Burghart Schmidt (*November 30, 1942) is a
German
philosopher.
He is
currently professor at Hochschule
für Gestaltung Offenbach
and the University of
Applied Arts Vienna
.
Education
Schmidt
was educated in biology, chemistry, physics and then philosophy and
history of art at the University of Tübingen
. He was coworker for many years of
Ernst Bloch, over whom he submitted later also
numerous publications, among them the standard work
Ernst
Bloch (1985). From 1968 to 1977 he worked as a scientific
coworker of the philosopher and published his complete work at
Suhrkamp.
After the graduation in 1982 at the
University of Tübingen as a Dr. phil. he wrote his
habilitation in 1984 at the University of Hanover
.
Career
Schmidt
taught from 1971 to 1975 at the University of Wuppertal
, from 1975 to 1997 at the University of
Hanover, whose architecture faculty appointed him after the
habilitation 1985 as a fee professor. From 1977 on he
teaches also at the University of Applied Arts
Vienna and from 1983 to 1997 he was also at the academy of
Vienna. Since 1997 he is a professor for language and
aesthetics at the Hochschule
für Gestaltung Offenbach. As guest lecturer and/or a guest professor he
worked 1984 to 1997 at the University of Klagenfurt
, 1991/1992 at the Graz University
of Technology
, as well as at the International Centre for Culture
and Management (ICCM) in Salzburg. Professor Dr. phil.
habil.
Burghart Schmidt lives since 1997 in Offenbach am
Main
(near Frankfurt
) and Vienna
.
Selected Works
- Der Widerstand des Realen in der Arbeitstruktur des
Erkennens zum Methodenproblem des praxisorientierten Wissens,
Dissertation, Tübingen 1982
- Seminar zur Philosophie Ernst Blochs, Frankfurt
1983
- Benjamin zur Einführung, Hannover 1983
- Kritik der reinen Utopie - eine sozialphilosophische
Untersuchung im Feld der Wirksamkeit antizipatorischen
Bewusstseins, (Habilitation) Hannover 1984
- “German Irrationalism during Weimar”. Telos 65
(Fall 1985). New York: Telos Press.
- Das Widerstandsargument in der Erkenntnistheorie.
Ein Angriff auf die Automatisierung des Wissens, Frankfurt
1985
- Ernst Bloch, Stuttgart 1985
- Postmoderne - Strategien des Vergessens. Ein
kritischer Bericht, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1986
- Kritik der reinen Utopie. Eine
sozialphilosophische Untersuchung, Stuttgart 1988
- Kritische Theorie des Ornaments, (A critical theory on
ornament) Vienna Cologne and Weimar 1993 (edited with Gérard Raulet)
- Vom Parergon zum Labyrinth. Untersuchungen zur
kritischen Theorie des Ornaments, Vienna Cologne and Weimar
2001 (edited with Gérard
Raulet)
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