Steffen Dietzsch

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Steffen Dietzsch (born August 21, 1943 in Chemnitz , Saxony) is a German historian of philosophy and essayist. He teaches philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Leipzig and has been Managing Director of the Kondylis Institute for Cultural Analysis and Alteration Research at the Distance University in Hagen since 2006 .

Life

After studying philosophy at the University of Leipzig (1965–1973), he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Philosophy at the Berlin Academy of Sciences , in the Philosophical Editions section, and then between 1983 and 1990 its director. In autumn 1989 Dietzsch was appointed professor at the academy. From 1991 to 1993 he worked on the DFG project "Kant's Office Activities" at the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1993 to 1998 Dietzsch was Professor of Philosophy at the Chair for Practical Philosophy ( Kurt Röttgers ) at the Institute for Philosophy at the FernUniversität Hagen, then until 2002 collaboration on the DFG project “Philosophy and Philosophical Faculty zu Königsberg 1770-1870” at the Chair for Practical Philosophy ( Volker Gerhardt ) from the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the 2001/2002 fall semester, Steffen Dietzsch became the first Fellow-in-Residence of the Friedrich Nietzsche College in Weimar and, on the occasion of the ten-year foundation of the Nietzsche College, Jubilee Fellow in fall 2009.

Dietzsch works in particular on Kant and German idealism , early romanticism and modern cultural philosophy . His philosophical interest includes in particular:

  1. the validity of the transcendental principle and its cultural-historical impact in modern times as well
  2. the philosophical Christology , which unfolds with the beginning of German idealism up to Nietzsche.

Publications

  • Dimensions of the Transcendental Philosophy , Akademie Verlag Berlin 1990
  • Thinking ahead with Kant , Verlag Blaue Eule Essen 1996
  • Short cultural history of lies , Verlag Reclam Leipzig 1998 [pol. Warszawa 2000]
  • Nietzsche in Exile , Verlag Böhlaus Nachf. Weimar 2001 (with Rüdiger Schmidt)
  • Against the heaviness , Parerga Verlag Berlin 2002
  • Thinking the Irrational , Universitätsverlag Leipzig 2003 (with Carlos Marroquin)
  • Immanuel Kant . A biography, Verlag Reclam Leipzig 2003 [pol. Warsaw 2005]
  • Reason and belief. Festschrift f. Xavier Tilliette , Akademie Verlag Berlin 2006 (with Gian Franco Frigo)
  • Paul Mersmann. Diffusion of Modernity , Manutius Verlag Heidelberg 2008 (with Renate Solbach)
  • Kant the European. Europeans on Kant , Husum Verlag 2010 (with Lorenz Grimoni)
  • Achim v. Arnim and his circle , de Gruyter Verlag Berlin / NY 2010 (with Ariane Ludwig)
  • Changing world. Thought experiments , Manutius Verlag Heidelberg 2010
  • 1940 - счастливый год Сталина [1940 - Stalin's happy year]. Publishing house Russ. Polit. Encyclopedia, Moscow 2011 (with Wladislaw Hedeler ).
  • Transcendental Philosophy and Contemporary Culture , Universitätsverlag Leipzig 2012 (with Udo Tietz)
  • Nietzsche's Perspectives. Thinking and Poetry in the Modern Age , de Gruyter Berlin / Boston 2014 (with Claudia Terne)
  • Freedom of thought. About Germans and von Deutsches , Universitätsverlag Leipzig 2016

literature

  • The Daedalus Principle. A discourse on the assembly and disassembly of ideologies . Steffen Dietzsch on his 65th birthday, ed. v. Leila Kais, Parerga Verlag Berlin 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Dietzsch, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of philosophy and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz