Odo Marquard
| Odo Marquard | |
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| Born |
26 February 1928 Stolp, Farther Pomerania, Weimar Germany (modern Słupsk, Poland) |
| Died | 9 May 2015 (aged 87) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophical anthropology |
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Odo Marquard (26 February 1928 – 9 May 2015) was a German philosopher.[1] He is considered as a member of the Ritter-School.
Marquard was born in Stolp, Farther Pomerania. He studied philosophy, German literature, and theology in Münster and Freiburg. From 1965 to 1993, Marquard held a chair for philosophy at the University of Gießen. In 1984 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize[2] by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
A proponent of philosophical hermeneutics and skepticism, Marquards work focuses on aspects of human fallibility, contingency and finitude.[3] He rejects idealist, rationalist and universalist conceptions and defends philosophical particularism and pluralism.[4] Criticized by Jürgen Habermas as a representative of German neoconservatism,[5] his philosophy has been described as a form of liberal conservatism[6] with various parallels to postmodern thought and the work of Richard Rorty.[7]
Major works
- Schwierigkeiten mit der Geschichtsphilosophie. Suhrkamp (stw 394), Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-27994-7
- Abschied vom Prinzipiellen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-007724-9
- Apologie des Zufälligen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-15-008351-6
- Skepsis und Zustimmung. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-009334-1
- Glück im Unglück. Fink, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3065-9
- Skepsis in der Moderne. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-15-018524-6
Awards
- Sigmund Freud Prize 1984
References
- ↑ "Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard". uni-giessen.de (in German).
- ↑ "Urkundentext Odo Marquard (in German)". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ↑ Marquard, Odo (1989). Farewell to Matters of Principle. Philosophical Studies. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195051148.
- ↑ Marquard, Odo (1991). In Defense of the Accidental. Philosophical Studies. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195072525.
- ↑ Habermas, Jürgen (1983). "Neoconservative Culture Criticism in the United States and West Germany: An Intellectual Movement in Two Political Cultures". Télos. 56.
- ↑ Hacke, Jens (2006). Philosophie der Bürgerlichkeit. Die liberalkonservative Begründung der Bundesrepublik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525368428.
- ↑ Allen, Barry (2013). "Postmodern Pragmatism and Skeptical Hermeneutics: Richard Rorty and Odo Marquard". Contemporary Pragmatism. 10 (1).