Reinhart Maurer

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Reinhart Klemens Maurer (born 26 March 1935) is a German philosopher.

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Biography

He was born in Xanten. He studied philosophy, German and English at the universities of Münster, Kiel and Vienna. In 1964, he completed his Ph.D. under Joachim Ritter. Maurer later wrote his post-doctoral research (Habilitation) in 1969 at the University of Stuttgart under the supervision of Robert Spaemann. Between 1962 and 1975, he was a research assistant and then a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy and Pedagogy at the University of Stuttgart and from 1975 to 1997, he was a professor at the Institute for Philosophy (Institut für Philosophie) at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin). [1]

Maurer was influenced by Joachim Ritter's concept of a practical philosophy that challenges concrete problems, in the tradition of the ancient European and the classical philosophy. This was his approach in his works about Plato, Hobbes, Hegel, Habermas and the critical theory. He applies critical theory to the modern, techno-democratic worldview, and ties it with fundamental critique of the modern society (Nietzsche, [2] [3] Heidegger, Arnold Gehlen and Gómez Dávila).

Publications (in German)

References

  1. ↑ Muller, J.Z. (2024). Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes. Princeton University Press. p. 389. ISBN   978-0-691-25930-7 . Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Payne, C.A.; Roberts, M.J. (2019). Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity. Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Brill. p. 228. ISBN   978-90-04-41557-7 . Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Bauer, K. (1999). Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner. G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. State University of New York Press. p. 15. ISBN   978-0-7914-4279-1 . Retrieved 9 September 2024.