Albrecht Wellmer

Albrecht Wellmer (9 July 1933 – 13 September 2018) was a German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin. 

Biography

He studied maths and physics at Berlin and Kiel, then philosophy and sociology at Heidelberg and Frankfurt.  He was an assistant to Jürgen Habermas at the University of Frankfurt from 1966 to 1970.  He has held Professorships at the Universität Konstanz, the New School for Social Research and at the Freie Universität Berlin.  He has held guest Professorships at Haverford, Stony Brooke, Collège International de Philosophie, the New School of Social Research and the University of Amsterdam. 

In 2006 he received the Theodor W. Adorno Award, a prestigious award for achievement in philosophy, theatre, music, and film. 

Works

His works include books and articles about Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Ethics, Modernity, and Postmodernity as well as thinkers such as Adorno, Habermas, Rorty, and Wittgenstein. 

References

External links
 List of works by Albrecht Wellmer at the Open Library
 Albrecht Wellmer's Homepage
 List of articles by Albrecht Wellmer at PhilPapers
 Article by Albrecht Wellmer on Richard Rorty: 'Rereading Rorty', Krisis, 2008, 2
 Albrecht Wellmer – Adorno and the Difficulties of a Critical Reconstruction of the Historical Present - free MP3 audio recording of Wellmer from November 2009

Category:1933 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Free University of Berlin faculty
Category:German political philosophers
Category:German political scientists
Category:German sociologists
Category:20th-century German philosophers
Category:Continental philosophers
Category:Philosophers of language
Category:Rationality theorists
Category:Social philosophers
Category:Frankfurt School
Category:German male writers