Sebastian Knell

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Sebastian Knell (born 1966 in Darmstadt ) is a German philosopher and writer.

Education and career

From 1987 Sebastian Knell studied philosophy , linguistics , literature and psychoanalysis at the University of Tübingen and the University of Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate in 2003 in Frankfurt with a thesis on the philosophy of language on Robert Brandom . Knell was employed at RWTH Aachen University and at the University of Basel , where he was President of the Basler Philosophischen Gesellschaft from 2003 to 2006, and has been working at the University of Bonn since 2011 , where he completed his habilitation in 2014 . In 2015/16 he was visiting professor at the Berlin Humboldt University and in 2018 visiting professor at the Karl Franzens University in Graz.

Novels

Knell began writing works of fiction during his time in Basel. The name of the protagonist of his novel, Burn-In or wie Parzer der Glückseligkeit (2017), matches the name of a character in a story Evelyn Grill published two years earlier ; in both Knell and Grill, 'Parzer' alludes to the Parzen who, according to Roman mythology, spin the thread of life . Burn-In is about a politician who becomes frivolous and threatens to end his career. According to Knell's own account, the book was inspired by Woody Allen's film Harry besides himself (1997).

Fonts (selection)

  • Burn-in or How Parzer fell into bliss . Novel. acabus, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86282-479-3 .
  • Conquering Time: Basics of a Philosophy of Extended Life Spans . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-58619-8 .
  • with Marcel Weber (Ed.): Longer life? Philosophical and life science perspectives . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-29500-7 .
  • with Marcel Weber: basic themes philosophy: human life . de Gruyter, Berlin 2009.
  • Propositional content and discursive account management: an investigation into the justification of the language dependence of intentional states in Brandom . de Gruyter, Berlin 2004. Zugl .: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2002
  • The relevance of the interpretation of Saul A. Kripke's "skeptical problem" to reality . Master's thesis University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Evelyn Grill, Five Widows. Haymon, Innsbruck 2015, p. 34
  2. ↑ Joachim Scholl, In the dancing step of equanimity. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, April 28, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Knell, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt