Andreas Dorschel (born 1962) is a German

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. 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 Austrian Science Fund (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 Royal Musical Association (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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. He held fellowships of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study during the academic year 2020/21 and of the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study during the academic year 2024/25.

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

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

and R. G. Collingwood.

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 Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical realism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysics, metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, Spirit (vital essence), spirit, or ...

, Dorschel does not endorse

determinism Determinism is the Metaphysics, metaphysical view that all events within the universe (or multiverse) can occur only in one possible way. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes ov ...

. 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 ''dictum'', "something said") or forecast is a statement about a future event or about future data. Predictions are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge of forecasters. There ...

. 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 encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

, 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 genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the ...

, in the

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, in modern

alchemy Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...

, and, finally, in current

genetic engineering Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of Genetic engineering techniques, technologies used to change the genet ...

and

synthetic biology Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms. It applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nat ...

Ideas

In his 2010 volume ''Ideengeschichte'' 'History of Ideas'' Dorschel explains key issues of method in his research fields. Subject matter of this branch of historiography, he argues, are “not ideas ''per se'', but situated ideas”; hence what has got to be explored are not just texts and similar primary sources, but also the historical conditions under which ideas emerged as well as the ways they were received and circulated. Dorschel distrusts any isolating take on ‘an idea’ as a singular entity; hence he 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". Some of Ryle's ideas in philosophy of mind have been ca ...

’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. Novelty often requires an unused image, a fresh metaphor that may only much later dry out into an accustomed concept. 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 continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

, but also in terms of

space Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions. Modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless ...

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 with what is actually or expected to be the case. Originally a rhetorical device and literary technique, in modernity, modern times irony has a ...

’, ‘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 is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

and

aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

. 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 (''problem solving'', '' mental shortcut'', ''rule of thumb'') is any approach to problem solving that employs a pragmatic method that is not fully optimized, perfected, or rationalized, but is nevertheless ...

fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

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

dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American and British English spelling differences, American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literature, literary and theatrical form that depicts suc ...

monologue In theatre, a monologue (also known as monolog in North American English) (in , from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts ...

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

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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.

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, Alan Goldman, Alan Musgrave ''et alii'') . – Reissue (hardbound): ''Rethinking Prejudice.'' Routledge, London – New York, NY 2019 . – 2nd ed. of reissue (paperback): ''Rethinking Prejudice.'' Routledge, London – New York, NY 2020 * ''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) ''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'' 30 (2001), no. 4, pp. 283–306
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* ''Lakonik und Suada in der Prosa Thomas Bernhards.'' In: ''Thomas Bernhard Jahrbuch'' 2007/08, pp. 215–233 * ''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: ''Saeculum. 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
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* ''Ästhetik des Fado.'' In: ''

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

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'' 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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* ''Die Welt verändern.'' In: ''

'' 77 (2023), no. 7, pp. 32–43
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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: ''

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'' 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 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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