Rudolf Burger

Rudolf Burger ( born December 8, 1938 in Vienna) is an Austrian philosopher.

Life and work

Burger was born in the year of Austria's annexation to the German Reich in a communist parents. He studied physics at the Technical University of Vienna and was then assistant at the Institute of Applied Physics, where he received his doctorate in 1965. He then worked until 1968 at the Ludwig- Boltzmann - Institute for Solid State Physics and then moved to the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt / Main, where he worked in the field of research planning. End of the sixties burger was also served on the Planning Committee of the German Science Ministry in Bonn.

From 1973 to 1990 Burger headed the department of social sciences and humanities research in the Ministry of Science in Vienna. 1979 Burger habilitation Sociology of Science. In 1987 he was a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna ( " The Applied " ), where he in 1991 Head of the Chair of Philosophy was. From 1995 to 1999 Burger was rector of the " Applied ". With the end of summer semester 2007 he became Professor Emeritus.

Burger was in the last few years an uncomfortable intellectual who has repeatedly provided with writings on the political situation for nationwide controversy. For example, in 2000, when he protests against the Black - Blue Coalition criticized in the journal Mercury and as an "anti -fascist carnival " designated; or 2001, when he the essay The errors of the politics of commemoration. A plea for forgetting in the cultural magazine Europäische Rundschau published; or 1992, when he profile against the " war horny " attitude of Austrian foreign policy in the Balkans conflict took a position in the Vienna news magazine.

Writings

  • Surveys. Essays on the destruction of the history. Special number, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85449-017-8.
  • In the meantime. Adnoten to politics and philosophy. Springer, Vienna and New York 1996, ISBN 3- 211-82782 -X.
  • Ptolemaic assumptions. Records of the path of the customs. To cleats, Lüneburg 2001, ISBN 3-934920-06-3.
  • A short history of the past. A Pyrrhonian sketch of historical reason. Styria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-222-13149- X.
  • Re - theologizing of politics? Values ​​debates and exhortations. To cleats, Springe 2005, ISBN 3-934920-56- X
  • In the name of history. From the abuse of historical reason. To cleats, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-86674-015-0.
  • Beyond the line. Selected philosophical narratives. Special number - Verlag, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-85449-304-4.
  • The misery of culturalism. Anti-humanist considerations. To cleats! 2011
  • The triumph of liberalism. An obituary Zsolnay, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05530-8
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