Petra Gehring

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Petra Gehring (born October 8, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German professor of philosophy .

Career

Petra Gehring studied philosophy , political science and law in Gießen , Marburg and Bochum . She completed her studies in 1988 with a master's degree . She received her doctorate in 1992 and qualified as a professor in 2000 . Research and teaching at the universities of Bochum and Hagen followed later .

Since 2002 she has been Professor of Philosophy at the TU Darmstadt .

In the 2010/2011 academic year she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . From 2008 to 2013 Petra Gehring was Vice President of the Technical University of Darmstadt. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Council for Information Infrastructures of the Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the federal and state governments, of which she has been chairman since November 2017. A year earlier she was a fellow of the DFG research group "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (MECS) at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Gehring is co-editor of the yearbook technology philosophy .

research

Focus

  • Metaphysics and metaphysics criticism - especially of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Classical and post-classical phenomenology, structuralism and 'post-structuralist' theories
  • Philosophical history of concepts and metaphorology
  • New technologies (biotechnology, digitality), technology and power
  • Ethics as a political field, philosophy and theories of law
  • Selected problems of aesthetics (characters, text, voice, sound)

Current research focus

  • History and metaphysics of the concept of life, history of bioethics in Germany (1970–2010)
  • Modal concepts of power
  • Technology research: information technology, algorithmic processes, technology use, simulation
  • Digital metaphor analysis, methods of digital humanities

Publications

Books and monographs

  • French philosophy of the present II. Together with Kurt Röttgers . Study letter from the FernUniversität Hagen . University publishing house, Hagen 1994.
  • Inside the outside - outside the inside. Foucault , Derrida , Lyotard . Fink, Munich 1994 ISBN 3-7705-2936-7
  • Legal normativity. Institution - system - medium - dispositive. Habilitation thesis 1999. (Publication in preparation.)
  • Euthanasia. The new civil culture of killing? Mabuse, Frankfurt 2002.
  • Foucault - The philosophy in the archive. Campus, Frankfurt 2004 ISBN 3-593-37393-9
  • What is biopower? From the dubious surplus value of life. Campus, Frankfurt 2006 ISBN 3-593-38007-2
  • Ambivalences of death. Reality of dying and death theories today. Together with Marc Rölli u. Maxine Saborowski. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007 ISBN 978-3-534-20482-3
  • The bodies and the power . In: Ralf Krause u. Marc Rölli (Ed.): Power. Concept and effect in contemporary political philosophy. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008 ISBN 978-3-89942-848-3 , pp. 175-192.
  • Dream and reality. To the history of a distinction. Campus, Frankfurt 2008 ISBN 978-3-593-38735-2
  • Michel Foucault. Geometry of the process. Writings on the method. Selection of texts and afterword Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009 ISBN 978-3-518-29534-2
  • Theories of death . For the introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-88506-676-7
  • Why the separation of the minister from the plagiarist fails. Two-body theory and politics of politics In: Oliver Lepsius , Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus (ed.): Staging as a profession. The Guttenberg case. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-06208-1
  • Parrhesia. Foucault and the courage to truth . Together with Andreas Gelhard. Diaphanes, Zurich 2012 ISBN 978-3-03734-173-5
  • Questionable expertise. On the establishment of bioethics in Germany In: Michael Hagner (Ed.): Wissenschaft und Demokratie edition unseld, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-518-260470
  • No question of morality In: Alice Schwarzer (Ed.): Enough! Against sexism at work kiwi, Cologne 2013 ISBN 978-3-462-04588-8
  • Learning to differentiate between cities: To analyze interurban contrasts: Birmingham, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Glasgow (interdisciplinary urban research) Edited together with Sybille Frank, Julika Griem and Michael Haus, Campus Frankfurt am Main / New York, 2014, ISBN 978-3593502113
  • The hour of the maenads , magazine for the history of ideas, issue IX / 4 Winter 2015: Die Party, CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67384-9
  • Many fronts. Digital methods call for new processes: How can research policy ensure the quality and connectivity of data and data sovereignty? In: Research and Teaching , September 2018
  • About the physical strength of language. Studies on Speech Act, Campus, Frankfurt 2019. ISBN 9783593510569

Trade journal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Gehring - Yearbook Technology Philosophy. Accessed December 17, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Gehring, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf