Dietmar Kamper

Dietmar Wilhelm Theodor Kamper (born October 5, 1936 in Erkelenz , † October 28, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German philosopher , writer and sociologist .

Life

Kamper studied in Cologne , Tübingen and Munich . In 1959 he graduated as a certified sports teacher . In 1963 he received his doctorate in philosophy. In 1972 he completed his habilitation in educational science at the University of Marburg , where he taught from 1973 to 1979.

From 1979 Kamper was Professor of Sociology with a focus on cultural sociology and member of the Research Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin . He has published works on philosophical anthropology, on socialization research, on the history of the body and desires.

Dietmar Kamper's grave in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Dietmar Kamper died three weeks after his 65th birthday on October 28, 2001 in Berlin. His grave is in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg . A boulder serves as a tombstone. Kamper's final resting place is in the immediate vicinity of the graves of the writers E. T. A. Hoffmann and Reinhard Lettau .

Works

• The anthropology of Leopold Zieglers , Munich 1964, DNB 482402407 ( dissertation, University of Munich , Philosophical Faculty, July 7, 1964, 180 pages).
• To the history of the imagination . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-446-13118-3 .
• with Christoph Wulf : In the shadow of the Milky Way. Experiences on the " Camino de Santiago " . Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-88769-002-8 .
• The captured unicorn . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-446-13533-2 .
• On the sociology of imagination . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-446-14655-5 .

bibliography

• Herbert Neidhöfer, Bernd Ternes (Ed.): What does the head cost? Suspended thinking of the aesthesis between abstraction and imagination. Dietmar Kamper on his 65th birthday. Tectum , Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-82888251-X (54 pages bibliography).
• Dietmar Kamper: Germany, oh what, in: Elisabeth Schweeger , Eberhard Witt (eds.): Oh Germany. With contributions by Carl Amery , photos by Christian Brachwitz and Florian Heine. Belville, Munich 2000, pp. 23-31, ISBN 3-933510-67-8 .
• Dietmar Kamper, Volker Ritter (ed.): To the history of the body. Munich and Vienna 1976.
• Dietmar Kamper, Christoph Wulf (Ed.): The return of the body. Frankfurt am Main 1982.

About Dietmar Kamper

• 1985: Klaus Laermann: The frenzied drivel of the Counter-Enlightenment. Dietmar Kamper as a symptom . In: Merkur No. 39 1985, pp. 211-220, ISSN  0026-0096 .
• 1986: Eckhard Henscheid : The raging Fasler . In: Completed Cases. Pictures of German people, with 24 portrait studies by Hans Traxler . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1986, pp. 97 ff, OCLC 22378240 ; as Haffmans paperback , volume 137, Haffmans, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-251-01137-5 .
• 1992: Martina Koch: The constellation of rationalities in the interrational educational process: J. Habermas , D. Kamper and M. Seel in a fictional conversation about an image interpretation by K. Mollenhauer (= Studies on Philosophy and Theory of Education , Volume 21), German Studies Verlag, Weinheim 1992, ISBN 3-89271-373-1 ( dissertation Uni Hamburg 1992).
• 1996: Rudolf Maresch: It doesn't work without a body. A text with and for Dietmar Kamper
• 2001: Bernd Ternes: "Marginal Man". Dietmar Kamper as a thinker beyond difference and indifference .
• Rudolf Maresch: Dietmar Kamper. Encounter with a philosophical border crosser and outsider

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietmar Kamper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary at digitab.de
• "Associations. Seven repulsed sentences about art, terror and civilization" (Essay, 2001)
• Dietmar Kamper archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• Dietmar Kamper's estate , FU Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 243.