Konrad Ott Explained

Konrad Ott (born 20 May 1959) is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics.

Biography

Konrad Ott was born 1959 in Bergkamen, Germany. From 1981 to 1986, he studied philosophy, history and German philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is regarded as a representative of the 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School.^[1]

Ott is currently Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. From 1997 to 2012 Ott was professor for environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald. Ott is also known as a critic of mass migration to Europe. Regarding migration from Africa via the Mediterranean, Ott postulated in 2018 that "this route must be dried out"; the merit of Italy's Home Office Secretary Matteo Salvini should be acknowledged "at least [...] to have made this route less attractive".^[2]

Bibliography

In German:

• Ökologie und Ethik: Ein Versuch praktischer Philosophie. Tübingen 1993
• Vom Begründen zum Handeln: Aufsätze zur angewandten Ethik. Tübingen 1996
• Ipso facto: Zur ethischen Begründung normativer Implikate wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Ethik in der Informatik. Tübingen 1999 (as co-editor)
• Spektrum der Umweltethik. Marburg 2000 (as co-editor)
• Moralbegründungen zur Einführung. Hamburg 2001; Zweite Auflage 2005
• Theorie und Praxis starker Nachhaltigkeit. Marburg 2004; Zweite Auflage 2008 (as co-author)
• Umweltethik zur Einführung. Hamburg 2010
• Zuwanderung und Moral. Stuttgart 2016
• Naturethik und biblische Schöpfungserzählung. Ein diskurstheoretischer und narrativ-hermeneutischer Brückenschlag. (Together with Christof Hardmeier.) Stuttgart 2015
• Umweltethik. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.68742

In English:

• The Case for Strong Sustainability
• Building a 'theory of sustainable development': two salient conceptions within the German discourse (as co-author)
• On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability
• Environmental Ethics. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg 2020, https://doi.org/10.11588/oepn.2020.0.71420

External links

• Universität Greifswald - Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie: Professur für Umweltethik Professorship for Environmental Ethics at the University of Greifswald, Germany
• International Masters Programme "Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation"

References

1. Joel Anderson: The 'Third Generation' of the Frankfurt School, in: Intellectual History Newsletter 22/2000, Department of History, Boston University.
2. Konrad Ott: "NGOs sollen nicht moralisch überheblich werden" [''"NGOs should not revel in moral arrogance"'']. In: Der Standard (Vienna/Austria), 3/4 November 2018, p. 11: "diese Route auszutrocknen"; "immerhin [...] die Route unattraktiver gemacht".