Reinhart Maurer

Reinhart Maurer ( b. 1935 in Xanten ) is a German philosopher.

Biography

After leaving school at various places in Germany studied Reinhart Maurer philosophy, German and English at the Universities of Münster, Kiel and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1964 at the University of Muenster in Joachim Ritter. His habilitation in 1969 at the University of Stuttgart was supervised by Robert Spaemann. From 1962 to 1975 he was a research assistant at first, then a lecturer and adjunct professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Education at the University of Stuttgart, and from 1975 to 1997 professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.

Maurer took over from Joachim Ritter the design of a practical philosophy that addresses specific problems along the lines of old European and modern classic. In this sense, he worked primarily on Plato, Hobbes, Hegel, Habermas and Critical Theory. He runs a kind of critical theory of modern, techno - democratic ideology and ties for this, among others, to fundamental critic of modern society (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arnold Gehlen and Gómez Dávila ).

Publications

• Hegel and the End of History, Stuttgart 1965, 2nd exp. Edition, Freiburg 1980.
• Plato's " state" and democracy. Historical and Systematic Considerations on Political Ethics, Berlin 1970; in Japanese, Tokyo, 2005.
• Revolution and "Return ". Studies on the problem of social control of nature, Frankfurt 1975.
• Jürgen Habermas ' repeal of Philosophy, Tübingen 1977.
• The self-confident nation, 1994