Robert Zimmer (philosopher)

Robert room ( born October 25, 1953 in Trier ) is a German philosopher, essayist and literary critic. As a freelance writer and journalist he has lived since 2013 in Stuttgart and published especially popular science introductions to philosophy.

Life

Robert room was born on October 25, 1953 in Trier and spent his school years in Saarbrücken. He studied philosophy and English at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, he graduated in 1981 with a thesis on Benedetto Croce ( unity and development in Benedetto Croce's aesthetics, 1985, new edition 2011) from. In 1989 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Edmund Burke at the Heinrich- Heine University in Dusseldorf ( Edmund Burke's rhetoric in his Irish writings, Fool, 1990). Room worked until 1991 as a lecturer at the University of Dusseldorf and to 1996 as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. He also worked for many years as a lecturer at community colleges. Since then he works as a freelance nonfiction writer. From 1986 to 2013 he lived in Berlin since November 2013 in Stuttgart. Since the 1980s he has a second home in the Eifel village Stadtkyll.

Work

Room goal is to convey classical content of philosophy in a language understandable to a wide audience. Therefore, the tradition of the essay writing of Montaigne Sainte -Beuve to Schopenhauer for him is formative. 2013 laid room before the first decades of Sainte- Beuve's selection translation " Causeries du Lundi ". In his biography he published in 2010 Schopenhauer is the philosopher in the tradition of moralism and education. His most famous book is published in 2004 and translated into several languages ​​, the philosopher portal, the first part of a plant -based, essay -scale history of philosophy, the philosopher, 2007 The new portal followed. With the great philosophers portal and short essays based library philosophy, the 2009 project was completed. Room belongs in the area of critical rationalism. Together with Martin Morgenstern, he wrote a biography of Karl Popper and published the correspondence between Karl Popper and Hans Albert. Popper's methodological maxim of trial and error (English trial and error ), he tries for a renewal of the moralist and a philosophy of life art of making fruitful (see, inter alia, life as trial and error. Outline of a critical- rational philosophy of the art of living in: Enlightenment and critique, 2 /2005).

Selected Publications

  • 2013 ( ed. / Translator ) Sainte -Beuve: Causerien on Monday: Enlightenment from the Spirit of salons. Publisher The Arsenal, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-93110961-5.
  • 2011 The Big Questions. A history of the philosophical problems at a glance. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2011 ( with Martin Morgenstern ) ISBN 978-3-15-020216-6.
  • 2010 Arthur Schopenhauer. A philosophical world citizens. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-423-24800-6
  • 2009 The great philosophers portal. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich. ISBN 978-3-423-34582-8.
  • 2009 Basic Library philosophy. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-020137-4.
  • 2008 ( ed.) Happiness and the art of living, Special Issue v. Enlightenment and critique, volume 14/ 2008. ISSN 0945-6627.
  • 2007 The New Philosophers portal. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-34439-5.
  • 2005 Hans Albert / Karl Popper. Correspondence. Edited by Martin Morgenstern and Robert room. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-596-16586-5.
  • 2004 The philosophers portal. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-423-34118-1.
  • 2003 ways of thinking of the history of philosophy. Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf, ISBN 3-538-07166-7. ( with Martin Morgenstern )
  • 2002 Karl Popper. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3- 423-31060 -X. (Together with Martin Morgenstern )
  • 2001 philosophy. From the Enlightenment to today. Cornelsen Scriptor, Berlin. ISBN 9-783589-214990.
  • 1999 The European moralists imposing. Junius, Hamburg, ISBN 3-88506-998-9.
  • 1998-2002 meeting philosophy. Textbook for upper secondary 5 vols Patmos, Dusseldorf. (Together with Martin Morgenstern )
  • 1995 Edmund Burke to launch. Junius, Hamburg. ISBN 3-88506-908-3.
  • 1995 backgrounds. The philosophy and their questions. Patmos, Dusseldorf, ISBN 3-491-72338-8. ( Together with Martin Morgenstern )
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