Hamid Reza Yousefi

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Hamid Reza Yousefi (born November 11, 1967 in Tehran ) is a German - Iranian philosopher and cultural scientist.

Hamid Reza Yousefi in 2017

Life

In 1997 Yousefi began studying philosophy , education and psychology at the University of Trier , which he completed in 2001 with a Magister Artium . In the same year he received a scholarship under the State Graduate Promotion Act of Rhineland-Palatinate for his dissertation entitled The Concept of Tolerance in Gustav Mensching's Thought ; In 2004 he received his doctorate . In 2002 he initiated the scientific series of publications entitled “Bausätze zur Mensching research” , and in 2004 also the scientific series of intercultural library . Thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , between 2004 and 2005 he was able to write his work Intercultural Thinking or the Axis of Evil: The Image of Islam in the Christian Occident. working out. In 2010 he completed his habilitation at the University of Koblenz-Landau with a thesis on interculturality and history. Perspectives for a Global Philosophy.

From 2004 to 2007 he taught cultural sociology at the University of Trier, from 2006 to 2010, and in the 2014 winter semester, he was a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau. From 2008 to 2016 he was also a lecturer at the University of Kaiserslautern. Since his habilitation he has been a private lecturer for intercultural philosophy and the history of philosophy. Until 2014 he was a consultant at the Research Center for Intercultural Philosophy in Trier. Yousefi is the founding president of the Institute for the Promotion of Interculturality . He has been teaching at the University of Potsdam since 2016 and at the Saarland University since 2017. In 2017 he was appointed Professor for Intercultural Philosophy and Dialogue of Religions .

Scientific method

Yousefi differentiates between comparative and intercultural philosophy. The latter is intended to mediate between cultures and traditions with their own terminologies, questions and approaches to solutions and to include methods from hermeneutics , empiricism and phenomenology . Yousefi develops an open concept of reason , according to which every approach to reason is bound to contexts, situations and individuality - a static concept of reason, on the other hand, cannot take into account the complexity of situations, the singularity of actors and contexts. In this sense he also criticizes concepts of “tolerance”, which adopt a concept of cultures with constant characteristics (“ cultural essentialism ”). Contrary to the idea of ​​tolerance, this leads to hierarchies and the failure of communications. This methodical approach also necessitates a criticism of previous drafts of philosophical historiography: non-European traditions would be neglected, own prerequisites would be absolutized, a “reciprocity” of intercultural philosophical communication would be excluded. In a monograph from 2006, Yousefi elaborates the basics of an "intercultural religious studies" that aims to mediate between philological and hermeneutic approaches and lines of tradition. He develops the concept of a nonviolent hermeneutics, taking power and interest into account, in order to enable the dialogue between different contextual forms of communication in all scientific fields. Yousefi “does not want to come to terms with absolutizing thought patterns that offer no space for real and open communication and reconciliation”. In his work Kampfplatz des Denkens he modified his concept of culture and communication. He rejects the thesis that there is a clash of cultures and talks about ways of thinking, ways of thinking, and ways of thinking that come to bear differently in every communicative act. Therefore, in his opinion, the field of communication is always a battleground for forms of thought, which can also have cultural or religious tints.

Works (selection)

