Constantin Rauer

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Constantin Rauer (born January 27, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher , religious scholar and cultural scientist, best known for his new interpretation of Kant and for his studies of the civilizing significance of cave painting and Ice Age art.

Life

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Rauer grew up in Frankfurt, attended boarding school in the Taunus and followed the family to Geneva in 1975 , where his father died the following year. After the artistic branch of the Collège Voltaire, he studied at the Geneva Art School and attended lectures on art history and semiology . As the youngest member of the intellectual group Argo - from which the magazine Furor later emerged - around the Roland Barthes student Daniel Wilhem, Rauer got to know the spectrum of the Parisian intelligentsia. In 1983 he moved to Berlin, where he studied philosophy, religious studies, comparative literature, sociology and art history. As assistant to Klaus Heinrich , Rauer taught in the 1990s at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on secularization theories and hidden religions (from techno youth culture to the Lady Diana phenomenon). He later did his doctorate with Otfried Höffe in Tübingen with a thesis on Immanuel Kant. As a fellow of the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Rauer held visiting professorships in Brazil in the 2000s. From 2010 he devoted himself more to his paleophilosophy - initially funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation . In addition to German universities, Rauer gave numerous lectures in Brazil, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Spain and Bosnia-Herzegovina; his work has been translated into four languages.

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Delusion and truth

Rauer's interpretation of Kant caused a sensation in 2005 at the 10th International Kant Congress in São Paulo because it "opens up a new perspective". The subsequent publication Madness and Truth. Immanuel Kant's examination of the irrational represents “not only an important contribution to Kant's research in both historical and systematic terms, but also documents Kant's topicality in terms of the philosophy of science”. Kant's own later assertion that his criticism of reason is a synthesis of rationalism and empiricism, and that David Hume woke him from dogmatic slumber, "is for Rauer a 'cover memory' to make his 'criticism' palatable to the general public." Kant's reversal of the way of thinking emerges from his examination of the insanity of Emanuel Swedenborg and the resulting theory of delusions. The "Kantian Psychoanalysis", which Rauer elaborates for the first time, presents Kant's delusional criticism from his early attempt on the diseases of the head to his later religious writing . By means of his method of application, Kant transfers the delusional criticism into a rational criticism, with the mirror between the two lying in the projection mechanisms of the cognitive process. Thus Kant is characterized not only as "an important enlightener, but also as a critic of rationalism". Rauer's work also caused a stir internationally.

Epistemology

Rauer is a philosophical genealogist who uses an archeology of thought to research the origins, genesis and development of concepts and cultural ideas. It is not just about a philosophy of what, but also of how: literarily worked through texts that are architecturally structured and reveal clear lines of flight of the argumentation. Conceptual are the relationships between his works, which on the one hand are thematically broad, but on the other hand come together like a modular system. These include a. his genealogical studies on the terms war and peace, his archeology of the philosophy of history in Kant and Rousseau, the genealogy of morality in Kant and Nietzsche as well as the dispositive of the Enlightenment and vampirism - all contributions that find their counterpart in paleophilosophy.

Paleophilosophy

In an interview published on YouTube , Rauer presents the program, system and methodology of his paleophilosophy. It is about the origin of the human being, provided that this is not applied to the use of tools, but to the symbolic. Paleophilosophy therefore operates an archeology of human consciousness that tries to reconstruct the origin of human ideas using the oldest symbolic representations. In addition to the symbolic content of the burials, the imagery of cave painting and ice age art is examined. Rauer's iconography proceeds symptomatologically by identifying the neuralgic points of the world of ideas, from the puzzle of which the Upper Palaeolithic world view gradually emerges . Symptomatic is z. B. the Neolithic masking, which he analyzes in mask and taboo . Hybrid masked as animals are the magicians, whose thaumaturgies Rauer is able to infer for the first time from the picture material - u. a. in Lascaux, or the birth of ethics . His iconography also analyzes the myths: on one side of life ( e.g. in wall births in cave painting ) and on the other side of death ( e.g. in The Cougnac Cave ). On both sides it can be shown that the rock wall represents a membrane between this world and the hereafter; an exchange of animistic beliefs. Since the (over) identification of humans with animals plays a central role in myths and cults, Rauer analyzes the Neolithic depictions of violence ( the bleeding rock face, the Cougnac cave, violence and cult ). Processes of object shifting and subject exchange come to light, which he - at the beginning of his studies - outlined in an interview with Deutschlandfunk as follows: "And since that is still an almost similar process at the time - war and hunting - , they [the Upper Paleolithic] project their guilty conscience, which they have from the war, onto the hunt and thereby identify with the booty. You can see that in Cougnac, how the one killed person transforms into a giant deer as a ghost - also all the other animals depicted are probably not these depicted animals, but all the ghosts of the deceased - and if I now eat such a giant deer, I could eat my grandfather. And then there is a problem. And that has to be regulated. "

anthropology

Rauer's deciphering of the Ice Age symbolism also opens up a new perspective of anthropology . In a lecture published online by Deutschlandradio , he traces the genealogy of the image of man from the Stone Age to the present day and shows that the hybrid history of the representation of man remains astonishingly constant, while its histories of meaning are constantly changing. In addition, in The Image of Humans , he shows how people are increasingly losing themselves in their self-image, especially in today's visual society, and what tasks arise from this for a philosophical visual anthropology.

Publications

  • Delusion and truth. Kant's examination of the irrational . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007. (2nd edition De Gruyter, Berlin 2012). [2012]
Articles (selection)
  • Disaster landscapes between apocalypse and self-assertion. In: Atlantis for example. Edited by D. Kamper and U. Sonnemann, Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1986, pp. 91–114. [1986]
  • Kant's Critique of Civilization. A way out of Rousseau's cultural pessimism. In: Kant et la France - Kant and France. Edited by J. Ferrari et al., Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim et al. 2005, pp. 55-68.
  • Conversation with the dead between Kant and Nietzsche on moral philosophy. In: Kant and Nietzsche in conflict. Edited by B. Himmelmann, De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, pp. 119–129.
  • The critique of madness as the key to Kant's critical turn. In: Law and Peace in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Files of the X. International Kant Congress, edited on behalf of the Kant Society eV by V. Rohden et al., De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, Vol. 2, pp. 625–636. [2008]
  • From the enlightenment of vampirism to the vampirism of the enlightenment. A west-east debate between then and now. In: Philosophical online journal Ethic @, summer 2008, pp. 87–117.
  • Diana, “Princess of Wales. On the myth of a hunted huntress ”. In: Deutschlandsaga Fanzine - 90s. Ed. On behalf of the Schaubühne by F. Barmer et al., Berlin 2008, pp. 4–10.
  • Le tournant critique de Kant. De la psychologie empirique des années 60 à la logique transcendantale des années 80. Avec une bibliographie chronologique concernant Kant et la psychologie . In: Les années 1747–1781. Kant avant la Critique de la raison pure, Actes du VIIIe Congrès de la Société d'études kantiennes de langue française. Ed. L. Langlois, Vrin, Paris 2009, pp. 287-294.
  • Kant ea Loucura . In: Kant e-Prints. Edited by the Campinas Section of the Brasilian Kant Society, Série 1, vol. 5, No. 1, Jan.-Jul. 2010, pp. 61–74.
  • On the philosophy of the image of man and its future politics (bilingual German-Portuguese). In: Filosofia: reflexões contemporâneas. Edited by MA Spica and E. Bilibio, Editora Unicentro, Guarapuava 2010, pp. 124-145.
  • Diálogo de mortos entre Kant e Nietzsche sobre filosofia moral . In: Projetos de filosofia, Coleção Filosofia - 208. Eds. A. Bavaresco, E. Barbosa, K. Martins, EDIPUCRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 2011, pp. 151-163. (Translation into Portuguese of “Conversation between Kant and Nietzsche on Moral Philosophy”).
  • Kant ea Loucura . In: Projetos de filosofia, Coleção Filosofia - 208. Eds. A. Bavaresco, E. Barbosa, K. Martins, EDIPUCRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, 2011, pp. 137-150.
  • The bleeding rock face. On the iconography of the color red in the Upper Paleolithic . In: Red - Archeology shows its colors. 5th Central German Archaeological Day from October 4th to 6th, 2012 in Halle (Saale). Ed. H. Meller, Chr.-H. Wunderlich u. F. Knoll, Halle (Saale) 2013, pp. 99–112.
  • Kant's Philosophy of Projection: The Camera Obscura of the Inaugural Dissertation . In: Rethinking German Idealism. Edited by SJ McGrath, Joseph Carew, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016, pp. 21-50.
  • Lascaux or The Birth of Ethics . In: Prehistoric Journal, Volume 92, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 1–39.
  • Wall births of cave painting . In: Das Altertum, Volume 62, 2017, pp. 271–310.
  • The Cougnac cave. Violence and Religion in Cave Painting . In: Prehistoric Journal, Volume 94, Issue 2, 2019, pp. 307-350.

