Thomas Bedorf

Thomas Bedorf (* 1969 ) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Distance University in Hagen .

Life

From 1990 to 1997 he studied philosophy, Romance studies, history and political science in Münster , Bochum and Paris . From 1997 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum ( Bernhard Waldenfels ). From 1997 to 1998 he was a member of the DFG graduate college “Phenomenology and Hermeneutics” in Bochum / Wuppertal. In 1999 he was a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University . After receiving his doctorate in 2002 as Dr. phil. at the Ruhr University in Bochum , he became a research assistant in the philosophy department, in particular practical philosophy in Hagen . After his habilitation in philosophy in 2008, he was visiting professor at the Instituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Naples in 2009/2010 and substitute professor for political and social philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 2011 he became a professor at the Fernuniversität in Hagen. From 2015 to 2017 he was President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research (DGPF).

Dimensions of the third. Social philosophical models between the ethical and the political . Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3870-6 .
Marginalia on Adorno . Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89691-553-3 .
Misjudging recognition. About identity and politics . Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-29530-4 .
Other. An introduction to social philosophy . Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 3-8376-1710-6 .
with Emmanuel Alloa, Christian Grüny, Tobias Nikolaus Klass: Leiblichkeit. History and topicality of a concept. Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5038-6 .