Karen Gloy

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Karen Gloy in April 2016

Karen Gloy (born December 21, 1941 in Itzehoe ) is a German philosopher.

Career

Karen Gloy studied philosophy, German, physics, art history and psychology at the Universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg. Her teachers included Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Hans-Georg Gadamer , Karl Löwith , Dieter Henrich , Ernst Tugendhat and Michael Theunissen .

In 1975 she did her doctorate with a thesis on Immanuel Kant . Her habilitation followed in 1980 with the text Unity and Manifold at the University of Heidelberg. Two years later she became an associate professor there . From 1985 to 2007 she was professor of philosophy and intellectual history at the University of Lucerne (retired since 2007). In 1996 she spent a research semester at Harvard University . From 2002 to 2008 Gloy was also a permanent visiting professor at the University of Vienna. She also taught at the Humboldt Study Center at the University of Ulm until 2016 and continues to teach at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Gloy is co-founder of the international society "Systems of Philosophy" and member of the scientific advisory boards of the "Wiener Jahrbuch", the "Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philosophie", Beijing, the "Fichte-Studien", the "International Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus" and the "International Journal of Philosophy", of the "Association for Comparative Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Education", Vienna, Council of the "UNESCO International Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology" at the Kharkov National Technical University (Ukraine), member of the Patronage Committee of the Academy of Generations Solothurn., Lecturer at the Senior Citizens' University of Lucerne. She has held visiting professorships all over the world, for example in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Greece and Austria.

Focus

The focus of Karen Goy's work was shaped by two of her teachers, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Dieter Henrich , as well as by early encounters with different cultures.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker motivated her to work on scientific and natural philosophical questions, to which not only her dissertation, but also various other works are dedicated.

The suggestion for dealing with speculative philosophy came from Dieter Henrich. This interest first developed in the examination of German idealism , Immanuel Kant , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling . Investigations in this regard both on historical figures of idealism and independent reflections on dialectics grew to a fundamental interest and found their expression in Karen Goy's habilitation thesis as well as in other works and essays.

Visiting professorships and lectures all over the world (Europe, Asia, East Asia, North and South America) brought Karen Gloy into contact with heterogeneous cultures, mentalities and ways of thinking. This led to the question of different types of rationality and thought patterns, which are the subject of various of her works. In her books Reason and the Other of Reason (2000) and Forms of Thinking and Their Role (2016), Gloy defends herself against the one-sided interpretation of reason that has led to the 'logocentrism of the West'. She contrasts this with other types of reason and rational thought patterns: the Sumerian list method, dihairesis, process-oriented dialectical thinking, metaparadoxal rationality and analogical thinking. Based on these studies, Gloy has devoted himself to intercultural philosophy in recent years, not least due to his own field research in recent natural ethnicities in Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and the Solomon Islands as well as in the Amazon region.

In addition, she is interested in the relationship between philosophy and art and the question of whether philosophy is perhaps a specifically organized, argumentative, logical form of art.

Awards

Fonts

Research report and intercultural philosophy

  • Among cannibals. A philosopher in the jungle of West Papua. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89678-681-4 .
  • Cross-cultural philosophy. Understanding different ways of thinking and acting. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5387-7 . (Basic, example-oriented contribution to intercultural philosophy, but also uses own research experiences)
  • What is the reality? Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5948-0 . (Research contribution from Bhutan).
  • Forms of thought and their role in constituting culture. Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-6105-6 .

Scientific and natural philosophical questions

Speculative Philosophy

  • Unity and Diversity. A structural analysis of the "and". Systematic studies on the concept of unity and manifold in Plato, Fichte, Hegel and in modern times. Habilitation thesis . de Gruyter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-11-008418-X .
  • Ed .: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Lectures on logic and metaphysics. Heidelberg 1817. Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-7873-1003-7 .

Thought patterns and types of rationality

  • Reason and the other of reason. Alber, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-495-47890-6 .
  • with Manuel Bachmann: types of rationality. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1999, ISBN 3-495-47960-0 .
  • with Manuel Bachmann: Thinking by analogy. Foray into a new area of ​​the theory of rationality. Freiburg / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-495-47964-3 .
  • Consciousness theories. On the problematic and problem history of consciousness and self-confidence. 3. Edition. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-495-48117-6 .
  • Collective and individual consciousness. Fink, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4868-2 .
  • Food for thought on a philosophy of the future. Passagen, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85165-518-4 .
  • From wisdom to science. Alber, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-495-48256-8 .
  • Perceptual Worlds , Freiburg, Munich, Fink 2011.
  • Between happiness and tragedy. Fink, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5645-8 .
  • Alterity. The relationship between me and the other , Fink, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-7705-6403-3 .
  • Truth and Lies , Königshausen / Neumann 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6874-4 .
  • Power and violence , Königshausen / Neumann 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-7009-9
  • Democracy in Crisis? Considerations in view of the corona crisis , Königshausen / Neumann, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-8260-7126-3

Introductions

  • as editor: Art and Philosophy. Passagen, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85165-600-8 .
  • Truth theories. An introduction. UTB, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2531-3 .
  • Basics of contemporary philosophy. An introduction. UTB, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-8252-2758-8 .
  • Complexity. A key concept of modernity. Fink, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5737-0 .
  • The question of justice , UTB, Paderborn 2017.
  • Time in Art , Königshausen / Neumann, Würzburg 2017

Commemorative publication for Gloy

  • Alessandro Lazzari: Metamorphoses of Reason: Festschrift for Karen Gloy. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2439-7 .

literature

  • Wladimir Alekseevič Abaschnik: The understanding of reason in the post-metaphysical age. With special consideration of the positions of Karen Gloy and Wolfgang Welsch. In: Karen Gloy (Ed.): Our Age - A Post-Metaphysical? (= Studies on the System of Philosophy. Volume 6). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2938-0 , pp. 73-81. (on-line)

Web links

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notes

  1. ↑ In both volumes of the license edition. the subtitle “Understanding Nature” is given as the subtitle. Partially readable in online bookshops
  2. ↑ Food for thought on a philosophy of the future - Gloy, Karen
  3. ^ Art and Philosophy
personal data
SURNAME Gloy, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe