Camilla Warnke

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Camilla Warnke (* 1931 ) is a German philosopher of science .

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Warnke moved to Berlin in 1950 to study philosophy at the Humboldt University from 1951 to 1956 . In 1958 she received a party penalty for taking part in an anti-party debate and had to work as a fitter at VEB Stern Radio until 1960, when she was given a production test. In 1960 she was employed as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences , where she obtained her doctorate in 1968 at the Central Institute for Philosophy with a study on the "Relationship between Medicine and Philosophy in Ancient Greece". Then she worked on the implications of applying systems theory in the social sciences. In 1976 she appointed Manfred Buhras head of the Dialectical Materialism division previously headed by Günter Klimaszewsky . In 1980 she completed her habilitation on the subject of dialectics and systems thinking in social knowledge and was about to be appointed professor. In 1981, like her colleague Peter Ruben , she was expelled from the SED for alleged revisionism . "In an act of total arbitrariness, the regime transferred her to the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology in order to sabotage her scientific work." to return to the Central Institute for Philosophy. In 1991 she went into early retirement, from which she published several analyzes of the state of philosophy and economic research in the GDR.

Fonts (selection)

  • The 'abstract' society: systems science as a message of salvation in the social models of Parsons', Dahrendorf and Luhmann. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1974; ISBN 978-3-88012-258-1
  • Peter Ruben, Camilla Warnke: Philosophical Papers I . Aarhus, Paris, Florence 1981 (pirated print)
  • Camilla Warnke, Gerhard Huber: On the Critique of the German-German Economy: Conceptions, Positions and Methods of Economic Research in East and West Marburg, Metropolis 1996; ISBN 978-3-89518-068-2
  • Camilla Warnke, Gerhard Huber: Marx's economic theory - what remains? : Reflections after the end of European communism Marburg, Metropolis 1998; ISBN 978-3-89518-158-0
  • Peter Ruben Modern communism and the social question / Camilla Warnke The young Harich and the history of philosophy: Wolfgang Harich's lectures on the history of philosophy; 1951-1954 . Berlin, Helle Panke 1999
  • Hans-Christoph Rauh Philosophy from a closed world. On the history of the GDR philosophy and its institutions. (With contributions by Camilla Warnke and Peer Pasternack ), Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2017; ISBN 978-3-86153-882-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philosophy from a closed world: on the history of GDR philosophy and its institutions. Berlin 2017. p. 695
  2. ↑ Man overboard »Der Spiegel«
personal data
SURNAME Warnke, Camilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1931