Professional
Experience
Education
Honors
and Awards
Scholarships
and Fellowships
Publications
Rainer Kattel
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Rainer Kattel, a full-time member of the department until 2002, is now the Professor and Chair of Public Administration and European Studies, Tallinn Technical University. He continues to serve on the Department Board and also co-teaches the Fall Term 2002/03 Masters Seminar. His main areas are industry and innovation (especially biotechnology), ancient and modern state theory, and foundations of state sciences.
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Phone: (+372) 7 375-938
E-mail: kattel@ut.ee
Professional Experience
Professor and Chair of Public Administration and European Studies, Tallinn Technical University, since 2002.
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Administration, 2001-2002 (appointed).
Research Fellow, ibid., 1997-1998 (appointed), 1998-2001 (elected).
Occasional Acting Department Head, ibid., 1998-2001.
Academic assistant for Political Philosophy and Government to Professor Drechsler, 1993-1997.
Education
Habilitation, Tallinn Technical University, 2002.
University of Marburg, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Ph.D. studies, since 1998.
Ph.D, summa cum laude, University of Tartu, Department of Public Administration and Social Policy, 2001.
MA cum laude (highest distinction), ibid., Chair of Classic, course in Greek (1996-1998), June 1998.
BA cum laude (highest distinction), ibid., Department of Political Science, Special Program in Political Philosophy (1995-1996), June 1996.
University of Marburg, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 1994-1995.
Ibid., Summer School on "The Presence of the Middle Ages", 1994.
University of Tartu, School of Social Sciences, major in Political Science, 1992-1994.
Honors and Awards
First Prize of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1996.
Best BA thesis with special citation, University of Tartu Department of Political Science, 1996.
Medal of the Estonian Ministry of Education, 1996.
Scholarships and Fellowships
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Ph.D. fellowship, 1998-2001.
EuroFaculty teaching material development grant, 1997.
Graduate fellowship, University of Tartu Institute of Classics, since 1996-1998.
Sur-place graduate fellowship award for Tartu, University of Münster, 1996.
DAAD Scholarship and European Integration Special Program scholarship, 1994-1995.
Full scholarship, University of Marburg Summer School, 1994.
Travel grant, Open Estonia Foundation, 1994.
University achievement scholarship, University of Tartu, 1992-1994.
American-Estonian Students Society scholarship, 1992-1994.
Publications
16. "Majandusareng, innovatsioon ja tehnoloogilis-majanduslik paradigma: väljakutse Kesk- ja Ida-Euroopa riikidele." (with Tarmo Kalvet) In Riigikogu Toimetised, vol. 5, 2002, pp. 142-148.
15. "Erinnerung als konstitutives Element menschlichen Zusammenlebens in der griechischen Dichtung des 7. und frühen 6. Jahrhunderts." In Ch. Lotz, Th. R. Wolf, W. Ch. Zimmerli (eds.), Erinnerung - Philosophische Perspektiven, München: Fink Verlag, in press.
14. "Justice and Economy from Human, All Too Human to Thus Spake Zarathustra." In J. Backhaus, W. Drechsler (eds.), Friedrich Nietzsche: Society and Economy, "The European Legacy in Economics and the Social Sciences", vol. 4, Boston - Dordrecht - New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, in press.
13. "Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven E. Aschheim", book review, Philosophy in Review / Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, vol. 22, no. 2 (April 2002), pp. 82-84.
12. The Constitution of the Polis, "Dissertationes Rerum Publicarum Universitatis Tartuensis", vol. 1, Tartu: at the University Press, 2001 (contains, i.a., no.s 14, 13, 11, and 9.b).
11. "Hans Jonas: Gnosis. Die Botschaft des fremden Gottes", Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ), vol. 126 (2001), col.s 148-151 (in German).
10. Translation into Estonian of Paul Celan: "In die Rillen", from "Atemkristall", Vikerkaar, no. 7/2000, p. 1.
9.a. "Hannah Arendts Politische Öffentlichkeit", in Warum Hannah Arendt? Aufklärungsversuche linker Missverständnisse, Michael Weingarten, ed., Bonn: Pahl-Rugenstein Nachfolger Verlag, 2000, pp. 19-36 (in German).
9.b. "Hannah Arendts Politische Öffentlichkeit", in Paradiama: Essays in Honor of Otto Kaiser on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, Trames, vol. 3 (53/48), no. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 141-161 (in German).
8.a. "Karl Bücher in Dorpat" (with Wolfgang Drechsler), in Economics and Anthropology: Karl Bücher Revisited, Marburg: Metropolis 2000, pp. 11-72 (in English).
8.b. "Karl Bücher in Dorpat" (with Wolfgang Drechsler), Trames, vol. 1 (51/46), no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 322-368 (shortened version of 8.a; in
English).7. "The Political Philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon", in Trames, vol. 1 (51/46), no. 2 (Summer 1997)), pp. 125-142 (in English).
6. Translation into Estonian of Wolfgang Drechsler: "Public Administration as 'State Science'", O.F. Robinson: "Public Health in Ancient Rome", and Hans-Georg Gadamer: "Die Grenzen des Experten", as well as of the editorial parts, for Foundations of Public Administration: A European Collection, Wolfgang Drechsler, ed., Tartu: at the University Press.
5. "The Origin of Ethics in the Polis: Xenophanes and Hannah Arendt" (contains no.s 10 und 7), University of Tartu Working Paper in Public Administration and Government 97-02, (in English and German).
4. "To Love and to Forgive: On Dostoevskij" [1992], in Ülenurme Gümnaasiuumi Almanahh 1994, vol. 1, pp. 97-99 (in Estonian).
3. "Nicolai Hartmann" (with Wolfgang Drechsler), Akadeemia, vol. 6, no. 8 (August 1994)), pp. 1579-1592 (in Estonian, Estonian-English offprint available).
2. "On Religion" [1990], in ibid., pp. 95-96 (in Estonian).
1. "Jewish Identity in Tartu", in Eesti Rahvamuusuemi Aastaraamat 1994 (co-author; in Estonian).