Reinhart Maurer

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Reinhart Maurer (born March 26, 1935 in Xanten ) is a German philosopher of the knight school .

biography

After finishing school in various places in Germany, Reinhart Maurer studied philosophy , German and English at the universities of Münster , Kiel and Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Münster under Joachim Ritter . His habilitation in 1969 at the University of Stuttgart was supervised by Robert Spaemann . In his inaugural lecture at the University of Stuttgart, he criticized Herbert Marcuse's philosophy . It is "unclear and contradicting important points." From 1962 to 1975 Maurer was initially a research assistant , then a lecturer and associate professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Education at the University of Stuttgart. During this time he also published under the name Reinhart Klemens Maurer . From 1975 to 1997 he taught as a professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin .

Maurer took over the conception of a practical philosophy from Joachim Ritter , which takes up concrete problems based on the example of old European and modern classics . In this sense, he mainly worked on Plato , Hobbes , Hegel , Habermas and critical theory . He pursues a kind of critical theory of the modern, techno-democratic worldview and for this ties in with fundamental critics of modern society ( Nietzsche , Heidegger , Arnold Gehlen and Gómez Dávila ).

In 1994 he was one of the authors of the programmatic new right anthology " The Self-Confident Nation " .

Publications

  • Hegel and the End of History. Interpretations on the "phenomenology of mind". Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1965 (At the same time: Münster, University, dissertation, 1963/1964: Philosophy of history as "Phenomenology of Spirit". 2nd edition expanded to include the article "Teleological aspects of Hegelian philosophy". Albert, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1980, ISBN 3-495-47435-8 ).
  • Plato's “state” and democracy. Historical-systematic reflections on political ethics de Gruyter, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-11-006391-3 (At the same time: Stuttgart, University, habilitation paper, 1969: Politeia and Leviathan, on the rehabilitation of the political. Part 1: The Platonic State. Also in Japanese language and script: Tokyo 2005).
  • Revolution and "turn". Studies on the problem of social control of nature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-518-07428-8 .
  • Jürgen Habermas' abolition of philosophy. (= Philosophische Rundschau. Supplement 8 = special issue). Mohr, Tübingen Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-16-839631-1 .
  • Guilt and wealth. About the west German general line . In: Heimo Schwilk , Ulrich Schacht (ed.): The self-conscious nation. "Swelling Bocksgesang" and other contributions to a German debate. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994, ISBN 3-550-07067-5 , pp. 69-84.
  • Joachim Ritter's Practical Philosophy. In: Mark Schweda, Ulrich von Bülow (ed.): Entzweite Moderne. On the topicality of Joachim Ritter and his students . Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, pp. 63–84.
  • Joachim Ritter and the philosophy of the post-war period . In: Information Philosophie 4/2018, pp. 30–41.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 77 (1970) 238-259.
  2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 77 (1970) 238–259, here 258.
  3. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 76 (1968) 88.
personal data
SURNAME Mason, Reinhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mason, Reinhart Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Xanten