Awards

In 2005, Rauer received the PhD award from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for Wahn und Truth and in 2010 he received a translation grant from Humanities International - an award to promote the translation of works in the humanities.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Gerbert: Campus in the wind. In: Focus No. 47, 1997. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Interview with C. Rauer: Diana died for us. In: Focus No. 47, 1997. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ G. Grube: The great light came from the spirits. A new thesis on the inspiration of Kant's critical turn through Swedenborg. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wed. Oct. 19, 2005, Geisteswiss. N 3. Accessed June 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ R. Thun: Rez. Wahn und Truth. Kant's examination of the irrational . In: Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger (WLA) . March 3, 2008.
  5. ↑ R. Schönball: The gifts of the spirits. In: Der Tagesspiegel, Kultur. September 28, 2008, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ G. Motta: Rez. C. Rauer: Wahn und Truth. Kant's examination of the irrational . In: Kant studies, vol. 100 . No. 1/2009 , 2009, p. 115-117 .
  7. ↑ M. Hein: Rez. C. Rauer: Wahn und Truth. In: The Argument, No. 278 . May 2008, p. 586-587 .
  8. ↑ O. Müller: Kant and the madness . In: Berliner Zeitung No. 294 . December 17, 2007, p. 32 .
  9. ↑ Chr. Pries: The critical philosopher as a psychologist . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 23, 2007.
  10. ↑ S. Diebitz: Rez. Wahn und Truth. Kant's examination of the irrational . In: Der Blaue Reiter - Journal for Philosophy, 1/2008 . S. 110-111 .
  11. ^ P. Bishop, engl. Rez .: Constantin Rauer: Wahn und Truth. Kant's examination of the irrational. In: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, University of Toronto Press, Vol. 46, Number 2 / May 2010, pp. 180-181. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  12. ↑ A. Pelletier, French review: Delusion and truth. Le partage de minuit. Folie et vérité chez Kant. In: Critique, n ° 743, Paris, April 2009, pp. 348–352. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ C. Rauer: On the philosophy of war . In: H. Meller and M. Schefzik (eds.): War. An archaeological search for traces. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition in the State Museum for Prehistory Halle-Saale. Nov 6, 2015 to May 22, 2016 . 2015, p. 25–29 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  14. ↑ C. Rauer: Keyword "Peace" . In: O. Höffe, V. Malakhov u. V. Philatov (ed.): Western philosophy of the present. Encyclopedic Lexicon . Kulturnaja revolutsija, Moscow 2009, p. 155 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  15. ↑ C. Rauer: Kant's Critique of Civilization. A way out of Rousseau's cultural pessimism . In: J. Ferrari et al. (Ed.): Kant et la France - Kant and France . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim et al. 2005, p. 55–68 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  16. ↑ C. Rauer: Conversation with the dead between Kant and Nietzsche on moral philosophy . In: B. Himmelmann (ed.): Kant and Nietzsche in conflict . De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 119–129 ( academia.edu [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  17. ↑ C. Rauer: From the enlightenment of vampirism to the vampirism of the enlightenment. A west-east debate between then and now . In: Philosophical online journal Ethic @ . Summer 2008, p. 87–117 ( ufsc.br [PDF; accessed June 1, 2020]).
  18. ↑ Cave art in the Upper Palaeolithic and the birth of man: an interview with Constantin Rauer. Edited by De Gruyter on YouTube , accessed on August 18, 2020.
  19. ↑ C. Rauer: Mask and taboo in the Upper Palaeolithic . In: H. Meller and R. Maraszek (eds.): Masks of prehistoric times in Europe (I), conference proceedings of the international conference in Halle (Saale) from November 20-22 , 2009 . Hall 2010, p. 41–47 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  20. ↑ C. Rauer: Lascaux or The Birth of Ethics . In: Prehistoric Journal . tape 92 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 1–39 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  21. ↑ C. Rauer: Wall births of the cave painting . In: The ancient world . tape 62 , 2017, p. 271-310 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  22. ↑ C. Rauer: The Cougnac Cave. Violence and Religion in Cave Painting . In: Prehistoric Journal . tape 94 , no. 2 , 2019, p. 307-350 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  23. ↑ C. Rauer: Violence and cult in the visual language of the Upper Palaeolithic. In the show . In: Congress volume of the 12th Central German Archaeological Day from October 10th to 12th, 2019 in Halle an der Saale. Ritual violence - rituals of violence | Ritual Violence - Rituals of Violence . 2019.
  24. ↑ Ch. Forberg: Radio broadcast: Masks of the Stone Age. Archaeologist conference at the University of Halle. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. December 3, 2009, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  25. ↑ C. Rauer, lecture series, masks of the image of man. From the lion man to Mickey Mouse. Lecture from May 20th, 2014 at the Technical University of Berlin. Sent at DRadio Wissen. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  26. ↑ C. Rauer: The Image of Man - from the Stone Age to Today . In: S. Almann, K. Berner, A. Grohmann, Villigst Profile (eds.): People image (s) er - education or creation . tape 18 . Lit Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 41–60 ( academia.edu [accessed June 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Rauer, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, religious and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main