Reiner Schürmann

Reiner Schürmann (born February 4, 1941 in Amsterdam , † August 20, 1993 in New York City ) was a German philosopher. From 1975 until his death he was professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Life

He was born to German parents in Amsterdam in 1941. He spent his childhood and youth in Krefeld . From 1960 Schürmann studied philosophy in Munich , then he interrupted his studies to stay in an Israeli kibbutz . At the end of 1961 he entered the Dominican Order (OP) in France as a novice and studied theology there from 1962 to 1969 at the religious college Le Saulchoir in Étiolles ( Département Essonne ) near Paris , interrupted by a study visit to Freiburg i. Br. With Martin Heidegger . In 1970 he was ordained a (religious) priest, but left the Dominican order again in 1975. Schürmann had lived in the United States since the early 1970s, teaching first at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC , and then at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh . In 1975 she was offered a call to the New School for Social Research in New York, initiated by Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas . In 1981 he received the Doctorat d'Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines from the Sorbonne in Paris. He died of AIDS on August 20, 1993 in New York .

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Schürmann wrote all of his philosophical and literary work in French. Three of his philosophical works deserve special attention and can be described as his "main works": the Meister Eckhart monograph Maître Eckhart et la joie errante (1972; title of the English edition is Mystic and philosopher ), the much-vaunted Heidegger study Le Principe d'anarchy. Heidegger et la question de l'agir (1982; English Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy ) and finally his monumental interpretation of the occidental history of philosophy Des hégémonies brisées (published posthumously in 1996; German The broken hegemonies ).

His only literary work, the strongly autobiographical story Les Origines (1976; published in German under the title “Origins” in 2008), was awarded the Prix Broquette-Gonin of the Académie française in 1977 .

bibliography

• Maître Eckhart et la joie errante , Paris: Rivages 1972. ISBN 2743614463 (2005 edition); engl. Edition: Mystic and Philosopher , Indiana University Press 1978.
• Les Origines , Paris: Fayard 1976. ISBN 2213003777 ; Toulouse, Presses universitaires du Mirail 2003; German edition: Original , Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes 2008. ISBN 978-3-03734-045-5 ; engl. Edition: Origins , Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes 2016. ISBN 978-3-03734-597-9
• Le Principe d'anarchie. Heidegger et la question de l'agir , Paris: Le Seuil 1982. ISBN 2020062496 ; engl. Edition: Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy , Indiana University Press 1987.
• Des hégémonies brisées , Mauvezin: Trans Europ Repress, 1996. ISBN 290567038X ; engl. Edition: Broken Hegemonies , Indiana University Press, 2003; German edition: The broken hegemonies , Zurich: diaphanes 2017, ISBN 978-3-03734-570-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reiner Schürmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• The New School for Social Research - Department of Philosophy