Richard Raatzsch


Richard Raatzsch is a German philosopher. Since 2008, he has been Chair of Ethics within the European Business School at Reichartshausen Castle in Oestrich-Winkel/Rheingau.

Life

Raatzsch studied philosophy and history at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. After earning his Ph.D. at that institution, he pursued a teaching and research career at the University of Leipzig, first at the Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and subsequently at the Institute for Philosophy. In 1999, he earned the habilitation degree for a study of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; the study was published in book form under the title Eigentlich Seltsames. Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen. Ein Kommentar in 2003.
In 2004, Raatzsch served as Chair of Political Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Potsdam. He also taught at the universities of St Gallen and Bergen. From 2006 to 2008, a Heisenberg Grant enabled him to do research at Cambridge University ; since then, he has been a "life member" of Clare Hall College Cambridge. From 1996 on, Raatzsch has been editor of the international periodical Wittgenstein Studies.

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