Rudolf Langthaler

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Rudolf Langthaler (born June 22, 1953 in Amstetten , Lower Austria) was a professor at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna .

Life

Langthaler studied philosophy , catholic theology and German at the University of Vienna with the degrees Mag. Phil. (1976), Dr. phil. (1978) and Mag. Theol. (1983). From 1980 to 1984 he was a university assistant at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . From 1984 to 1991 he taught at the Philosophical-Theological University of the Diocese of St. Pölten . In 1988 he completed his habilitation in the Philosophy Department at the Faculty of Basic and Integrative Science at the University of Vienna.

From 1991 to 1999, Langthaler was professor for philosophy at the Catholic Private University in Linz . and has been Full Professor of Christian Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna since October 1, 1999 (Head of the Institute until September 2016; Deputy Head of the Institute from October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2018). Rudolf Langthaler has been retired since October 1st, 2018.

Awards

Publications

Monographs
  • Critical Rationalism. An investigation into the Enlightenment and criticism of religion in the present. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • Kant's ethics as a system of ends. To a modified idea of ​​“moral teleology”. Berlin 1991.
  • Organism and environment. The biological environmental theory in the mirror of traditional natural philosophy. Hildesheim 1992.
  • Post-metaphysical thinking? Critical inquiries to Jürgen Habermas. Berlin 1997.
  • “Missing God” - A Theological Critique of Pure Reason? The new political theology as reflected in the Kantian philosophy of religion. Regensburg 2000.
  • History, ethics and religion following Kant. Philosophical perspectives "between skeptical hopelessness and dogmatic defiance" (= German magazine for philosophy . Special volume 19). De Gruyter, Berlin 2014.
  • Why Dawkins is wrong. A polemic. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-495-48749-5 .
  • Kant on faith and the “self-preservation of reason”. His path from “criticism” to “actual metaphysics” - and beyond. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich, 2018.
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  • Theology as science. A Linz symposium. Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 2000.
  • System of philosophy? Festival ceremony for Hans Dieter Klein. Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 2000 (according to L. Nagl).
  • what is the human? An interdisciplinary conversation between the life sciences, philosophy and theology. A Vienna symposium. Vienna 2004.
  • Places of Religion in Contemporary Philosophical Discourse. Berlin 2004 (according to K. Dethloff, H. Nagl-Docekal, F. Wolfram).
  • Law - History - Religion. The significance of Kant for the present. Berlin 2004 (according to H. Nagl-Docekal).
  • Critical and Absolute Transcendence. On the philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion in Kant and Schelling. Freiburg i.Br. 2006 (according to C. Danz).
  • Belief and knowledge. A symposium with Jürgen Habermas. Vienna / Berlin 2006 (according to H. Nagl-Docekal).
  • The question of God in European philosophy and literature of the 20th century. Vienna 2006 (according to W. Treitler).
  • Evolution theory - belief in creation. Wuerzburg 2008.
  • Naturalization of mind? Contributions to the current debate about the spirit. Würzburg 2008 (according to K. Appel, S. Müller, H. Ph. Weber).
  • Dawkins' delusion of God. 15 critical responses to his atheist mission. Böhlau 2009 (according to K. Appel).
  • Vienna Yearbook for Philosophy, Volume XL / 2008: Self-Confidence and Thought of God (themed volume on Dieter Henrich). Braumüller 2010 (according to m. H.-D. Klein and M. Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLI / 2009: Religionskritik. Braumüller 2010 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLII (42) / 2010: Monad and System. Braumüller 2011 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLIII (43) / 2011: Michael Theunissen. On religious-philosophical and theological topics in his thinking. Vienna: new academic press 2013 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLIV (44) / 2012: Transcendental Philosophy. Possibilities and limits. New academic press, Vienna 2013 (according to M. Hofer).
  • Theory of evolution and belief in creation. New perspectives on the debate. (Vienna Forum for Theology and Religion 1). Vienna University Press, Vienna 2013 (according to Hubert Philipp Weber).
  • Religion in the modern age. Religious philosophical contributions to a current debate (= Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society . Volume 6). V + R University Press, Göttingen 2013 (according to Kurt Appel and Christopher Meiller).
  • Religion in the global modern age. Philosophical explorations (= Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society . Volume 7). V + R University Press, Göttingen 2014 (according to Hans Schelkshorn and Friedrich Wolfram).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLV (45) / 2013: Existential Philosophy. Claim and criticism of a form of thought. New academic press, Vienna 2014 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Vienna Yearbook for Philosophy, Volume XLVI (46) / 2014: Philosophy of History. Status and tasks in the present. New academic press, Vienna 2015 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLVII (47) / 2015: Naturphilosophie. Traditional themes and current challenges. New academic press, Vienna 2016 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • "Everyone of you strives to compete": Lessing's ring parable - a paradigm for understanding religions today? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2016 (according to Jan-Heiner Tück).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLVIII (48) / 2016: Kant and the consequences. The challenge in aesthetics, ethics and religious philosophy. New academic press, Vienna 2017 (according to Michael Hofer).
  • Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Volume XLIX (49) / 2017: Das Heilige. A basic category of the philosophy of religion. New academic press, Vienna 2018 (according to Michael Hofer).

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personal data
SURNAME Langthaler, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and theologian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Amstetten , Lower Austria