Ulrich Pothast

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Ulrich Pothast (born September 29, 1939 in Steinau an der Strasse ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Pothast studied philosophy, German and French in Marburg, West Berlin and also medicine in Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Heidelberg under Dieter Henrich , was a visiting fellow at the Universities of Princeton and Columbia , research associate at the University of Berkeley ( USA ) and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . He taught philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bielefeld as well as at the Hanover University of Music and Theater . There he became a university professor (C4) for philosophy in 1982. He retired in 2004.

Pothast's areas of work are the theory of consciousness ( Questions of Self- Relationship 1971, Philosophical Book 1988, Lebendige Reasonability 1998), Action Theory ( The Inadequacy of Evidence of Freedom 1980, Freedom and Responsibility 2011) and philosophical aesthetics ( The metaphysical vision 2008). His early position against free will and traditionally thought responsibility as well as his suggestion to understand the higher-level achievements of human consciousness from a pre-rational, elementary sense or feeling, became known in German philosophy .

Works

  • About some questions of self-relationship . Klostermann, 1971.
  • The trip to Las Vegas . Novel. Insel, 1977. ISBN 3-458-05024-8
  • Seminar: Free Action and Determinism . Suhrkamp, ​​1978. ISBN 3-518-27857-6
  • The inadequacy of the evidence of freedom . Suhrkamp, ​​1980. ISBN 3-518-06419-3
  • The actually metaphysical activity . Suhrkamp, ​​1982. ISBN 3-518-28387-1
  • The picture of my city in the snow . Poems. Suhrkamp, ​​1984. ISBN 3-518-04574-1
  • Philosophical book . Suhrkamp, ​​1988. ISBN 3-518-57932-0
  • Lively reasonableness . Suhrkamp, ​​1998. ISBN 3-518-58268-2 book review
  • The metaphysical vision: Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it . New York, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4331-0286-8
  • Freedom and responsibility: a debate that does not want to - and cannot die either . Frankfurt / M. (Klostermann) 2011. ISBN 978-3-465-04130-6
  • How free we are is our business: personal freedom in the world of natural laws . Frankfurt / M. (Klostermann) 2016. ISBN 978-3-465-04273-0

literature

  • Thomas Gross: You have to believe in freedom. The philosopher Ulrich Pothast follows on from an old theme with a new and balanced presentation. Review: U. Pothast, Freedom and Responsibility. Frankfurt a. M. 2011. In: FAZ, June 6, 2012.
  • Dirk van Hulle, Ulrich Pothast: The metaphysical vision. In: Journal of Beckett Studies, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 17/2009, pp. 225-229.
  • C. Moser et al. a., Ulrich Pothast's "Lebendige Reasonableness". In: Information Philosophy August 2001, p. 89 ff.
  • Volker Gerhardt: One heart and one soul. The philosopher Ulrich Pothast makes reason the friend of life. Review: U. Pothast, Lebendige Vernindestigkeit, Frankfurt a. M. 1998. In: DIE ZEIT February 18, 1999 ...
  • G. Falke: What are you pushing so strangely, my heart? Ulrich Pothast listens within himself and reveals the longing behind the criticism of subject philosophy. Review: U. Pothast, Lebendige Vernängigkeit. Frankfurt a. M. 1998. In: FAZ, November 3, 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Pothast, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinau an der Straße