Lutz Wingert | |
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Born | 1958 |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Philosopher |
Lutz Wingert (born 1958) is a German philosopher who is sometimes identified as one of the "Third Generation" of the Frankfurt School of philosophy. [1] He is a professor of philosophy focusing on practical philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich [2] and a member of the Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens (Centre for the History of Knowledge). [3] He is a former student of, and a co-author with, Jürgen Habermas, a founding member of the Frankfurt School. [1] Wingert is a former chair of practical philosophy at the University of Dortmund. [2] Along with Wilfried Hinsch, he edits the Ideen & Argumente series. [4]
In 1998, he was awarded the Karl Jaspers Prize. [5] In 2009 he helped chair a Habermas conference in Pécs, Hungary. [6] In March 2011, he co-chaired the Rhetorics and Therapy conference. [7]
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