Astrid Meyer-Schubert

Astrid Meyer-Schubert (* 1956 in Holzminden ) is a German philosopher who now lives in Vienna .

Training and teaching

Meyer-Schubert studied philosophy, religious studies and history at the Free University of Berlin from 1977 , where she obtained her master's degree in 1984. She also worked as a lecturer in religious studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 1991 she received her doctorate as phil. with the theme of the longing for the womb and refusal to give birth. On Schelling's early philosophy and the early romantic saloons . Her doctoral supervisor was the religious scholar Klaus Heinrich . In 2001-2003 she taught about German idealism and early romanticism as part of an educational program organized by the University of Bucharest . For private reasons, she moved to Vienna, where she still works as a freelance journalist, event organizer and book author.

Her main topics are:

The prenatal child, its imprint in the womb and its effects on further life.
Criticism of the devaluation of the concept of spirit in the prevailing scientific worldview and the associated loss of identity of European people.

Over the years she turned more and more to a Christian worldview. In doing so, she is looking for new ways of mediating between the Christian-influenced European culture and the secular world in which Christianity has become a marginal phenomenon. Meyer-Schubert also deals with various women models from a Christian point of view.

Fonts

Book publications

Longing for the womb and refusal to give birth. On Schelling's early philosophy and the early romantic Salondenken , Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900767-98-X .
On human suffering in human beings , treatise. Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8280-1942-0 .
(Ed.) My first universe. World and dignity of the prenatal child , Be & Be Verlag, Heiligenkreuz 2015, ISBN 978-3-902694-81-2 .
Ahead of the times. To revitalize Christian-European culture , Fromm Verlag, Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-8416-0691-4 .
Philosophy of the beginning. On the way to the Christian birth , Bernardus-Verlag, Mariawald Abbey 2019, with book presentation , ISBN 978-3-8107-0312-5 , 121 pages.

Scientific articles (selection)

Thinking and technology. On the sexuality of reflection in Heidegger. In: Heidegger - Technology-Ethics-Policy. Edited by R. Margreiter / K.Leidlmeir. Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-88479-607-0 .
Feminine identity and fetal self. On the relationship between mother and fetus. In: Journal of Prenatal Psychology and Medicine. Heidelberg 1993. ISSN 0943-5417
The female conscience. On the problem of the lack of history in the image of the mother. In: Rationality, Feeling and Love in the Gender Relationship. Edited by Charlotte Annerl, Ursula and Werner Ernst, Pfaffenweiler 1995, ISBN 3-8255-0071-3 .
Schopenhauer and the witch - idea and will. In: Ethics and Reason. Schopenhauer in our time. Edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85165-023-9 .
Give birth and be born. Anthropology from a feminine perspective. In: On the conspicuousness of the body. Edited by Akashe Böhme, Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-518-11734-3 .
Rhetoric in its feminine gender specifics. Feminist linguistics. In: Timisoara Contributions to German Studies, Volume 3, Ed. R. Nubert, Timisoara 2001, ISBN 973-585-353-1 .
Europe and Christianity. Why does Europe need God? In: The New Order. Founded by Laurentius Siemer OP and Eberhard Welty OP. Ed. Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg eV, Issue 5, October 2016, pp. 341–353, ISSN 0932-7665 ; reviewed by Werner Olles in Insight 1/2018
Psychoanalytic confession. The question of guilt. In: The New Order. Founded by Laurentius Siemer OP and Eberhard Welty OP. Ed. Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg eV, Issue 1. 2013, pp. 53–62, ISSN 0932-7665 PDF
World and dignity of the prenatal child. In: The New Order. Founded by Laurentius Siemer OP and Eberhard Welty OP. Edited by the Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg eV, issue August 4, 2014, pp. 287–293, ISSN 0932-7665 .
Worldwide Persecution of Christians In: The New Order. Founded by Laurentius Siemer OP and Eberhard Welty OP. Ed. Institute for Social Sciences Walberberg eV, issue August 4, 2020, pp. 252–264

Remarks

↑ See the blurb of the conference volume "My First Universe" published by Meyer-Schubert in 2015: This is an area that is being forgotten by scientific and social rationality. In contrast, the willingness to take the prenatal child seriously as a learning and feeling being testifies to a further civilization step in the development of mankind. In order to do justice to the prenatal child, the collaboration of philosophy, theology, psychology, medicine and art studies is necessary. Since man is human from conception, the prenatal area of life is also subject to human dignity. - readable on the pages of Heiligenkreuz Abbey
↑ See gleanings from a lecture (December 2010): The philosopher Astrid Meyer-Schubert sees the self-determination of women in Christianity as best based, 'most given', in a comparison between the various models of women currently on offer in Europe. As she explained in a lecture at the Institute for Marriage and Family (IEF) in Vienna, this upgrading of women is primarily achieved through a 'spiritualization of motherhood', a rebalancing of the spiritual being man-woman, referring to the initiating effect of Mary in the new Testament. In her lecture Meyer-Schubert also compared the images of women of the moderate bourgeoisie and the radical autonomous women's movement, the modern Western image of women and the image of women in Islam. In today's western society, she primarily locates a danger for women through 'egomania', an 'I-fetter', through which she can easily be manipulated through medially conveyed ideals such as' eternal beauty and youth. Against the West - whose religious vacuum it tries to fill - Islam tries, in turn, to emphasize the Muslim woman as a self-confident and equal, and at the same time religiously fulfilled, model. - Online edition of Catholic. Church and Culture Magazine , December 28, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME	Meyer-Schubert, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holzminden

[1] See the blurb of the conference volume "My First Universe" published by Meyer-Schubert in 2015: This is an area that is being forgotten by scientific and social rationality. In contrast, the willingness to take the prenatal child seriously as a learning and feeling being testifies to a further civilization step in the development of mankind. In order to do justice to the prenatal child, the collaboration of philosophy, theology, psychology, medicine and art studies is necessary. Since man is human from conception, the prenatal area of life is also subject to human dignity. - readable on the pages of Heiligenkreuz Abbey

[2] See gleanings from a lecture (December 2010): The philosopher Astrid Meyer-Schubert sees the self-determination of women in Christianity as best based, 'most given', in a comparison between the various models of women currently on offer in Europe. As she explained in a lecture at the Institute for Marriage and Family (IEF) in Vienna, this upgrading of women is primarily achieved through a 'spiritualization of motherhood', a rebalancing of the spiritual being man-woman, referring to the initiating effect of Mary in the new Testament. In her lecture Meyer-Schubert also compared the images of women of the moderate bourgeoisie and the radical autonomous women's movement, the modern Western image of women and the image of women in Islam. In today's western society, she primarily locates a danger for women through 'egomania', an 'I-fetter', through which she can easily be manipulated through medially conveyed ideals such as' eternal beauty and youth. Against the West - whose religious vacuum it tries to fill - Islam tries, in turn, to emphasize the Muslim woman as a self-confident and equal, and at the same time religiously fulfilled, model. - Online edition of Catholic. Church and Culture Magazine , December 28, 2010.