Michael Theunissen
Michael Theunissen | |
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| Born | 11 October 1932 |
| Died | 18 April 2015 (aged 82) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn University of Freiburg Free University of Berlin |
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| Doctoral advisor | Max Müller |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg Free University of Berlin |
| Main interests | Theology, History |
Michael Theunissen (born 11 October 1932 in Berlin; 18. April 2015) was a German philosopher. He was successor to Hans-Georg Gadamer as chair of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg.
Theunissen must be mentioned in the same breath as Jürgen Habermas, Hermann Lübbe, Robert Spaemann, Ernst Tugendhat, Dieter Henrich and Odo Marquard. All of them, who took up their studies after the Second World War, have had a significant influence (both with and against each other) on German-language philosophy in the recent past.