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Andreas Urs Sommer (born 14 July 1972) is a German philosopher of Swiss origin. He specializes in the
history of 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 ...
and its theory,
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, concer ...
,
philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning p ...
, and
Skepticism Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the p ...
. His historical studies center on the philosophy of Enlightenment and
Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his car ...
, but they also deal with
Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aest ...
,
Max Weber Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas p ...
,
Pierre Bayle Pierre Bayle (; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. He is best known for his '' Histori ...
, Jonathan Edwards, and others.


Career

Andreas Urs Sommer studied philosophy, theology and German literature in
Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (B ...
,
Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...
and
Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...
. He obtained his doctorate at Basel University in 1998, and received his ''Habilitation'' in
Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rosto ...
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. He was also appointed the director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung in Naumburg (Saale). In 2011 he became a professor for philosophy at the
University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...
. Sommer also publishes in the field of
numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also inc ...
.


Bibliography


Books in German

* ''Im Spannungsfeld von Gott und Welt. Studien zu Geschichte und Gegenwart des Frey-Grynaeischen-Institutes in Basel 1747–1997.'' Schwabe, Basel 1997, . * ''Der Geist der Historie und das Ende des Christentums. Zur „Waffengenossenschaft“ von Friedrich Nietzsche und Franz Overbeck. Mit einem Anhang unveröffentlichter Texte aus Overbecks „Kirchenlexicon“.'' Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, . * ''Die Hortung. Eine Philosophie des Sammelns.'' Parerga, Düsseldorf 2000, . * ''Existenzphilosophie und Christentum. Albert Schweitzer und Fritz Buri. Briefe 1935–1964.'' C. H. Beck, Munich 2000, . * ''Friedrich Nietzsches „
Der Antichrist ''The Antichrist'' (german: link=no, Der Antichrist) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publicatio ...
“. Ein philosophisch-historischer Kommentar.'' Schwabe, Basel 2000, (''Beiträge zu Friedrich Nietzsche.'' vol. 2). * ''Geschichte als Trost. Isaak Iselins Geschichtsphilosophie.'' Schwabe, Basel 2002, (''Schwabe Horizonte.''). * ''Die Kunst, selber zu denken. Ein philosophischer Dictionnaire.'' Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, 2nd edition 2003 ('' Die Andere Bibliothek'', vol. 214). * ''Katalog der byzantinischen Münzen. Münzsammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen im Archäologischen Institut.'' Hrsg. von Christof Boehringer. Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 2004,
online
. * ''Lohnt es sich, ein guter Mensch zu sein? Und andere philosophische Anfragen.'' Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, . * ''Die Kunst des Zweifelns. Anleitung zum skeptischen Philosophieren.'' C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, , 3rd edition 2008 (''Beck’sche Reihe.'' vol. 1664). * ''Sinnstiftung durch Geschichte? Zur Genese der spekulativ-universalistischen Geschichtsphilosophie zwischen Pierre Bayle und Immanuel Kant.'' Schwabe, Basel 2006, (''Schwabe Philosophica.'' vol. 8). * ''Die Kunst der Seelenruhe. Anleitung zum stoischen Denken.'' C. H. Beck, Munich 2009, 2nd edition 2010, . (''Beck’sche Reihe.'' vol. 1940). * ''Die Münzen des Byzantinischen Reiches 491–1453. Mit einem Anhang: Die Münzen des Reiches von Trapezunt.'' Battenberg, Regenstauf 2010, . * ''Geschichte und Gegenwart der Akademischen Zunft.'' Schwabe, Basel 2011, (''Basler Universitätsreden.'' vol. 109). * ''Kommentar zu Nietzsches Der Fall Wagner. Götzen-Dämmerung'' (= Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.): Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken, vol. 6/1), Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2012 (). * ''Lexikon der imaginären philosophischen Werke''. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2012, (''Die Andere Bibliothek'', vol. 326). * ''Kommentar zu Nietzsches Der Antichrist. Ecce homo. Dionysos-Dithyramben. Nietzsche contra Wagner'' (= Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.): Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken, vol. 6/2), Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013. (). * ''Kommentar zu Nietzsches Jenseits von Gut und Böse'' (= Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hg.): ''Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken'', vol. 5/1). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, . * ''Werte. Warum man sie braucht, obwohl es sie nicht gibt''. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2016 (). * ''Nietzsche und die Folgen''. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2017 (, eBook )., 2. erweiterte Auflage, mit einem Anhang: Fake Nietzsche. J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 2019. * ''Was bleibt von Nietzsches Philosophie?''. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2018 (= Lectiones Inaugurales, Bd. 19) , eBook 978-3-428-55429-4) * together with
Matthias Politycki Matthias Politycki (born in Karlsruhe on May 20, 1955) is a German novelist and poet. He studied in Munich and Vienna and obtained a PhD in philosophy in 1987. His first novel ''Aus Fälle/Zerlegung des Regenbogens. Ein Entwickelungsroman.'' (Dro ...
: ''Haltung finden. Weshalb wir sie brauchen und trotzdem nie haben werden''. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2019. .


Articles in English

* On the Genealogy of the Genealogical Method: Overbeck, Nietzsche, and the Search for Origins, in: Ingo Gildenhard / Martin Ruehl (ed.), ''Out of Arcadia. Classics and Politics in Germany in the Age of Burckhardt, Nietzsche and Wilamowitz = Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'', Supplement 79, London 2003, pp. 87–103. * Some Reflections on the Metaphysics of Decline and Fall, in: Jan Hecker-Stampehl / Aino Bannwart / Dörte Brekenfeld / Ulrike Plath (Hrsg.), ''Perceptions of Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Region. Untergangsvorstellungen im Ostseeraum = The Baltic Sea Region. Northern Dimensions – European Perspectives'', vol. 1, Berlin 2004, pp. 27–31. * Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche, in: Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), ''A Companion to Nietzsche'', Oxford 2006, pp. 250–269 * Iselin, Isaak / Jerusalem, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm / Spalding, Johann Joachim / Stapfer, Philipp Albert, in: Heiner F. Klemme / Manfred Kuehn (ed.), ''The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers'', vol. 2, London / New York 2010, pp. 575–579, 598–599, 1100–1104 and 1115–1116. * The Nietzsche Commentary of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Translated by Lisa Marie Anderson, in: ''Journal of Nietzsche Studies'' 42 (2011), pp. 100–104. * Nietzsche's Readings on Spinoza. A Contextualist Study, Particularly on the Reception of Kuno Fischer, in: ''Journal of Nietzsche Studies'' 43/2 (2012), pp. 156–184. * Afterword, in: ''The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'', vol. 9: ''The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysos Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner''. With an Afterword by Andreas Urs Sommer. Translated by Adrian Del Caro, Carol Diethe, Duncan Large, George H. Leiner, Paul S. Loeb, Alan D. Schrift, David F. Tinsley, and Mirko Wittwar, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2021, pp. 661–715.


Awards

* 1992 3rd Eligius-Prize of the German Numismatic Society * 1994 De-Wette-Prize of the Theological Seminary of Basel University * 2003 La lunette d’or of the Swiss Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences * 2012
Friedrich Nietzsche Prize The Friedrich Nietzsche Prize or Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preis is a German literary award named after Friedrich Nietzsche and awarded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was first awarded in 1996 for a German-language essayistic or philosophical wor ...


References


External links

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Open access papers by Andreas Urs Sommer

Sommer at the Heidelberg Academy

Sommer at the University of Freiburg



Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preis
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