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Markus Gabriel

German philosopher

Markus Gabriel (German: ; born April 6, 1980) is a German philosopher and author at the University of Bonn. In addition to his more specialized work, he has also written popular books about philosophical issues.

Contents

  • 1 Career
  • 2 Work
  • 3 Publications
    • 3.1 Monographs
    • 3.2 Editions (publisher, co-editor or co-worker)
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Career

Gabriel was educated in philosophy and Ancient Greek in Germany. After completing his doctorate and habilitation at Heidelberg University, he held a faculty position at New School for Social Research. He then came to the University of Bonn, where he holds the chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and is Director of the International Centre for Philosophy. Gabriel has also been a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Work

Markus Gabriel at the opening of Phil.Cologne 2020 in Cologne.

In 2013, Gabriel wrote Transcendental Ontology: Essays in German Idealism. In the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Sebastian Gardner wrote that the work is "Gabriel's most comprehensive presentation to date, in English, of his reading of German Idealism" and notes that "due to its compression of a wealth of ideas into such a short space, the book demands quite a lot from its readers."

In a 2018 interview, Gabriel complained that "most contemporary metaphysicians are when it comes to characterizing their subject matter," using words like "the world" and "reality" "often...interchangeably and without further clarifications. In my view, those totality of words do not refer to anything which is capable of having the property of existence." He goes on to explain:

I try to revive the tradition of metaontology and metametaphysics that departs from Kant. As has been noticed, Heidegger introduced the term metaontology and he also clearly states that Kant’s philosophy is a “metaphysics about metaphysics.” I call metametaphysical nihilism the view that there is no such thing as the world such that questions regarding its ultimate nature, essence, structure, composition, categorical outlines etc. are devoid of the intended conceptual content. The idea that there is a big thing comprising absolutely everything is an illusion, albeit neither a natural one nor an inevitable feature of reason as such. Of course, there is an influential Neo-Carnapian strand in the contemporary debate which comes to similar conclusions. I agree with a lot of what is going on in this area of research and I try to combine it with the metaontological/metametaphysical tradition of Kantian and Post-Kantian philosophy.

In an April 2020 interview he called European measures against COVID-19 unjustified and a step towards cyber dictatorship, saying the use of health apps was a Chinese or North Korean strategy. He said the coronavirus crisis called into question the idea that only scientific and technical progress could lead to human and moral progress. He said there was a paradox of virocracy, to save lives one replaced democracy by virocracy.

