Dominik Finkelde

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Dominik Finkelde
Born (1970-05-31) 31 May 1970 (age 53)
Berlin, Germany
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Era 20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy, Continental philosophy, German idealism
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Website https://www.hfph.de/hochschule/lehrende/prof-dr-dominik-finkelde-sj

Dominik Finkelde (born 31 May 1970) is a German Jesuit priest, philosopher and playwright. [1]

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Life and work

After graduating from high school, Finkelde studied philosophy, theology and literature in Berlin, Munich and Paris. In 2003, he earned his doctorate with a thesis on Walter Benjamin (Benjamin reads Proust) at the Munich School of Philosophy. Parallel to his studies, he joined the Jesuit Order in 1996 and began further education there. During the Magisterium, a two-year period of practical experience, he worked in the pastoral work in Mexico City and as lecturer of philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Dominik Finkelde was ordained as a Catholic priest by the Freiburg Bishop Bernd Uhl in June 2009 in the Cathedral of St. Blaise  [ de ]. He was assistant professor at the Munich School of Philosophy between 2010 and 2015 and habilitated at the Institute of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 2014. Since 2015 he has been professor of contemporary philosophy and epistemology at the Munich School of Philosophy.

Since the mid-1990s, Finkelde has emerged as the author of dramatic and scientific texts. In 1996, he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize (together with Jens Roselt) for his first play, "Abendgruß", which premiered in 1998 at the Theater Magdeburg, depicting the fictitious biography of a former East German border guard. In the award of the jury, Klaus Völker wrote: "Here we have a small, very sensitive and cautiously depicted family drama ... in the tradition of Ibsen". [2] His dystopia Berlin Underground is about the breakup of the two-class society in the near future and was premiered in 1999 by the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven. Other plays by Finkelde were staged in Bielefeld, Augsburg and Cottbus.

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Philosophy

Editorials

Translated works

  • Excessive Subjectivity -- Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics, Deva Kemmis and Astrid Weigert (trs.), Columbia University Press, 2017, ISBN   978-0-23117-318-6.

Drama

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References

  1. "Dominik Finkelde / Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb". www.kiepenheuer-medien.de. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  2. "Abendgruß / Finkelde, Dominik / Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb". www.kiepenheuer-medien.de. Retrieved 20 January 2019.