Manfred Riedel

Manfred Riedel (born 1936) was a German philosopher. He studied German and philosophy in Leipzig and Heidelberg and taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Saarbrücken, Marburg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Jena, and Halle-Wittenberg, where he became professor emeritus in 2004. He also held visiting professorships in New York, Turin, Rome, Venice, and Atlanta. From 1991 to 2003, he served as president of the Martin Heidegger Society. In 1990, he received the Italian Nietzsche Prize jointly with Richard Rorty. His publications include “Theorie und Praxis im Denken Hegels” (1965).