Karl Albert (2 October 1921 – 9 October 2008) was a German

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and professor

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at ''Bergische Universität'' Wuppertal. Born in Neheim, a borough of the

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town of

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, Albert studied at

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and

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

. His 1950 dissertation ''On the Aesthetics of the Sublime in German Idealism'' was written under the supervision of professor

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. In the years 1952–1955 he was an assistant of Joseph Koch (a

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. In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the ''Pädagogischen Hochschule Rheinland''. In 1980 he changed to

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

's ''Bergischen Universität''. Albert died in

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a week past his 87th birthday.

Works

* 1950 ''Die Lehre vom Erhabenen in der Ästhetik des deutschen Idealismus'' (dissertation) * 1968 ''Philosophie der modernen Kunst'' * 1974 ''Die ontologische Erfahrung'' * 1975 ''Zur Metaphysik Lavelles'' * 1976 ''Meister Eckharts These vom Sein'' * 1977 ''Spirituelle Poesie'' * 1978 ''Hesiod, Theogonie, Ratingen'' * 1980 ''Griechische Religion und platonische Philosophie'' * 1981 ''Das gemeinsame Sein'' * 1982 ''Vom Kult zum Logos'' * 1984 ''Philosophische Pädagogik'' * 1986 ''Mystik und Philosophie'' * 1988 ''Meister Eckhart: Kommentar zum Buch der Weisheit'' * 1988 ''Philosophische Studien I: Philosophie der Philosophie'' * 1989 ''Platons Begriff der Philosophie'' * 1989 ''Philosophische Studien II: Philosophie der Kunst'' * 1990 ''Philosophische Studien V: Philosophie der Erziehung'' * 1991 ''Philosophische Studien III: Philosophie der Religion'' * 1992 ''Philosophische Studien IV: Philosophie der Sozialität'' * 1995 ''Lebensphilosophie. Von den Anfängen bei Nietzsche bis zu ihrer Kritik bei Lucács'' * 1996 ''Einführung in die philosophische Mystik'' * 2000 ''Philosophie als Form des Lebens'' (with Elenor Jain). * 2003 ''Die Utopie der Moral. Versuch einer kulturübergreifenden ontologischen Ethik'' (with Elenor Jain).

External links

''Sammlung Karl Albert''
The collected works of Karl Albert published by the Academia Verlag.

Karl Albert's publisher.
Alber Verlag
Publisher of Albert's latest books.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Albert, Karl 1921 births 2008 deaths People from Arnsberg University of Cologne alumni University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal German male writers 20th-century German philosophers