Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert (born 1945) is a professor of

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 ...

at the university of

Hagen Hagen () is the Largest cities in Germany, 41st-largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany. The municipality is located in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the south eastern edge of the R ...

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Biography

Gethmann-Siefert was born in 1945, studied

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

and

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

. She earned her PhD in

1973 from the

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

writing her dissertation about

Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...

and her

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

1982 about

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 ...

Aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

. She taught since 1991 at the

Fernuniversität Hagen The University of Hagen (german: link=no, FernUniversität in Hagen, informally often referred to as FU Hagen) is a public research university that is primarily focused on distance teaching. While its main campus is located in Hagen, North Rh ...

Research fields

and Art Theory * Anthropology and Ethics * Philosophy of Religion * History of Philosophy * Philosophy of

German Idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

Major works

* Das Verhältnis von Philosophie und Theologie im Denken

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...

s. Freiburg/München 1975 * Die Funktion der Kunst in der Geschichte. Untersuchungen zu

s Ästhetik. Bonn 1984 (Hegel-Studien. Beiheft 25) * Heidegger und die praktische Philosophie. Ed. by A. Gethmann-Siefert and

Otto Pöggeler Otto Pöggeler (12 December 1928 in Attendorn – 10 December 2014) was a German philosopher. He specialized in phenomenology and commenting on Heidegger. In 1963 he authored the acclaimed ''Martin Heidegger’s Path of Thinking'', one of the fi ...

. Frankfurt a.M. 1988 (STW 694) * Ist die Kunst tot und zu Ende? Überlegungen zu

s Ästhetik. Erlangen und Jena 1993 (Jenaer philosophische Vorträge und Studien. 7) * Einführung in die philosophische Ästhetik. München 1995 (UTB 1995) * Einführung in

s Ästhetik. München 2005 (UTB 2646)

Works in English

* Martin

and Theology. In: ''Being and Truth''. Essays in Honour of John Macquarrie. Ed. by A. Kee and E. T. Long. London 1986, 18–42. *

and Hölderlin: The Over-Usage of "Poets in an Impoverished Time". In: ''Heidegger Studies'' (1990), 59–88. * Consultation instead of prescription - a model for the structure of the doctor-patient relationship. In: ''Poiesis & Praxis. International Journal of Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment'' Nr 1. Vol. 2 (2003).

External links

Website University Hagen (German)
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