Bernhard Waldenfels

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Bernhard Waldenfels (born March 17, 1934 in Essen ) is a German philosopher . He is considered one of the most important thinkers of contemporary German-speaking phenomenology . Central topics of his writing are phenomenological studies of experience, foreignness or alterity and corporeality.

Life

Waldenfels studied philosophy, psychology , classical philology , theology and history in Bonn , Innsbruck , Munich and Paris . Funded by the German National Academic Foundation , he received his doctorate in 1959 in Munich with his thesis The Socratic Questions: Aporie, Elenchos, Anamnesis . In 1960/61 he passed the state examination in Greek, Latin and history. From 1960 to 1962 he spent a period of study in Paris, where he studied with the French philosophers Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty , who had a strong influence on his philosophical thinking. This was followed by preparation for the habilitation as a scholarship holder of the DFG and the subsequent habilitation in Munich in 1967 with the work Das Zwischenreich des Dialogs: socio-philophical investigations following Edmund Husserl . From 1966 to 1967 he taught Greek and Latin at a private high school. 1968-1976 he had a teaching position as a university lecturer and associate professor at the Munich University. In 1976 he was appointed full professor of philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There he researched and taught until he retired in 1999.

He is a co-founder of the German Society for Phenomenological Research .

Waldenfels had visiting professorships in Rotterdam (1982), Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (1984), New York: New School (1987), Rome (1989), Louvain-la-Neuve (1990), Debrecen (1992 ), among others ) San José, Costa Rica (1991), Prague: Central European University (1993), New York: State University of New York at Stony Brook (1999), Vienna (2002) and Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong (2004).

His brother Hans Waldenfels (* 1931) SJ is a fundamental theologian.

Scientific work

In his scientific work, Waldenfels deals with a responsive, physically anchored phenomenology based on the philosophers Edmund Husserl , Martin Heidegger and Alfred Schütz up to the more recent French philosophy, in particular Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Jean-Paul Sartre , Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas . Through his works, Waldenfels made the newer French philosophy better known in German-speaking philosophy. He also translated some of Mearleau-Ponty's central works into German, which had a major impact on his own thinking.

Waldenfels approaches the concept of the foreign by problematizing order or orders. From this perspective, the foreign turns out to be the extraordinary, that which cannot be said, conceivable or experienced in an order; would find no place in the order. With Waldenfels, strangeness is always to be seen in relation to an order. “The dialogue is divided into discourses in the sense of Foucault, each of which is subject to specific orders. So the following sentence applies: So many orders, so many foreignities. The extraordinary accompanies the order like a shadow. "

In addition, some of his phenomenological works have been translated into numerous languages ​​and the like. a. Translated into English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian and Russian.

Waldenfels' academic students include Kathrin Busch, Iris Därmann , Petra Gehring , Hans-Dieter Gondek, Antje Kapust, Käte Meyer-Drawe , Friedrich Balke , Thomas Bedorf , Burkhard Liebsch, Andreas Gelhard, Tobias N. Klass and Marc Rölli .

The Bernhard Waldenfels Archive has existed at the University of Freiburg since 2009 . Waldenfels donated his extensive “legacy” to the University of Freiburg, where Edmund Husserl founded modern phenomenology.

