Andrea Günter

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Andrea Günter (* 1963 ) is a German philosopher , theologian and author .

Education and professional activity

After graduating from high school in 1983 and studying philosophy , German and Catholic theology in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau , she completed her diploma on Christian social work and social science in December 1986 . She received her doctorate in November 1996 on the subject of literature and culture as gender politics. Feminist literary scientific terms and their dreams . She completed her habilitation in June 2000 on the subject of Political Philosophy and Gender Difference Thinking . In November 2003 she received her doctorate in theology at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Würzburg , Department of Fundamental Theology , for her work on the topic of transcendence, gender difference and the search for reconnection with Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and the philosophers from DIOTIMA .

She is a consultant in further education and training, both in connection with the women's movement and in professional further education. She works at universities as part of teaching assignments and guest lectureships.

Her work relates, among other things, to philosophy and theology , especially feminist theology .

Work and political positions

On developments in the family and gender model

Günter sees the intensity of the debate in Germany on the compatibility of family and work as a concealment of other issues. In particular, an intensive discussion about women and family friendliness and the child question conceal a perplexity with regard to the general development of gender relations and society. In particular, the general disadvantage of highly qualified women, including those without children, is seen from the social field. She emphasizes that long before a woman entering the monastery could represent a step towards liberation, and that, for example, working in the Red Cross as a nurse or as head of a clinic meant a pleasant job with influence or a management position with power and the opportunity to develop . For emancipation it is crucial that women have a right to the public , in particular, according to Hannah Arendt , she calls “a right to the public, that is, a right to see and be seen, to speak and to be heard ". According to Günter, the universities in particular should be emphasized as a public place .

With regard to the gender issue and the reallocation of money and resources between the sexes, Günter says that the breadwinner model has de facto been suspended for a long time, probably since the mid-1990s. In this context, she refers to a termination of the social and gender contract : Since, in view of falling real wages, it can hardly be guaranteed that an average wage can finance a family, and families are increasingly dependent on additional earnings , “the conservatives have no choice either Promoting the employment of women should not make even more people dependent on the state ”.

Economy

With regard to economic relationships, Günter emphasizes the position of economic scientist Luise Gubitzer , according to which there are different logics of economics, which are accompanied by heterogeneous relationships between economy and state. Günter sees the financial crisis as a cultural crisis, and it emphasizes the importance of the question of why the real economy produced the speculative economy. In this context, she emphasizes the role of politics as a creator of reality and assesses sustainability as "the only contemporary measure of the real economy if it is not to remain a speculative economy". She sees it as the urgent task of politics, the state and the western world today to “stand up in a clear way for comprehensive sustainability”.

