Wolfgang Schirmacher

Wolfgang Schirmacher (* 1944 ) is a philosopher and author .

After teaching philosophy in New York at the New School for Social Research and the Polytechnic University of New York , he is the President of the International Schopenhauer Association. He was the head of the Schopenhauer Congress for the 200th birthday in Hamburg. He is particularly known as a Arthur Schopenhauer connoisseur. In 1984 he was the editor of the Schopenhauer yearbook and the 1985 Insel Almanac about Schopenhauer.

philosophy

Inspired by various post-Kantians and post-Hegelians, he is particularly inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer , Karl Marx , Sören Kierkegaard , Friedrich Nietzsche , Martin Heidegger , Theodor W. Adorno , Merleau-Ponty , Georges Bataille , Hannah Arendt , Gilles Deleuze , Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard influenced.

This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.

Schirmacher is convinced that modern technologies are the greatest threat to the human body. Like his mentors, Schirmacher believes the body is our place of resistance, and its growing influence coincides with the growing threat posed by technological advancement. Schirmacher calls this homo generator as a realization of the hope and fear of the philosophers according to Hegel: “an existence beyond metaphysics , as a human being that no longer needs being, no security and no truth.” Modern technology is more ambiguous Place of birth. Instead of taking Homo generator as a representation of progress, the supernatural technological triumph or the movement towards a higher form of life, he describes the Homo generator as having to courageously accept one's own mortality (supplemented by natality ) in the climate of Ecocide . The homo generator begins to fulfill the artificial existence of humanity and takes on the form of the media artist, as a generator of human reality and its responsibility for the future, artificial world. Unlike other descriptions of humanity, Homo generator addresses our ability to produce new forms of life for the biological and spiritual future of the masses.

Werner Strombach said of his dissertation, Event Technology - Heidegger, and the question of technology : "At Schirmacher we encounter that way of seeing that Wolfgang Stegmüller once said with regard to Heidegger that one can be captured by it, so that all previous achievements as Look outdated or reject them as incomprehensible word-painting. His style is unusual, his method does not adhere to classical ideas of logical or empirical significance, but it does show the spontaneity of a sense of being that needs to be practiced, as well as the constant effort to remove every shade to be carefully observed in showing the phenomena. "

literature

• (with Sven Nebelung): German Essays On Psychology. The German Library 62. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, November 2000, 330 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0-8264-1237-8 .
• (Ed.): German 20th Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School. The German Library 78. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, February 2000, 324 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-8264-0966-0 .
• (Ed.): German Socialist Philosophy: Feuerbach, Marx, Engels. The German Library 40. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, December 1996, hardcover, ISBN 0-8264-0748-X .
• (Ed.): German Essays On Science In The 20th Century. The German Library 82. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, October 1996, 314 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-8264-0746-3 .
• (Ed.): German Essays On Science In The 19th Century. The German Library 36. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, September 1996, 330 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-8264-0744-7 .
• (Ed.): Ethics and reason : Schopenhauer in our time. Schopenhauer Studies 5. Passagen Verlag. Vienna, 1995, 387 pages, paperback, ISBN 3-85165-023-9 .
• (Ed.): Arthur Schopenhauer . Schopenhauer: Philosophical Writings. The German Library 27. The Continuum International Publishing Group. New York, London, July 1994, 300 pages, paperback, ISBN 0-8264-0729-3 .
• Schopenhauer, Nietzsche And The Art . Schopenhauer Studies 4. Passagen Verlag. Vienna, 1992, 400 pages.
• (Ed. With Jacques Poulain), Arno Münster (translation). Penser après Heidegger . La philosophy en commun. L'Harmattan. Paris, 1992, 360 pages, Paperback (Broché), ISBN 2-7384-1064-2 .
• Event technique. Passagen Philosophy 33rd Passagen Verlag. Vienna, 1990, 245 pages, paperback, ISBN 3-900767-36-X .
• Schopenhauer In Postmodernism . Schopenhauer studies 3. Passagen Verlag. Vienna, 1989, 400 pages.
• (Ed.): Criticism of time after Heidegger . Philosophy series 9. The blue owl. Essen, 1988, 240 pages.
• Schopenhauer actuality: a philosopher is reread. Schopenhauer Studies 1/2. Passagen Verlag. Vienna, 1988, 400 pages.
• Schopenhauer . Island Almanac 1985. Island. Frankfurt, 1985, 249 pages, paperback, ISBN 3-458-14188-X .
• Schopenhauer and Nietzsche . Schopenhauer yearbook 1984. W. Kramer. Frankfurt, 1984, 326 pages.
• Time of the harvest : studies on the status of Schopenhauer research. Frommann-Holzboog. Stuttgart, 1983, 447 pages.
• Technology and serenity. Time criticism according to Heidegger . Fermenta philosophica . Alber Freiburg. Munich, 1983, 274 pages. ISBN 3-495-47520-6 . Hiroshi Kojima (partial translation). Niigata University Press. Niigata, 1986.
• The technology event: Heidegger and the question of technology . Dissertation. Hamburg, 1980,

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 88 (1981) 201.