Sebastian Rödl

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Sebastian Rödl
Born1967
OccupationPhilosopher
Notable workSelf-Consciousness and Objectivity
SchoolGerman Idealism
InstitutionsUniversität Leipzig, Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism
Doctoral advisorAlbrecht Wellmer
Other academic advisorsJohn McDowell
Main interests
Self-consciousness, Absolute Idealism, Metaphysics, Meta-ethics

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[edit]

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 wrought with misgivings about the merits and even the mere possibility of such a philosophy.[4]

Publications[edit]

  • Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, Harvard University Press 2018.
  • 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.
  1. ^ Pippin, Robert (Summer 2012). "Back to Hegel?". Mediations. 26 (2).
  2. ^ Pippin, Robert. "The Role of Self-Consciousness in The Science of Logic". De Gruyter. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/9780226588841-005 (inactive 31 January 2024).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
  3. ^ "Sebastian Rödl by Five Questions".
  4. ^ Rödl, Sebastian (2018-02-26). Self-Consciousness and Objectivity An Introduction to Absolute Idealism. Harvard University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780674976511.

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