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Dr Rolf Geiger

Dr. Rolf Geiger

Dr. Rolf Geiger

Dr. Rolf Geiger

Research Assistant

Office hours in the summer semester 2026:

by appointment via email

 

 

 

Publications

Monographs

  • Dialectical Virtues. Studies on the Form of Dialogue in the Platonic Dialogues, Paderborn: mentis 2006.

Collected Works and Encyclopaedias

  • Models of Political Philosophy, edited by Rolf Geiger, Jean-Christophe Merle and Nico Scarano, Paderborn: mentis 2003.
  • Aristotle Encyclopaedia, edited by Otfried Höffe (editors: Rolf Geiger, Philipp Brüllmann), Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner 2005.
  • Fundamental Philosophical Issues in Theology, Politics and Religion. Classical Models from Antiquity to the Present Day, edited by Dirk Brantl, Rolf Geiger and Stephan Herzberg, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2013.

Essays

  • ‘The Establishment of Democracies and Oligarchies’, in: Otfried Höffe (ed.), Aristotle. Politics (Klassiker Auslegen 23), Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2001, 151–167.
  • ‘Francis Bacon’, in: Otfried Höffe (ed.), Classics of Philosophy, Munich: C.H. Beck 2008, vol. 1, 240–251.
  • ‘The Dialogic Form’, in: Handbook of Plato, ed. by Christoph Horn, Jörn Müller and Joachim Söder, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2009, 363–372.
  • ‘Platonic Monologues’, in: Handbook of Plato, edited by Christoph Horn, Jörn Müller and Joachim Söder, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2009, 372–375.
  • “Textual Criticism”, in: Handbook of Plato, edited by Christoph Horn, Jörn Müller and Joachim Söder, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2009, 376–386.
  • ‘Conquerors, Princes and Prophets’, in: Otfried Höffe (ed.), Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (Klassiker Auslegen 50), Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2012, 33–47.
  • ‘Aristotle on Politics and Religion’, in: Philosophy, Politics and Religion. Classical Models from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Dirk Brantl, Rolf Geiger and Stephan Herzberg, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2013, 25–38.

Encyclopaedia entries

  • 4 entries in: Dictionary of Fundamental Philosophical Issues in Theology, edited by Christoph Horn and Christof Rapp, Munich: C.H. Beck 2002: dialegesthai, eirôneia (with Christoph Horn), logon didonai and zôon politikon.
  • 33 entries in: *Aristotle Encyclopaedia*, edited by Otfried Höffe, Stuttgart: Kröner 2005:
    anarchia, aporia, aristokratia, basileia, chrêmatistikê, dêmokratia, despotês, didaskalikos, doulos, dynasteia, eirôneia, eristikos, erôtêma, ison, koinônia, ktêtikê, metabolê politeiôn, monarchia, monopôlia, nomisma, nomos, oikia, oikonomia, oligarchia, orthos, paideia, peirastikos, saphes, sophistikê, sôtêria, thaumazein, timokratia and tyrannis.

Reviews

  • *Dissoi Logoi. Two Views*. A Sophistic Treatise, text, translation and commentary by Alexander Becker and Peter Scholz, 165 pp. Akademie Verlag 2004. In: *Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung* 60 (2006), 330 ff.
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