Andreas Dorschel (born 1962) is a German

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. Since 2002, he has been professor of aesthetics and head of the Institute for Music Aesthetics at the University of the Arts Graz (Austria).

Background

Andreas Dorschel was born in 1962 in

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. He is a cousin of the modernist visual artist Gesine Probst-Bösch (Weimar 1944–1994 Munich). From 1983 on, Dorschel studied philosophy, musicology and linguistics at the universities of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) (MA 1987, PhD 1991). In 2002, the

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(Switzerland) awarded him the

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degree (post-doctoral lecturing qualification). Dorschel has taught at universities in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the UK. At

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Norwich (UK), he was a colleague of writer W.G. Sebald. Dorschel was Visiting Professor at

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(1995) and at

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(2006). On Dorschel’s initiative, the

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Institute for Music Aesthetics received its name in 2007. Between 2008 and 2017, Dorschel was a member of the Board of Trustees of the

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(FWF); from 2012 to 2017 he joined the Review Panel of the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme of the

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(ESF) (Strasbourg / Brussels). From 2010 on, he has been on the Advisory Board of the

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(RMA) Music and Philosophy Study Group. In his philosophical explorations of music, he closely exchanged ideas with British aesthetician

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(1944–2020). In 2019, Andreas Dorschel was elected member of the

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. During the academic year 2020/21, he was a Fellow of the

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Research

* Theories of subjectivity * Aesthetics * Poetics * Philosophy of music * History of ideas * Styles of reasoning

Work

In his philosophical studies, Dorschel explores, both in a systematic and historical vein, the interconnectedness of thought and action. His work has been influenced by philosophers

Denis Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...

Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer ( , ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work ''The World as Will and Representation'' (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the prod ...

and

R. G. Collingwood Robin George Collingwood (; 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including ''The Principles of Art'' (1938) and the posthumously published ' ...

Will

In ''Die idealistische Kritik des Willens'' 'German Idealism’s Critique of the Will''(1992) Dorschel defends an understanding of freedom as choice against Kant’s and Hegel’s ethical animadversions. Following a method of “critical analysis”, Dorschel objects both to Kant’s claim that “a free will and a will under moral laws are one and the same thing” (“ein freier Wille und ein Wille unter sittlichen Gesetzen einerlei”) and to Hegel’s doctrine that “freedom of the will is rendered real as law” (“die Freiheit des Willens als Gesetz verwirklicht”). What renders freedom of the will real, Dorschel argues, is rather to exercise choice sensibly. Unlike other critics of

idealism In philosophy, the term idealism identifies and describes metaphysical perspectives which assert that reality is indistinguishable and inseparable from perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to id ...

, Dorschel does not endorse

determinism Determinism is a philosophical view, where all events are determined completely by previously existing causes. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and consi ...

. Determinism, if we are to make sense of the idea, would have to be correlated with the notion of

prediction A prediction (Latin ''præ-'', "before," and ''dicere'', "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about a future event or data. They are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. There is no universal agreement about the exac ...

. Predictions, Dorschel argues, need a basis that is not affected by their being made. But just as I cannot overtake my own shadow, I cannot predict my own future behaviour from my present state. For I would alter my state by making the prediction. This line of reasoning can do without Kant’s opposition of determinism about appearances and freedom of the thing-in-itself.

Prejudice

''Rethinking Prejudice'' (2000, reissued 2019) examines the Enlightenment’s struggle against prejudices and the Counter-Enlightenment’s partisanship in favour of them. “Dorschel wants to subvert that controversy by way of refuting an assumption shared by both parties” (“Dorschel will diesen Streit unterlaufen, indem er eine von beiden geteilte Annahme widerlegt”), to wit, that prejudices are bad ''or'' good, false ''or'' true ''because'' they are prejudices. As Richard Raatzsch puts it, Dorschel “seeks out the common source of both parties’ errors through rendering each position as strong as possible” (“den gemeinsamen Quellen der Irrtümer beider Seiten nachgeht, indem er sie so plausibel wie möglich zu machen sucht”). Prejudices, Dorschel concludes, can be true or false, intelligent or stupid, wise or foolish, positive or negative, good or bad, racist or humanist – and they possess none of these features simply ''qua'' prejudices. The conclusion’s significance derives from the fact that it is part and parcel of “an account which preserves something of the common-sense notion of prejudice, rather than an abstract list of necessary and sufficient conditions that risks neglecting what people have historically meant and continue to mean by the term.”

