Birgit Sandkaulen (also Sandkaulen-Bock, born 1959 in

Koblenz Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military p ...

) is a German philosopher and professor at

Ruhr University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began ...

Life

Birgit Sandkaulen studied philosophy and

German studies German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on German culture, German h ...

and literature at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

and the

University of Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France ...

from 1979. She received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1989 with a thesis on Schelling. After her

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

Heidelberg University Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...

with a study on

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (; ; 25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was a German philosopher, writer and socialite. He is best known for popularizing the concept of nihilism. He promoted the idea that it is the necessary result of Enlightenment th ...

's critique of

reason Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing valid conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, religion, scien ...

, she became Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

in 2000. Her teaching and research activities have focused on classical

German philosophy German philosophy, meaning philosophy in the German language or philosophy by German people, in its diversity, is fundamental for both the analytic and continental traditions. It covers figures such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, ...

(

German idealism German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

). In 2011, she was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy with a special focus on classical German philosophy at the

. From 2011 to 2014, she was a member of the university senate. She has been a full member of the

North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts The North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (''Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste''), shortly known as NRW is a learned society in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. With more than 28 ...

since 2013. In 2016, she became a corresponding member of the

Austrian Academy of Sciences The Austrian Academy of Sciences (; ÖAW) is a legal entity under the special protection of the Republic of Austria. According to the statutes of the Academy its mission is to promote the sciences and humanities in every respect and in every fi ...

Writings (selection)

In English

In German

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References

External links

Homepage
on the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Birgit Sandkaulen
Entry at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Jacobi Wörterbuch Online
edited by Birgit Sandkaulen, Stefan Schick and Oliver Koch, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandkaulen, Birgit Living people 1959 births German women philosophers Corresponding Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the University of Jena Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum 21st-century German philosophers 20th-century German philosophers 21st-century German women educators 20th-century German women educators Scholars of modern philosophy Members of North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts