Rolf-Peter Horstmann
Rolf-Peter Horstmann (born December 5, 1940 in Wernigerode) is a German Emeritus professor of Philosophy. His fields of activity are primarily Ontology and Epistemology, as well as the philosophy of Kant and German idealism, especially Hegel.[1]
Life
[edit]From 1960, Horstmann studied philosophy, history and Greek studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Vienna, the Free University of Berlin and the Heidelberg University. He received his doctorate from Heidelberg in 1968.[2] After five years in Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr University Bochum, from 1973 to 1979 he was at the Bielefeld University. From 1974, he also held a two-year lectureship at the University of Göttingen. In 1979 he habilitated for philosophy at Bielefeld.[3] In 1979–80 he held a lectureship at the University of Marburg and in 1980–81 a substitute professorship in Göttingen.
From 1981 he received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation, and was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981–82. Bielefeld University appointed him associate professor of philosophy in 1983. In 1986 he moved to a professorship at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[4]
After a temporary professorship at the University of Potsdam (1994–95), he was appointed to the chair of history of philosophy and German idealism at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1995. During 1996–1998 and 2002–2004 he was managing director of the Instituts für Philosophie in Humboldt. In 1997–98 he was the dean and in 1998–2000 the vice dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. In 2007 he became an emeritus professor, retiring in October 2007. Since then he has held visiting professorships at various universities, mainly in the USA.
Selected works
[edit]In English
[edit]- Horstmann, Rolf-Peter (2024). From Apparent to True Knowledge: Transitions in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. frommann-holzboog. ISBN 978-3-7728-3536-0.
- Guyer, Paul; Horstmann, Rolf-Peter (2023). Idealism in Modern Philosophy. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780192848574.001.0001. ISBN 9780191943874.
- Horstmann, Rolf-Peter (2018). Kant's Power of Imagination. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108565066. ISBN 9781108565066.
Guest professor
[edit]- Berkeley (1984, 2008)
- University of Pennsylvania (from 1993)
- Dartmouth College (2000)
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2002, 2011)
- Princeton University (2002/03)
- Johns Hopkins University (2010)
- New York University (2011)
- Fudan-Universität (2012)
- Brown University (2013)[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ wurzel_adm. "Prof. em. Dr. Rolf-Peter Horstmann". Institut für Philosophie (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-26.
- ^ Dissertation: Hegels vorphänomenologische Entwürfe zu einer Philosophie der Subjektivität in Beziehung auf die Kritik an den Prinzipien der Reflexionsphilosophie.
- ^ Habilitation thesis: Ontologie und Relationen. Hegel, Bradley, Russell über interne und externe Beziehungen
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at fachschaft.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de (Error: unknown archive URL)
- ^ "Past Events | German Studies | Brown University". german.brown.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
