Sebastian Rödl
Sebastian Rödl | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Selbstbezug und Normativität (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albrecht Wellmer |
| Other advisors | John McDowell |
| Influences | Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Gadamer, Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Albrecht Wellmer, John McDowell |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | German Idealism |
| Main interests | Self-consciousness, Absolute Idealism, Metaphysics, Meta-ethics |
| Notable works | Self-Consciousness and Objectivity |
| Influenced | Robert Pippin[1][2] |
Sebastian Rödl (born 1967) is a German philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at the University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2012 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Basel.
Biography
Rödl studied philosophy, musicology, German literature and history in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Albrecht Wellmer.[3] His work focuses on the self-conscious nature of human thought and action. His main influence is Hegel, and he sees himself as introducing and restating Hegel's Absolute Idealism in a historical moment that is fraught with misgivings about the merits and even the mere possibility of such a philosophy.[4]
Publications
- Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, Harvard University Press 2018.[5]
- Categories of the Temporal. An inquiry into the forms of the finite understanding, Harvard University Press 2012.
- Self-Consciousness, Cambridge/Mass., London: Harvard University Press 2007.
- "Law as the Reality of the Free Will", in A. Speer et al. (eds.), The New Desire for Metaphysics, Berlin: De Gruyter 2015.
- "Joint Action and Recursive Consciousness of Consciousness", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14/4, 2015.
Articles
- "Logic, Being and Nothing". Hegel Bulletin. 40 (1): 92–120. April 2019. doi:10.1017/hgl.2018.20. ISSN 2051-5367.
- "Logical Form as a Relation to the Object". Philosophical Topics. 34 (1/2): 345–369. 2006. ISSN 0276-2080.
References
- ^ Pippin, Robert (Summer 2012). "Back to Hegel?". Mediations. 26 (2).
- ^ Pippin, Robert (16 November 2018). "The Role of Self-Consciousness in The Science of Logic". De Gruyter. University of Chicago Press. pp. 101–138. doi:10.7208/9780226588841-005 (inactive 12 July 2025). ISBN 978-0-226-58884-1.
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- ^ Rödl, Sebastian (2018-02-26). Self-Consciousness and Objectivity An Introduction to Absolute Idealism. Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780674976511.
- ^ Thielke, Peter (2018). "Sebastian Rödl, Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, Harvard University Press, 2018, 198 pp., $45.00, ISBN 9780674976511". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2025-03-28. Retrieved 2025-07-15.