Gernot Böhme

Gernot Böhme (3 January 1937 – 20 January 2022) was a German philosopher and author, contributing to the philosophy of science, theory of time, aesthetics, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. He is the main pioneer of German ecocriticism, the study of the relationship between culture and the environment. He has been the director of the Institute for Practical Philosophy in Darmstadt, Hesse, since 2005. Despite being one of Germany's most acclaimed public intellectuals, very little of his work has so far been translated into English.

Biography Böhme was born in Dessau, Anhalt, Germany. He studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the University of Göttingen and at the Hamburg University, and completed a PhD in 1965 at Hamburg University. As a research scientist he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. From 1977 to 2002 he was Professor of Philosophy at Technical University of Darmstadt.

Books German

1974 Zeit und Zahl. Vittorio Klosterman. Frankfurt am Main 1989 Für eine ökologische Naturästhetik. Suhrkamp Verlag 1995 Atmosphäre: Essays zur neuen Ästhetik. Frankfurt am Main 1996 (with Hartmut Böhme) Feuer, Wasser, Erde, Luft: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elemente. München, Beck 1999 Theorie des Bildes. Fink, München 2001 Aisthetik. Vorlesungen über Ästhetik als allgemeine Wahrnehmungslehre, Fink 2002 Die Natur vor uns. Naturphilosophie in pragmatischer Hinsicht. Kusterdingen 2003 Der Typ Sokrates, Suhrkamp 2005 Goethes Faust als philosophischer Text. Die Graue Edition, Kusterdingen 2006 Architektur und Atmosphäre. München 2008 Invasive Technisierung. Technikphilosophie und Technikkritik. Kusterdingen 2008 Ethik leiblicher Existenz. Über unseren moralischen Umgang mit der eigenen Natur. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main

English translations 2001 Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions, Polity 2012 Invasive Technification: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology, Continuum 2017 Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces, Bloomsbury 2017 Critique of Aesthetic Capitalism, Mimesis