  • Socrates' life and work. Socrates and the art of not thinking. Tehran 2000.
  • Thoughts of reform and challenges in Iran as legacy of the Enlightenment. Tehran 2002.
  • The idea of ​​tolerance in Gustav Mensching's thinking. An intercultural philosophical orientation. Nordhausen 2004.
  • with Ram Adhar Mall : Basic Positions in Intercultural Philosophy (= IKB Volume 1). Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 978-3-88309-160-0 .
  • Basics of intercultural religious studies. (= IKB Volume 10), Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 978-3-88309-165-5 .
  • Paths to religious studies. An intercultural orientation: aspects, basic problems, additional perspectives. Nordhausen 2007.
  • Applied tolerance. Gustav Mensching read interculturally. Nordhausen 2008.
  • Zarathustra - rediscovered. Theoretical and practical foundation of a misunderstood philosophy. Lit Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10576-9 .
  • Interculturality and history. Perspectives for a Global Philosophy. Lau-Verlag, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-941400-33-7 .
  • Edited with Hermann-Josef Scheidgen and Henk Oosterling : From Hermeneutics to Intercultural Philosophy. Festschrift for Heinz Kimmerle on his 80th birthday . Bautz-Verlag, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-569-1 .
  • Paths to religion: aspects, basic problems, supplementary perspectives. Nordhausen 2011.
  • Edited with Werner Schüßler and others: Karl Jaspers. Basic concepts of his thinking. Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-941400-34-4 .
  • Interculturality. An interdisciplinary introduction. (with Ina Braun), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23824-8 .
  • Fields of thorns. Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-941400-37-5 .
  • Edited with Harald Seubert : Tolerance in a world context. History - manifestations - recent developments. Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00115-5 .
  • Edited with Klaus Fischer : Understanding and understanding in a changed world: Theory - Problems - Perspectives. Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-19720-3 .
  • Ed. Human rights in a world context. History - manifestations - recent developments. Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01069-0 .
  • The stages of thought. New horizons of philosophizing. Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2821-8 .
  • Intercultural communication. A practice-oriented introduction. Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3534262601 .
  • Ed. Democracy in Islam. Analyzes - Theories - Perspectives. Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-3118-8 .
  • Edited with Harald Seubert: Ethics in a world context. Stories - Appearances - Newer Concepts. Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04896-9 .
  • Edited with Philipp Thull: Interreligious Tolerance. On the need for Christian-Islamic dialogue. Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3534264124 .
  • Basic concepts of intercultural communication. Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4127-8 .
  • Introduction to Islamic Philosophy. The history of thought from the beginning to the present. Stuttgart 2nd edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-8252-4082-0 .
  • together with Ina Braun: Intercultural Handbook of Cultural Studies. Basics and key terms. Bautz-Verlag, Nordhausen 2016, ISBN 978-3-88309-988-0 .
  • Ed .: Paradigms of Thought. Festschrift for Harald Seubert on his 50th birthday. Nordhausen, Traugott Bautz 2017, ISBN 978-3-95948-232-5 .
  • Ed .: The tragic martyrdom of Imam Hussein , narrated by Abu Michnaf, translated by Heinrich F. Wüstenfeld. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6243-8 .
  • Ed .: Jalal ad-Din Rumi. Basic concepts of his thinking. Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-355-1 .
  • Ed. With Mahdi Esfahani and Parvis Falaturi: The reinterpretation of Greek philosophy through Islamic thought. Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-5974-2 .
  • Edited with Matthias Langenbahn: Anatomie der Islamophobie. How is interreligious dialogue possible? Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-324-7 .
  • Battlegrounds of thought . Practice of intercultural communication. utb-Verlag, Munich 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-4997-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamid Reza Yousefi: Dornenfelder , Reinbek 2011.
  2. ^ Hamid Reza Yousefi: Interculturality. An interdisciplinary introduction. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23824-8 .
  3. ↑ Hamid Reza Yousefi: Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication . Munich 2014, 31ff.
  4. ↑ Hamid Reza Yousefi: Intercultural Communication. A practice-oriented introduction . Darmstadt 2014, 112ff.
  5. ↑ See the habilitation thesis: Hamid Reza Yousefi: Interkulturalität und Geschichte. Perspectives for a Global Philosophy , Reinbek 2010, 11. Traditional philosophical stories are therefore “collecting basins for local stories”; What is needed is a “decentralization of intellectual history” (217f). See also Hamid Reza Yousefi: Intercultural Communication. A practice-oriented introduction , Darmstadt 2014.
  6. ↑ See Johann Figl: Philosophy of Religions. Pluralism and criticism of religion in the context of European thought, Paderborn 2012, 259, writes: "Hamid Reza Yousefi has worked out the basics of an intercultural religious studies in a monograph".
  7. ↑ Harald Seubert: Introduction by the editor . In: Harald Seubert (Ed.): Places of Thinking. Festschrift for Hamid Reza Yousefi on his 50th birthday . bautz, Nordhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95948-233-2 .
  8. ↑ Hamid Reza Yousefi: Battlegrounds of Thought. Practice of intercultural communication . 2nd Edition. utb, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8252-4997-7 , p. 9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Yousefi, Hamid Reza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran