Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Zurich
Hermann Lübbe, born 1926 in Aurich, German philosopher, former Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at the University of Zurich and President of the General Society for Philosophy. He is a member of numerous academic societies in Germany and abroad and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing in 1990 and the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation Prize in 1995. In 1996 he received the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2000 an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Munich.
In a large number of writings, Lübbe devotes himself above all to questions of political philosophy, where he represents a decidedly liberal point of view in the tradition of the Enlightenment.
Thursday, 18. April 2013, 18:15 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Never before has it been experienced so dramatically: Old certainties are disappearing as the pace of change in our living environments increases. The economic and political self-sufficiency of modern states is diminishing. Large areas and superstructures are determining change. This requires not only experts and specialists for specific issues, but also us contemporaries to make the world comprehensible. The number of attempts at reorientation is growing accordingly. An overview, also based on personal experience.