Frithjof Bergmann

Frithjof Bergmann

Full name	Frithjof Bergmann
Born	December 24, 1930 (1930-12-24) (age 80)
Era	20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Continental Philosophy
Main interests	Continental Philosophy Existentialism Cultural Philosophy Philosophy of mind Politics Ethics

Frithjof Bergmann (born December 24, 1930, in Germany) is a Professor Emeritus of philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he regularly taught classes on existentialism and continental philosophy.

Background

Professor Bergmann first came to the US as a student, where he has lived and worked ever since. He entered the doctoral program in philosophy at Princeton and studied under Walter Kaufmann, receiving his Ph.D. in 1959 with a dissertation entitled "Harmony and Reason: an Introduction to the Philosophy of Hegel." In addition, Professor Bergmann is a Nietzsche scholar; his publications include "Nietzsche's Critique of Morality" (published in Reading Nietzsche, Oxford University Press, 1988). He spent most of his academic career at the University of Michigan, where he was a professor and visible political activist. He taught for shorter stints at The University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and The University of California at Santa Cruz.

In 1984, he started an organisation called the Center for New Work (sometimes called just New Work) in Flint, Michigan, to help the many unemployed people after General Motors closed several plants there.

Professor Bergmann's interests include continental philosophy –- especially Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Existentialism generally –- and also social and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of culture. His On Being Free (1977) was issued in a paperback edition in 1978. His article The Experience of Values (reprinted in Revisions: Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy by University of Notre Dame Press, 1983) is used in universities throughout the world. Professor Bergmann founded the Center for New Work in Flint in 1981, and has developed a number of suggestions about work as a calling and a vehicle of self-realization, in rotation with mainstream employment, and involving a self-sufficiency that technology itself makes possible. He resides in Ann Arbor and continues to write and lecture on the practical, social, and cultural implications of philosophical thought.^[1]

Books

• On Being Free - University of Notre Dame, November 1977; ISBN 0-268-01492-2
• Menschen, Märkte, Lebenswelten - Differenzierung und Integration in den Systemen der Wohnungslosenhilfe - VSH Verlag Soziale Hilfe, 1999; ISBN 3-923074-65-4
• Neue Arbeit, Neue Kultur - Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Stephan Schuhmacher - Arbor Verlag, 2004; ISBN 3-924195-96-X

References

1. ^ Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan

External links

• University of Michigan Biography
• An interview with Bergmann

See also

Tom Hodgkinson

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Name	Bergmann, Frithjof
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Date of birth	December 24, 1930
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