Sebastian Rödl (born 1967) is a German philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at the
University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2012 he was professor of philosophy at the
University of Basel.
Biography
Rödl studied
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
,
musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
,
German literature
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and
history in
Frankfurt am Main and
Berlin, completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of
Albrecht Wellmer. His work focuses on the
self-conscious
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. Historically, "self-consciousness" was synonymous with "self-awareness", referring to a state of awareness that o ...
nature of human
thought
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and
action. His main influence is
Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
, and he sees himself as introducing and restating Hegel's
Absolute Idealism
Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy chiefly associated with G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schelling, both of whom were German idealist philosophers in the 19th century. The label has also been attached to others such as Josi ...
in a historical moment that is wrought with misgivings about the merits and even the mere possibility of such a philosophy.
Publications
* ''Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism'',
Harvard University Press 2018.
* ''Categories of the Temporal. An inquiry into the forms of the finite understanding'',
Harvard University Press 2012.
* ''Self-Consciousness'', Cambridge/Mass., London: Harvard University Press 2007.
* "Law as the Reality of the Free Will", in A. Speer et al. (eds.), ''The New Desire for Metaphysics'', Berlin:
De Gruyter 2015.
* "Joint Action and Recursive Consciousness of Consciousness", ''Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences'' 14/4, 2015.
External links
Homepage Sebastian Rödl - Universität Leipzig
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1967 births
Living people
Writers from Mainz
21st-century German philosophers
Continental philosophers