Publications

  • Andrea Günter: Concepts of Ethics - Concepts of Gender Relations. Passagen, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-7092-0116-9
  • Bernd Schmid, Andrea Günter: Systemic dream work. The creative dialogue based on dreams. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-40181-1 .
  • Andrea Günter: Plato's Politeia. Philosophy. Plurality. Justice . Passagen Verlag, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-9498
  • Andrea Günter: Mother - Language - Authority. Learning to speak and world competence. Göttert, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939623-14-4 .
  • Andrea Günter: Spirit hovers over water. Postmodern and Creation Theology. Passagen-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85165-813-2 .
  • Andrea Günter: Giving fathers a place. Task for women and men. Göttert, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939623-01-4 .
  • Andrea Günter: World, City, Coexistence. Plurality and gender philosophies. Helmer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89741-247-7 .
  • Andrea Günter (Ed.): Women - Authority - Pedagogy. Theory and reflected practice. Helmer, 2006, ISBN 3-89741-217-9 .
  • Hanna Habermann, Ute Wannig, Barbara Hein, Iren Steiner, Andrea Günter: Self-determined and in solidarity. Women and age. Göttert, 2005, ISBN 3-922499-81-3 .
  • Maren Frank, Andrea Günter, Ursula Knecht-Kaiser, Andrea Kölzer, Birge Krondorfer, Stefanie Krüger, Ulrike Moeller, Silke Petersen, Ulrike Wagener , Maria Wolf: Sinn - Basis von Politik , Göttert, 2005, ISBN 3-922499-82-1 .
  • Andrea Günter (Ed.): Maria reads. The holy feast of the birth. 2004, ISBN 3-922499-70-8 .
  • Andrea Günter: Women before pictures - women role models. The female search for orientation. Göttert, 2003, ISBN 3-922499-65-1 .
  • Andrea Günter: World love. Birth, gender difference and metaphysics. Helmer, 2003, ISBN 3-89741-132-6 .
  • Andrea Günter: "The starry sky in us". Transcendence, gender difference and the search for connection with Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and the philosophers from DIOTIMA. Helmer, 2003, ISBN 3-89741-097-4 .
  • Andrea Günter: healing periods. Mother, language, meaning. Göttert, 2002, ISBN 3-922499-60-0 .
  • Andrea Günter: The feminine side of politics. Order of the soul, justice of the world. Helmer, 2001, ISBN 3-89741-067-2 .
  • Andrea Günter: The female hope in the world. The importance of being born and the meaning of the gender difference. Kaiser, Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, 2000, ISBN 3-579-02667-4 .
  • Andrea Günter (Ed.): Women, mysticism, politics in Europe. Contributions from Italy, Spain and Germany. Helmer, 2000, ISBN 3-89741-043-5 .
  • Andrea Günter: From the wisdom to love the mother - female freedom and self-help. Advice center for mothers' aid (Zurich), 1999.
  • Andrea Günter (Ed.): Bringing the world into the world. Politics, gender difference and working on the symbolic. Helmer, 1999, ISBN 3-89741-030-3 .
  • Ulrike Wagener , Dorothee Markert and Antje Schrupp , Andrea Günter: Love for freedom, hunger for meaning. Pamphlet about women's economy and the beginning of politics , Göttert, 1999, ISBN 3-922499-36-8 .
  • Andrea Günter (in collaboration with Helga Deussen Meyer): Thinking about women's business further. Feminist economic criticism as work on the symbolic. Ed. Exodus, 1998
  • Andrea Günter: Political Theory and Sexual Difference. Feminist practice and the symbolic order of the mother. Helmer, 1998, ISBN 3-89741-009-5 .
  • Andrea Günter: Literature and culture as gender politics. Feminist-literary conceptual worlds and their thinking (dreams). Helmer, 1997, ISBN 3-927164-96-8 .
  • Andrea Günter (ed.): Feminist theology and postmodern thinking. On the theological relevance of the gender difference. Kohlhammer, 1996, ISBN 3-17-014008-6 .
  • Andrea Günter: Female Authority, Freedom and Gender Difference. Building blocks of a feminist political theory. Helmer, 1996, ISBN 3-927164-05-4 .
  • Andrea Günter, Veronika Mariaux (ed.): Paper girls - poetic mothers. Reading in female genealogy. Helmer, 1994, ISBN 3-927164-22-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andrea Günter: Compatibility of work and family? An interjection. Forum for Philosophy and Politics or Thinking Ahead , December 20, 2007, archived from the original on January 15, 2008 ; Retrieved December 13, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Hannah Arendt: Between the past and the future. P. 268. Quoted from Andrea Günter: Compatibility of work and family? An interjection. Forum for Philosophy and Politics or Thinking Ahead , December 20, 2007, archived from the original on January 15, 2008 ; Retrieved December 13, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Andrea Günter: On the financial situation of the sexes. About the abolition of the breadwinner model, wage developments and the social contract. Forum for Philosophy and Politics or Thinking Ahead , June 10, 2009, accessed on December 13, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Günter: State or Economy - Reality or Speculation? A comment on the financial crisis. Forum for Philosophy and Politics or Thinking Ahead , November 26, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Günter, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1963