Ernst Vollrath

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Ernst Vollrath (born January 25, 1932 in Wevelinghoven ; † January 30, 2004 in Bochum ) was a German political philosopher who had mainly dealt with the works of Hannah Arendt since the early 1970s and developed a theory of the political on this basis . He was married to the historian Hanna Vollrath .

Life

After studying philosophy in Freiburg, he was in Cologne in 1959 with studies on the theory of categories of Aristotle Dr. phil. PhD. From 1966 to 1968 he taught as Professeur Titulaire at the University of Dakar in Senegal. The habilitation took place in 1969 in Cologne.

In 1970 he got to know Hannah Arendt personally - the two then exchanged letters - and since then has mainly dealt with her thinking. In 1971 his article Politics and Metaphysics appeared: On the political thought of Hannah Arendt . In this essay, he made it clear that he shared Arendt's philosophical and political concepts. Here, as in later publications, he speaks of Arendt's “Phenomenology of the Political”.

As early as the early 1970s, Arendt had been campaigning for Vollrath to be able to teach political theory in the field of philosophy from 1973 at the New School for Social Research in New York. In addition, he also took part in Arendt's seminars at this university. In 1972 Vollrath attended a conference in Toronto with Hannah Arendt , the minutes of which were published.

Grave cemetery Melaten

After his return to Germany in 1976 he became professor of philosophy at the University of Cologne . Even after his retirement in 1999, he continued to work with Hannah Arendt. He was thus one of the very few scientists who had early research reports on Arendt. Arendt was hardly received in the West and East German academic and political discussion, the few references mostly had negative connotations.

In 2001 Vollrath was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thinking together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit . The keynote address was given by Antonia Grunenberg, chairwoman of the Hannah Arendt Center in Oldenburg . His main works, in which he developed a theory of the political and its perception (in Vollrath's terminology: "apperception"), appeared in 1987 and 2003.

Until recently involved in discourses about Hannah Arendt, which in the meantime had become more and more important in Germany, he died in 2004 at the age of 72. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. D, between HWG and lit. H).

Works

  • The division of metaphysics into a Metaphysica Generalis and a Metaphysica Specialis , Journal for Philosophical Research , April – June 1962, 16, pp. 258–284.
  • The thesis of metaphysics. On the shape of metaphysics in Aristoteles, Kant and Hegel , Henn, Wuppertal 1969
  • Studies on the theory of categories of Aristotle. Academia Philosophical Studies Vol. 1. Academia, 1969. ISBN 3-88345-836-8
  • Lenin and the State. On the concept of the political in Lenin , Henn, Wuppertal 1970
  • Politics and metaphysics: On the political thinking of Hannah Arendt, in Zeitschrift für Politik 18, 1971, pp. 205–232 again in Adelbert Reif (ed.): Hannah Arendt. Materials for her work , Europa, Vienna 1979, pp. 19–58. ISBN 3-203-50718-8
  • Hannah Arendt and the Method of Political Thinking , in Social Research 44, 1, 1977, pp. 170-182; German (extended version): “Hannah Arendt and the method of political thinking”, in Adelbert Reif (ed.): Hannah Arendt. Materials for her work, including: Hannah Arendt on opinion and judgment . Vienna 1979, pp. 59-84
  • Hannah Arendt on opinion and judgment , in Adelbert Reif (Hrsg.): Hannah Arendt. Materials for her work, including: Hannah Arendt on opinion and judgment . Vienna 1979, pp. 85-108
  • Foundation of a philosophical theory of the political , Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1987
  • Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger , in: A. Gethmann-Siefert and Otto Pöggeler (eds.): Heidegger and the practical philosophy , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1988, pp. 357–372
  • The originality of Hannah Arendt's contribution to the theory of the political , in Eveline Valtink, ed .: Power and violence: Introduction to Hannah Arendt's philosophy. Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar (Hofgeismarer Protocols, 258) 1989, pp. 7–23
  • Hannah Arendt , in: Karl Graf Ballestrem and Henning Ottmann (Eds.): Political Philosophy of the 20th Century. Oldenburg, Munich 1990, pp. 13-32
  • Max Weber : Social science between constitutional law theory and cultural criticism , in: "PVS. Journal of the German Association for Political Science" (University of Osnabrück), 1, 1990
  • Hannah Arendt's "Critique of Political Judgment" , in Peter Kemper , Ed .: Die Zukunft des Politischen. Outlook on HA Fischer, Frankfurt 1993, pp. 34–54
  • Fragments of the Experience of the Political. Review of Hannah Arendt, "What is politics?" , in Political Thinking: Yearbook 1993 pp. 185–188
  • Hannah Arendt at the Left , in Neue Politische Literatur 38, 1993, pp. 361–372
  • Revolution and constitution as republican basic motifs in Hannah Arendt , in Bernward Baule (ed.), Hannah Arendt and the Berlin Republic. Questions to the United Germany , Aufbau, Berlin 1996, pp. 130–150
  • Action and Judgment: On the problems of Hannah Arendt's reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment" from a political perspective , in Herfried Münkler , ed., Bürgerreligion und Bürgerertugend: Debates on the pre-political foundations of political order. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, pp. 228–249
  • Hannah Arendt: A German-American Jewess Views the United States and Looks back to Germany , in Peter Graf Kielmansegg et al. (eds.), Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss : German Emigrés and American Political Thought after World War II , Cambridge University Press 1997, pp. 45–60
  • Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, considered again , in: Andreas Großmann (Ed.): Metaphysics of the practical world. Perspectives following Hegel and Heidegger . Festival ceremony for Otto Pöggeler . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 192-210
  • From 'radically evil' to 'banality of evil': reflections on a train of thought by Hannah Arendt , in: Festschrift for the award of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2001 to EV & Daniel Cohn-Bendit, supplement to Kommune 6, 2002, P. 3–9 full text only Vollrath ( Memento from March 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  • What is the political? A theory of the political and its perception , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003

literature

  • Festschrift for the award of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought 2001 , published as a supplement to the magazine Kommune , ed. by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin / Bremen, issue 6/2002; on the grounds for the award: Antonia Grunenberg (pp. XXI-XXIV); Laudation: Brigitte Sauzay (pp. XXV-XXVIII).
  • Patrick Krause: The most beautiful of the world: On the death of the philosopher Ernst Vollrath, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 11, 2003, p. 13.
  • H.- G. Schmitz: On the death of Ernst Vollrath , in: Political thinking. Yearbook 2004. ISBN 978-3-428-11732-1
  • Klaus Hartmann : The Republic of Action. On Ernst Vollrath's political philosophy, in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 91 (1994) 139–151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is the political? A theory of the political and its perception. Wuerzburg 2003
  2. ↑ http://www.philosophie.uni-koeln.de/sites/philo-sem/Personen/Emeriti/Kurzbiographie-Vollrath.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.philosophie.uni-koeln.de/sites/philo-sem/Personen/Emeriti/Kurzbiographie-Vollrath.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.philosophie.uni-koeln.de/sites/philo-sem/Personen/Emeriti/Kurzbiographie-Vollrath.pdf
  5. ↑ Copy of the correspondence in the Hannah Arendt Center of the University of Oldenburg.
  6. ^ Adelbert Reif (ed.): Hannah Arendt. Materials for her work, including: Hannah Arendt on opinion and judgment . Vienna 1979
  7. ↑ Antonia Grunenberg Antonia Grunenberg ( Memento of January 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Antonia Grunenberg: Ernst Vollrath - Paths of thought and Aufbruch . Speech on the award of the Hannah Arendt Prize 2001
  8. ↑ on the online pages of the Zs. There is under the misleading title "Documentation", which together with the introduction gives the impression of reproducing all the contributions at the award, only the speech of C.-B., the current bombing and dismantling Yugoslavia and used the name Arendt for it
personal data
SURNAME Vollrath, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vollrath, Gottfried Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wevelinghoven
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2004
Place of death Bochum