[2] An even greater influence was Max Müller, whom Marquard studied under in Freiburg, and his use of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to create a phenomenological update of neo-scholasticism.
[3] From 1965 to 1993, Marquard held a chair for philosophy at the University of Giessen, serving as dean of the philosophical faculty.
[1] In 1984 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
[1] A proponent of philosophical hermeneutics and skepticism, Marquards work focuses on aspects of human fallibility, contingency and finitude.
[6] Criticized by Jürgen Habermas as a representative of German neoconservatism,[7] his philosophy has been described as a form of liberal conservatism[8] with various parallels to postmodern thought and the work of Richard Rorty.