Arnold Künzli (philosopher)
Arnold Künzli (born June 15, 1919 in Zurich ; † February 29, 2008 in Bremgarten near Bern ) was a Swiss political scientist , philosopher and radical democrat .
Life
Künzli spent his childhood in Zagreb , later he attended high school in Bern . From 1938 to 1945 he studied philosophy, German and Romance languages at the University of Zurich . After the Second World War , Künzli, who was married to the Italian journalist Franca Magnani from 1944 to 1952, worked for ten years as a foreign correspondent for the Basler “ National-Zeitung ” in Rome, London and Bonn. He later worked as an editor of the "National-Zeitung", where he earned the reputation of a nonconformist. 1964 followed his habilitation for philosophy of politics at the University of Basel . From 1972 to 1984 he was associate professor for political philosophy at the University of Basel.
Think
According to Künzli's understanding of politics and inalienable human rights, the values of the French Revolution - freedom, equality and fraternity - are only half realized because the property and economic system were not included. Quote from Arnold Künzli: "The postulate of economic democracy with economic human rights and civil rights (is) a cultural task for society as a whole."
In Künzli's thinking, depth psychological aspects were often integrated.
Works
- Human market. Human genetics between utopia, commerce and science. Hamburg 2001.
- God's crisis: questions about Job. Praise for agnosticism. Hamburg 1998.
- Tricolor at half mast. Zurich 1992.
- Save freedom - from its protectors. Basel 1989.
- It is time to think radically. Political diary. Basel 1988.
- Mine and yours. On the history of ideas of hostility to property. Cologne 1986.
- Eurocommunism. Records from Italy and Yugoslavia. Basel 1977.
- Tradition and revolution. Basel / Stuttgart 1975.
- Enlightenment and Dialectics. Freiburg i. Br. 1971.
- Karl Marx. A psychography. Vienna / Frankfurt am Main / Zurich 1966
- Vietnam - how it came about. Zurich 1965.
- Fear as an occidental disease. Portrayed to Sören Kierkegaard . Zurich 1948.
literature
- Ueli Mäder and Hans Saner (eds.): Realism of Utopia. On Arnold Künzli's political philosophy. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2003. (Contains bibliography of Künzli's writings).
- Franca Magnani: an Italian family. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990, Tb. Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-04859-0 , (pages 236–307 Arnold Künzli from the perspective of his ex-wife)
- Roger Sidler: Arnold Künzli. Cold war and «intellectual national defense» - a case study. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2006.
Web links
- Publications by and about Arnold Künzli (philosopher) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Arnold Künzli's estate (philosopher) in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Arnold Künzli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roger Sidler: Künzli, Arnold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- To fail from luck. A visit to Arnold Künzli , article from Weltwoche , 45/2006
- Plea for economic civil and human rights ( Memento from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Arnold Künzli: Psychopathology of rip-offs. Criticism of capitalism , article from WOZ from July 6, 2006
- Arnold Künzli: Prelude in Lebanon. From the Holocaust trauma to the Holocaust bonus , article from WOZ from June 7, 2007
Remarks
- ↑ Roger Sidler: Review ( Memento of March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the WOZ of February 5, 2004
- ↑ Ferdi Troxler: Review ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in New Paths from November 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Künzli, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss political scientist, philosopher and radical democrat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 2008 |
| Place of death | Bremgarten near Bern |