Fonts

  • The Socratic Questions , Meisenheim: A. Hain 1961
  • The intermediate realm of dialogue. Social-philosophical investigations following E. Husserl , The Hague: M. Nijhoff 1971 (Japan. 1986)
  • The scope of behavior , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1980 (japan. 1987)
  • Phenomenology in France , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1983
  • In the networks of the lifeworld , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1985, ²1994 (serbokroat. 1991)
  • Order in the twilight , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1987 (1996)
  • The Sting of the Stranger , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1990, 1998 (Slovenian, Czech 1998)
  • Introduction to phenomenology , Munich: Fink 1992 (span. 1997, korean. 1998, ukrain. 2002)
  • Answer register , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1994
  • Franco-German thought processes , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1995
  • Topography of the Foreign - Studies on the Phenomenology of the Foreign 1 , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1997 (Polish 2002, Ukrainian 2004, French 2009)
  • Limits to normalization - studies on the phenomenology of the foreign 2 , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1998 (approx. 2005)
  • Sensory thresholds - studies on the phenomenology of the foreign 3 , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1999
  • Polyphony of Speech - Studies on the Phenomenology of the Foreign 4 , F./M .: Suhrkamp 1999
  • The bodily self. Lectures on the phenomenology of the body. Edited by R. Giuliani. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000 (Japan. 2004)
  • Verfremdung der Moderne , Wallstein: Göttingen; 2001
  • Break lines of experience , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2002
  • Mirror, trace and look. On the genesis of the image , Cologne: Salon Verlag 2003
  • Resourcefulness of the body , Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2004
  • Phenomenology of Attention , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2004
  • Idioms of thought. Franco-German thought processes II , F./M .: Suhrkamp (2005)
  • Basic motifs of a phenomenology of the foreign , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2006 (Polish 2009)
  • Silhouettes of Morals , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2006
  • Philosophical diary. From the workshop of thinking 1980–2005 , Munich: Fink 2008.
  • Shifts in location , time shifts: modes of bodily experience , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2009.
  • Senses and arts in interplay: Modi of aesthetic experience , F./M .: Suhrkamp 2010.
  • Hyperphenomena: Modes of hyperbolic experience , Berlin: Suhrkamp 2012.
  • Sociality and Alterity: Modes of Social Experience. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015.
  • Plato: Between Logos and Pathos. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017.
  • Experience that calls for language. Studies on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from a phenomenological point of view . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019.

as editor of edited volumes:

  • Art - image - perception - view: Merleau Ponty for the hundredth. Edited with Antje Kapust, Fink: München 2010.
  • Violence. Structures, forms, representations. Edited with Mihran Dabag and Antje Kapust, Fink: München 2000.
  • The claim of the other. Perspectives on Phenomenological Ethics. Edited with Iris Därmann, Fink: München 1998.
  • Stakes of thought. On the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. Edited with Hans-Dieter Gondek, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / M. 1997.
  • Play the truth. Michel Foucault's thinking. Edited with François Ewald, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt / M. 1991.
  • Bodily reason. Traces of Merleau Ponty's thinking. Edited with Alexandre Métraux, Fink: München 1986.
  • Sociality and intersubjectivity. Phenomenological perspectives in the social sciences around Aron Gurwitsch and Alfred Schütz. Edited with Richard Grathoff, Fink: Munich 1983.

as editor and translator:

  • Edmund Husserl: The crisis of European humanity and philosophy. Beltz / Athenaeum: Weinheim 1995.
  • Maurice Merleau Ponty: Germs of Reason. Lectures at the Sorbonne 1949–1952. From the Franz. By Antje Kapust. With notes by Antje Kapust and Burkhard Liebsch, Fink: München 1994.
  • Edmund Husserl. Work on the phenomena. Selected Writings. Fischer: Frankfurt / M. 1993.
  • Maurice Merleau Ponty: The Structure of Behavior. Introduction and translation, De Gruyter: Berlin 1976.
  • Maurice Merleau Ponty: The visible and the invisible. Translation together with Regula Giuliani, Fink: München 1986.

Awards

literature

  • Responsive Phenomenology. A walk through the philosophy of Bernhard Waldenfels. Huth, Martin, Peter Lang: Frankfurt / M. 2008.
  • Philosophy of Responsiveness. Festschrift for Bernhard Waldenfels on his 70th birthday , ed. by Kathrin Busch, Iris Därmann, Antje Kapust, Wilhelm Funk, Munich 2007.
  • Reason under the sign of the foreign. On the philosophy of Bernhard Waldenfels , ed. Matthias Fischer, Hans-Dieter Gondek, Burkhard Liebsch, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Waldenfels: Order in the twilight . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1987 (1996)
  2. ^ Bernhard Waldenfels: Topography of the foreign. Studies on the phenomenology of the foreign I. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 33
  3. ↑ http://www.husserlarchiv.de/bernhard-waldenfels-archiv/publinkintern
  4. ↑ http://www.husserlarchiv.de/bernhard-waldenfels-archiv
  5. ↑ University of Rostock awards an honorary doctorate to the philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels ( Memento from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Bernhard Waldenfels archive. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, archived from the original on July 24, 2018 ; accessed on July 24, 2018 .

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DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1934
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