Design

In ''Gestaltung – Zur Ästhetik des Brauchbaren'' 'Design – The Aesthetics of Useful Things''(2002), Dorschel probes different ways of assessing artefacts. He “observed that ‘the concepts of the useful and fpurpose have been replaced in the philosophy of design by that of function’”, Ute Poerschke states in a dense summary of the monograph. ‘Function’ seemed to maintain the older meaning, but covered a bias towards technology. “The question of ‘how’ (how does this machine function?) replaced the question of ‘what’ (for what purpose?). Purpose embodies the question of ‘what’; technology the question of ‘how’. Dorschel criticized that function has a diffuse meaning, under which one could understand both purpose and technology and concluded that because of this diffuse meaning it is advisable to consider ‘not function, as modern functionalism did, but rather purpose and technology as the basic concepts of a theory of design’.” ''Gestaltung – Zur Ästhetik des Brauchbaren'', according to Christian Demand, features “a systematic philosophy of design that does not settle for mere propaedeutics”. Ludwig Hasler characterizes Dorschel’s book as a “cure ''via'' argumentative precision” (“argumentative Präzisionskur”), setting up “a controversy ..both with modern functionalism, the movement that revolutionized design for a century, and with

postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...

, that sportive celebration of whimsy in matters of form” (“eine Streitschrift ��gegen den Funktionalismus der Moderne, der ein Jahrhundert lang die Gestaltung der Gebrauchsdinge revolutionierte, wie gegen die Postmoderne, die sich auf den Spass an der Beliebigkeit der Formen kaprizierte”).

Metamorphosis

Dorschel’s ''Verwandlung. Mythologische Ansichten, technologische Absichten'' 'Mutation. Mythological Views, Technological Purposes''(2009) represents a philosophical history of the idea of metamorphosis – “shaded in many nuances”. Metamorphosis, Dorschel points out, defies analysis in terms of change. Change is supposed to be a rational pattern: A thing remains what it is while its features alter. But where does a thing cease to be that thing, where do its features commence? Whatever were that thing devoid of its features? Hence, historically, the concept of change was shadowed by the idea of metamorphosis or mutation. Dorschel highlights this idea, setting forth – in four case studies – the character of metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman

mythology Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrati ...

, in the

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, in modern

alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim worl ...

, and, finally, in current

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and

synthetic biology Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature. It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad ran ...

Ideas

In his 2010 volume ''Ideengeschichte'' 'History of Ideas'' Dorschel explains key issues of method in his research fields. He distrusts an isolating take on ‘an idea’ as a singular entity; hence Dorschel endorses

Gilbert Ryle Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." He was a representative of the generation of British ord ...

’s image of “teams of ideas” which can only succeed if and when they play together. New ideas are invented in response to difficulties, obstacles or perplexities; from the latter, Dorschel suggests, historians can make sense of the former. The extent to which emerging ideas undermine previously dominant ideas is a measure of their novelty. Dorschel considers the subversive potential of ideas not to be peripheral; rather, he grants it centre stage in his account. It has been considered “one of the strengths of Dorschel’s monograph” to overcome Quentin Skinner’s constricting doctrine that ideas are “essentially linguistic”. Dorschel asserts: “Words are just one medium of ideas among others; musicians conceive their products in tones, architects in spaces, painters in form and colour, mathematicians in numbers or, on a more abstract level, in functions” (“Worte sind nur ein Medium von Ideen unter anderen; Musiker denken in Tönen, Architekten in Räumen, Maler in Formen und Farben, Mathematiker in Zahlen oder, abstrakter, in Funktionen.”). In a way that breaks new ground, Dorschel proposes, as Eberhard Hüppe points out, to analyse ideas not just in terms of

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, t ...

, but also in terms of

space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

Tragic, comic, tragicomic

In his 2022 monograph ''Mit Entsetzen Scherz'' (''Trifling with Despair''), Andreas Dorschel starts from the historical observation that the concepts of ‘tragic’ and ‘comic’, since they had been first put forward in the 5th c. BC, were seen as opposed to each other. If combined, we should then expect them to weaken each other. Yet tragicomic situations, Dorschel suggests, offer the surprising experience that those opposed qualities actually invigorate each other. The book explores conditions that allow this to happen. To that purpose, Dorschel draws attention to the dimension of

. To appear comic is a matter of the moment, he argues, while what is tragic manifests itself in “a grand arc” (“eine großen Bogen”). From this general tenet, Dorschel unfolds a poetics of the tragicomic incident in works from ancient Greece through

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England to modern Austria, employing the categories ‘

irony Irony (), in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique. Irony can be categorized into d ...

