Lorenz_Bruno_Puntel
Lorenz Bruno Puntel
Brazilian philosopher and theologian
Lorenz (Lorencino) Bruno Puntel (German: [punˈteːl]; born September 22, 1935) is a Brazilian philosopher based in Germany, who established the school of Structural-systematic philosophy.[1][2] Professor emeritus at the University of Munich, Puntel has been named as one of the great contemporary philosophers, articulating his ideas from the most varied traditions.[3][4][5][6]
Lorenz Bruno Puntel | |
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Born | (1935-09-22) September 22, 1935 (age 88) |
Education | University of Munich |
Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Analytic philosophy Structural-systematic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of science Philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | Structural-systematic philosophy Philosophical theory of everything |
Puntel studied philosophy, theology, philology and psychology in Munich, Innsbruck, Vienna, Paris, and Rome. He graduated in philosophy in Munich (1968) and in Catholic theology (1969) in Innsbruck. He became a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Munich in 1978. He was a student of Karl Rahner and studied with Martin Heidegger, whose philosophy concerned him throughout his life.[7]
Puntel's thought tries to reconstruct the systematics of philosophy from a very unique viewpoint, which involves the elaboration of a theoretical language, abandoning the idea of a language of predicates. Puntel draws on sources ranging from G. W. Leibniz, German idealism, Heidegger's phenomenology, and even analytic philosophy.[8]
Since 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Pittsburgh, Harvard and Princeton. Retired in 2001, in 2016, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Munich.[9]
He has also received the Findlay Book Prize in 2011.[10]
- Analogy and historicity. Philosophical-historical-critical attempt at the basic problem of metaphysics. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1969.
- Presentation, method and structure. Investigations in the Unity of Systematic Philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1973.
- Theories of Truth in Modern Philosophy. A critical and systematic presentation. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1978, ISBN 3534072588. 3rd edition 1993.
- (Editor, Introduction) The concept of truth. New attempts at explanation. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-534-02134-7.
- Basics of a theory of truth. W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-012079-8.
- Structure and being. A theoretical framework for a systematic philosophy. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-16-148963-2.
- Being and God. A systematic approach in dealing with M. Heidegger, E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150146-3.
- (with Emmanuel Tourpe) Philosophy as a systematic discourse. Dialogues about the basics of a theory of beings. Karl Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014.
- Lawrence, Joseph P. "Structure and Being: A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy." The Review of Metaphysics 63.4 (2010): 937.
- PUNTEL, Lorenz B. Structure and being: a theoretical framework for a systematic philosophy. Penn State Press, 2010.
- LMU München: Schwerpunkte in Forschung & Lehre (retrieved 24 November 2014)
- NEGARESTANI, Reza. Intelligence and Spirit. Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2018. p.72
- White, Alan. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything: Contributions to the Structural-systematic Philosophy. A&C Black, 2014. p.4-25
- de Oliveira, M.A.. "THE METAPHYSICS OF THE PRIMORDIAL BEING, L.B. Puntel and the challenge of rethinking metaphysics", Loyola, 2019, ISBN 8515045788
- Selbstauskunft, Vortrag "Heidegger" WWU Münster 15 December 2010.
- version française de Emmanuel Tourpe, Philosophie als systematischer Diskurs, Fribourg- Munich, Karl Alber, 2014 p.3-4
- LMU München: Curriculum Vitae (retrieved 24 November 2014)