Barbara Bleisch

Barbara Bleisch (* 1973 in Basel ) is a Swiss philosopher , presenter , author , editor and freelance journalist .

Live and act

Career

Bleisch studied philosophy, German and religious studies at the universities of Zurich , Basel and Tübingen from 1994 to 2001 . In 2007 she did her doctorate at the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich in philosophy on the subject of duties at a distance. World poverty and individual responsibility at the University of Zurich. From 2002 to 2012 Bleisch worked as a research assistant at the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich , among other things she was the director of studies and management of the postgraduate courses Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics (ASAE), in which she is still a lecturer today.

From 2012 to 2015 Bleisch was a research assistant at the University of Bern in the project Reasons for Partisanship - On the Ethics of Family Relationships, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation . In 2014 she was a Senior Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast . From 2017-2019 Bleisch was an academic guest at the Collegium Helveticum of the University of Zurich, the ETH Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts.

In her work on the relationship between parents and children, she opposes the “transactional model” of children's obligations to their parents based on guilt and gratitude with a “relational model”. Children have a special relationship with their parents, as well as vice versa, of special mutual knowledge, trust and emotional exposure. This also gives rise to a special mutual responsibility. In contrast to the transactional model, however, this is mutual - parents also have a lifelong responsibility for their children.

activities

In addition to her academic work, Bleisch has regularly moderated the discussion program Sternstunde Philosophie on Swiss television SRF 1 since 2010 . She worked as a journalist for the NZZ . In 2004 she worked as a journalist for SolidarMed in Lesotho and did an internship at the UN in New York. From 2013 to 2019 she was a columnist at the Philosophie Magazin in Berlin. She has been a columnist for the Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich since 2018. For her journalistic work, she was awarded second place in the “Culture” category in the “Journalists of the Year” ranking by the “Schweizer Journalist” magazine in 2017 and 2018.

Bleisch has been a member of the jury of the “Tractatus Prize for Philosophical Essay Writing” since 2015.

Memberships and personal life

Bleisch was a member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) and a board member of the development NGO Declaration of Bern . She is a member of the GAP (Society for Analytical Philosophy) and the SWIP ( Society for Women in Philosophy ).

Bleisch has two daughters and lives with her family in Zurich.

Fonts (excerpt)

• Why we owe nothing to our parents. Hanser, Munich 2018 (7th edition published in 2019), ISBN 978-3-446-25831-0 .
• Family duties. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015 (together with Monika Betzler), ISBN 978-3-518-29720-9 '
• Obligations at a distance: world poverty and individual responsibility. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022825-0 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 2007).
• with Markus Huppenbauer : Ethical Decision Making: A Handbook for Practice. Versus, Zurich 2011 (2nd edition 2014), ISBN 978-3-03909-199-7 .
• with Christoph Ammann and Anna Goppel: Do ethicists have to be moral? Essays on philosophy and lifestyle. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39613-2 .
• with Peter Schaber : World poverty and ethics. Mentis, Paderborn 2007 (3rd edition 2017), ISBN 978-3-89785-312-6 .
• with Ursula Renz : Too little. Dimensions of poverty. Seismo, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03777-050-4 .
• with Jean-Daniel Strub: Pacifism: History of Ideas, Theory and Practice. Haupt, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-258-06947-6 .

Web links

• Barbara Bleisch's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics .
2. ^ Jörg Phil Friedrich : Children's duties, parents worries .
3. ↑ Barbara Bleisch .
4. ↑ home - philosophy magazine .
5. ↑ Tractatus - Members of the Jury .