’, ‘intervention’ and ‘travesty’.

Retrieving philosophical genres

Dorschel has taken a critical stance towards a blinkered academicism in philosophy. He considers the narrowing-down of philosophical writing to articles and monographs a drain especially on

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns m ...

and

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

. The now conventional forms of exposition leave little room for presenting a position while, as the argument develops, keeping various degrees of distance from the position presented. To that purpose, tapping richer resources of (dramatic and epic)

as well as a

heuristic A heuristic (; ), or heuristic technique, is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, ...

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditi ...

, Dorschel has revived a number of genres such as the letter,

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is ch ...

monologue In theatre, a monologue (from el, μονόλογος, from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes ...

and philosophical tale (‘conte philosophique’) that had flourished during the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

and the Enlightenment, but fell out of favour with modern academic philosophers. Ten of Dorschel’s dialogues, with an introduction to the philosophy of dialogue, were published in 2021 under the title ''Wortwechsel'' (literally: exchange of words).

Awards

* Styria Research Award 2011 * Caroline-Schlegel-Preis 2014

Publications

Books

*
Die idealistische Kritik des Willens. Versuch über die Theorie der praktischen Subjektivität bei Kant und Hegel.
' Felix Meiner, Hamburg 1992 (Schriften zur Transzendentalphilosophie 10) ''(preview in Google Books)'' * ''Rethinking Prejudice.'' Ashgate, Aldershot (UK) – Burlington (USA) – Singapore – Sydney 2000 (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy, ed.

Ernest Sosa Ernest Sosa (born June 17, 1940) is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. Since 2007 he has been Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, but he spent most of his career at Brown University. Educa ...

, Alan Goldman, Alan Musgrave ''et alii'') . – Reissue: ''Rethinking Prejudice.'' Routledge, London – New York, NY 2019 * ''Gestaltung – Zur Ästhetik des Brauchbaren.'' 2nd ed., Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2003 (Beiträge zur Philosophie, Neue Folge) *
Verwandlung. Mythologische Ansichten, technologische Absichten.
'

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(V&R unipress), Göttingen 2009 (Neue Studien zur Philosophie 22) ''(preview in Google Books)'' * ''Ideengeschichte.''

, Göttingen 2010 * (together with

Federico Celestini Federico Celestini (born 5 December 1964) is an Italian musicologist. Since 2011 he has been professor of musicology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Life Federico Celestini was born in Rome. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule Giul ...

) ''Arbeit am Kanon. Ästhetische Studien zur Musik von Haydn bis Webern.'' Universal Edition, Vienna – London – New York, NY 2010 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 51) * (together with Philip Alperson) ''Vollkommenes hält sich fern. Ästhetische Näherungen.''

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, Vienna – London – New York, NY 2012 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 53) *
Mit Entsetzen Scherz. Die Zeit des Tragikomischen.
' Felix Meiner, Hamburg 2022 ''(preview in Google Books)''

Articles

* ''Utopie und Resignation. Schuberts Deutungen des Sehnsuchtsliedes aus Goethes ‘Wilhelm Meister’ von 1826.'' In: '' Oxford German Studies'' 26 (1997), pp. 132–164
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* ''Emotion und Verstand.'' In: '' Philosophisches Jahrbuch'' 106 (1999), no. 1, pp. 18–40
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* ''The Paradox of Opera.'' In: ''

The Cambridge Quarterly ''The Cambridge Quarterly'' is a literary journal. It often publishes articles on cinema, music, painting, and sculpture. It also endows a prize for, and publishes, the best Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From her ...

'' 30 (2001), no. 4, pp. 283–306
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* ''Music and Pain.'' In: Jane Fulcher (ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music.'' Oxford University Press, Oxford − New York 2011, pp. 68–79
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* ''Ort und Raum.'' In: ''

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. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte'' 61 (2011), no. 1, pp. 1–15
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* ''Der Welt abhanden kommen. Über musikalischen Eskapismus.'' In: ''

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'' 66 (2012), no. 2, pp. 135–142
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* ''Der Getäuschte im Garten.'' In: '' Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte'' 6 (2012), no. 2, pp. 39–47
entry in ''Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte''
* ''Ästhetik des Fado.'' In: ''

'' 69 (2015), no. 2, pp. 79–86
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* ''Passions of the Intellect: A Study of Polemics.'' In: ''

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some s ...

'' 90 (2015), no. 4, pp. 679–684
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– Extended version: ''Polemics and Schadenfreude.'' In: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and Angelika Krebs (eds.), ''Philosophy of Emotion'', 4 vols., vol. IV: ''Specific Emotions.'' Routledge, London – New York, NY 2017 (Critical Concepts in Philosophy), pp. 172–178 * ''Entwurf einer Theorie des Fluchens.'' In: ''Variations'' 23 (2015), pp. 167–175
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* ''Abhängige: von Gnaden einer Person, von Gnaden einer Sache.'' In: ''

'' 70 (2016), no. 5, pp. 42–50
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* ''Ins Wort fallen. Figuren der Unterbrechung.'' In: ''

'' 73 (2019), no. 4, pp. 37–46
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)

Letters, dialogues, monologues, philosophical tales

* ''Totengespräch zwischen Franz Joseph Haydn aus Rohrau und Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern aus Wien in der musikalischen Unterwelt.'' In: Federico Celestini / Andreas Dorschel, ''Arbeit am Kanon: Ästhetische Studien zur Musik von Haydn bis Webern.'' Universal Edition, Vienna – London – New York, NY 2010 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 51), pp. 9–15 * ''Offener Brief an Magister Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.'' In: Philip Alperson / Andreas Dorschel, ''Vollkommenes hält sich fern. Ästhetische Näherungen.'' Universal Edition, Vienna – London – New York, NY 2012 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung 53), pp. 9–15 * ''Ein verschollen geglaubter Brief der Korinther an Paulus.'' In: ''

'' 67 (2013), no. 12, pp. 1125–1134Cf. Gustav Seibt, ''Die Häresie der Abgrenzungen. Andreas Dorschel entwirft ein korinthisches Christentum.'' In: ''

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'' 69, no. 293 (19 December 2013), p. 14. Seibt stresses the boldness ("Kühnheit") of the text.
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* ''Ich bin so frei. Ein Gespräch.'' In: ''grazkunst'' 01.2016, pp. 15–16
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* ''Der Ursprung des Vorurteils. Nachrede zum Zauberberg.'' In: ''Variations'' 24 (2016), pp. 191–202
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* ''Phantomleiber der Abstraktion.'' In: '' Zeno'' 37 (2017), pp. 151–166 * ''Die Verstocktheit der Ungläubigen'', In: ''

'' 71 (2017), no. 2, pp. 85–92
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* ''Unstern. Aus Franz Liszts hinterlassenen Papieren''. In: ''Musik, Sinn und Unsinn. Festschrift anläßlich der Hommage an Alfred Brendel.'' Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin 2017, pp. 54–59 * ''Venere d’Urbino. Florentiner Gespräch über die Schönheit.'' In: Anna Maniura and Matthias Deußer (eds.), ''Neue Literatur 2017/2018.'' Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt/M. – London – New York, NY 2017, pp. 253–269 * ''Hero & Administrator: A Dialogue.'' In: Marie-Therese Sauer (ed.), ''Beginnings.'' Uni≡verse, Vienna 2018, pp. 91–100 * ''Music as Play: A Dialogue.'' In: Paulo de Assis (ed.), ''Virtual Works – Actual Things: Essays in Musical Ontology.'' Leuven University Press, Leuven 2018 (Orpheus Institute Series), pp. 115–133
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* ''Starke Einbildungskraft. Gespräch über Chatwin.'' In: Klaus Aringer, Christian Utz and Thomas Wozonig (eds.), ''Musik im Zusammenhang. Festschrift

Peter Revers Peter Revers (born 1954) is a German-Austrian musicologist and university lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Life Born in Würzburg, Revers is the son of the psychologist . He studied musicology, psychology, philosop ...

zum 65. Geburtstag.'' Hollitzer, Vienna 2019, * ''Wolframus. Gespräch in St. Marien zu Erfurt.'' In: ''Lettre International'' 126 (Autumn 2019), pp. 78–83 * ''Thoreaus Cottage. Eine Philosophie der Gestaltung.'' In: Daniel Martin Feige, Florian Arnold and Markus Rautzenberg (eds.), ''Philosophie des Designs.'' Transcript, Bielefeld 2019 (Schriftenreihe des Weißenhof-Instituts zur Architektur- und Designtheorie), pp. 33–52
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* ''Einen Gegenstand durchdenken. Gespräch in Padua.'' In: ''Topologik.'' Special Issue 26 (Dec. 2019/Jan. 2020), pp. 50–59
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References

External links

''Curriculum vitae''
*
Andreas Dorschel in PhilPapers , Philosophical Research Online

Institut für Musikästhetik
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