The year\u2019s VIZE 97 Prize, which is awarded annually on the date of Vaclav Havel\u2019s birthday by the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation, will be accepted by Professor Konrad Paul Liessmann of the University of Vienna, thereby becoming the twelfth Laureate.<\/p>\n
Konrad Paul Liessmann, who will accept the VIZE 97 Prize from the hands of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel at Prague\u2019s Crossroad on Tuesday 5th of October 2010, is the senior lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna. He also works as an essayist, literary critic and journalist, in particular devoted to the arts. Recently his book the \u201cTheory of Miseducation\u201d was published in the Czech Republic, which is a criticism of the current state of science and education, especially in the humanitarian field, likewise providing an outlook into the future. The book containing Liessmann\u2019s opinions on errors and delusions related to the term education, has received a great response from readers. On the occasion of awarding the Prize, the VIZE 97 Foundation will issue an anthology of ten texts \u2013 lectures under the title The Value of Man \u2013 Political-philosophical essays, in which the author summarises his opinions on key problems of modern day society.<\/p>\n
Laureates of the Dagmar and V\u00e1clav Havel VIZE 97 Prize:<\/p>\n Konrad Paul Liessmann<\/b> He was also intrigued by Austrian Catholic Thinker Friedrich Heer, whose selected writings he prepared for publishing (2003) in two volumes. In 1996 he was appointed Associate Professor, in 2005 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2008 he has been the Vice-Dean of the Philosophical and Pedagogical Faculty (Fakult\u00e4t f\u00fcr Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft) of the University of Vienna. From the beginning of the nineteen-nineties, he intensively devoted himself to the philosophical issues of society following radical changes in 1989. Furthermore, he wrote a book on Karl Marx (Karl Marx \u2013 Man stirb nur zweimal, 1992) and several others \u2013 the most significant of which includes e.g. Der Aufgang des Abendlandes \u2013 Eine Rekonstruktion Europas (1994), Zukunft kommt! \u2013 \u00dcber s\u00e4kularisierte Heilserwartungen und ihre Entt\u00e4uschung (2007) and a number of anthologies, which he also edited. He is also a political commentator and publicist in a number of significant dailies. In 1996 he was awarded the Austrian state prize for cultural journalism and is also the recipient of e.g. the Austrian title \u201cScientist of the Year 2006\u201d and the literary aware \u201cDanubius 2009\u201d.<\/p>\n The translation of his book Theorie der Unbildung \u2013 Die Irrt\u00fcmer der Wissensgesellschaft (2006): Theory of Miseducation \u2013 Errors in Society\u2019s Knowledge (Academia, Prague 2008 and reprint) received tremendous from readers in the CR. The book contains Liessmann\u2019s thoughts on the errors and delusions related to the term education. The year\u2019s VIZE 97 Prize, which is awarded annually on the date of Vaclav Havel\u2019s birthday by the Dagmar and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":9503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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Univ. Prof. Dr. Konrad Paul Liessmann was born in Villach on 13th April 1953. Following his studies of philosophy, Germanics, history, psychology and sociology in Vienna, he began devoting himself to the issues of teaching philosophy and other education of teachers. At the same time, he became interested in the philosophical problems of technology and culture, among others, in relation to the philosophical work of G\u00fcnther Andres. He habilitated in the field of philosophy by writing about the philosophy of aesthetics, which he continued to intensively devote himself to.<\/p>\n
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