Ruth Sonderegger

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Ruth Sonderegger (born January 3, 1967 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian philosopher and professor.

Academic career

After studying philosophy and literature in Innsbruck, Konstanz and Berlin, she received her doctorate in 1998 from the Free University of Berlin . From 1993 to 2001 she was a research assistant and assistant professor at the Philosophical Institute of the Free University of Berlin. From 2001 to 2007 she was Associate Professor and Lecturer at the Philosophical Institute of the Universiteit van Amsterdam , where she took over the Chair of Metaphysics and its History in 2007. In 2008 she was a Fellow at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences . Since 2009 she has been Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 2017 she was a Mercator Fellow at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

Sonderegger's main research interests are aesthetics and art theory, cultural studies, political philosophy, critical theories and theories of resistance.

Sonderegger is a member of the Society for European Philosophy , the International Association of Women Philosophers and the German Society for Aesthetics . Sonderegger is a member of the editorial team of the reviewed open access journal Krisis .

Aesthetic position

With the concept of play borrowed from Friedrich Schlegel , Sonderegger argues against the use of art and aesthetics as a means of finding truth in the hermeneutic tradition of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the deconstructivist tradition of Jacques Derrida . Instead, she defends the stubbornness of art and the autonomous aesthetic experience.

Awards

Fonts

  • For an aesthetic of the game . Hermeneutics, deconstruction and the obstinacy of art, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-518-29093-2 .
  • (Ed. With Andrea Kern ): False contrasts . Contemporary positions on philosophical aesthetics, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-29176-9 .
  • (Ed. With Karin de Boer): Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills Basingstroke 2011.
  • (Eds. With Eva Birkenstock, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Jens Kastner): Art and ideological criticism after 1989 . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013.
  • (Ed. With Jens Kastner): Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière . Aesthetic regime or aesthetic disposition? Turia + Kant, Vienna 2014.
  • (Ed. With Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster and Suzana Milevska): Spaces for Criticism . Contemporary Art Discourses, Valiz, Amsterdam 2015.
  • with Gundula Ludwig and Isabell Lorey: Foucault's presence . Sexuality - Care - Revolution, transversal texts, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-903046-08-5 .
  • with Sofia Bempeza, Christoph Brunner, Katharina Hausladen and Ines Kleesattel: Polyphonic aesthetics . A critical situation, transversal texts, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-903046-24-5 .
  • From the life of criticism . Critical practices - and the necessity of their geopolitical situation, Zaglossus, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-902902-62-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ruth Sonderegger on the website of the University of Oldenburg (accessed on January 20, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ruth Sonderegger on the website of the European Forum Alpbach (accessed on January 20, 2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Sonderegger, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bludenz