Walter Euchner

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Walter Euchner (born October 31, 1933 in Stuttgart ; † August 25, 2011 in Oldenburg ) was a German political scientist and university professor in Göttingen.

Life

Euchner was born to social democratic parents who had both belonged to the SAP since 1931 and suffered from Nazi persecution because they belonged to the social democratic resistance.

After graduating from high school, Euchner studied law and sociology from 1953 to 1958, and then from 1958 to 1963 also history and political science in Tübingen, Munich, Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main. From 1960 to 1963 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Political Science at the University of Tübingen . In 1963 he moved with him to the University of Frankfurt am Main as an assistant to the political scientist Iring Fetscher , where he also received lectureships until 1971. In 1966 he was with a study of the natural law at John Locke Dr. phil. doctorate, in which he advanced the West German Locke research with important new interpretations, including the discussion with CB Macpherson . In 1971, before his habilitation , Euchner accepted a professorship for political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , which he held until his retirement in 1999.

Euchner was married to the university professor Jutta Euchner (1933–2006).

Research priorities

Euchner did research on questions of the history of political ideas , especially socialism , German domestic politics, political metaphorics and so-called biopolitics , where he primarily dealt with the social and political implications of self-directed evolution through genetic engineering , artificial intelligence and robotics . Euchner compared Locke's position with the stoic idea of ​​natural law and with Immanuel Kant's ethical principles.

Publications

Monographs

  • Natural law and politics with John Locke , Frankfurt am Main 1967; second edition 1979. [Diss.]
  • Positions of modern Marxism , Stuttgart: Klett 1970.
  • Egoism and the common good: Studies on the history of bourgeois philosophy , Frankfurt am Main 1973.
  • Karl Marx , Munich: Beck 1983.
  • Social democracy and democracy: The SPD's understanding of democracy in the Weimar Republic , Bonn 1986
  • The philosophy of the state of Thomas Hobbes , Hagen 1987.
  • Political opposition in Germany and in international comparison , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1993.
  • The failure of dictatorial legitimation patterns and the sustainability of democracy , Berlin: Duncker and Humblot 1995.
  • John Locke for an introduction , Hamburg: Junius 1996; second, revised edition 2004.
  • What is a nation , Hamburg 1996.
  • History of social ideas in Germany , Essen: Klartext-Verlag 2000.
  • The function of visualization in politics and science , Berlin 2008.

Editorships

  • Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan or substance, form and violence of a bourgeois and ecclesiastical state , Neuwied: Luchterhand 1966. (Euchner made a translation of the Leviathan for this.)
  • John Locke : Two treatises on the government , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlags-Anstalt 1967.
  • Together with Alfred Schmidt : Critique of Political Economy Today , Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlags-Anstalt 1968.
  • Bernard Mandeville : Die Bienenfabel , Frankfurt am Main 1968. ISBN 978-3518279007
  • The historical aspect of social science theory and political education , commemorative publication for Bruno Seidel , Göttingen: Schwartz 1975.
  • Classic of Socialism , 2 vol., Munich: Beck 1991. ISBN 978-3406350900
  • State study commissions as instruments of political advice , Baden-Baden: Nomos 1993.
  • History of Social Ideas in Germany , ed. with Helga Grebing, 2005 ISBN 978-3531147529

literature

  • The failure of dictatorial patterns of legitimation and the future viability of democracy: Festschrift for Walter Euchner , Berlin 1995.
  • Richard Saage : Obituary, in: Civil Society Interventions Between Past and Present , 2013, p. 157f. obituary

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dedication in The Function of Visualization in Politics and Science. Berlin 2008.
  2. ↑ Susann Held: Property and rule with John Locke and Immanuel Kant. A comparison of the history of ideas. LIT, Münster, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9611-9 , p. 11. ( limited preview on Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Euchner, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2011
Place of death Oldenburg