is a professor for Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at Karl-Franzens University, Graz, and a guest professor at Klagenfurt University. Since 2003 he has been the author of the weekly column “Die vorletzten Dinge” (The second-to-last things) in the daily newspaper Die Presse. His numerous publications include “Die einfachen Dinge des Lebens” (The simple things in life) (2009), “Sehnsucht” (Desire) (2010) and “Was ist Glück?” (What is happiness?) (2011).
