Hans-helmuth Gander
philosophy and psychology
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Hans-Helmuth Gander studied philosophy, psychology, art history, German studies, theater, film and television sciences as well as economics at the universities of Cologne, Saarbrücken and Freiburg. In 1987, he received his doctorate with the dissertation "Philosophy and Science. Contributions to the phenomenological destruction of their basic metaphysical relations ", 1998 Habilitation with the book" Selbstverständnis und Lebenswelt. Principles of a phenomenological hermeneutics ". Teaching activities at the Universities of Freiburg, Stuttgart, Tübingen. Since 2003 Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl-Achiv of the University of Freiburg. Research grants and guest lectures at, among others, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (1991/92), Humboldt University of Berlin (2002), Seoul National University (2007), Gakushuin University Tokyo (2008), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid ), Sun-Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (2009). Husserl Memorial Lecture of the University of Leuven, 2005, Media Prize of the University of Freiburg, 2008, Europe Lecture of the Tonji University Shanghai, 2009.
Research Interest
Research interests in phenomenology, hermeneutics, social, legal and political philosophy, ethics
Publications
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Hg Recognition. To a category of social practice. Würzburg, Germany.
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Self-understanding and life-world. Principles of a phenomenological-hermeneutics in the output of Husserl and Heidegger. Frankfurt / M. 2 nd ed.
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Positivism as metaphysics. Prerequisites and basic structures of Dilthey's foundation of the mind sciences. Friborg / Munich 1988.
