Christoph Türcke

Christoph Türcke (born October 4, 1948 in Hameln ) is a German philosopher . From 1995 to 2014 he taught as a professor of philosophy at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig .

Life and work

Christoph Türcke was born in Hameln an der Weser in 1948 and graduated from high school there in 1966. 1966–72 he studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Göttingen, Tübingen, Zurich and Frankfurt am Main. 1973–77 he studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. In 1977 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Frankfurt . From 1977 to 1986, Türcke worked as a university assistant for Protestant theology and its didactics at the University of Lüneburg and completed his habilitation in 1985 in the Philosophy Department at the University of Kassel . In 1987 he was a guest director at the Junge Theater Göttingen and from 1991–93 guest professor of philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre , Brazil . In 1993, Türcke was appointed to the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art , where he held a professorship for philosophy until his retirement in 2014. Since 1995 he has also had a license to teach philosophy at the University of Leipzig .

Research interests

Christoph Türcke has become a critic of religion through his theology studies and has come close to the critical theory of Horkheimer and Adorno as well as to Freud's psychoanalysis . What he added to both conceptions is a theory of traumatic repetition compulsion as a cultural donor. He traces the mentalization of Homo sapiens back to the logic of compulsive repetition as well as the cultural techniques of writing and payment. The return of Stone Age archaicism under high-tech conditions plays a central role in his contemporary diagnoses.

In 1994 DIE ZEIT published Türcke's nine-part series Religionswende , in which he deals with religious terms ( blasphemy , martyrdom, grace, etc.) that do not deviate from profane everyday language.

In 2003, under the impression of September 11, 2001, his book Fundamentalism - Masked Nihilism was published , in which he interprets religious fundamentalism and fanaticism as latent, self-ignoring unbelief.

In his main social theoretical work Excited Society. Philosophy of Sensation (2002), Türcke interprets the sensationalism that pervades all areas of life as a disguised and inflated continuation of religious epiphany and analyzes how human perception and instinctual structure are rearchaized under the spell of constant sensational shocks. In his Philosophy of Dreams (2008) he pursued this approach further and, in confrontation with Freud, presented a drive-theoretical genealogy of thought and language. The tendency towards researching under high-tech conditions has also led Türcke to statements in the education debate, especially in Hyperaktiv! Critique of Attention Deficit Culture (2012) and Teachers' Twilight. What the new learning culture is doing in schools (2016). Türcke does not regard ADHD as a disease in a healthy environment, but as the outpost of a global attention deficit culture that vitally jeopardizes the ability to concentrate and perseverance. He sees the “new learning culture” as a neoliberal measure that encourages these tendencies.

In more! Philosophy of Money (2015), Türcke followed the substitution processes of the forms of money from the Paleolithic to the modern financial market. He understands money as a debt repayment means that has its origin in the sacred sacrifice and advocates the thesis that money has not come out of its sacred spell to this day.

Racism debate

In 1993, Türcke triggered a concrete debate on racism with his lecture at the magazine's congress . Because he described the skin as the first-rate respiratory and perceptual organ and did not want to use the term race as a construction, he was suspected of a racist attitude in the heated atmosphere immediately after the right-wing extremist arson attack in Solingen. In the wake of the Congress took place in the magazine concretely and in other media to a months-long controversy about this.

Awards

• 2009: Sigmund Freud Culture Prize

Fonts (selection)

• On the ideology-critical potential of theology. Consequences of a materialistic interpretation of Paul , Diss. Cologne 1979.
• Mediation as God. Metaphysical crickets and theological complaints of didactic science , 2nd edition, to Klampen Verlag, Springe 1994, ISBN 978-3924245-05-4 .
• The great person. Nietzsche and the madness of reason , Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Sex and mind. Philosophy in the Gender Struggle , Frankfurt am Main 1991.
• The new bustle. On ethics and intellectual business , on Klampen Verlag, Springe 1992, ISBN 3924245142 .
• Cash drop. On the situation of theology , Frankfurt am Main 1992.
• Violence and taboo. Philosophical borderlines , zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 1992, ISBN 3934920861 .
• with Gerhard Bolte: Introduction to Critical Theory , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994.
• Religious change. A dogmatics in fragments , to Klampen Verlag, Springe 1995, ISBN 3924245517 .
• Looking back on what is to come. Contaminated sites of the new world order , Frankfurt am Main 1998.
• The great person. Nietzsche and the madness of reason , zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2000, ISBN 3924245894 .
• Excited company. Philosophy of Sensation , Munich 2002.
• Fundamentalism - masked nihilism , zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2003, ISBN 978-3-934920-31-6 .
• From the Cain's sign to the genetic code: Critical Theory of Writing , CH Beck, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-406-53472-4 .
• Homeland. Rehabilitation , to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2006, ISBN 3934920861 .
• Philosophy of Dream , CH Beck, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-406-57637-9 .
• Jesus' dream. Psychoanalysis of the New Testament , zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2009, ISBN 9783866740617 .
• Hyperactive! Critique of Attention Deficit Culture , CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63044-6 .
• Home: A rehabilitation , to Klampen Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-866-74330-4 .
• More! Philosophy of Money , CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67457-0 .
• Teachers twilight: What the new learning culture is doing in schools , CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 3406688829 .
• Luther - Profile of a convict , zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2016.
• Suffer in vain. The key to Job , to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-562-9 .
• Digital following. On the way to a new tribal society , CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73181-5 .

literature

• Human animals, sensations. A picture sheet . Christoph Türcke on his sixtieth birthday. zu Klampen, Springe 2008, ISBN 3-86674-037-9 .
• Oliver Decker; Tobias Grave (ed.): Critical theory at the time . For Christoph Türcke on his sixtieth birthday. zu Klampen, Springe 2008, ISBN 3-86674-032-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Türcke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the HGB with personal data
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents of February 2, 2020: Smartphone as an attention-killer? The philosopher Christoph Türcke in conversation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Terkessidis: The Banality of Racism: Second Generation Migrants Develop a New Perspective . transcript Verlag, 2015, pp. 74-75
2. ↑ to Klampen Verlag ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.