Publications

Monographs

  • Gabriel, Markus (2006). Der Mensch im Mythos: Untersuchungen über Ontotheologie, Anthropologie und Selbstbewußtseinsgeschichte in Schellings "Philosophie der Mythologie" (in German) (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie:ed.). Berlin/New York City: Walter de Gruyter. p.:513. ISBN:978-3110190366.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2008). Antike und moderne Skepsis zur Einführung (in German). Hamburg: Junius. p.:183. ISBN:978-3-88506-649-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Žižek, Slavoj (2009). Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (in German). New York/London: Continuum. p.:202. ISBN:978-1-4411-9105-2.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2013). Warum es die Welt nicht gibt (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH. p.:270. ISBN:978-3-548-37568-7.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2014). An den Grenzen der Erkenntnistheorie. Die notwendige Endlichkeit des objektiven Wissens als Lektion des Skeptizismus (in German) (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie:ed.). Freiburg i.Br./München: Verlag Karl Alber. p.:454. ISBN:978-3495486580.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2015). Ich ist nicht Gehirn: Philosophie des Geistes für das 21. Jahrhundert (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH. p.:349. ISBN:978-3-548-37680-6.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2016). Sinn und Existenz - Eine realistische Ontologie (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. p.:507. ISBN:978-3-518-29716-2.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2017). Buchheim, Thomas (ed.). Neutraler Realismus (in German) (Jahrbuch-Kontroversen 2:ed.). Verlag Karl Alber.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2017). Gaitsch, Peter; Lehmann, Sandra; Schmidt, Philipp (eds.). Eine Diskussion mit Markus Gabriel. Phänomenologische Positionen zum Neuen Realismus (in German). Wien/Berlin: Turia + Kant. p.:260. ISBN:978-3-85132-858-5.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2017). Eckoldt, Matthias (ed.). Der Geist untersteht nicht den Naturgesetzen, sondern seinen eigenen Gesetzen (in German) (Kann sich das Bewusstsein bewusst sein?:ed.). Heidelberg: Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH. p.:247. ISBN:978-3-8497-0202-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Krüger, Malte (2018). Was ist Wirklichkeit? Neuer Realismus und Hermeneutische Theologie (in German). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. p.:124. ISBN:978-3-16-156598-4.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Olay, Csaba (2018). Ostritsch, Sebastian (ed.). Welt und Unendlichkeit. Ein deutsch-ungarischer Dialog in memoriam László Tengelyi (in German). Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber. p.:2014. ISBN:978-3-495-48853-9.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2018). Der Sinn des Denkens (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH. p.:366. ISBN:978-3-550-08193-4.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Eckoldt, Matthias (2019). Die ewige Wahrheit und der Neue Realismus:: Gespräche über (fast) alles, was der Fall ist (in German). Heidelberg: Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH. p.:262. ISBN:978-3-8497-0312-7.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2020). The Power of Art (in German).
  • Gabriel, Markus (2020). Neo-Existentialismus (in German). Freiburg/München: Verlag Karl Alber. p.:171. ISBN:978-3-495-49047-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2020). Fiktionen (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. p.:636. ISBN:978-3-518-58748-5.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2020). Moralischer Fortschritt in dunklen Zeiten:: universale Werte für das 21. Jahrhundert (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH. p.:368. ISBN:978-3-550-08194-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus (2020). Redliches Denken: Grundlagen der Ethik aus philosophischer Sicht:: ein Essay (in German). Würzburg: West-Östliche Weisheit Willigis Jäger Stiftung. p.:44. ISBN:978-3-9819150-5-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Scobel, Gert (2021). Zwischen Gut und Böse: Philosophie der radikalen Mitte (in German). Hamburg: Edition Körber. p.:320. ISBN:978-3-89684-287-9.

Editions (publisher, co-editor or co-worker)

  • Halfw*en, Jens; Gabriel, Markus; Zimmermann, Stephan, eds. (2011). Philosophie und Religion (in German). Conference paper, 2008. Heidelberg: Winter. p.:329. ISBN:978-3-8253-5863-1.
  • Gabriel, Markus, ed. (2011). Skeptizismus und Metaphysik (in German). Berlin: Akad.-Verl. p.:356. ISBN:978-3-05-005171-0.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Heyne, Stefan (2014). Porstmann, Gisbert (ed.). Stefan Heyne - Naked light:: die Belichtung des Unendlichen (in German). on the occasion of the exhibition Stefan Heyne - Naked Ligth. The Exposure of the Infinite, Städtische Galerie Dresden - Kunstsammlung, June 14 to September 14, 2014. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. p.:128. ISBN:978-3-7757-3841-5.
  • Gabriel, Markus, ed. (2014). Der Neue Realismus (in German). Conference paper, 2013. Berlin: Suhrkamp. p.:422. ISBN:978-3-518-29699-8.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Egging, Björn; Wurm, Erwin (2015). Beil, Ralf (ed.). Erwin Wurm - Fichte (in German). Baden-Baden: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. p.:109. ISBN:978-3-945364-04-8.
  • Gabriel, Markus; Hogrebe, Wolfram; Speer, Andreas, eds. (2015). Das neue Bedürfnis nach Metaphysik (in German). Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. p.:292. ISBN:978-3-11-044129-1.
  • Freytag, Philip (2019). Gabriel, Markus (ed.). Die Rahmung des Hintergrunds:: eine Untersuchung über die Voraussetzungen von Sprachtheorien am Leitfaden der Debatten Derrida - Searle und Derrida - Habermas (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann. p.:542. ISBN:978-3-465-04358-4.

References

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