Clemens Kauffmann

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Clemens Kauffmann (born August 3, 1961 in Bonn ; † April 9, 2020 in Regensburg ) was a German political scientist . From 2003 to 2020 he was a full professor for political philosophy and the history of ideas at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

Kauffmann was the son of the art historian Georg Kauffmann and the grandson of Hans Kauffmann . From 1981 to 1991 he studied philosophy, classical archeology and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München . In 1988 Clemens Kauffmann obtained a Magister Artium degree in philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at LMU .

In 1991 the doctorate to Dr. phil. From 1991 to 1998 he then worked as a research assistant and research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Regensburg . In 1998 he completed his habilitation there in the field of political science and then taught as a senior research assistant in Regensburg until 2003.

From 1999 to 2001 he also represented the Chair for Political Philosophy and the History of Ideas at the University of Regensburg. After replacing the Chair for Political Science II (Political Philosophy and History of Ideas) at the Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2003, he took over the Chair in October of that year. From 2003 to 2020 he taught as a full professor of political science (Chair for Political Science II / Political Philosophy and History of Ideas, Concordat Chair ) in Erlangen .

Clemens Kauffmann was married and has a daughter and two sons. He died after a serious illness in spring 2020 at the age of 58.

Work areas

Focus

In his research and teaching, Kauffmann dealt with various topics of political philosophy and the history of ideas , but especially with the theory of liberalism , the political philosophy of antiquity , as well as political and philosophical aspects of modern biotechnology . Furthermore, Kauffmann has dealt intensively with the thinking and work of the German-American philosopher Leo Strauss . In recent years he has paid particular attention to replacing reason with the motif of struggle in political thought in the 20th century.

In addition, Kauffmann headed a research center on the history of ideas at FAU, to which the Gerlach archive and the Eric Voegelin library belong.

Functions

From 2007 to 2015 Clemens Kauffmann was deputy chairman of the German Society for Research into Political Thought (DGEPD). From 2015 to 2019 he was chairman of the company; At the end of 2019, Peter Nitschke was elected as his successor. In addition, from 2008 to 2011, Kauffmann acted as spokesman for the Bavarian Center for Political Theory , which he was involved in, and of which he was a member. Kauffmann was also part of the scientific management of the center's doctoral program .

In addition, Kauffmann was a member of the German Association for Political Science and a founding member of the Society for Ancient Philosophy . At FAU, Kauffmann supervised the academic exchange with the political science institute of the US Duke University in Durham (North Carolina), which has been funded by the DAAD for several years . He was also the managing editor of the Political Thinking Yearbook and its editor since 2015. He was a liaison professor for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and a.

  • Ontology and action. Investigations into Plato's theory of action (= Alber series Practical Philosophy. Volume 47). Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-495-47758-6 .
  • Leo Strauss for the introduction (= for the introduction. Vol. 163) Junius, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88506-963-6 .
  • Strauss and Rawls. The philosophical dilemma of politics (= contributions to political science. Volume 117) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-428-09613-4
  • (Ed.): Risutora. Japan's way into global society. Universitäts-Verlag Regensburg, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-930480-44-1 .
  • with Helmut Klumpjan, Matthias Riedl & Hans-Jörg Sigwart (eds.): Politics, Hermeneutics, Humanity. Collected essays by Jürgen Gebhardt. For the 70th birthday. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-428-11613-5 .
  • with Andreas Eckl (ed.): Political Platonism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3554-8 .
  • with Hans-Jörg Sigwart (ed.): Biopolitics in the liberal state (= series of publications by the Political Theories and History of Ideas section in the German Association for Political Science. Vol. 19). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-4323-3 .

Recent essays

  • Generic policy. The human body as a global public good. In: Clemens Kauffmann, Hans-Jörg Sigwart (Ed.): Biopolitics in the liberal state. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 135–162.
  • The rationality of anarchism. In: Yearbook Political Thinking 2011, pp. 235–252.
  • The inversion of politics and reason in modern times . In: Julian Nida-Rümelin, Elif Özmen (Ed.): “World of Reasons”. Proceedings of the XXII. German Congress for Philosophy; Munich; September 2011 ; Colloquium 18, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, pp. 871–882.
  • Rousseau's political speeches . In: Karlfriedrich Herb, Magdalena Scherl (Ed.): Rousseau's magic: readings of political philosophy. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2012, pp. 161–175.
  • Strauss, Leo . In: Thomas Bedorf, Andreas Gelhard (Hrsg.): The German Philosophy in the 20th Century: An Author's Handbook. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2013, pp. 280–282. 2nd edition 2015.
  • Presence, time awareness and tacit knowledge: three functional conditions of democratic politics . In: Christoph Ernst, Heike Paul (eds.): Presence and tacit knowledge: On the interdependence of two key concepts in the cultural and social sciences. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 277–296.
  • Democratic thinking against a “halved modernity”: observations on Henning Ottmann's “History of Political Thought” . In: Yearbook Political Thinking 2013. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, pp. 107–128.
  • Where does “good science” lead? Biotechnological development as a decision on the direction of democracy . Together with Eva Odzuck. In: Manfred Spieker (ed.): Good science. 2015.
  • "Citizen of the Whole": Leo Strauss on Civic Presence and Political Pluralism. In: Carl Shaw, Kai Marchal (Eds.): Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in Sinophone World. Routledge, London 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice for Clemens Kauffmann. SZ, April 18, 2020, accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Brocker et al.: Mourning message. Bavarian Doctoral College Political Theory, April 14, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Peter Nitschke and Dr. Martin Schwarz on the board of the German Society for Research into Political Thought. In: uni-vechta.de. December 12, 2019, accessed January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2020
Place of death regensburg