Helmut Hofbauer

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Helmut Hofbauer (* 1973 in Horn , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian philosopher .

Live and act

Helmut Hofbauer studied philosophy and Spanish at the University of Vienna, worked for ten years as a projectionist in the Viennese Votiv Kino and was lecturer for the Austrian cooperation at the German Institute of the University of Wrocław in Breslau / Poland for six years . Currently (2012) he works for the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Diagnosis and Regeneration of Cardiac and Thoracic Diseases of Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Hendrik Jan Leonard Ankersmit works at the Medical University of Vienna.

The focus of his philosophical research is the single person, the individual, and their ability to recognize, act and communicate with other people. Hofbauer considers this to be an outsider issue, since the academically organized philosophy at present theoretically prefers to deal with larger units (science, ethics, culture, the “we” of political action etc.) than the (individual) person. However, he thinks that the return to the individual can sometimes lead to important corrections in large-scale theoretical concepts and bring concrete ideas to abstract designs.

If the individual with his options for action were not the general theme of his works, these would be assigned to the disciplines of sociology, epistemology, intercultural communication, German studies and philosophy of science, and their unity would not be apparent. Hofbauer's understanding of philosophy is strongly influenced by the Spanish philosophers Fernando Savater and José Ortega y Gasset .

Works

  • Reference point society. About the sociability and unsociability of people. ATUT, Breslau 2005, ISBN 83-7432-045-1 .
  • Invitation to the Odyssey. An epistemological reflection on the "epic side of truth". ATUT & Neisse Verlag, Breslau-Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-83-7432-349-9 , ISBN 978-3-940310-33-0 .
  • Intercultural German Studies. Regional and canonized identity texts. Ed., Together with Gudrun Heidemann and Anna Mańko-Matysiak. ATUT & Neisse Verlag, Breslau-Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-83-7432-427-4 , ISBN 978-3-940310-47-7 .
  • Intercultural communication - viewed from a philosophical point of view. An (out) execution from intercultural communication. ATUT & Neisse Verlag, Breslau-Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940310-76-7 , ISBN 978-83-7432-538-7 .
  • Who hid the knowledge in science? 12 scientific studies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4706-0 .
  • From the unprotected word. Philosophy in the Organized World. bloggingbooks (Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften), Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-8417-7022-6 .
  • Moral owls carry into ethics. Studies on the tendency of ethics to morality. tredition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8495-8121-3 .
  • Twisting with the mind. Philosophizing for the sake of spiritual survival. tredition, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7323-5170-1 .
  • Is the patient human? Ed., Together with Lukas Kaelin, Hendrik Jan Ankersmit and Walter Feigl. The book was published as Volume 5 of the series "Ethics of Life Worlds", ed. by Peter Kampits. LIT Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-50708-2 .
  • Survival among humans. Live on with the rest of the personality. A philosophical novel in the form of aphorisms. tredition, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7345-8733-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hofbauer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn , Lower Austria