Andreas Urs Sommer

Andreas Urs Sommer (born July 14, 1972) is a German philosopher of Swiss origin. He specializes in the history of philosophy and its theory, ethics, philosophy of religion, Skepticism, and modern Stoicism. His historical studies center on the philosophy of Enlightenment and Nietzsche, but they also deal with Kant, Max Weber, Pierre Bayle, Jonathan Edwards, and others.

Andreas Urs Sommer in 2012

Career

Andreas Urs Sommer studied philosophy, theology and German literature in Basel, Göttingen and Freiburg. He obtained his doctorate at Basel University in 1998, and received his Habilitation in Greifswald in 2004. He was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University in 1998/99 and a fellow at the University of London in 2000/01.

In 2008 Sommer became responsible for the "Nietzsche-Kommentar" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.[1] He was also appointed the director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung in Naumburg (Saale).[2] In 2011 he became a professor for philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

Sommer also publishes in the field of numismatics.

Writings (selection)

Books in German (some are translated into other languages)

Articles in English

Awards

References

  1. Forschungsprojekt: Nietzsche-Kommentar
  2. Establishment of the Friedrich Nietzsche foundation and Friedrich Nietzsche foundation
  3. Cf. Andreas Dorschel, 'Zum Mitspielen. Andreas Urs Sommers Kunst des Zweifelns', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 57 (9 March 2006), p. 14
  4. Cf. Ludger Lütkehaus, 'Geistesgeschichte des Ungedachten. Andreas Urs Sommers fabelhaftes «Lexikon der imaginären philosophischen Werke', in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung June 5, 2012

External links

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