Jens Soentgen

Jens Soentgen (* 1967 in Bensberg ) is a German chemist and philosopher . He is the author of (environmental) philosophical works and non-fiction books.

Life

Soentgen studied chemistry with a state examination in 1994 and received his doctorate with a thesis on the concept of substance in philosophy . Teaching assignments took him to various universities in Germany. In 1999/2000 he worked as a visiting professor for philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia) in Brazil , in 2001 he worked as a visiting scholar at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil). Since 2002 he has been the scientific director of the Environmental Science Center at the University of Augsburg . He completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Augsburg in 2015. Since 2016 he has been Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's .

His book Self-Thinking! (Illustrations Nadia Budde) was 2004, his book Von den Sternen bis zum Tau (Illustrations Vitali Konstantinov ) was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award in 2011 . For How to philosophize with fire , he and Konstantinov received the award "Knowledge Book of the Year" from the magazine Bild der Wissenschaft in 2016 . For February 2016, the book had already received the Emys Non-Fiction Prize (monthly award) and also won the Emys Annual Emys for 2016.

Works / writings

As an author:

• The inconspicuous: phenomenological descriptions of substances, things and fractal structures. (At the same time dissertation) Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003093-3 .
• Splinters and Shards: Essays on the Phenomenology of the Nondescript. Zug 1998, ISBN 3-906336-21-2 .
• The hidden reality: Introduction to the new phenomenology by Hermann Schmitz. Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02788-4 .
• The cinnamon star story: Christmas essay. (Designed by Nadia Budde .) Wuppertal 2001, ISBN 3-87294-887-3 .
• Think for yourself! 20 Practices of Philosophy. (With illustrations by Nadia Budde.) Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-87294-943-8 .
  • Reprinted by Beltz & Gelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-407-75526-1 .
  • Dutch edition (translation by Henriëtte van Weerdt-Schellekens): Dan pas kun je haben! twintig manners waarop je kunt filosoferen. Schiedam 2011, ISBN 978-90-5594-738-6 .
  • Arabic edition: "فكر بنفسك! عشرون تطبيقاً للفلسفة" (translation by Abdelsalam Heder): in Mahrosa, Cairo 2007, ISBN 978-977-313-152-4 .
• From the stars to the dew: a journey of discovery through nature. (Illustrations by Vitali Konstantinov .) Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-7795-0291-3 .
  • Reprinted by the Gutenberg Book Guild 2011, ISBN 978-3-7632-6477-3 .
  • Russian edition (translation by O. Teremkovoj): Ot zvezdy do rosinki: 120 udivitelʹnych javlenij prirody. Moscow 2015, ISBN 978-5-9963-0506-3 .
  • Korean edition, Random House Korea, Seoul 2012, ISBN 978-89-255-4717-6 .
• With Marita Krauss and Stefan Lindl : The tamed Lech: a river of extremes. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86222-140-0 .
• How to Philosophize with Fire: Chemistry and Alchemy for the Fearless. (Illustrations by Vitali Konstantinov .) Wuppertal 2015, ISBN 978-3-7795-0526-6 .
  • Chinese edition, Yilin Press, Nanjing, Jiangsu 2018, ISBN 978-7-5447-7433-8 .
• Conflict materials. About carbon dioxide, heroin and other controversial substances. Munich: oekom Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-86581-779-2 .
• Ecology of fear. Berlin: Matthes and Seitz 2018. ISBN 978-3-95757-552-4
  • Spanish edition: Ecología del miedo (translation by Miguel Alberti), Herder Editorial, Barcelona 2019, ISBN 978-84-254-4320-6

As editor:

• The salon of the future: culture of conversation in the 19th and 21st centuries. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01238-2 .
• with Knut Völzke: Dust: Mirror of the Environment. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-936581-60-6 .
  • Korean edition 2012, Nature & Ecology, Seoul, ISBN 978-89-974290-4-2 .
• with Armin Reller : CO ₂ - the elixir of life and climate killer. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86581-118-9 . Korean edition 2015, Nature & Ecology, Seoul, ISBN 978-89-974294-9-3 .
• with Hans Peter Hahn and Karlhein Cless: People at the well: kinds, usages and meanings of water in a global perspective. Frankfurt / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39610-1 .

Web links

• Jens Soentgen at the Environmental Science Center at the University of Augsburg
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Soentgen at perlentaucher.de
• Secrets of Chemistry and Alchemy ( Memento from November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at wdr.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Knowledge books of the year: Die Sieger des Jahres 2016. On: Wissenschaft.de from November 14, 2016.
2. ↑ Peter Hammer Verlag awarded the annual EMYS 2016. In: wis-potsdam.de. 2017, accessed March 29, 2017 .