Annegret Stopczyk

Annegret Stopczyk , also Annegret Stopczyk-Pfundstein , (* 1951 ) is a German philosopher and author .

life and work

Annegret Stopczyk first completed dressmaking, then took the high school and decided on the night school for a degree in physics, German, Education, free painting and philosophy, which she with the completion MA in Educational Science , German and major in philosophy at Ernst Tugendhat completed. As a student, she collected texts about women by important thinkers in the history of philosophy and documented them in 1980 in the book What Philosophers Think About Women , with which she became known as a feminist philosopher . After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , Stopczyk published the essay On Leaving Male Civilization in the anthology Chernobyl has changed our lives. On the exit of women . In it she drafts her thesis of the "nationalization of the body". According to Stopczyk, the national goal is not the protection of individual 'life', but rather the self-sacrifice of the 'subjects' as a soldier or mother in the spirit of a 'collective common good'. Stopczyk criticized the restriction of cognitive ability on the album , which was marked male, and developed a philosophical approach they body philosophy calls and facing the physical experience as a path to knowledge of reason. In 1989, in a strategy debate on women and science in the TAZ , she pleaded for women to say goodbye to science, in which free thinking was not possible.

In 2000, Stopczyk received her PhD in philosophy on the philosopher of love. Helene Stocker . The " New Ethics " around 1900 in Germany and its philosophical environment to this day with Gernot Böhme in Darmstadt . She interpreted Stöcker's New Ethics as a “body philosophy”. She published her dissertation as a book in 2002, according to the review by Rolf Löchel in literary criticism, with the note that the term feminism "makes little sense" for her own philosophical work, which aims to revitalize Stöcker's theories in the ethical field.

Since 1999 she has been the chairwoman of the Helene Stöcker Society, which she initiated - the Association for General Ethical and Philosophical Education "eV

She was active in various fields, including a. as a lecturer for political theory at the Otto Suhr Institute and as a freelance lecturer in adult education. From 2003 to 2012 she ran her own philosophical consulting practice .

Annegret Stopczyk is married to the physicist Matthias Pfundstein and has one son. She has lived in southern Spain and Germany since 2013.

Works

• What philosophers think of women . Summarized and explained by Annegret Stopczyk. Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3-88221-314-0 . Second edition: Muse, Mother, Megare. What philosophers think of women. Structure of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7466-1278-2
• Sophia's body. Unleashing Wisdom. A philosophical departure . Carl-Auer-Verlag , Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 978-3-89670-025-4
• Philosopher of love. Helene Stocker. Books on Demand, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8311-4212-5
• No thanks, I think for myself. Philosophizing from a female point of view. Rütten & Loening, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7466-8046-0
• What philosophers think of the goddess. With Heide Göttner-Abendroth and Marit Rullmann . Christel Göttert Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939623-00-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Annegret Stopczyk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Annegret Stopczyk in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} stopczyk-philosophie.de. Retrieved November 11, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Philosophers. The Man's Shipwreck , Der Spiegel, July 21, 1980
3. ↑ Birgit Seemann: Feminist State Theory. The state in German research on women and patriarchy , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 978-3-8100-1675-1 , p. 52
4. ↑ Annegret Stopczyk: From the dream, Frau Professorin , Taz, March 9, 1989
5. ↑ Motherhood as the ideal of women in depth. Annegret Stopczyk-Pfundstein's attempt at resuscitation from Helene Stöcker's Neuer Ethik , review by Rolf Löchel, literary criticism, No. 5/2004
6. ^ Karen Falkenberg: Alma Mater Academy: Lecturers. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .