Rudolf Burger (philosopher)

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Rudolf Burger (born December 8, 1938 in Vienna ; † April 19, 2021 there ) was an Austrian philosopher .

life and work

Burger completed a physics degree at the Technical University of Vienna and then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Applied Physics, where he received his doctorate in 1965. He then worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Solid State Physics until 1968 and then moved to the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt / Main, where he worked in the field of research planning. At the end of the 1960s, Burger also worked on the planning staff of the German Ministry of Science in Bonn.

From 1973 to 1990, Burger headed the department for social sciences and humanities research at the Ministry of Science in Vienna. In 1979, Burger completed his habilitation in the sociology of science. In 1987 he came to the University of Applied Arts Vienna (“Die Angewandte”) as a professor , where in 1991 he became chairman of the chair for philosophy. From 1995 to 1999, Burger was rector of the “Angewandte”. At the end of the summer semester 2007 he retired.

Burger, who came from a communist family and described himself as a “materialist skeptic” and “agnostic Marxist ”, was an intellectual who caused national controversy several times with his writings on the political situation. For example in 2000, when he criticized the protest against the black-blue coalition in the magazine Merkur and described it as an “ anti-fascist carnival ”; or in 2001, when he wrote the essay The Errors of the Politics of Commemoration. A plea for forgetting was published in the cultural magazine Europäische Rundschau . In 1992 he published an article in the Viennese news magazine profil in which he took a stand against the “war-ridden” attitude of Austrian foreign policy in the Balkans conflict. He died in April 2021 at the age of 82.

Fonts

  • Measurements. Essays on the Destruction of History. Special number, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85449-017-8 .
  • From the Will to the Sublime Print version of a lecture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, April 1992, FORVM 460-461.
  • In the meantime. Adnotes on Politics and Philosophy. Springer, Vienna and New York 1996, ISBN 3-211-82782-X .
  • Ptolemaic conjectures. Notes on the trajectory of manners . To Klampen, Lüneburg 2001, ISBN 3-934920-06-3 .
  • Little story of the past. A pyrrhonic sketch of historical reason . Styria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-222-13149-X .
  • Re-theologizing of Politics? Debate on values ​​and reminder speeches . To Klampen, Springe 2005, ISBN 3-934920-56-X .
  • In the name of history. The abuse of historical reason . To Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-86674-015-0 .
  • Beyond the line. Selected philosophical narratives . Sonderzahl-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85449-304-4 .
  • The misery of culturalism. Antihumanist Considerations. To Klampen, Springe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86674-147-8 .478
  • The triumph of liberalism. An obituary . In: Konrad Paul Liessmann (ed.): The state. How much rule does a person need? Zsolnay, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05530-8 .
  • Why history? A timely warning . Molden, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-222-15027-2 .
  • Multiculturalism, Migration and the Refugee Crisis. With contributions by Konrad Paul Liessmann and Peter Strasser. Edited by Bernhard Kraller, Sonderzahl-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85449-510-9 .
  • The applied art of thinking. By, for and against Rudolf Burger. With bibliography pp. 307-380. Edited by Bernhard Kraller, Sonderzahl-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85449-509-3 .

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Kramar: Rudolf Burger, the (anti) philosopher against all hypocrisy. In: DiePresse.com . April 20, 2021, accessed April 20, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Kramar: Rudolf Burger, the (anti) philosopher against all hypocrisy. In: DiePresse.com . April 20, 2021, accessed April 20, 2021 . Ronald Pohl : Defense against barbarism through elegance: Philosopher Rudolf Burger died. In: derStandard.at . April 20, 2021, accessed April 20, 2021 .
  3. ↑ The Paul Watzlawick Prize 2021 goes to Prof. Dr. Rudolf Burger. In: watzlawickehrenring.at. Retrieved April 17, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher, essayist, critic and cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna