Stascha Rohmer (born June 29 June 1966 in Trier, Germany) is a

German philosopher German philosophy, here taken to mean either (1) philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Gottfried W ...

. His main research topics are Metaphysics, Anthropology, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Law. He is a specialist of the Metaphysics of

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and

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found applicat ...

and since 2008 permanent member of the

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, United States. Rohmer has a daughter and a son.

Biography

Stascha Rohmer was born in 1966 in the city of Trier, Germany. His mother is the pedagogue Hildegard Rohmer-Stänner, and his father the architect Erhard Rohmer. Rohmer finished highschool at Beethoven-Gymnasium in the city of Bonn and pursued his higher studies in

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 ...

and Hispanic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin. Due to a proposal by Hans Poser and Michael Theunissen, Rohmer was admitted as a member of the renowned scientific organization

Studienstiftung The German Academic Scholarship Foundation (German: , or ''Studienstiftung'' for short) is Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation. According to its statutes, it supports "the university education of young people who, on ac ...

. His PHD thesis focused on the Metaphysics of

. His directors during his PHD were Hans Posers and Reiner Wiehl. Between the years of 1999 and 2014, Rohmer investigated and taught at the Institute for Philosophy of Humboldt-Universität Berlin and at the Institute for Philosophy

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas The Spanish National Research Council ( es, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote res ...

in Madrid. Rohmer’s research has been supported by many recognized scientific organizations such as the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Meyer-Struckmann Foundation, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Between 2008 and 2010, Rohmer was holder of an Intra-European Fellowship in the Program

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is a set of major research fellowships created by the European Union/European Commission to support research in the European Research Area (ERA). The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are among Europe's most com ...

of the European Union. Rohmer wrote various monographs which parts especially from the

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Ortega y Gasset Ortega is a Spanish surname. A baptismal record in 1570 records a ''de Ortega'' "from the village of Ortega". There were several villages of this name in Spain. The toponym derives from Latin ''urtica'', meaning "nettle". Some of the Ortega spel ...

and

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 ...

. He also translated the Spanish

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and the English

in German and edited their work in the publishing companies

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and Karl Alber. His book ''Love - Future of an Emotion'', (original title: Liebe - Zukunft einer Emotion) was translated in Spanish and was edited in Herder publishing house, Barcelona. It was presented in the channel, TVE2 in Spain. In 2015 he becomes a full-time Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law in the Universidad de Medellín in

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. In 2016 he becomes the director of the '' Philosophy of Law program''. One of the main goals of his research is to establish a bridging between Environmental philosophy, Philosophy of Law and

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. He was the director of the first international congress ''Protection of Biodiversity as a Philosophical and Legal Problem'', which took place at Universidad de Medellín between the 16th to the 18th of March in 2017. He was also the director of the congress ''Somos Memoria. La Escuela de Madrid y El Exilio Español del 39'' at Instituto Cervantes in Berlin (2013). In collaboration with Volker Gerhardt, he directed the congress ''Nature, Technique, Culture'' at the

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

(2008). Since 2008, Rohmer has been a permanent member of the

(WRP) in

( United States), directed by Roland Faber. In 2019, he was working as Mercator-Fellow at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1987 Rohmer is committed and engaged for Navapalos Foundation. ''Navapalos Foundation'' - a ''non-profit organization'' devoted to promoting environmental awareness - was a pioneering project with his headquarters in Madrid and the village Navapalos, located in the province of Soria,

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, Spain. The Navapalos Foundation worked and investigated in ''building with earth'', Low-cost housing-conceptions (based on Wattle and daub-techniques),

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and

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Publications

Monographs

* Rohmer, Stascha, ''Die Idee des Lebens. Zum Begriff der Grenze bei Hegel und Plessner'', Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2016. * Rohmer, Stascha, ''Amor.El porvenir de una emoción'' (Originaltitel: Liebe - Zukunft einer Emotion), translated from German into Spanish by Ana María Rabe and Gabriel Menéndez Torrellas, Barcelona: Herder 2013. . * Rohmer, Stascha, ''Liebe – Zukunft einer Emotion'', Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2008. * Rohmer, Stascha, ''Whiteheads Synthese von Kreativität und Rationalität, Reflexion und Transformation in Alfred North Whiteheads Philosophie der Natur'', Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2000.

Editions and Translations (selection)

* Rohmer, Stascha; Toepfer, Georg, Anthropozän – Klimawandel – Biodiversität: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das gewandelte Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur, Freiburg/München: Karl Alber 07/2021. ISBN 978-3-495-49041-9. * Rohmer, Stascha; Rabe, Ana María, ''Homo Naturalis. Zur Stellung des Menschen innerhalb der Natur'', Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2012. * Ortega y Gasset, José, ''Der Mensch ist eine Fremder. Schriften zur Metaphysik und Lebensphilosophie'', translated from Spanish into German by Stascha Rohmer (ed.), Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2008. * Whitehead, Alfred North, ''Denkweisen'' (Originaltitel:Modes of Thought), translated from English into German by Stascha Rohmer (ed.), Frankfurt on the main: Suhrkamp 2001.

Articles (selection)

* ''¿Existen maquinas vivientes? Sobre la relación entre vida y técnica'' in: Isegoria. Revista de Filosofía moral y política, Nr. 55, pp. 595–614. * ''The Self-Evidence of Civilization'', in: Roland Faber, G. Brian Henning, Clinton Combs (Hg.), “Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead’s Late Thought”, book series

Contemporary Whitehead Studies Contemporary Whitehead Studies (CWS) is an interdisciplinary book series that publishes manuscripts from scholars with contemporary and innovative approaches to the studies of Alfred North Whitehead. The book series was founded in 2009 with ...

, New York: Rodopi Publishing House 2010, chap. 13, pp. 215–225. E- * ''Einführung in Ortega y Gassets Lebensphilosophie'', in: José Ortega y Gasset, ''Der Mensch ist ein Fremder, Schriften zur Metaphysik und Lebensphilosophie'', Freiburg/Munich: Karl Alber 2008, pp. 7–26. Rohmer, Stascha, ''Einführung in Ortega y Gassets Lebensphilosophie''
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References

External links

* * * Rohmer´s home page: http://www.stascha-rohmer.de/ * Rohmer´s page at the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Colciencias);

: http://scienti.colciencias.gov.co:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0001620737 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohmer, Stascha Metaphysicians 1966 births Living people 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German philosophers Technical University of Berlin alumni