Franz Josef Hinkelammert
Franz Josef Hinkelammert (* 1931 in Emsdetten ) is a German- born economist and liberation theologian who now lives in Latin America .
Life
Franz Josef Hinkelammert was born in Emsdetten in the Münsterland in 1931. He studied economics and did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin with a fundamental thesis on the Soviet planned economy .
In the 1960s he went to Chile for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and taught at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago de Chile . When the left wing of the Christian Democratic Party of Chile joined the electoral alliance Unidad Popular , Hinkelammert became economic advisor to the new government after Salvador Allende's election victory in 1970. After the military coup in Chile in 1973 , Hinkelammert was able to save himself from arrest at the German embassy and initially returned to Germany.
In 1976 Hinkelammert returned to Latin America. Together with Pablo Richard , Hugo Assmann and others, he founded the Departamiento Ecumenico de Investigaciones in Costa Rica as an interdisciplinary research institute for liberation theology . Franz Hinkelammert lives to this day in Latin America and publishes in Spanish. He published fundamental works “on the epistemological status and method of theology, on central theological topics such as the resurrection hope in dealing with Marx's criticism of religion , on the analysis of fetishism and on biblical theological topics”. In his publications he subjected the neoliberal economy and its representatives Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek as well as the philosopher and scientific theorist Karl Popper to fundamental criticism.
In 2006 Franz Hinkelammert was elected in Venezuela as the first winner of the Premio Libertador (“Liberator Prize”).
Publications (selection)
- The ideological weapons of death. On the metaphysics of capitalism. Edition Liberación, Münster 1985, ISBN 3-923792-10-7
- Critique of Utopian Reason. An examination of the main currents of modern social theory. Edition Exodus, Luzern 1994, ISBN 3-905575-92-2 , ( online (PDF))
- The scream of the subject. From the world theater of the Gospel of John to the dog years of globalization. , Edition Exodus, Luzern 2001, ISBN 3-905577-46-1
- Life is more than capital. Alternatives to the global dictatorship of property (with Ulrich Duchrow ). Publik-Forum -Verlagsgesellschaft, Oberursel 2002, ISBN 978-3-88095-117-4
- Think liberation. Crossings between continents and science. Edited and edited by Norbert Arntz , Edition ITP-Kompass and Edition Exodus, Münster / Luzern 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813562-1-2 ( online (PDF))
- The dialectic and humanism of practice. With Marx against the neoliberal collective suicide , VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-96488-056-7 .
Web links
- Liberation theology has political abilities - biographical and content-related pieces of text on Franz Hinkelammert
- Franz Hinkelammert: Reflections on the debt problem: the emptying of human rights , 2016
- Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert , documentation (45 min.) 2012, Spanish with English subtitles
- Writings by Franz Hinkelammert (German, PDF) on www.pensamientocritico.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bruno Kern: Theologie der Befreiung , Verlag A. Francke, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-4027-1 , p. 123f
- ↑ Michael Jäger : Ideale - Hugo Chávez honors the liberation theologian Franz J. Hinkelammert , in: Freitag. The East-West weekly newspaper , 21/2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hinkelammert, Franz Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emsdetten |