Constantin von Barloewen
Constantin von Barloewen (born November 29, 1952 in Buenos Aires ) is an international anthropologist and cultural scientist.
Life
Constantin von Barloewen, professor of anthropology and comparative cultural studies , has an international personal and professional career: Born in Argentina, he grew up in Germany and Latin America. Von Barloewen is active in research and teaching worldwide. His scientific stations include a .:
- 1982–1983: Honorary Research Associate at Harvard University
- 1986–1987: visiting professor at the University of Philosophy in Munich
- 1993–1996: Chair for anthropology and comparative cultural studies at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe
- 2001–2008: Head of the program for the dialogue between cultures and civilizations of the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation in Berlin
- 2011–2013: Senior Fellow & Senior Advisor at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Klaus Töpfer's cluster , Potsdam
Von Barloewen was co-developer and scientific advisor of the project The Progress in Different Cultures of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Goethe Institute . The project was under the auspices of the United Nations . He teaches at the Université Européenne de la Recherche and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Academy.
In 2009 von Barloewen published a German-language book about conversations he had had with scientists, artists and politicians. These include u. a. Claude Lévi-Strauss , Elie Wiesel , Carlos Fuentes , Amos Oz , Julia Kristeva , Yehudi Menuhin , Nadine Gordimer , John Kenneth Galbraith , Oscar Niemeyer , Paul Poupard , Samuel Huntington, Wole Soyinka , Philip Johnson , Ilya Prigogine , Edward Teller , Boutros Boutros -Ghali , Leszek Kolakowski and Michel Serres .
Publications
Monographs
- Equality and freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville in America. His representation of the relationship between central government and local self-responsibility, examined using the historical example of Pennsylvania . Minerva, Munich 1978 (dissertation).
- Clown. On the phenomenology of stumbling . Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1981; Ullstein, Frankfurt Main, Berlin / Vienna 1984; New edition: Diederichs, Munich 2010.
- Values in the cultural philosophy of North and Latin America. A systematic contribution to the intellectual history of the American double continent . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- On the primacy of culture. Essays on comparative cultural observation (= borders and horizons ). Eberhard, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-926777-15-X .
- Cultural history and modernity of Latin America . Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1992.
- The sacred unity of man and earth. Conversations with Raimon Panikkar . Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1993.
- Scenes of a world civilization. Culture - technology - literature . Boer, Munich 1994.
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World civilization and world ethic. On the way to an intercultural identity. Free State of Thuringia, Erfurt 1996.
- German edition: The human in cyberspace. About the loss of metaphysics and the move into virtual space. Diederichs, Munich 1998.
- with Olivier Mannoni : Anthropologie de la mondialisation. Édition des Syrtes, Paris 2003.
- German edition: Anthropologie der Globalisierung . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-88221-890-9 .
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Le Livre des Savoirs. Editions Stock, Conversations avec les Grands Esprits de Notre Temps. Editions Grasset, Paris 2007.
- German edition: The book of knowledge. Conversations with the great minds of our time . Fink, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7705-4878-1 .
- Au risque de la vie philosophique. Edited by Anne Dufourmantelle . Editions Stock, Paris 2008.
- From the decline of the future - the point is that this end leads to a new beginning . In conversation with Edgar Morin. Lettre International, Berlin 2018, 30th anniversary edition, No. 121
editor
- with Kai Wehrhahn-Mees: Japan and the West. 3 volumes. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- with Wolf-Dietrich von Barloewen: The Laws of History. Evolution and civilization from the dawn of mankind to the third millennium. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
- with Wolf-Dietrich Barloewen: The Laws of History. Evolution and civilization from the beginnings of mankind to the 3rd millennium. 2 volumes. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988.
- Death in world cultures and world religions . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-458-34312-1 .
- with Klaus Töpfer , Manuel Rivera: Sustainable Development in a Plural Modernity: Latin American Perspectives. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-089-7 .
literature
- Raimon Panikkar : The Adventure Reality. Conversations about spiritual transformation. Run with Constantin von Barloewen and Axel Matthes. Edited by Bettina Bäumer. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88221-804-5 .
- Axel Matthes : The sacred in everyday life or the swing of things. Diederichs, Munich 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Constantin von Barloewen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Constantin von Barloewen: In the wilderness of civilization. Obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss. In: The time of November 3, 2009.
- Susanne Mack: eccentric and loner. Review. In: Deutschlandradio on May 31, 2010.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Barloewen, Constantin von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine anthropologist and cultural scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |