Bernhard HF Taureck

Bernhard Taureck with Assunta Verrone 2014 in the Künstlerhaus during the 4th Festival of Philosophy

Bernhard HF Taureck (born December 17, 1943 in Hildesheim ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Bernhard HF Taureck around 2009

Taureck studied philosophy, German, Romance and Greek studies in Hamburg and Tübingen. In addition, he became interested in painting and theater at an early age. In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on mathematical and transcendental identity . He became an assistant for philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1986 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on Nietzsche's alternatives to nihilism . From 1976 to January 2007 he taught German, philosophy, French and values ​​and norms at the Kaiser Wilhelm and Ratsgymnasium Hanover . He also wrote a philosophy curriculum in Lower Saxony. In addition, he was adjunct professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and published since the eighties, especially the philosophy of Nietzsche , the French philosophy of the 20th century and for political philosophy . In 2004 Taureck published Metaphors and Parables in Philosophy as the first volume of a three-volume study. Since then, philosophical metaphorology has been at the center of his scientific work, taking literary , phenomenological and intellectual history aspects equally into account. His method is primarily hermeneutical . The inclusion of literary elements from all classical and new European world literature also plays an important role in his thinking .

Taureck advocates the idea of ​​an unconditional basic income in lectures and publications .

Taureck has three children and lives in Hanover .

Publications

Books

Author:

• Mathematical and transcendental identity. Philosophical investigations into the concept of identity in mathematical logic as well as with Schelling and Hegel. Munich: Oldenbourg 1973 (plus dissertation, Tübingen 1971/72), ISBN 3-486-47661-0 .
• The fate of the philosophical construction. (= Tradition and task. Treatises on the history and systematics of European philosophy. Vol. XIV), Vienna: Oldenbourg 1975, ISBN 3-486-48061-8 .
• The future of power. A philosophical-political essay. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 1983, ISBN 3-88479-110-9 .
• French philosophy in the 20th century. Analyzes, texts, comments. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1988, TB 1997, ISBN 3-499-55481-X .
• Nietzsche's alternatives to nihilism. Hamburg: Junius 1991 (= habilitation thesis, Hamburg 1985), ISBN 3-88506-184-8 .
• Nietzsche and Fascism. A study of Nietzsche's political philosophy and its consequences. Hamburg: Junius 1989, new edition Leipzig: Reclam 2000, ISBN 3-88506-169-4 .
• Ethics crisis - crisis ethics. Analyzes, texts, models. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1992, ISBN 3-499-55525-5 .
• Psychoanalysis and philosophy. Lacan in discussion. Frankfurt / Main: Fischer 1992, ISBN 3-596-10911-6 .
• Introductory sophists. Hamburg: Junius 1995 (new edition Wiesbaden: Panorama 2005), ISBN 3-88506-910-5 .
• with others: xenophobia is hostility towards the future. Plea for a culture-integrative society. Frankfurt / Main: Fischer 1996, ISBN 3-596-11735-6 .
• Michel Foucault. With testimonials and photo documents. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1997, ISBN 3-499-50506-1 .
• William Shakespeare as an introduction. Hamburg: Junius 1997, ISBN 3-88506-956-3 .
• Nietzsche ABC. Leipzig: Reclam 1999, ISBN 3-379-01679-9 .
• Macchiavelli ABC. Leipzig: Reclam 2002, ISBN 3-379-20016-6 .
• Metaphors and similes in philosophy. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 2004, ISBN 3-518-29266-8 .
• Philosophizing: Learning to Die ?. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 2005, ISBN 3-518-29332-X .
• Lévinas as an introduction. 4th edition, Hamburg: Junius 2006, ISBN 3-88506-629-7 .
• Between the pictures. Metaphor-critical essays on liberalism and revolution. Hamburg: Merus 2006, ISBN 978-3-939519-02-7 .
• Human dignity in the age of its abolition. Hamburg: Merus 2006, ISBN 978-3-939519-14-0 .
• Don Quixote as a lived metaphor. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4721-0 .
• Rousseau. With testimonials and photo documents. Reinbek: Rowohlt 2009, ISBN 3-499-50699-8 .
• The answers of the philosophers. A lexicon. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4780-7 .
• Equality for the advanced. Beyond “greed” and “envy” . Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2010. ISBN 978-3-7705-4984-9 .
• Vegan Humanism Manifesto. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5989-3 .
• Threat of war. Six philosophical dialogues on contemporary violence (with Burkhard Liebsch). Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-85132-967-4 .

Editor:

• Frederick the Great and Philosophy. Stuttgart: Reclam 1986, ISBN 3-15-003772-7 .
• Political innocence. In terms of Martin Heidegger. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2007, ISBN 978-3-7705-4537-7 .

Essays (selection)

• “What you don't want someone to do to you…” About the past and present of the term “tolerance” . SWR2 , February 8, 2004.
• Poetry versus logic. About metaphors and similes in philosophy . SWR2 , March 14, 2004.
• The iconology of death. Aspects of a new imagery . SWR2 , March 25, 2005.
• Revolution instead of evolution. About the triumph of a metaphor . SWR2 , February 19, 2006.
• Human dignity above all? . SWR2 , April 22, 2007.
• No more vegetarianism. About a new relationship between humans and animals . SWR2 , November 25, 2007.
• Growth above everything. The career of a metaphor . SWR2 , May 24, 2009.
• The paradox of surveillance democracy . DLF , June 29, 2014

Web links

Commons : Bernhard HF Taureck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Bernhard HF Taureck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernhard HF Taureck on perlentaucher.de
• Interview with Bernhard HF Taureck from Max-Otto Lorenzen , Marburger Forum. 2006.
• Reviews of Philosophizing: Learning to Die? (2005) and Between the Pictures (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Securing livelihoods as a prerequisite for a decent life. in: Human dignity in the age of its abolition. Pp. 78-88.