Odo Marquard

Odo Marquard
Born	26 February 1928 Stolp, Farther Pomerania, Weimar Germany (modern Słupsk, Poland)
Died	9 May 2015 (aged 87)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
Main interests	Philosophical anthropology
Influences Kant · Freud · Gehlen · Müller
Influenced Gerd B. Achenbach

Odo Marquard (26 February 1928 – 9 May 2015) was a German philosopher.^[1] He is considered as a member of the Ritter-School.

Marquard was born in Stolp, Farther Pomerania. In 1984 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize^[2] by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

Major works

• Schwierigkeiten mit der Geschichtsphilosophie. Suhrkamp (stw 394), Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-27994-7
• Abschied vom Prinzipiellen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-007724-9
• Apologie des Zufälligen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-15-008351-6
• Skepsis und Zustimmung. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-009334-1
• Glück im Unglück. Fink, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3065-9
• Skepsis in der Moderne. Reclam, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-15-018524-6

Awards

• Sigmund Freud Prize 1984

References

1. "Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard". uni-giessen.de (in German).
2. "Urkundentext Odo Marquard (in German)". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 5 June 2012.