Volker Spierling

Volker Spierling (born April 16, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher and book author. After completing an apprenticeship as typesetter in 1965, he studied philosophy , education , psychology and sociology . He completed these studies in 1977 with a doctorate in philosophy and in 1981 with a master's degree in educational science.

He has taken on various teaching assignments and led philosophical seminars for lay people. The main areas of work include a. the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and the history of philosophy. For several years he has also presented his own work in the field of fine arts .

Volker Spierling lives in Tübingen .

philosophy

Spierling sees in what he calls the Kopernican turning point , an open epistemological model - in Schopenhauer's case - which leads to the avoidance of metaphysical final statements as well as to enable a metaphysics from empirical sources of knowledge . There are three levels of turnaround

• in epistemology : dialectics of subject and object
• in metaphysics : dialectics of subjective and objective will
• in ethics : The dialectic of principium individuationis and tat-twam-asi (that is: This is you from Sanskrit )

Selected literature

• Schopenhauer's transcendental idealistic self-misunderstanding. Prolegomena to a forgotten dialectic , Philosophical Dissertation, Munich 1977.
• The turning point of modernity. Schopenhauer between skepticism and dogmatism in: Volker Spierling (Hrsg.): Materials on Schopenhauer's "The world as will and imagination" , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-28044-9 .
• Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosophical Lectures. From the handwritten estate. Ed. By Volker Spierling based on the edition by Franz Mockrauer from 1913. 4 volumes, Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1984–1986.
• Schopenhauer's terrible truth in: Volker Spierling (Hrsg.): Schopenhauer in thinking of the present. 23 contributions on its topicality , R. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1987, pp. 27–51, ISBN 3-492-03131-5 .
• Arthur Schopenhauer. Philosophy as art and knowledge. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-627-10240-1 , also as a paperback edition under the title Arthur Schopenhauer. An introduction to life and work. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-379-01626-8
• The philosophy of the 20th century: a reader. Piper, Munich / Zurich, 5th edition 1997, ISBN 978-3-492-20547-4 .
• Little history of philosophy. Great thinkers from antiquity to the present , extended new edition R. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04652-5 , also as a paperback edition, 6th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-24628-6 .
• Arthur Schopenhauer introduction , 3rd, improved edition, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88506-631-6 .
• Plato's Symposium. Pictures, mitres , Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023886-4 .
• Small Schopenhauer Lexicon , Reclam-Verlag, Ditzingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020192-3 .
• Man is monster. A history of ethics from Socrates to Adorno, Verlag CH Beck Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70418-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Spierling in the catalog of the German National Library