Reiner Schürmann

Reiner Schürmann ( born February 4, 1941 in Amsterdam, † August 20 1993 in New York City ) was a German philosopher. He was from 1975 until his death professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Life

He was born as the son of German parents in 1941 in Amsterdam. His childhood and youth were spent in Krefeld. From 1960 Schürmann studied philosophy in Munich, he interrupted his studies for a stay in an Israeli kibbutz. The end of 1961 he became a novice in the Dominican Order (OP) in France, where he studied from 1962-69 theology at the university of his order Saulchoir in Étiolles (department Essonne ) in Paris, interrupted by a period of study in Freiburg with Martin Heidegger. In 1970 he was ordained ( the Order ) priest, left the Dominican Order in 1975, however, again. Since the early seventies Schürmann lived in the United States, where he first taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, then at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. 1975 he was appointed to the New School for Social Research in New York, led by Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas. In 1981 he received the Doctorat d'Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines the Sorbonne in Paris. He died on August 20, 1993 in New York of AIDS.

His entire philosophical and literary work written Schürmann in French. Three of his philosophical works deserve special attention and may be referred to as its " major works ": the Meister Eckhart monograph Maître Eckhart et la joie errante (. , 1972; title of the English edition is Mystic and philosopher ), the much-vaunted Heidegger Study Le Principe d' anarchy. Heidegger et la question de l' agir (1982; Engl Heidegger on Being and Acting: . From Principles to Anarchy ) and finally his monumental interpretation of Western philosophy History of hégémonies brisées (1996 posthumously published; Broken English Hegemonies ).

His only literary work, the strongly autobiographical narrative Les Origines ( 1976, under the title " Origins " in 2008 as the only of his works published in German ), was awarded the 1977 Prix Broquette - Gonin of the Académie Française.

Bibliography

• Maître Eckhart et la joie errante, Paris 1972 ISBN 2743614463 ( edition of 2005).; engl. Edition: Mystic and philosopher
• Les Origines, Paris: Fayard, 1976 ISBN 2213003777, . German: " Origins ", Zurich / Berlin: 2008 ISBN 978-3-03734-045-5 diaphanes.
• Le Principe d' anarchy. Heidegger et la question de l' agir, Paris: Seuil, 1982 ISBN 2020062496, . engl. Issue: Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy
• In hégémonies brisées, Mauvezin: Trans Europe Repress, 1996 ISBN 290567038X, . engl. Output: Broken Hegemonies