Catherine Newmark

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Catherine Newmark (born 1976 ) is a Swiss philosopher , cultural journalist and publicist .

life and work

Catherine Newmark studied philosophy and history in Zurich and Paris . In 2007 she did her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin (FU). In her dissertation with the title Passion - Affect - Feeling , she dealt with the philosophical theories of emotions between Aristotle and Kant . From 2007 to 2013 she was a research assistant for the history of philosophy at the Philosophical Institute of the FU , especially in antiquity and in the 17th century. I.a. In 2011 she headed the project Authority, Attention, Trust, Respect in the excellence initiative Languages ​​of Emotion .

One of her main research areas is feminist theory and ethics . On the status of philosophical gender research, she co-edited the volume Philosophy and the Potentials of Gender Studies in 2012 , which is based on a series of lectures at the Free University of Berlin. Newmark and Hilge Landweer lead this in their contribution on this and beyond gender. Concerning the problematic relationship of philosophy to empiricism and lifeworld using the example of Simone de Beauvoir , Judith Butler and Michel Foucault , "it is precisely the empirically / lifeworld-inspired thinkers who have set original and innovative accents in the theory formation of the last decades".

Since 2003 part-time, since 2013 full-time she has been writing as a freelance culture journalist on film, philosophy and gender topics for newspapers such as FAZ / FAS and is a columnist at Zeit Online . She is part of the philosophy editorial team at Deutschlandfunk Kultur , u. a. as author and editor for the philosophy magazine Sein und Streit . She is editor-in-chief for the special issues of the philosophy magazine . The main topics in 2015 were philosophers in the Nazi era and the Star Wars myth, about which they also wrote the book You still have a lot to learn in 2016 . Star Wars and Philosophy . The band is attempting "for the first time an interdisciplinary interpretation of the first seven Star Wars films," according to Spiegel Online Kultur .

Catherine Newmark lives in Berlin.

Publications

Monographs

Editor and author

  • How masculine is authority? Feminist criticism and appropriation. Edited with Hilge Landweer. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2018, ISBN 978-3-5935-0993-8
  • Hannah Arendt. The freedom of thought. Philomagazin Verlag, Berlin 2016.
  • Come into appearance. Imagery as a theoretical process. Edited with Anne Eusterschulte and Wiebke-Marie Stock. Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7873-2255-8 .
  • You still have a lot to learn. Star Wars and Philosophy. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-4996-3234-1 .
  • The Philosophers and National Socialism. Philomagazin Verlag, Berlin 2015.
  • Star Wars - The Myth of Our Time. Special edition philosophy magazine No. 6/2015 ( reading sample )
  • Philosophy and the Potential of Gender Studies. Periphery and center in the field of theory. Edited with Hilge Landweer et al. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2152-5 .
  • Critical Philosophy of Religion. A memorial for Friedrich Niewöhner. Edited with Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann and Georges Tamer. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-1102-4755-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Catherine Newmark, Vita. Institute for Philosophy, FU (accessed on February 4, 2018)
  2. ↑ Catherine Newmark. Theater of time
  3. ↑ Review by Mirjam Dierkes, querelles-net, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2013)
  4. ↑ Catherine Newmark. Columnist at ZEIT ONLINE
  5. ↑ "Philosophers are experts on everything and nothing". In an interview, the Berlin philosopher Catherine Newmark explains the importance of philosophy today. From Natascha's friends. NDR, November 15, 2017
  6. ↑ Catherine Newmark on philosophers in the Nazi era. Sternstunde Philosophie, SRF, May 10, 2015
  7. ↑ "Star Wars reconciles spirituality with a technological world" . Interview by Julian Dörr with Catherine Newmark, Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 4, 2017
  8. ^ Philosophy in "Star Wars". Enlightened beings we are , Spiegel Online Kultur, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Newmark, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher and culture journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976