Brigitte Weisshaupt

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Brigitte Weisshaupt (born 1939 in Gevelsberg ) is a German-speaking philosopher and founding member of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh). For many years she was a board member of the IAPh, President of the Philosophical Society Zurich (PhGZ) and a member of the Swiss National Ethics Commission (NEK) in the field of human medicine . She is considered a "classic of modern feminism".

Career

Brigitte Weisshaupt studied philosophy , German literature , German linguistics, Romance languages and art history in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Heidelberg . In 1967 she did her doctorate at the University of Freiburg under the phenomenologist Eugen Fink , an assistant to Edmund Husserl , on the conception of time by Augustine , Kant and Aristotle . In 1968 she completed her state examination for teaching at grammar schools in the subjects of philosophy and German. From 1969 she held teaching positions in the subjects of philosophy, cultural history and analysis, applied psychology, anthropology and social philosophy at various institutions in Zurich, including at the University of Zurich (UZH), the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Psychoanalytical Seminar in Zurich (PSZ) as well as various chair representations at universities in Germany and Switzerland. Weisshaupt taught philosophy at a grammar school for over 25 years, was an external lecturer in philosophy, in particular ethics, at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences for social work for over 30 years and gave lectures in philosophy at the Zurich Adult Education Center for over 20 years.

Act

In 1974 she founded the “Association of Women Philosophers in Germany” (APHD at the time, later IAPh) together with Elfriede Walesca Tielsch , Ruth-Eva Schulz-Seitz, Wiebke Schrader and three other colleagues. It was founded in Würzburg, the legal form was the "registered association". The trigger was the “silence of the 'women's question' by academic philosophy” and the associated endeavor to create a “place of thinking” for intellectual women and philosophers. Following the founding, the first symposium took place in 1974 - also in Würzburg. The early years of the union turned out to be very difficult. It is thanks to the commitment of Tielsch and Weisshaupt that in 1978 on the occasion of the international XVI. World Congress for Philosophy in Düsseldorf female philosophers were officially welcomed and invited by Federal Chancellor Walter Scheel to the garden festival in Bonn. In 1982 the association joined the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophy as a voting member. The newly created network attracted a lively influx of free and university-affiliated female philosophers, especially female students, but recorded more interest abroad than in Germany. While the Austrian press on the occasion of the XII. German Philosophy Congress in Innsbruck in 1981 was open to philosophers, German philosophers showed little interest in the initiative. Weisshaupt achieved her breakthrough in her adopted home of Zurich , where the 11th IAPh symposium at the University of Zurich had 200 participants.

Weisshaupt was a member of the advisory board of the magazine Die Philosophin. Forum for feminist theory and philosophy for the time of its existence. Like Elfriede Walesca Tielsch, Brigitte Weisshaupt is one of the honorary members of the IAPh today.

Publications

Monographs
  • The spirit as the reason of time. On the interpretation of time by Augustine, Kant and Aristotle. Dissertation from the University of Freiburg in 1967.
Editorships
  • Halina Bendkowski, Brigitte Weisshaupt (ed.): What female philosophers think I. Amman Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-10012-9 .
  • Manon Andreas-Grisebach, Brigitte Weisshaupt (ed.): What female philosophers think II. Amman Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-250-01017-0 .
Essays
  • The other. On the intersubjective constitution of the alter ego. In: Reformatio, Protestant magazine for culture and politics , 1969.
  • Sisyphus without pathos. Self-preservation and self-determination in everyday life. In: Studia Philosophica 40/1981.
  • Reflections on the concept of reason. In: Manon Maren-Grisebach, Ursula Menzer (Ed.): Yearbook I of the International Association of Women Philosophers: From ways into the 3rd millennium. Tamagnini Verlag, Mainz 1982.
  • Sisyphus without pathos. Self-preservation and self-determination in everyday life. In: Halina Bendkowski, Brigitte Weisshaupt (ed.): What women philosophers think I. Amman Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-10012-9 .
  • Dissidence as enlightenment. Elements of feminist science criticism. In: Manon Andreas-Grisebach, Brigitte Weisshaupt (ed.): What philosophers think II. Amman Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-250-01017-0 , pp. 9-19.
  • Selflessness and knowledge In: Judith Conrad, Ursula Konnertz (ed.): Femininity in the modern age , Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 978-3-88769-517-0 .
  • Shadows of sex over reason. In: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Ulrike Ramming, E. Walesca Tielsch (eds.): 1789/1989 - The revolution did not take place. Documentation of the 5th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers. Edition Discord, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-89295-537-9 , pp. 290-302.
  • Reason and selfless selfhood. In: Annual report 1990 of the Lucerne Theological Faculty , 1990.
  • Shadows over reason. In: Herta Nagl-Docekal (Ed.): Feminist Philosophy. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7029-0248-1 (Vienna), 3-486-55381-X (Munich), pp. 136-157.
  • Ethics and technology in the living. In: Ursula Konnertz (Ed.): Limits of Morality. Edition Discord, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-89295-551-1 .
  • On the unthought dialectic of eros and logos. In: Die Philosophin 6/1992, pp. 44–56, ISSN 0936-7586, DOI: 10.5840 / philosophin19923625.
  • Elfriede Walesca Tielsch (1910-1993). An obituary. In: Die Philosophin 8/1993, pp. 118–120, ISSN 0936-7586, DOI: 10.5840 / philosophin19934823.
  • Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - A note. In: Labyrinth 1/1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irène Dietschi: There is disagreement. In: NZZ Folio. June 1, 2002, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Maria I Pena Aguado u. Bettina Schmitz, classics of modern feminism , einFach Verlag, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-928089-51-7 .
  3. ↑ The spirit as the basis of time. On the interpretation of time by Augustine, Kant and Aristotle . Dissertation from the University of Freiburg in 1967.
  4. ↑ What philosophers think II . Edited by Manon Andreas-Grisebach u. Brigitte Weisshaupt, Amman Verlag, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-250-01017-0 , p. 290.
  5. ↑ 1789/1989 - The revolution did not take place . Ed. V. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Ulrike Ramming and E. Walesca Tielsch, Edition Discord, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-89295-537-9 , p. 320, as well as "Untapped potentials of feminist theory formation. A conversation with Brigitte Weisshaupt", in: Die Philosopher 20, 1999, p. 128.
  6. ↑ Unexploited potentials of feminist theory building. A conversation with Brigitte Weisshaupt. In: Die Philosophin 20, 1999, p. 128.
  7. ^ Elfriede Tielsch: History of the International Association of Philosophers e. V. arsfemina.de, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir. 50 years the opposite sex. In: Die Philosopher 20. Retrieved on February 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ “German philosophers still did not dare to attend our public meeting. They continued to mock our human rights concerns in secret or audibly. ”Elfriede Walesca Tielsch on the founding history of the IAPh .
  10. ↑ THE PHILOSOPHER. Imprint. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weisshaupt, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg