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Andreas Urs Sommer
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Andreas Urs Sommer (born 14 July 1972) is a German philosopher of Swiss origin. He specializes in the history of philosophy and its theory, ethics, philosophy of religion, and Skepticism. His historical studies center on the philosophy of Enlightenment and Nietzsche, but they also deal with Kant, Max Weber, Pierre Bayle, Jonathan Edwards, and others.
Andreas Urs Sommer studied philosophy, theology and German literature in Basel, Göttingen and Freiburg. He obtained his doctorate at Basel University in 1998, and received his Habilitation in Greifswald in 2004. He was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University in 1998/99 and a fellow at the University of London in 2000/01.
In 2008 Sommer became responsible for the "Nietzsche-Kommentar" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. He was also appointed the director of the Friedrich-Nietzsche-Stiftung in Naumburg (Saale). In 2011 he became a professor for philosophy at the University of Freiburg.
Sommer also publishes in the field of numismatics.
Im Spannungsfeld von Gott und Welt. Studien zu Geschichte und Gegenwart des Frey-Grynaeischen-Institutes in Basel 1747–1997. Schwabe, Basel 1997, .
Der Geist der Historie und das Ende des Christentums. Zur „Waffengenossenschaft“ von Friedrich Nietzsche und Franz Overbeck. Mit einem Anhang unveröffentlichter Texte aus Overbecks „Kirchenlexicon“. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997, .
Die Hortung. Eine Philosophie des Sammelns. Parerga, Düsseldorf 2000, .
Existenzphilosophie und Christentum. Albert Schweitzer und Fritz Buri. Briefe 1935–1964. C. H. Beck, Munich 2000, .
Friedrich Nietzsches „Der Antichrist“. Ein philosophisch-historischer Kommentar. Schwabe, Basel 2000, (Beiträge zu Friedrich Nietzsche. vol. 2).
Geschichte als Trost. Isaak Iselins Geschichtsphilosophie. Schwabe, Basel 2002, (Schwabe Horizonte.).
Die Kunst, selber zu denken. Ein philosophischer Dictionnaire. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, 2nd edition 2003 (Die Andere Bibliothek, vol. 214).
Katalog der byzantinischen Münzen. Münzsammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen im Archäologischen Institut.
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