Professor

Karlfriedrich Herb

Building PT, Room 3.1.16
Phone +49 941 943-3515
Karlfriedrich.Herb@politik.uni-regensburg.de

Research Interests

Philosophy and Politics in the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Political Philosophy in France

Modern Liberty and Citizenship

Applied Political Sciences: Politics and Intercultural Studies (research cooperation with the University of Brasília)

Business Ethics and Political Counseling

Curriculum Vitae

Karlfriedrich Herb studied Philosophy, Comparative Religious Studies and Psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. In 1986 he completed his PhD about the legal and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

He participated in research projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (German Scientific Community), by the Thyssen Foundation, by the Volkswagen Foundation as well as in DAAD funded (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst; German Academic Exchange Service) research projects in Paris. Karlfriedrich Herb was chercheur associé at the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CNRS, Paris) and research assistant at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich.

For his postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”), he analyzed the modern notion of liberty.

As an associate professor (“Privatdozent”), Karlfriedrich Herb taught Political Science and Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He was a visiting professor at the Federal Universities of Recife and Campinas (Brazil); in 2001, he received an endowed professorship  (“Stiftungsprofessur”) for philosophy at the Universität Ulm. Moreover he taught at the Hochschule für Politik (HfP) in Munich and at the Hochschule für Philosophie (HfPh) in Munich.

In 2001 Karlfriedrich Herb was appointed to the Chair for Political Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the Universität Regensburg.

Publications

Karlfriedrich Herb. “Naturzustand und bürgerlicher Zustand: Rousseaus Konzeption vertragstheoretischer Herrschaftsbegründung.“ Diss. U Bonn, 1986. Print.

---. “Die Ambivalenz der modernen Freiheit. Wandlungen des politischen Freiheitsbegriffes von Hobbes bis Constant.“ Habil. LMU München, 1997. Print.

Karlfriedrich Herb and Bernhard H. F. Taureck. Rousseau-Brevier: Schlüsseltexte und Erläuterungen. Paderborn: Fink, 2011. Print.

Karlfriedrich Herb and Oliver Hidalgo. Alexis de Tocqueville. Frankfurt: Campus, 2005. Print.

Karlfriedrich Herb. Bürgerliche Freiheit: Politische Philosophie von Hobbes bis Constant. Freiburg: Alber, 1999. Print.

---. Rousseaus Theorie legitimer Herrschaft: Voraussetzungen und Begründungen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1989. Print.

Karlfriedrich Herb and Georg Geismann. Hobbes über die Freiheit. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1988. Print.