Hans-Herbert Koegler

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Hans-Herbert Koegler

Hans-Herbert Kögler (born January 13, 1960 in Darmstadt ) is a German philosopher and social theorist living in the United States .

biography

Born in Darmstadt in 1960, Kögler began studying philosophy, art history and education after graduating from the Viktoriaschule Darmstadt in Frankfurt. Funded by the German National Academic Foundation , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1991 under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas . During the course of his doctorate, he broadened his European perspective to America and finally found a teaching foothold here at several universities. From 1991 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1997 he was appointed to the University of North Florida , Jacksonville, where he has been a full professor since 2007. However, he maintained contacts to Europe, in particular to the Austrian Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt , where he held several visiting professorships (2004; 2006), as well as to Prague (2003).

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Kögler developed an internationally respected and influential critical hermeneutics, the ethos of which consists in the recognition of the other through dialogical understanding, whereby the social and cultural influences of power and rule on the process of understanding are specifically reflected. Understanding is understood as a reflexive attitude towards everything that is initially foreign to us and meaningfully inaccessible, the aim of which is a radical questioning of one's own as well as other certainties and prejudices. A first paradigmatic formulation can be found in “Die Macht des Dialogs” (1992), whose American edition “The Power of Dialogue” (1996, 1999) is received worldwide. Furthermore, Kögler has articulated and further developed his project in over 60 magazine articles and book chapters.

One of the most important further developments is the project of dialogical cosmopolitanism and the idea of ​​agency. Cosmopolitanism is understood as a reflexive attitude towards globalization, which is based on the cognitive abilities for context-sensitive re-understanding, the normative orientation towards universal values ​​and rules, and the critical reflection of power relations. These cognitive abilities are introduced by Kögler as prerequisites for a cosmopolitan public. Kögler's theory of the agency fuses hermeneutic and existential philosophical approaches with George Herbert Mead's theory of the subject, whereby the intersubjective origin of self-identity as well as the irreducibility of the subject to given contexts or structures are in the foreground.

reception

Kögler's critical-hermeneutical approach was widely received in the Anglo-Saxon region, and not just through his teaching. So one comes across his impulses again and again in pedagogues, psychologists, ethnologists and also in gender research and feminist authors. These have an impact on former students at American universities in European discussions, for example in Scandinavia, Austria or the Czech Republic. Kögler's critical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology was also influential ; the leading journal Social Epistemology devoted a special issue to Kögler in 1997; this in turn pursued Bourdieu in later essays.

Honor

On the occasion of Kögler's 60th birthday, a two-day workshop "Hermeneutics, Critique, and Dialogue" was held at the University of North Florida in February 2020, at which, in addition to the jubilee, fifteen participants from the USA, Europe and the United Arab Emirates gave lectures and discussed.

bibliography

A detailed bibliography of the publications, in particular the articles that have appeared in German, English and French as well as in Russian and Czech, can be found on the University of North Florida personnel page.

Independent publications

  • The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics according to Gadamer, Foucault and Rorty. Stuttgart, Metzler, 1992.
    • The Power of dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault, transl. by Paul Hendrickson. Cambridge, Mass. 1996; 1999. (contains the new final chapter: Critical Theory as Critical Hermeneutics).
  • Michel Foucault. Stuttgart, Metzler, 1994; 2nd supplementary edition Stuttgart-Weimar, Metzler, 2004.
  • Kultura, Kritika, Dialog (Culture, Critique, Dialogue), Prague: Publishing House Filosofia, December 2006. (Collection of articles)

Essays (in selection)

