. Skeptical, metaphysical, and religious thinking. Frankfurt am Main 2000. In: Die Zeit. January 11, 2001.
• Cornelius Hell : Philosophical thinking on the way from the world religion to a religion for the world - Peter Strasser's new litter. In: The furrow . May 4, 2002.
• Konrad Paul Liessmann: Tart for a dinosaur from Austria , [1] , in: Die Presse, Feuilleton, May 4, 2012.
• Keyword immanence compression [2]
• The dance around a center. Peter Strasser in conversation with Alexandru Bulucz , Edition Faust, Frankfurt a. M. 2015. ( excerpt )
• Tanja Angela Kunz: The windmill of the inner cage. Peter Strasser turns against the powerlessness of the brains [review], under: http://literaturkritik.de/id/20124

Web links

• The penultimate things - Peter Strasser's column in the Austrian daily Die Presse
• Literature by and about Peter Strasser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Strasser's business card at the University of Graz
• Peter Strasser: The criminal man - from macro to micro measurement. (PDF file; 71 kB)
• Peter Strasser: Naturalism, Person and Morality.
• Peter Strasser: The end of solidarity. Comments on dealing with outsiders at the turn of the millennium. In: Law & Psychiatry. Issue 2, 2001, pp. 63-69.
• Peter Strasser: On the question of the origin of Homo sapiens mopsiensis , Die Presse, opinion, August 30, 2012.
• "Then we are stuck in our brains" , interview with Piotr Dobrowolski, Wiener Zeitung, July 19, 2013.
• Peter Strasser: "The Planet of the Brains. A Spiritual Scandal" , in: Die Presse, Spectrum, December 6, 2013.
• Peter Strasser: [3] , conversation “The dance around a central point”, essay “Der Kunstverdruss”, commentary “hate postings”, position determination “Is the West here?”.
• Interview with Klaus Nüchtern on questions of politics, aesthetics and religion: The Easter Bunny is the Buddha of the West , in: Der Falter 51/17 (2017) [4]

proof

1. ↑ Horst Gerhard Haberl , Peter Strasser (ed.): Nomadologie der Neunziger , Cantz, Ostfildern 1995
2. ↑ Cf. for example: Peter Strasser: "Democratization" of hatred: mass, pack, mob . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 9, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed March 7, 2017]).
3. ↑ P. Strasser: The ontological surplus , in: Weltbilder in der Wissenschaften , ed. v. E. Brix, Böhlau, Vienna 2005, p. 49 ff.
4. ↑ Dictatorship of the Brain , see “Publications”, 2014