Background
Rüdiger Safranski was born on January 1, 1945, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Goethe University, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Safranski studied philosophy and history of art at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Safranski studied philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He earned a Ph.D. in 1976.
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Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Rüdiger Safranski
Germany
Safranski with his new book
(One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom ...)
One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler.
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1998
(A powerful and landmark glimpse into the life of the worl...)
A powerful and landmark glimpse into the life of the world's most renowned philosopher reveals the anguished existence of this great man, who was beseiged by illness and molded by his calamitous sexuality, while assessing the philopsophical connotations of his morality, religion, and art.
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2001
(According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has fre...)
According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.
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2013
(A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work...)
A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the writer considered to be the Shakespeare of German literature.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HDSU0FQ/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Rüdiger Safranski was born on January 1, 1945, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Safranski studied philosophy and history of art at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University of Berlin. He earned a Ph.D. in 1976.
Safranski began his career as an assistant lecturer for German literature at Free University, where he worked from 1972 to 1977. In the late 1970s, he worked as the co-publisher and editor of the Berliner Hefte, a journal on literary life. From 1977 to 1982, Safranski worked as a lecturer in adult education. Since 1987 he has worked as a freelance writer. From 2002 to 2012, with Peter Sloterdijk he co-hosted a bi-monthly debate on philosophical and ethical questions, the so-called "Philosophical Quartet," for German public-service TV station ZDF. Safranski has also authored numerous monographs on Friedrich Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(A powerful and landmark glimpse into the life of the worl...)
2001(One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom ...)
1998(A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work...)
2017(According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has fre...)
2013Safranski is a member of P.E.N. Center and of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
Safranski married his longtime girlfriend Gisela Nicklaus in 2005.