apl. Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Nusser
Adjunct Professor
Chair of Metaphysics
Office address:
Heilwigstraße 40d
81827 München
Office hours:
After lectures/seminars
Personal information
Master at the Philosophische Hochschule in Pullach; doctorate under Helmut Kuhn at LMU Munich; assistant at University of Stuttgart; habilitation at LMU; director of the Bavarian branch of the Ostakademie Königstein; guest professorships, most lasting several semesters, in Halle an der Saale, Weingarten, Basel, Freiburg, Passau, Würzburg, a longer period at the University of Augsburg.
Research interests
I am interested in European antiquity, which laid the grounds for science and democracy. The conception of freedom and justice which is developed in the classic way in Plato and Aristotle shaped European history and gave the viewpoints of different civilizations a universal foundation. After the catastrophe of the Second World War, man's natural right to life was established as the limit of traditional state power by the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Alongside scientific and economic progress, the right to nature, both the nature within man and around him, must be kept in mind and respected in order to orientate state policies.
Selected publications
The following list includes only books:
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Der blinde Fleck der Evolutionstheorie; Ansätze zu einem gewandelten Naturverständnis, Alber, Freiburg, 2018.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Freiheit, soziale Güter und Gerechtigkeit. Michael Walzers Staats- und Gesellschafsverständnis, Nomos, 2012.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Politikos - vom Element des Persönlichen in der Pollitik Festschrift für Tilo Schabert zum 65. Geburtstag, Duncker & Humblot, 2008.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Menschenrechte und Leistungsgerechtigkeit. Philosophische Lehren in den Zeiten der Globalisierung, Merus, 2007.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Über die Wurzieln des demokratischen Gemeinwesens. Der Fortschritt und die Sorge um den Menschen, Alber, 2006.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Kausale Prozesse und sinnerfassende Vernunft. Max Webers philosopohische Fundierung der Soziologie und der Kulturwissenschaft, Alber, 1986.
- Karl-Heinz Nusser: Hegels Dialektik und das Prinzip der Revolution. Der Weg zur praktischen Philosophie, Pustet, 1973.