Reinhart Klemens Maurer (born 1935) is a philosopher and professor from Xanten, Germany.
Maurer studied philosophy, German and English at the universities of Münster, Kiel and Vienna.
In 1964, he completed his Ph.D. Maurer later wrote his post-doctoral research (Habilitation) in 1969 at the University of Stuttgart under the supervision of Robert Spaemann.
This was his approach in his works about Plato, Hobbes, Hegel, Habermas and the critical theory.
He applies critical theory on the modern, techno-democratic worldview, and ties it with fundamental critique on the modern society (Nietzsche,[2][3] Heidegger, Arnold Gehlen and Gómez Dávila).