Hans Peter Duerr

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Hans Peter Duerr (born June 6, 1943 in Mannheim ) is a German ethnologist and cultural historian . He lives in Mannheim.

Career

Duerr studied ethnology at the universities in Vienna and Heidelberg . He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1971 from the University of Heidelberg on the theory of consciousness . From 1975 to 1980 he was a lecturer and visiting professor for ethnology and cultural history in Zurich , Kassel and Bern . In 1981 he completed his habilitation at the comprehensive university in Kassel . From 1992 to 1999 he taught as a professor for ethnology and cultural history at the University of Bremen . In 1989/1990 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 1995/1996 at the European University of Florence .

Scientific work

Regional focuses in Duerr's work are indigenous North America , East Indonesia and North Frisia .

The band Traumzeit. On the Frontiers between Wilderness and Civilization was published in 1978 and has become a widely read book at German universities. In it, Duerr describes natural religious traditions . His subjects are shamans , witches , astrologers . He is concerned with the question of what a person of western civilization can learn from ancient traditions. In particular, he processes experiences that he was able to gain from dealing with foreign cultures.

In his five-volume main work The Myth of the Civilization Process, Duerr is about a refutation of the civilization theory of Norbert Elias , which he put forward in 1939 in his main work on the process of civilization .

Publications

Monographs and Articles

  • Numerous articles in the Forum Academicum (Heidelberg) until 1969
  • Ni Dieu - ni mètre. Anarchical remarks on the theory of consciousness and epistemology. 1974
  • Dream time. Across the borders between wilderness and civilization. 1978
  • Satyricon. 1982
  • Sedna or the love of life. 1984
  • The myth of the civilization process. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main
  • Breakfast in the countryside. Essays and interviews. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-518-11959-4
  • Corridors and submerges. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518-12140-5
  • Rungholt. The search for a sunken city. Insel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-458-17274-1
  • Tears of the goddesses. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88423-313-9
  • The voyage of the Argonauts. Insel, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17469-1
  • The dark night of the soul - near-death experiences and journeys to the hereafter. Insel, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-17631-2
  • This Side of Eden - About the Origin of Religion. Insel, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-458-17844-6

Editing

  • Under the pavement is the beach , 15 numbers, 1st year 1974 - 12th year, 1985
  • Temptations. Essays on the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend .
    • 1st volume. 1980
    • 2nd volume. 1981
  • The scientist and the irrational . 1981
    • Volume 1: Contributions from ethnology and anthropology
    • Volume 2: Contributions from philosophy and psychology
  • The middle of the world. Essays on Mircea Eliade . 1984
  • Authenticity and Fraud in Ethnology . 1987
  • The wild soul. On the ethno-psychoanalysis by Georges Devereux . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1987

literature

  • Kenneth Anders: Norbert Elias, Hans Peter Duerr and the debate about the civilization process. Master thesis. 1995.
  • Kenneth Anders: The Inevitable Universal Story. Studies on Norbert Elias and the teleology problem , Opladen 2000.
  • Thomas Bargatzky : Hans Peter Duerr , in: State political manual . Volume 3, Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2012. pp. 40-42. On-line
  • Ulrike Döcker: The order of the bourgeois world. Behavioral Ideals and Social Practices in the 19th Century. 1994, pp. 20–21 (debate between Norbert Elias and Hans Peter Duerr)
  • Benedikt Maria Trappen , Hans Peter Duerr: Myths. Rituals. Not everyday ways of consciousness and experience. A writing conversation . In AUFGANG Volume 10 “Education - what is that?” ISBN 978-3-17-022974-7 pp. 156–163, Stuttgart 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elke Koepping: Rungholt - Atlantis in the Wadden Sea. In: magazin.audible.de. Audible GmbH, October 31, 2019, accessed on November 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ see also feeling of shame
personal data
SURNAME Duerr, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim