Reinhard Mehring

Reinhard Mehring (born April 7, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German political scientist and philosopher.

Reinhard Mehring attended grammar school in Düsseldorf, then studied philosophy , German and political science in Bonn and Freiburg and completed his legal clerkship at Karlsruhe grammar schools. In 1988 he was in political science at Wilhelm Hennis in Freiburg with an overall presentation of the work of Carl Schmitt doctorate . Between 1989 and 2000 positions at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Würzburg as well as at the Humboldt University in Berlin followed , where Mehring completed his habilitation in philosophy in 2000 with a thesis on Thomas Mann . He then worked as a private lecturer in Berlin until 2007 and taught at schools in Düsseldorf. In 2007 he received a professorship for political science and its didactics at the Heidelberg University of Education .

Mehring emerged with a large number of publications, primarily on the history of ideas , and distinguished himself in particular as a Carl Schmitt researcher. He was co-editor of the Political Thinking yearbook .

Mehring is married and has one son.

Fonts (selection)

• Pathetic thinking. Carl Schmitt's path of thought based on Hegel's guideline: Catholic basic position and anti-Marxist Hegel strategy , Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-428-06731-2 .
• With Volker Gerhardt and Jana Räter (eds.): Berliner Geist. A history of the Berlin university philosophy up to 1946 , Akademie-Verlag , Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-05-002961-0 .
• Thomas Mann. Artist and philosopher , Fink Verlag , Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-7705-3589-7 .
• (Ed.): Carl Schmitt: The concept of the political , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-05-003687-8 .
• The "problem of humanity". Thomas Mann's political philosophy. Mentis-Verlag , Paderborn 2003, ISBN 978-3-89785-365-2 .
• Carl Schmitt. Rise and fall. A biography. CH Beck , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59224-9 .
• (Ed.): "On the dangerous road of public law ...." Correspondence between Carl Schmitt and Rudolf Smend 1921–1961 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, 2nd revised. Edition Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13753-4 .
• Carl Schmitt as an introduction. Junius Verlag , 4th completely revised. Edition Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88506-685-9 .
• With Martin Otto (ed.): Conditions and guarantees of the state. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes understanding of the state . Nomos , Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8487-1636-4 .
• War technician of the term. Biographical studies on Carl Schmitt. Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-153452-2 .
• (Ed.): Ethics according to Theresienstadt. Late texts by the Prague philosopher Emil Utitz (1883–1956). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5655-0 .
• Heidegger's “great politics”. The semantic revolution of the complete edition . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154374-6 .
• Carl Schmitt: Thinkers in conflict: work - effect - topicality. Verlag Karl Alber , Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-495-48897-3 .
• The invention of freedom. On the rise and fall of philosophical pedagogy. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6428-9 .
• Martin Heidegger and the "conservative revolution". Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-495-48979-6 .
• Philosophy in exile. Emil Utitz, Arthur Liebert and the exile magazine Philosophia. Documentation on the fate of two Holocaust victims. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6449-4 .
• On dealing with Carl Schmitt. The research dynamics of the last epoch in the review mirror. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8487-5156-3 .
• The new Federal Republic. Between nationalization and globalization. Kohlhammer , Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-033941-5 .
• Thomas Mann's philosophical poetry. About the reason and purpose of his project. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-495-49045-7 .

Web links

• Reinhard Mehring on the website of the Heidelberg University of Education
• Breeding of the Heideggerian Interview Mehrings about Heidegger's black books in the Badische Zeitung .
• Reinhard Mehring: Black jobs and “big politics”. To change the Heidegger controversy. In: Hohe Luft 05/2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete list of publications by Mehrings until June 2019 as a pdf .