Alfred Pfabigan

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Alfred Pfabigan (born November 10, 1947 in Vienna ) is a retired Austrian professor of philosophy.

Life

Pfabigan studied law and political philosophy at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in law in 1971. From 1972 to 1973 he was a research assistant in the political science department at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research in Vienna and from 1973 to 1980 assistant to Norbert Leser at the Institute for Political Science in Salzburg . In 1979 he completed his habilitation and since 1980 he has been an associate professor at the University of Vienna.

In his work, Pfabigan deals with Viennese modernism as well as with theological questions, dealt with the reality of the political system in North Korea in a text and explores thoughts on Karl Kraus and Thomas Bernhard . Pfabigan has also made numerous media appearances and held several visiting professorships, for example 1987-88 at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster (Pennsylvania, USA), 1995 in Chernivtsi and 2000 in Sofia . He has been teaching in Metz since 2001 .

Publications

  • Karl Kraus and Socialism, 1976
  • Max Adler. A political biography, 1982
  • (Ed.) Max Adler: Selected Works, 1982
  • (Ed.) Ornament and asceticism in the zeitgeist of Vienna at the turn of the century, 1985
  • Sleepless in Pyongyang, 1986
  • The Other Bible, 1991, The Other Library series
  • Presence of Mind, 1992
  • (Co-author) The Last Vivat, 1995
  • Thomas Bernhard. An Austrian world experiment, 1999
  • The Disappointment of Modernity, 2000
  • God's Forbidden Words, 2000
  • Take 3, pay 2! How cool is avarice? , 2004
  • Murder on Sunday: crime scene philosophy , 2016
  • Emperor, clothes, child . The art of deception and its alleged exposure. Essay. Limbus, Innsbruck 2019. ISBN 978-3-99039-141-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of Pfabigan's Bernhard study by Daniela Strigl 1999
personal data
SURNAME Pfabigan, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social philosopher and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna