1. Ferdinand Fellmann graduated from his studies in English and Romance Languages and Literature in 1959.
13 Facts About Ferdinand Fellmann
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From 1962 to 1965 Ferdinand Fellmann continued his studies in Giessen.
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Ferdinand Fellmann studied there under his most influential professors: Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Hans Robert Jauss, and Professor of Philosophy Hans Blumenberg.
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In 1967 Ferdinand Fellmann completed his doctorate in Bochum and in 1973 he finished his postdoctoral lecture qualification in Munster.
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Ferdinand Fellmann was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munster in 1980.
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In opposition to the dominance of analytic philosophy at the German universities, Ferdinand Fellmann remained devoted to continental philosophical tradition.
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Several of Ferdinand Fellmann's colleagues opposed the book, calling it destructive to academic tradition.
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Ferdinand Fellmann spent the latter years of his life mainly in Munster.
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Ferdinand Fellmann's thought developed from the Philosophy of History to Philosophical Anthropology.
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Contrary to the influential, idealistic conception of history presented in Hegel's philosophy of spirit, Ferdinand Fellmann interprets Giambattista Vico's The New Science in light of cultural anthropology.
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Currently, Ferdinand Fellmann interprets philosophy of history formally as the theory of historical consciousness.
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Ferdinand Fellmann has recently translated a key text of Confucius into German to underpin his view of life through an intercultural perspective.
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The philosopher to whom Ferdinand Fellmann refers in most of his texts is Schopenhauer, the father of modern Philosophy of Life, regarding the world as Will and Representation.