Ulrich Arnswald Explained

Ulrich Arnswald (born 1970 in Karlsruhe) is a German philosopher, economist, political scientist and university lecturer. He is a Privatdozent at the Institute of Philosophy at the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck, Austria.

Biography

Raised in Ettlingen (Baden), where he also graduated from high school, Arnswald studied economics, political science and philosophy at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, the Université Paris-Dauphine, the University of Kent at Canterbury and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), one of 17 member institutions of the federal University of London.

Arnswald received his doctorate "summa cum laude" with a thesis on "Wittgenstein as a Political Thinker. Concepts of Political Thought of an Unpolitical Philosophy" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and habilitated unanimously with a monograph on "The Problem of the Normative Foundations of Modern Economics. On the Non-Reflected Premises of Economic Theorizing" at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, which was peer-reviewed by Lisa Herzog (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Ulrich Metschl (Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck) and Peter Baumann (Swarthmore College), among others.

Work experience at Eisai Co. Ltd. in Tokyo and at the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dublin. Research and visiting lectureships at St. Catharine's College of Cambridge University (1999), at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (2001), at the Wittgenstein Archive of the University of Bergen (2003), the University of Oslo (2004), at the International Research Center for Social and Ethical Question (ifz) in Salzburg (2014), the Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation (2019), and at the Brenner Archive Research Institute, Ernst von Glasersfeld Archive Department, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck (2021). He has given lectures abroad in Austria, the Czech Republic (Czechia), France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and Türkiye (Turkey).

From 1997 to 2006, he was founding director of the European Institute for International Affairs Heidelberg (today: Institute for Cultural Research Heidelberg). He received teaching assignments in economics, business administration, international relations and philosophy in Heidelberg, Bruchsal and Darmstadt. In 2000, he was awarded the title of Assistant Professor by the American Schiller International University, Florida, USA (today: The Global American University, Schiller). In 2005, he held compact seminars for Oglethorpe University Atlanta, Georgia, in Strasbourg, France.

Until 2020, he taught and conducted research as a lecturer, research associate, and academic staff member at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) or its predecessor institution, Universität Karlsruhe (TH). There, he was involved in teaching in the European Culture and History of Ideas (EUKLID) program with a focus on practical philosophy. Since 2023 he teaches philosophy at the Rheinland-Pfälzischen Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau).

In the past, he has also written in daily political media, for example in taz - die Tageszeitung,[1] the weekly newspaper der Freitag – Die Wochenzeitung,[2] among others, and commented on Deutschlandfunk (DLF) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

In 2023, together with Dr. Joaquín Jareño Alarcon (Murcia), he initiated the European Initiative for Online Tandem Higher Education for Ukraine (via Virtual Learning Environments). This initiative was taken up by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The first tandem seminars to support Ukraine in teaching during the war took place from 2024.

In April 2024, he spoke about Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Austrian Parliament[3] at the invitation of the President of the National Council Wolfgang Sobotka.

Arnswald has an h-index of 11 (as at May 2024). Among others, he published with the former President of the Institut International de Philosophie (the "World Academy" of Philosophy), Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans Lenk of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Scientific articles by Arnswald have appeared in, among others:

Acta Analytica – International Periodical for Philosophy in Analytical Tradition, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (ARSP), Atlantika: Revista Internacional de Filosofia. Revista de Filosofia do Centro Atlântico de Pesquisa em Humanidades (CAPH), Conceptus. Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Der Staat. Zeitschrift für Staatslehre und Verfassungsgeschichte, deutsches und europäisches öffentliches Recht, Der Blaue Reiter. Journal für PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (DZPh), Forum Vormärz Forschung Jahrbuch (FVF), Global Player. International Management & Business Culture, HannahArendt.net. Zeitschrift für politisches Denken. Journal for Political Thinking,Iablis. Jahrbuch für Europäische Prozesse, Information Philosophie. Die Zeitschrift, die über Philosophie informiert, International Journal of Applied Philosophy (IJAP), Journal of Austrian Studies (JAS), Krieg und Literatur / War and Literature. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Kriegs- und Antikriegsliteraturforschung / International Yearbook on War and Anti-War Literature, Labyrinth. An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, Max Weber Studies (MWS), Philosophia. Yearbook of the Research Center for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger. Ein Referateorgan für die Neuerscheinungen der Philosophie und ihrer gesamten Grenzgebiete (PhLA), Philosophy Now. A Magazine of Ideas, Philosophische Rundschau. Eine Zeitschrift für philosophische Kritik (PhR), Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Sic et Non: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Kultur im Netz, Sofia Philosophical Review. A Journal Dedicated to Moral, Political and Social Philosophy from a Continental Perspective, Wittgenstein Jahrbuch. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, Wittgenstein-Studien, Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik (ZEE), Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (ZfG), Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (ZphF), Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte / Journal of Religious and Cultural Studies (ZRGG).

Philosophical work

Arnswald focuses on political philosophy and political economy, the history of ideas, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the philosophy of pragmatism as well as anthropology.

In addition, he is interested in action-oriented topics such as ethics, especially at the interface of philosophy and economics, as well as related questions and problems of epistemology, and pragmatism. He is also a specialist in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, coming from Wittgenstein, also works on the Vienna Circle.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Recht, nicht Rache . 2024-09-10 . taz.de . de.
  2. Web site: Präventiv-Krieg oder Präemptiv-Krieg? . 2024-09-10 . freitag.de . de.
  3. Web site: Die Parlamentswoche vom 2. bis 5. April 2024 . 2024-07-29 . OTS.at . de.
  4. Web site: Betr.: Ulrich Arnswald . 2024-09-10 . taz.de . de.
  5. Web site: International Editorial Board . 2024-09-10 . sphr-bg.org . en.
  6. Rothe . Matthias . 2020 . Karlsruhe meets the Vienna Circle . American Studies Newsmagazine . 32 . 2 . 14–27 . JSTOR.
  7. Web site: Strebel . Volker . 2016-09-09 . Die alte europäische Tugend der Neugier . literaturkritik.