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Jürgen Goldstein

Photo: © Kerstin Goldstein

Jürgen Goldstein, born 1962 in Beckum, North Rhine-Westphalia, is a professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz and Landau. Inspired chiefly by Hans Blumenberg, he is interested in the development and characteristic patterns of modernity. His books focus on the development of modern subjectivity and rationality, twentieth-century political philosophy, and the history of perceptions of nature.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

2015 Gleim Prize for Literature
2016 Leipzig Book Fair Prize - Non-fiction / Essay

More Publications

Naturerscheinungen. Die Sprachlandschaften des Nature Writing
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2019.

Blau. Eine Wunderkammer seiner Bedeutungen
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2017.

Featured Books

Book cover Georg Forster. Between Freedom and Forces of Nature.

Georg Forster. Zwischen Freiheit und Naturgewalt.
[Georg Forster. Between Freedom and Forces of Nature.]

Matthes & Seitz Verlag

Die Entdeckung der Natur. Etappen einer Erfahrungsgeschichte
[The discovery of nature]