Andreas Dorschel
Andreas Dorschel (* 1962 in Wiesbaden ) is a German philosopher. Since 2002 he is professor of aesthetics as well as head of the Department of Music Aesthetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz ( Austria ).
- 3.1 Books
- 3.2 Papers
Education and Professional Career
After studying philosophy, music and linguistics at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt am Main ( MA 1987, PhD 1991) taught Dorschel in Marburg an der Lahn ( 1993-1994), Dresden ( 1994-1997) and Norwich ( University of East Anglia, England) (1997-2002 ). He qualified as a professor at the Faculty of the University of Bern ( Switzerland ) Philosophy and History, 2002. Guest professorships led him to Emory University ( 1995) and Stanford University ( 2006).
Since 2008 Dorschel serves on the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund ( FWF); to the Review Panel of the HERA ( Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme of the European Science Foundation ( ESF) (Strasbourg / Brussels ) he counts since 2012. Dorschel Since 2010 is a member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Philosophy Study Group.
Work
Dorschels Go to work the logical and historical contexts of thinking and acting according to. They fit so far not the prevailing division of labor between systematic philosophy and history of philosophy as well as between theoretical and practical philosophy.
Will
In The idealistic criticism of the Will ( 1992) investigated Dorschel the right of the elected will defend against its ethical criticism in German Idealism. It contradicts the thesis of Kant that " a free will and a will under moral laws all the same ," as those of Hegel, that " embodies the freedom of the will as a law " will. Not in the law to realize freedom of the will, but in -guided choice of intelligence.
Prejudice
Thinking about prejudice (2001) examines the struggle of the Enlightenment against prejudice and the occurrence of counter-intelligence for them. " Dorschel want to undermine this argument by refutes a split of two assumption ," namely, prejudice could be characterized as good or bad, true or false, just because they are prejudices. It goes Dorschel as Richard Raatzsch puts it, " the common sources of errors from both sides that [ ... ], by seeking to make it as plausible as possible." Prejudices, includes Dorschel, can be true or false, wise or foolish, wise or foolish, positive or negative, good or bad, racist or humanistic be, and they are each this or that other properties than half of that it is with them These prejudices.
Shaping
In design - the Aesthetics of better work (2002) Dorschel think through the design of useful things along the question of how the results are to be judged. Ludwig Hasler looks in the book " a polemic [ ... ] against the functionalism of modernism, of a century, the design of the use of things revolutionized how against postmodernism, the kaprizierte to the fun of the arbitrariness of the forms " analysis conducted as " argumentative Präzisionskur ".
Transformation
With transformation. Mythological views, technological intentions laid Dorschel first time in 2009, a detailed history of ideas of metamorphosis before. The published in the Göttingen new studies on the philosophy monograph shows how the idea of the transformation of a rationalization escapes through the concept of change. Change is understood as a rational Dorschel pattern: the thing remain, their properties. But where does that thing where its features begin? What would be the thing without its properties? So the concept of change as a shadow had followed the idea of transformation. In four major case studies Dorschel examined a spotlight on the transformation in the Greco- Roman mythology, in the New Testament in modern alchemy, and in the current developments of genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
Ideas
The historical and philosophical methodology, which is based on the fields of his own works, Dorschel explained in the 2010, published by Cambridge University Press tape the history of ideas. He criticizes Quentin Skinner's assumption that ideas are "essential language " - " Essentially linguistic " - written: "Words are only a medium of ideas among others; Musicians think in sounds, architects in rooms painter in shapes and colors, mathematicians in numbers or, more abstract, in functions. " Dorschels book, says Tim Florian Goslar, " provides [ ... ] not only an overview of the most important historical stations the history of ideas, but still leads while reading in a history of ideas thinking ".
Publications
- The idealistic criticism of the will. Essay on the theory of practical subjectivity in Kant and Hegel. ( = Writings on transcendental philosophy. Vol. 10) Felix Meiner, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-7873-1046-0 (Preview at Google Books ).
- Thinking about prejudice. Felix Meiner, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7873-1572-1.
- Design - the Aesthetics of better work. ( = Contributions to Philosophy, New Series ) 2nd edition, University Press Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1483-9.
- Transformation. Mythological views, technological intentions. ( = New studies on philosophy. Vol. 22) Cambridge University Press (V & R unipress ), Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-899-71751-8 ( preview at Google books, table of contents ).
- History of ideas. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-3314-3.
- (together with Federico Celestini ) work on the canon. Aesthetic Studies in Music from Haydn to Webern. ( = Studies on evaluation research. Vol. 51) Universal Edition, Vienna, London, New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-7024-6967-2.
- (together with Philip Alperson ) Perfect stays away. Aesthetic approximations. ( = Studies on evaluation research. Vol. 53) Universal Edition, Vienna, London, New York 2012 ( Studies on the Evaluation Research 53), ISBN 978-3-7024-7146-0.
Papers
- Utopia and resignation. Schubert interpretations of longing song from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ' of 1826. Oxford German Studies 26 (1997 ), pp. 132-164.
- Emotion and intellect. In: Philosophical Yearbook 106 (1999), Issue 1, pp. 18-40.
- The Paradox of Opera. In: The Cambridge Quarterly 30 (2001 ), No. 4, pp. 283-306.
- Music and Pain. In: Jane Fulcher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music. Oxford University Press, Oxford - New York 2011, p 68-79 (Access to Oxford Handbooks Online).
- Place and space. In: Saeculum. Yearbook of Universal History 61 (2011 ), No. 1, pp. 1-15.
- The world gets lost. About musical escapism. In: Mercury 66 (2012 ), No. 2, pp. 135-142.
- The Beguiled in the garden., La Nouvelle Héloise ': Rousseau aporetics love. In: Journal of the History of Ideas 6 (2012 ), No. 2, pp. 39-47.