Arno Boehler
Arno Böhler (born September 25, 1963 in Dornbirn , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian philosopher and university professor. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Together with Susanne Valerie Granzer , he founded the research festival Philosophy on Stage , in which philosophy is interpreted as artistic research.
Life
Arno Böhler did his doctorate with Günther Pöltner at the University of Vienna with the dissertation The Memory of the Future. Approaches to a fundamental theology of freedom in Martin Heidegger and Aurobindo Ghose . After research and study stays at Princeton University, New York University, the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University and Bangalore University, he is currently a lecturer at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Vienna. In 1996, together with the actress Susanne Granzer , he founded the wiener Kulturwerkstätte GRENZ_film (baseCollective) , which resulted in the four-part film series Philosophy in Pictures , the Philosophy and Performance Festival Philosophy on Stage and numerous lecture performances .
Böhler can be attributed to the movement of deconstruction , his main interest is the position of the body in the history of philosophy and the relationship between thinking, materiality and performance . His work is characterized by the double reference to the French-American tradition of post-structuralism on the one hand and Indian philosophy on the other. He sat next to authors such as Jacques Derrida , Gilles Deleuze , Jean-Luc Nancy , Judith Butler and Avital Ronell or their readings of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche , Baruch de Spinoza or Immanuel Kant , mainly with thinkers of the Indian tradition such as Shankara , Patanjali or Aurobindo Ghose apart.
Publications (selection)
- The memory of the future. Approaches to a fundamental theology of freedom in Martin Heidegger and Aurobindo Ghose . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85165-195-2 .
- On the way to a language of friendship. DISTANCES. Nietzsche - Deleuze - Derrida . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85165-414-5 . Review in: Nietzsche Studies 33, 2004.
- Singularities. From the reason of the time to be reached. Prelude to a philosophy of friendship. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85165-658-X .
- with Krassimira Kruschkova (Ed.): This is not a game. Game theories in the context of contemporary art and aesthetics. In: Maske und Kothurn, international contributions to theater, film and media studies. 54 year (2008) issue 4, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008.
- with Susanne Granzer (Ed.): Thinking event. TheatReality - Performance - Event. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-851-65894-1 .
- with Alice Pechriggl, Christian Herzog (Ed.): Corporal Performance. To the meaning-generating dimension of the body . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-8376-2477-9 .
- with Susanne Valerie Granzer, Krassimira Kruschkovo (ed.): Do we know what a body can do? rhizomatic bodies in religion, art, philosophy. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014. ISBN 978-3-8376-2687-2 .
- with Susanne Granzer (Ed.): Philosophy on Stage. Philosophy as Artistic Research . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7092-0300-2 .
Web links
- Homepage of Arno Böhler
- Complete list of publications
- Literature by and about Arno Böhler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böhler, Arno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philosopher, author and performer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dornbirn |