Bernard Willms

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Bernard Willms (born July 7, 1931 in Mönchengladbach ; † February 27, 1991 ) was a German political scientist.

Willms learned the book trade and from 1957 studied philosophy, sociology, German, modern history and public law at the Universities of Cologne and Münster . In 1964 he was employed by Joachim Ritter in Münster with the work The True Freedom. Fichte's State Philosophy as Theory of Civil Society for Dr. phil. PhD. From 1965 to 1969 he worked as assistant to Helmut Schelsky at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund. In 1969 Willms completed his habilitation with a thesis on the political theory of Thomas Hobbes . From 1970 until his death in 1991 he taught as a professor of political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum . His main focus was political theory , with particular emphasis on Thomas Hobbes.

Willms took part in Joachim Ritter's Collegium Philosophicum during his studies in Münster and is included in the Ritter School . The more recent research on the history of ideas ( Mark Schweda ) together with Günter Rohrmoser locates him on a “Ritter’s right”. Since the late 1970s, Willms turned to the idea of ​​the nation and advocated the program of a "new nationalism". His teachings increasingly isolated him in his own subject, but made him compatible with the New Right , whose mastermind he developed. He gave lectures to German national fraternities and associations of expellees and in 1983 worked on the development of the Republicans' founding program . To this day, Willms is received on the political right. His writings are reissued in Götz Kubitschek's Antaios-Verlag , among others .

Bernard Willms committed suicide in 1991 at the age of 59.

Fonts

  • The real freedom. Fichte's state philosophy as a theory of civil society . Munster 1964.
  • as editor: Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Writings on the revolution . Westdeutscher Verlag , Cologne and Opladen 1967.
  • Total freedom. Fichte's political philosophy . Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne and Opladen 1967.
  • Revolution and protest or glamor and misery of the bourgeois subject - Hobbes, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Marcuse . Kohlhammer , Stuttgart a. a. 1969.
  • Planning ideology and revolutionary utopia. The double escape into the future . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1969.
  • Leviathan's answer. Thomas Hobbes' political theory . Luchterhand, Neuwied and Berlin 1970.
  • Function, role, institution. On the political-theoretical critique of sociological categories . Bertelsmann University Press, Düsseldorf 1971.
  • Marxism, science, university. 12 theses . Bertelsmann University Press, Düsseldorf 1971.
  • The political ideas from Hobbes to Ho Chi Minh . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1971.
  • Development and revolution. Foundations of a dialectical theory of international politics . Helmut Schelsky on his 60th birthday. Makol-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Criticism and politics. Jürgen Habermas or the political deficit of "critical theory" . Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1973. ISBN 3-518-07367-2 .
  • Relaxation and peaceful coexistence . List, Munich 1974. ISBN 3-471-66565-X .
  • Philosophy that concerns us . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1975. ISBN 3-570-05650-3 .
  • Politics that concern us . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1975. ISBN 3-570-05237-0 .
  • Assertiveness and recognition. Outline of a political dialectic . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1977. ISBN 3-531-11413-1 .
  • Offensive thinking. Philosophy and politics . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978. ISBN 3-531-11455-7 .
  • The way of Leviathan. The Hobbes Research from 1968–1978 . Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1979. ISBN 3-428-04531-9 .
  • Introduction to the theory of the state. Political-dialectical propaedeutics . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1979. ISBN 3-506-99287-2 .
  • Political coexistence. On the theory of the East-West conflict . Schöningh, Paderborn 1982. ISBN 3-506-77463-8 .
  • The German nation . Hohenheim-Verlag, Cologne-Lövenich 1982. ISBN 3-8147-0023-6 .
  • Nation today. The idea of ​​the Bismarckian Empire and its topicality : Lecture held at the invitation of the State and Economic Society . SWG, Public Relations Department, Hamburg 1984. ISBN 3-88527-061-7 .
  • Identity and resistance. Speeches from the German misery . Hohenrain-Verlag , Tübingen u. a. 1986. ISBN 3-89180-012-6 .
  • as editor: Handbook on the German Nation . Hohenrain-Verlag, Tübingen.
  • Idealism and nation. To reconstruct the political self-confidence of the Germans . Schöningh , Paderborn u. a. 1986. ISBN 3-506-76532-9 .
  • Thomas Hobbes. The realm of Leviathan . Piper , Munich and Zurich 1987. ISBN 3-492-03115-3 .
  • with Paul Kleinewefers : renewal from the center. Prague - Vienna - Berlin. This side of east and west . Busse Seewald, Herford 1988. ISBN 3-512-00825-9 .
  • as editor: Thomas Hobbes : Dialogue between a philosopher and a lawyer about English law . VCH, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1992. ISBN 3-527-17609-8 .
  • Philosophy of Assertiveness . Kaplaken series, Vol. 4, Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda ²2015. ISBN 978-3-935063-74-6 .
  • Identity and resistance. Speak out of the German misery . Kaplaken series, Vol. 34, Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2013. ISBN 978-3-944422-34-3 .
  • Heidegger and anti-fascism . Vienna: Karolinger , 2015. ISBN 978-3-85418-165-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Mark Schweda: Joachim Ritter and the Knight School. Hamburg 2015, pp. 98-102.
  2. ↑ Exemplary: Thor von Waldstein : Between Hobbes and Hegel - On the 25th anniversary of the death of Bernard Willms , first published in Junge Freiheit , republished in Sezession ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Willms, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1991