Stephan Graetzel

Stephan Grätzel (* 1953 in Wermsdorf ) is a German professor of philosophy .

Life

Stephan Grätzel was born in 1953 in Wermsdorf ( Hubertusburg ) in Saxony . In 1972 he passed his A-levels and began training and working as an organist and choir director. He took up a degree in philosophy, German and pedagogy. In 1979 he received his doctorate in philosophy with the work: " Bradley's Idealism as a Method of Reflection". In 1988 he completed his habilitation with the thesis: “The discovery of bodily reason; Systematic presentation of the philosophical problem of bodily self-confidence in the 19th and 20th centuries ”.

Since 1979 he has taught at the Philosophical Seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , at the Université de Bourgogne Dijon and at the University of Lyon 3 . Since 1998, Grätzel has been a university professor for philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

In 1981 Grätzel passed his first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of philosophy and German. From 1996 to 1998 he was director of the graduate school “Theater as a Paradigm of Modernity; Drama and Theater in the 20th Century (from 1880) ”.

At the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1998 to 2008 he was the Scientific Director of Teacher Training in Ethics .

Since 2005 he has headed the International Maurice Blondel Research Center at the Practical Philosophy Division in Mainz, and since 2009 the International Eugen Fink Research Center and the Fink Archive, also at the University of Mainz.

He is co-editor of the Eugen Fink Complete Edition.

philosophy

In his monographs and in his published lecture cycle, Grätzel deals with issues of philosophical ethics and anthropology , the theme of a philosophy of play , the border areas of life , the philosophy of art , the philosophy of myth and hermeneutics .

In his writings on ethics, Grätzel and Albert Schweitzer assume mysticism as the highest form of ethical action. He sees mysticism in close connection with myth. Both dissolve people by freeing them from being bound to their ego. Mysticism is internalized and spiritualized mystery .

Works

• Organic time: for the unity of memory and forgetting. Freiburg a. Br .: Alber 1993; 2., ext. and revised London edition: Turnshare 2009.
• What should I do? : Orientations for teaching ethics in high school. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009 [together with J. Großerchen].
• Space - time - causality: Propaedeutics of practical philosophy. London: Turnshare 2008 (Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy; 4).
• The seriousness of the game: lectures on a philosophy of the game. 2., ext. London: Turnshare 2007 edition.
• Ethical practice: applications of practical philosophy in everyday life and at work. London: Turnshare 2007 (Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy; 3).
• Methods of practical philosophy: phenomenology, hermeneutics, dialectics. London: Turnshare 2007 (Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy; 2).
• System of ethics: existential questions of practical philosophy. London: Turnshare 2006 (Fundamentals of Practical Philosophy; 1).
• The masks of Dionysus: lectures on philosophy and mythology. London: Turnshare 2005.
• The Perfection of Thought: Lectures on Philosophy and Mysticism. London: Turnshare 2005.
• The Truth of Fiction: Hermeneutics Lectures. London: Turnshare 2005.
• Philosophical aspects in the mysticism of Ernst Barlach. Mainz texts from projects of the Protestant city church work. Mainz 2005.
• Existence without Guilt: Dimensions of Human Guilt from a Philosophical Perspective. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004. [Online: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00045921-8 ]
• Art without end: lectures on the philosophy of art. London: Turnshare 2004.
• Beyond the Limits of Life: Lectures on Philosophical Anthropology. London: Turnshare 2004.
• Utopia and Ecstasy: Open-mindedness in the Human Sciences. St. Augustin: Gardez! -Verl. 1997 (Philosophy in Context; 1).
• Silence of nature: for the autocratization of knowledge. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1997.
• The philosophical discovery of the body. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verl. Wiesbaden 1989.
• Bradley's idealism as a method of reflection. Mainz: Univ. Diss. 1979.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephan Grätzel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Mainz