Ursula Pia Jauch

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Ursula Pia Jauch (born March 16, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss philosopher and journalist .

Jauch studied philosophy, linguistics and older German literature at the University of Zurich , did his doctorate there in 1989 with Helmut Holzhey on Immanuel Kant and habilitated in 1996 with a thesis on Julien Offray de La Mettrie . Since 1987, with a break from a research stay in the USA in 1992, she has been a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Zurich, and since 2003 adjunct professor there. Her main interest is in the philosophy of the 18th century - especially the philosophy of women or the early Enlightenment - and the question of gender difference . In addition to her academic work, Jauch worked as a feature section employee at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) from 1989 to 2010 . Since 2011 she has been writing a "Philosophical Guest Commentary" in the Aargauer Zeitung every one to two months . She also occasionally worked as a presenter on the Swiss radio station DRS and from 2006 to 2008 as a discussion leader on the television program Sternstunde Philosophie .

Ursula Pia Jauch was married to Martin Meyer , the head of the feature section of the NZZ, until 2010 .


Fonts

  • Immanuel Kant on the gender difference. Enlightenment criticism of prejudice and civil gender guardianship. Passagen, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900767-09-2 (also dissertation Zurich 1987).
  • Women's philosophy & men's morality. From Abbé de Gérard to Marquis de Sade. An experiment on smiling reason. Passagen, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900767-48-3 .
  • Beyond the machine. Philosophy, irony and aesthetics with Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751). Hanser, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-446-19485-1 (also habilitation thesis Zurich 1995).
  • Beat Fidel Zurlauben, 1720–1799. Mercenary general & book lover. NZZ, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85823-758-2 .
  • Homo ludens. Man, a player. Vontobel Foundation, Zurich 2001.
  • as Ed .: Bernard Mandeville , A pamphlet for public cathouses. Or, an essay on fornication (London 1724). Translated and commented by Ursula Pia Jauch. Hanser, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-446-19989-6 .
  • as editor: Franz Blei , story of a life. With an afterword by Ursula Pia Jauch. Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05310-7 .
  • Friedrich's round table and Kant's table company. An experiment about Prussia between eros, philosophy and propaganda. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-589-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hansjörg Müller: The Prussian Zurich. In: Basler Zeitung of July 30, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Jauch, Ursula Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich