Robert Zimmer (philosopher)

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Robert Zimmer (2012)

Robert Zimmer (born October 25, 1953 in Trier ) is a German philosopher , essayist and literary scholar . As a freelance author and journalist , he mainly publishes introductions to philosophy in the fields of popular science.

Life

Robert Zimmer spent his school days in Saarbrücken . He completed his studies in philosophy and English at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken in 1981 with a master's thesis on Benedetto Croce ( unity and development in Benedetto Croce's aesthetics ), which was also published in 1985. The work closes "an important gap in research", according to the Italian philosopher Riccardo Pozzo, "as it describes in detail a central concept of Croce's philosophy with completeness, precision, well-read and independent argumentation." 1989 doctorate room with a dissertation on Edmund Burke at the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf , Edmund Burke's rhetoric in his Irish writings .. Room worked until 1991 as a lecturer at the Heinrich-Heine University and until 1996 as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin . In addition, he worked for many years as a lecturer at adult education centers. Then he began to work as a freelance non-fiction author. From 1986 to 2013 he lived in Berlin and since then in Stuttgart.

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Zimmer's concern is to convey classic philosophy contents to a broad audience in an understandable language. That is why the tradition of essay writing from Montaigne to Sainte-Beuve to Schopenhauer is also formative for him. In 2013, Zimmer published the first selected translation of Sainte-Beuves “Causeries du Lundi” in decades. In his Schopenhauer biography, published in 2010, he places the philosopher in the tradition of moral studies and enlightenment. His best-known book is Das Philosophenportal , published in 2004 and translated into several languages , the first part of a work-oriented, essayistic philosophy history, which was followed in 2007 by Das neue Philosophenportal . The project was completed in 2009 with the Great Philosopher's Portal and the volume of essays Basic Library Philosophy . Zimmer belongs to the circle of critical rationalism . Together with Martin Morgenstern he wrote a biography about Karl Popper and edited the correspondence between Karl Popper and Hans Albert . Popper's methodological maxim of trial and error (Engl. Trial and error ), he tried for a renewal of the moralist and a philosophy of the art of living make fruitful (See u. A. Life as trial and error. Essays on a critical-rational philosophy of the art of living , 2016) . Zimmer is a member of the two Constantin-Brunner Foundations and is committed to rediscovering the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner.

Publications

  • Sophistication. The tradition of European moral studies . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2020. ISBN 978-3-7965-3825-4 .
  • as ed. with Jürgen Stenzel : "What you don't think right, you have to live wrong." A Constantin Brunner reader . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-8260-6493-7 .
  • Schopenhauer and the consequences . Verlag JBMetzler, Stuttgart 2018. ISBN 978-3-476-04641-3 .
  • Constantin Brunner. Philosopher and wisdom r. Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-95565-201-2 .
  • Life as trial and error. Essays on a critical-rational philosophy of the art of living . Verlag der Blaue reiter, Hannover 2016, ISBN 978-3-933722-52-2 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern : Karl R. Popper. An introduction to life and work . Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-16-153576-5 .
  • Brain teaser philosophy. Questions, arguments, mind games . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-26051-0 .
  • as editor and translator: Sainte-Beuve: Causeries on Monday: Enlightenment from the spirit of the salons . Verlag Das Arsenal , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-931109-61-5 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern: The big questions. An overview of the philosophical problems. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-020216-6 .
  • Arthur Schopenhauer . A philosophical citizen of the world . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24800-6 .
  • The great philosopher portal . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34582-8 .
  • Basic library philosophy . Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020137-4 .
  • as editor: Glück und Lebenskunst. Special issue v. Enlightenment and criticism. Volume 14/2008. ISSN  0945-6627 .
  • The New Philosophers' Portal . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34439-5 .
  • Hans Albert / Karl Popper. Correspondence. Edited by Martin Morgenstern and Robert Zimmer. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16586-5 .
  • The Philosophers Portal . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-34118-1 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern: Paths of thought in the history of philosophy . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-538-07166-7 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern: Karl Popper . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-31060-X .
  • Philosophy. From the Enlightenment until today . Cornelsen Scriptor, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-589-21499-6 .
  • Introducing the European moralists . Junius, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-88506-998-9 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern: 1998–2002 meeting point philosophy . Textbook for the upper secondary level. 5 volumes Patmos, Düsseldorf.
  • Edmund Burke as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88506-908-3 .
  • with Martin Morgenstern: HinterGründe. The philosophy and its questions. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-491-72338-8 .

literature

Fritz-Peter Linden, bridge builder on the Eifel hill. The philosopher and writer Robert Zimmer, In: glamorous. Magazine des Trierischen Volksfreunds, Winter 2010, pp. 22–24.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 95 (1988) 418.

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personal data
SURNAME Room, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, essayist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH trier