Roland Simon-Schaefer

Roland Simon-Schaefer (born February 18, 1944 in Berchtesgaden ; † February 17, 2010 ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

biography

After attending school, he studied philosophy , German and history at the University of Cologne with Professor Hermann Lübbe and the Ruhr University in Bochum . After completing his doctorate and habilitation , he worked at the Universities of Zurich, Düsseldorf, Braunschweig, Magdeburg, Hanover and Hildesheim before, in 1996, when Walther Christoph Zimmerli left the Philipps University of Marburg, he took the chair for Philosophy II at Otto as a substitute professor -Friedrich University of Bamberg took over. The re-appointment of the chair dragged on until 1999. During this time, Simon-Schaefer also completed his habilitation at the University of Bamberg. When Michael Hampe took over the chair, Simon-Schaefer retained his teaching position as an adjunct professor. After Michael Hampe accepted a position at ETH Zurich in 2003, Simon-Schaefer again represented the chair until Christian Illies was appointed in 2008.

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For a total of 12 years, Simon-Schaefer was in fact the defining figure at this philosophical chair, although he never received a call; when he was appointed to succeed Zimmerli, he was not taken into account because by that time he had already exceeded the age limit for appointments (52 years) according to Bavarian regulations. The fact that the chair was not advertised for so long after Hampe left and could be represented by Simon-Schaefer is due to an obvious agreement between the university management and Simon-Schaefer.

As a university lecturer, he not only dealt with the theory of art , political philosophy and social theory , but was above all the driving force behind the Bamberg Hegel Week . In his lectures and seminars, he dealt with the topics of Socrates ' apology , ontology , metaphysics , anthropology and the Tractatus theologico-politicus by Baruch Spinoza . In the book Theory Between Criticism and Practice. Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurter Schule (1975) showed sympathy with Critical Rationalism and argued against Jürgen Habermas "on the line of the well-known criticism of Hans Albert ". Simon-Schaefer was a long-time member of the Franconian Society for Philosophy eV based in Bamberg .

Publications (selection)

• Dialectic . Critique of a Word Usage , 1973
• Theory between criticism and practice. Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School , co-author Walther Christoph Zimmerli , 1990
• Small philosophy for Berenike , 1996 (reprint 2001)
• Bamberg Hegel Weeks: Globalization . Challenge for Philosophy , Hegel Weeks 1997: BD 8/1997, co-authors Karl-Otto Apel and Vittorio Hösle , 1998
• Bamberg Hegel Weeks: Renaissance of Social Criticism ? , Hegelwochen 1998: BD 9/1998, co-authors Hans Albert and Herbert Schnädelbach , 1999
• Bamberg Hegel Weeks: The Future of Economic Society, Hegel Weeks 1999: BD 10/1999, co-authors Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner , Peter Meyer-Dohm and Oswald Schwemmer , 2000
• Philosophy in concrete terms: practical philosophy in discussion , co-author Franz J. Albers , 2009

Web links

• “The human is always great and banal”. The Bamberg philosopher Roland Simon-Schaefer died one day before his 66th birthday (obituary from the University of Bamberg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ courses
2. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 84 (1977) 182.
3. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 84 (1977) 185.
4. ↑ Franconian Society for Philosophy eV ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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.