Joachim Fischer (born 1951 in

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) is a German sociologist and social theorist. His reference book on

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has become the standard reference for the field. From 2011 to 2017, he was president of the Helmuth Plessner Society. The focus of his work lies in the areas of

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, sociological theory, culture sociology and

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. In 2010, he became an honorary professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the

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. In the summer semester of 2012 he was a visiting professor at the University Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder) (Sociology / Sociological Theory). Fischer´s work has focused on reconstructing the paradigm of modern European Philosophical anthropology (

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Helmuth Plessner Helmuth Plessner (4 September 1892, Wiesbaden – 12 June 1985, Göttingen) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology". Life & career Plessner had an itinerant education in Germany between ...

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Arnold Gehlen Arnold Gehlen (29 January 1904 in Leipzig, German Empire – 30 January 1976 in Hamburg, West Germany) was an influential conservative German philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist. Biography Gehlen's major influences while studyin ...

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) in the 20th century, explicating its significance for biological, sociological and philosophical debates in the 21st century. As a theoretical background of the modern Philosophical anthropology he researches the Critical ontology of the German philosopher

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. In a series of essays in

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he too developed - with reference to Simmel and

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- a systematic consideration on the figure of the Third or Tertiarity. Triads (sociology) seem for intersubjective relationships and institutions to be just as well constitutive than the

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or the

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(Alterity).

Writings

* ''Tertiarität. Studien zur Sozialontologie'', ''Weilerswist'' 2022, . * ''Exentrische Positionalität. Studien zu Helmuth Plessner'', Weilerswist 2016,See Review by Austin Harrington, Theory, Culture & Society, 1 2020.
/ref> . * ''Philosophische Anthropologie. Eine Denkrichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts'', Freiburg/München: Alber Verlag 2008. * Exploring the Core Identity of Philosophical Anthropology through the Works of Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner and Arnold Gehlen, in: ''Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate'', Florence University Press, Vol. I, 1 ("Critical Points: Philosophical Anthropology and Contemporary German Thought" (2009), pp. 153–170. * Turn to the Third. A Systematic Consideration of an Innovation in Social Theory, in: Bernhard Malkmus / Ian Cooper (Eds), ''Dialektic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity'', Oxford 2013, pp. 81–102. * Sociology in Germany (1949 to the present), In: Alexandros Kyrtsis/Sokratis Koniordes (eds.), ''Routledge Handbook of European Sociology'', Routledge, 2014, pp. 342–356. * Philosophical Anthropology. A Third Way between Darwinism and Foucaultism, in: Jos de Mul (ed.): ''Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects.'' Amsterdam University Press (AUP) 2014, pp. 41–56. * Nicolai Hartmann: A Crucial Figure in German Philosophical Anthropology - Without belonging to the Paradigm, in: Roberto Poli / Carlo Scognamiglio / Frederic Tremblay (Eds.), The Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, Berlin/Boston 2011, pp. 73–94. * The Notes of Hartmann’s Disputations 1920-1950: A Finding in Philosophical History, in: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, Vol. 8, N. 1 2019, pp. 11–16. * „Man in the Age of Adjustment“. Scheler‘s Theory of Modernity as the Age of Heterogeneous Sociocultural Differentations, in: Christopher Gutland / Xiaogang Yang / Wei Zhang (Hg.): Scheler und das asiatische Denken im Weltalter des Ausgleichs (Scheleriana 6), Nordhausen 2019, pp. 315–325.

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