Eckhard Nordhofen

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Eckhard Nordhofen (2008)

Eckhard Nordhofen (born February 2, 1945 in Dehrn ) is a German philosopher and theologian as well as a former cultural director of the Limburg diocese .

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Nordhofen made his Abitur at the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main . He studied theology , German and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt . His university lecturers included Johannes Hirschberger , Johannes G. Deninger, Rudolf Pesch , Wolfgang Cramer , Bruno Liebrucks , Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno and Paul Stöcklein. In 1974 he received his doctorate with a philosophical thesis on Domain Thinking in Critical Rationalism . He taught religious philosophy and philosophy in Frankfurt, after switching to school he worked out curricula for the Ministry of Culture in Hesse and from 1990 trained religious teachers for grammar schools. From 1978 to 1995 he was chairman of the Philosophy Association in Hesse. He was one of the founders and editors of the Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie (ZDP). In 1997 the German Bishops' Conference elected him head of the Central Education Office. He represented the Catholic Church in the German UNESCO Commission and in the "Education Forum" of the federal-state commission for educational planning and research funding . In 2000 he organized the joint educational congress of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) “Tempi. Education in the Age of Acceleration ”in the French Cathedral in Berlin and other education congresses of the DBK. From January 1, 2006 to June 2010, he was head of the education and culture department in the Limburg diocese, with responsibility for school and university issues as well as for the entire educational and cultural work of the diocese with the Haus am Dom in Frankfurt am Main and with responsibility for museums, archives and libraries as well as the Rabanus Maurus Academy. In 2008 he founded and developed the biannual educational magazine Eulenfisch together with Martin W. Ramb and became honorary professor for theological aesthetics and image theory at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. On November 5, 2014, he gave his farewell lecture at the University of Giessen . Together with Ulrich Greiner and Irmgard Leinen , he publishes the culture magazine Text und Zeit .

Nordhofen has also been active as a journalist since the early 1970s and has written reviews and essays for the FAZ , Die Zeit , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Merkur , Eulenfisch , Südwestfunk and the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

He is married to Dr. Susanne Nordhofen and father of two sons and a daughter.

Religious-philosophical position

Nordhofen represents a privative monotheism . This is based on the conceptual-logical distinction between a privative and a limitative negation. The term content (intension) is differentiated from the term scope (extension). The God of the Bible reveals himself by withholding himself (eschatological withholding). The “God's name” YHWH , “I am who is, was and will be”, has the greatest possible extension. Since it does not say anything else, so there is no content (intension) on the object level, the pure extension becomes the actual content (coincidence of intension and extension). This conceptual singularity meets the ontological special class of God. It has a reality that is not to be confused with the usual empirical reality. God is not a thing in the world, but rather its creator and its counterpart. Anyone who refers to him wins an antagonist for his world-eccentric behavior. On this basis, Nordhofen illuminates the consequences that privative monotheism has for a theory of communicative action . In a media theory of monotheism, he examines the aesthetic consequences of the ban on cult images, follows the relationship between image and language, and discovers the retold teaching performance as a literary form. The ontological special case of God results in his “otherness” (alterity). The mark of alterity thus becomes the key concept for genuinely religious practice ( liturgy ) and Christian art . Nordhofen consistently criticizes usurpatory monotheism as an illegitimate instrument of rule and the functionalist abuse of every religion.

Works

As an author:

  • Domain thinking in critical rationalism. On the finitistic tradition of the Popperschule. Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1976 (dissertation).
  • The angel of denial. About the relationship between art and negative theology. Echter, Würzburg 1993.
  • The girls, the teacher and God. Novel. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998.
  • Corpora. The anarchic power of monotheism. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 2018. ISBN 978-3-451-38146-1 .

As editor:

  • Physiognomies. Portraits of 20th Century Philosophers. Athenaeum, Königstein 1980.
  • with Ekkehard Martens and Joachim Siebert: Philosophical masterpieces. 2 volumes. Reclam, Stuttgart 1998/2001.
  • Ban on images. The visibility of the invisible. Schöningh, Paderborn 2001.
  • with Michael Langer : Experienced religion. Biographical sketches. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Tridentine Mass: a dispute. Reactions to the motu proprio "Summorum Pontificum" Benedict XVI. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2008.
  • with Linus Hauser : The other of the term. Schöningh 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77627-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.siebertverlag.de/ZDPE/
  2. ↑ https://idw-online.de/de/news13029
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D_5dXvyFKQ
  4. ↑ http://www.text-und-zeit.de/index.html
  5. ^ Eckhard Nordhofen: Novel "Sunrise": Before the writing came the dreams . In: The time . No. 24/2012 ( online ).
  6. ↑ https://volltext.merkur-zeitschrift.de/xsearch?facet%5Bautor%5D=Nordhofen%2C+Eckhard
  7. ↑ http://eulenfisch.de/
personal data
SURNAME Nordhofen, Eckhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and head of cultural affairs for the Limburg diocese
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dehrn