  • Náboženství a rozměr zla. Etika, kritika a náboženství, in: Ondřej Štěch (ed.), Náboženství a sekularita, Zápas o veřený prostor, Praha, Filosofia, 2017, 167-194 = The Religious Face of Evil: Ethics and the Critique of Religion, in: Berlin Journal of Critical Theory 1,2 (2017) 21-45 ..
  • Ethics and Community, in: Jeff Malpas / Hans-Helmuth Gander (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics., 2014, 310-323.
  • Dialogue and Community: The Ethical Claim of Tradition, in: Journal of the Philosophy of History 8 (2014) 380-406.
  • Agency and the Other: On the intersubjective roots of self-identity, in: New Ideas in Psychology 30.1 (2012) 47-64.
  • Hermeneutic Cosmopolitanism, or: Toward a Cosmopolitan Public Sphere, in: Maria Rovisco / Magdalena Nowicka (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism. Farnham et al. a. 2011, 225-242.
  • Interpretation as Prima Philosophia: Rorty and the normative roots of dialogue, in: Matthias Buschmeier / Espen Hammer (ed.), Pragmatism and Hermeneutics: Contributions to Richard Rorty's cultural policy. Hamburg 2011 (magazine for aesthetics and general art history; special issue 11), 60-88.
  • Recognition and the Resurgence of Intentional Agency, in: Inquiry 53 (2010) 450-469.
  • Autonomy and Recognition: Critical Theory as Hermeneutics of the Subject, in: Rainer Winter / Peter Zima (Eds.), Critical Theory Today, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2007. 79-96.
  • The power of interpretation: Contours of a critical social science following Foucault, in: Roland Anhorn, Frank Bettinger, Johannes Stehr (eds.), Michel Foucault's power analysis and social work. A critical introduction and inventory, Wiesbaden, VS (Verlag der Sozialwissenschaften), 2007, 347-366.
  • Understanding chapter, in: Handbook Intercultural Communication and Competence, edited by Jürgen Straub, Arne Weidemann, Doris Weidemann, Stuttgart / Weimar, Metzler Verlag, 2007, 76-85.
  • Normality as normalization? On the theory of the subject in modern and post-modern times, in: Gerhard Unterthurner, Ulrike Kadi (Ed.), Normalität / Normalisierung / Normierung, IWK Proceedings, Vienna, 2006, 11-20, online [6]
  • Constructing a Cosmopolitan Public Sphere - Universal Values ​​and Hermeneutic Capabilities, in: European Journal of Social Theory 8 (2005) 297-320.
  • Beyond Dogma and Doxa: Truth and Dialogue in Rorty, Apel, and Ratzinger, in: DIALOGUE AND UNIVERSALISM, University of Warsaw Press, No. 7-8 / 2005, 85-103.
  • Recognition and Difference: The Power of Perspectives in Interpretive Dialogue, in: 'Dialogue as the Inscription of' the West ', special issue of: Social Identities, ed. By C. Zene and A. Mandair, 247-269.
  • The unconscious power of language, in: Ulrike Kadi / Gerhard Unterthurner (ed.), Sense, Power, Unconscious. Würzburg, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, 16-45.
  • Situated autonomy: On the return of the subject according to Foucault, in: Stefan Jäger / Stefan Deines (eds.,), Historiated Subjects / Subjectified History. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, 77 - 91.
  • Empathy, Dialogical Self, and Reflexive Interpretation: The Symbolic Source of Simulation, in: Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, H.-H. Kögler / K. Stueber, (eds.), Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press 2000. 194-221
  • Critical Hermeneutics of the Subject: Cultural Studies as Legacy of Critical Theory, in: K. Hörning / R. Winter (Ed.), Unruly Cultures: Cultural Studies as a Challenge. Frankfurt / M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999. 196-237.
  • Alienation as epistemological source: reflexivity and social background after. Mannheim and Bourdieu, in Social Epistemology 11.2 (1997) (Special Issue: New Directions in the Sociology of Knowledge) 141-164.
  • Dialogue and recognition: Theory sketch about power becoming reflexive, in: Erwin Hasselberg (Ed.), Dialogue in the 20th Century, special issue, Berlin, Hegel-Institut, 1997, 3-18.
  • Reconceptualizing reflexive sociology: A reply, in: Social Epistemology 11,2 (1997) 223-250.
  • Happy subjectivity: historical ethics and threefold ontology in the late Foucault, in: E. Erdmann, R. Forst, A. Honneth (eds.), Ethos der Moderne — Foucault's Critique of Enlightenment. Frankfurt: Campus 1990, 202-228.

Editorial activity

  • Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, co-edited with Karsten Stueber, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press 2000).
  • Hans-Herbert Kögler / Alice Pechriggl / Rainer Winter (eds.), Enigma Agency: power, resistance, reflexivity. Bielefeld, transcript 2019 (Cultural Studies 51).

literature

  • International Who's who of Authors and Writers 2004, 304.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See a lecture from 2015 on youtube [1] , accessed on May 9, 2017
  2. ↑ See the CV on the personnel page of the University of North Florida, [2] , accessed on April 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ In his revised dissertation, Kögler brings the central philosophical debates in Germany on hermeneutics , represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas, in conversation with Michel Foucault , to whom he devoted an introduction that was repeated several times a little later.
  4. ↑ See, for example, the dissertation by Alex D. Scheinmann, From explanation to understanding. Diss. George Mason University; 2009 as well as a number of other of his essays. See also Google Scholar Citations, [3] .
  5. ↑ See Social Epistemology 11.2 (1997) [4]
  6. ↑ See his article Unavoidable Idealizations and the Reality of Symbolic Power, in: Social Epistemology 27, 3-4 (2013) 302-314.
  7. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339338832_Hermeneutics_Critique_and_Dialogue_International_workshop_inspired_by_the_social_theory_and_critical_hermeneutics_of_Professor_Hans-Herbert_Kogler See the conference poster.
  8. ↑ [5]
personal data
SURNAME Kögler, Hans-Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and social theorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt