Heinz Paetzold

Heinz Paetzold (born September 20, 1941 in Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia Province ; † June 9, 2012 in Xuzhou ( People's Republic of China )) was a German philosopher .

Life

After the end of the Second World War , the Paetzold family was expelled from Poland in May 1946 . She initially found accommodation in Obernkirchen . In 1953 the family moved to Vlotho , where Heinz Paetzold attended a Progymnasium. He graduated from high school at Besselgymnasium Minden .

Paetzold began studying philosophy, German, pedagogy and Nordic studies at the universities of Cologne , Heidelberg , Hamburg and Kiel in 1962 . In 1972 Paetzold received his doctorate in philosophy with the dissertation Neo-Marxist Aesthetics under Karl-Otto Apel at the University of Kiel. In 1977 Paetzold received a professorship for communication theory and cultural philosophy in the design department at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, where he taught until his retirement in 2006. At the University of Hamburg, Paetzold completed his habilitation in philosophy in 1978 with the fundamental thesis Aesthetics of German Idealism. On the idea of aesthetic rationality in Baumgarten, Kant, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer.

Paetzold also taught cultural philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Hamburg , the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam , the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and most recently from 1999 until his death at the University of Kassel . Paetzold had a rehabilitation here in 1998 . He was visiting professor in Japan, Norway, Poland and China.

Heinz Paetzold died on June 9, 2012 in China during a trip to an international philosophical conference.

Work areas

Although Paetzold came from Apels Transcendental Pragmatics as a result of his studies , Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms was the leitmotif of his work. With references to Helmuth Plessner and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paetzold added Cassirer's philosophy to an anthropological anchorage and a political perspective.

His fields of work were also modern and contemporary philosophy, in particular philosophical aesthetics , as well as art theory , cultural philosophy and urban sociology . In his work he referred to the philosophy of German idealism , critical theory or neo-Marxism and theories of postmodernism .

Works

Monographs

Neo-Marxist aesthetics. Pedagogical Publishing House Schwann, Düsseldorf 1974
Aesthetics of German Idealism. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983
Aesthetics of the New Modern Age. Steiner, Stuttgart 1990 ( online )
Profiles of aesthetics. Passagen, Vienna 1990
Ernst Cassirer as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 1993 (2nd, revised edition 2002)
The reality of the symbolic forms. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994
The discourse of the postmodern and the discourse of the avant-garde. Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht 1994
Ernst Cassirer - from Marburg to New York. A philosophical biography. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-534-11816-2 .

Editorships

Integral urban culture. Publishing house of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 2006 ( online )
With Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik , Intercultural Philosophy. , Publishing House of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 2007
With Helmut Schneider: Schelling's thinking of freedom. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010

literature

Roger Behrens , Kai Kresse and Ronnie M. Peplow: A symbolic stroll. Cultural-philosophical forays. Festschrift for Heinz Paetzold for the 60th Wehrhahn, Laatzen / Hannover 2001, ISBN 3-932324-56-0 .
Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik , Helmut Schneider (Hrsg.): Between cultures. In memory of Heinz Paetzold. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89958-592-6 . ( Online )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Helmut Schneider (ed.): Between cultures. In memory of Heinz Paetzold. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, pp. 9–12.

personal data
SURNAME	Paetzold, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweidnitz , Lower Silesia Province
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 2012
Place of death	Xuzhou , China

[kultur-1] Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Helmut Schneider (ed.): Between cultures. In memory of Heinz Paetzold. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, pp. 9–12.