Renate Breuninger

Renate Breuninger

Renate Breuninger (born June 16, 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German philosopher .

family

Growing up with four siblings as the daughter of a businessman and a physiotherapist, Renate Breuninger is a great-granddaughter of Eduard Breuninger , founder of the Stuttgart headquarters of the Breuninger department stores.

Career

In 1977 Renate Breuninger began studying philosophy, German and mathematics at the Albrecht Ludwigs University of Freiburg , switched to the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with the main subjects German and philosophy, with a minor in history, and graduated with the 1st state examination in 1982. From 1982 to 1986 she was initially a research assistant with Dieter Jähnig at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen, and from 1986 to 1989 she was a research assistant at the Breuninger Foundation, headed by her cousin Helga Breuninger .

In 1989 Renate Breuninger received her doctorate from the University of Stuttgart under Max Bense and Fritz Martini with the thesis "Reality in Rilke's Poetry ". In 2001 she completed her habilitation with Günther Bien and Christoph Hubig at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart.

She has been a research assistant since October 1989, and since 1992 she has been managing director of the Humboldt Study Center for Philosophy and Humanities at Ulm University . Since 2006 she has been an adjunct professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. In 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the University of Kirovograd, Ukraine .

Her fields of work are the history of philosophy and modern and contemporary philosophy , especially French philosophy and practical philosophy . In addition, Renate Breuninger transcribes and edits the Tübingen lectures by the philosopher Walter Schulz (1912–2000). Another focus of her work is teaching philosophy beyond the university. With a Philosophical Salon organized by the Humboldt Study Center since 1994, it ties in with the tradition of the salons as centers of the Enlightenment , in which philosophical thinking should flourish in forms of dialogue. Since 1993, Renate Breuninger has been organizing public lectures by visiting professors for philosophy at the Humboldt Study Center several times a year in the city's event rooms, and she represents the university as the co-organizer of the series Ulmer Thoughts , which has been a freely accessible public event cycle lasting several days since 2008 a socially relevant topic in the town hall in Ulm .

At the University of Ulm she was a member of the Senate as a representative of the academic mid-level staff from 1992 to 1998 , from 1994 to 2012 in the Joint Commission according to Section 26 UG for Humanities and Cultural Studies, in 2004 in the Commission Responsibility in Science and in other university commissions more. She is in the German University Association and in the Ulm University Society.

Renate Breuninger is a member of the Ethics Network Baden-Württemberg at the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen, the International Rilke Society, the International Schelling Society and the Otto Friedrich Bollnow Society.

Publications

Monographs

• The Philosophy of Subjectivity in the Age of Science: On the Thinking of Walter Schulz. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-608-91083-4
• Reality in Rilke's poetry. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 978-3-631-43355-3

Editorships

• Building blocks for philosophy. Interdisciplinary series of the Humboldt Study Center, edited by Renate Breuninger, founded by Klaus Giel, Ulm (since 1991, 34 volumes)
• with Peter L. Oesterreich (Ed.): Figures of strong subjectivity. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6100-4
• with Gregor Schiemann (Ed.): Boredom: Looking for an outdated feeling. A philosophical reader. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50182-6
• with Peter L. Oesterreich (Ed.): Autoinvenience: Possibilities and limits of human self-discovery. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4882-1
• with Heiner Fangerau and Igor Polianski (eds.): Kulturanamnesen. Writings on the history of the philosophy of medicine and the natural sciences. Volume 1, Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISSN  2193-5823
• with Peter Welsen (Ed.): Religion and Rationality. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1781-0
• Philosophy of subjectivity and the subject of philosophy. Festschrift for Klaus Giel on his 70th birthday. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-8260-1356-0
• with Helga Breuninger (ed.): Collective identity and history. Universal history series. Breuninger College Stuttgart 1994
• with Helga Breuninger (ed.): Replacement from empires. Universal history series. Breuninger Kolleg Stuttgart 1992
• with Helga Breuninger (Ed.): Colonization as a world-historical phenomenon. Universal history series. Breuninger College Stuttgart 1990

Articles about Walter Schulz

• with Werner Raupp : Schulz, Walter. In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Vol. 5, Stuttgart 2013, Sp. 398-400
• with Werner Raupp : Schulz, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 717
• with Werner Raupp : Schulz, Walter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 1405-1427

Individual evidence

1. ^ Breuninger Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Humboldt Study Center for Philosophy and Humanities - Ulm University. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Renate Breuninger | Radio free FM. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 9, 2017 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 . 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.  
4. ↑ Lecturer and private lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy | Institute of Philosophy | University of Stuttgart. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Employees. Managing Director Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Renate Breuninger. (PDF) In: Ulm University, Humboldt Study Center for Philosophy and Humanities. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Equal Opportunities Department of Ulm University (Ed.): 50 Years of Women Scientists at Ulm University . Ulm 2017, p. 122-123 .
7. ^ Philosophical Salon - Ulm University. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
8. ^ Humboldt Professorship - Ulm University. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Ulm food for thought -. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
10. ↑ UUG | Ulm University Society. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Members | International Center for Ethics in Science | University of Tübingen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 9, 2017 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 . 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.  
12. ↑ International Rilke Society. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
13. ^ Lore Hühn: Internationale Schelling-Gesellschaft eV Retrieved on August 9, 2017 (English). 
14. ↑ Home :: Otto Friedrich Bollnow-Gesellschaft e. V. Accessed August 9, 2017 . 
15. ^ Building blocks - Ulm University. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .