René Scheu

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René Scheu (* 1974 in Zurich ) is a Swiss publicist , philosopher and translator . Until the end of 2015, he was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the liberal magazine Swiss Month (formerly Swiss Monthly Books ). He has been head of the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung since 2016 .

life and career

After graduating from high school (type B), Scheu studied philosophy and Italian studies in Zurich and Trieste . During his studies he wrote for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and later for the Tages-Anzeiger . From 2002 to 2007 he worked as a background editor under Gottlieb F. Höpli for the St. Galler Tagblatt . In 2007 he was with a thesis on the post-Marxist Italian philosopher Pier Aldo Rovatti at the request of Helmut Holzhey and Gianni Vattimo at the University of Zurich doctorate . In the same year René Scheu and Suzann-Viola Renninger edited the Swiss monthly magazine . At the end of 2010 he became the sole editor and remained the sole publisher and editor-in-chief until the end of 2015. Scheu is also an advisory board member of the Strategiedialog21 think tank .

Scheu has translated various books from Italian in the fields of media policy, contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and philosophical anthropology . In 2009 he was awarded the Foundation for Western Ethics and Culture for his political essays .

From September 2013 until the end of 2015, Scheu was a columnist for NZZ am Sonntag . Scheu has been the head of the feature section of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung since January 2016 , succeeding Martin Meyer , who has retired.

Publications

As an author

  • The weak subject. To the thinking of Pier Aldo Rovatti. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-507-2 (also: Zurich, Univ., Diss., 2007).

As editor and translator

  • Peter Sloterdijk: Falsa coscienza. Forme del cinismo moderno . A cura di René Scheu. Mimesis Editore, Milano 2019.
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : Brittle present. Reflections and reactions . Edited by René Scheu. Reclam-Verlag , Stuttgart 2019.
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : Weltgeist in Silicon Valley: Living and thinking in the future mode . Edited by René Scheu. NZZ Libro , Zurich 2018.
  • Mark Lilla : The glory of the past. About the spirit of the reaction . Edited by René Scheu. NZZ Libro , Zurich 2018.
  • René Scheu (Ed.): Less state, more television. Service sans public? - The new debate about the SRG . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2015.
  • Peter Sloterdijk: Crescita o Extraprofitto . A cura di René Scheu. Mimesis Editore, Milano 2013.
  • Massimo De Carolis: Life in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility . Edited by René Scheu. Translated from the Italian by René Scheu and Federica Romanini. Diaphanes-Verlag, Zurich a. a. 2009 (PDF; 511 kB).
  • Antonello Sciacchitano: Infinite Subversion. The Scientific Origins of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Resistance to Science . Edited and translated from Italian by René Scheu. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-508-9 .
  • Pier Aldo Rovatti: The madness in a few words . Edited and translated from Italian by René Scheu. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85132-350-5 .
  • Antonello Schiacchitano: Science as Hysteria. The subject of science from Descartes to Freud and the question of the infinite . Edited and translated from Italian by René Scheu. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85132-291-6 .
  • Slavoj Žižek: Il godimento come fattore politico . A cura di Damiano Cantone e René Scheu. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2001.
  • Massimo Recalcati: The stone of the stoop. Lacan and the beyond of the pleasure principle . Translated from the Italian by René Scheu. Turia + Kant, Vienna 2000.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SMH Verlag AG ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zh.powernet.ch
  2. ↑ Who we are. In: Strategiedialog21. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  3. ^ Prize winners , website of the Foundation for Western Ethics and Culture
  4. ↑ Nine new authors deliver «breaking views». In: persoenlich.com. August 27, 2013
  5. ↑ Change at the top of two departments. In: NZZ Online . June 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Shy, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich