Joachim Fischer (sociologist)

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Joachim Fischer (* 1951 in Hanover ) is a German sociologist. The focus of his work lies in the areas of sociological theory and social philosophy , philosophical anthropology , cultural sociology and art sociology as well as urban and architectural sociology .

Career

Joachim Fischer studied German , sociology , philosophy and political science at the universities of Hanover , Gießen , Tübingen and Göttingen . The social philosopher Klaus Hartmann in Tübingen and the sociologist Hans Paul Bahrdt in Göttingen were formative for him .

He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1997 Fischer received his doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on philosophical anthropology in Göttingen; In 2010 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the TU Dresden (Habilitation thesis: The other and the third . On the foundation of social theory ).

From 1999 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the chair for sociological theory, history of theory and cultural sociology at the Institute for Sociology of the TU Dresden ( Karl-Siegbert Rehberg ). Since the winter semester 2009/10 he has been visiting professor and substitute professor for general sociology and cultural sociology (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Halle-Wittenberg, European University of Frankfurt (Oder), University of Innsbruck, University of Basel, University of Graz). In 2012 he was appointed honorary professor for sociology at the TU Dresden.

From 2011 to 2017 he was President of the Helmuth Plessner Society . On his initiative, the city of Wiesbaden donated a Wiesbaden Helmuth Plessner Prize (every three years, 20,000 euros); the first prize winner in 2014 is Michael Tomasello , the second prize winner in 2017 is Peter Sloterdijk .

Theoretically systematic, the focus is on "Philosophical Anthropology" as a modern paradigm of social and cultural sciences, whose theoretical core, according to Fischer, includes not only the rival thinkers Max Scheler and Plessner, but also Arnold Gehlen , Erich Rothacker and Adolf Portmann . In addition to the dramatic history of the development of the theory in the twenties, the history of its impact in the sociology and philosophy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the second half of the 20th century is reconstructed.

In particular, Fischer researched the “Cologne Constellation” between Scheler, Plessner and Nicolai Hartmann in the history of German theory in the 1920s - a theoretical correspondence between Philosophical Anthropology and New Ontology. The so-called “Cirkel protocols” were found in the Hartmann estate in Marbach. These dialogue protocols from disputations, which Nicolai Hartmann organized from 1920 to 1950 at his respective university locations (Marburg, Cologne, Berlin, Göttingen) almost every semester with selected students on one topic, are prepared by Fischer and Gerald Hartung as part of a DFG Project (2016–2019) prepared for an online edition.

Interview on Dresden's culture of debate

In an interview, Joachim Fischer declared Dresden the “capital of the culture of debate”. Four debates with nationwide significance started from Dresden and were conducted here on behalf of the entire Federal Republic. This means that Dresden has been an avant-garde of civil society for the past 25 years . Obviously there were and are citizens here with the courage to address new problems and not to come to terms with conditions without alternatives. The following debates were started in Dresden:

  1. The response to the visit of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Dresden in December 1989, which was surprising for many contemporaries . Here the topic of reunification was put on the agenda for the first time and was heavily controversial in the city itself. This first Dresden debate in 1989/90 had enormous Federal Republican, European and international significance.
  2. The debate about the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche was the trigger for the reconstructivism debate about the reconstruction of the Dresden Neumarkt , which has developed into a passionate debate about the construction of historic city quarters in other German cities.
  3. The Waldschlösschenbrücke was also bitterly disputed in Dresden. There was a conflict between building an infrastructure and maintaining an inner-city natural landscape. This debate anticipated the disputes about the construction of wind turbines and large power lines in other regions.
  4. Furthermore, the longstanding Dresden debate about the appropriate commemoration of the destruction of the city on February 13, 1945 , which also served as a substitute, should be mentioned. Many other cities were also or even more destroyed, but in no other city was there such an intense debate about the horrific destruction of German cities by air raids as in Dresden.
  5. The “ Pegida and No-Pegida ” complex is one of those debates that has not yet ended, but is also very topical in other parts of Germany. Fischer does not see a division of society in this, but a dispute between groups of people, whereby the double phenomenon is important.
  6. The new 'picture dispute' on 20th century art. The debate about the unbalanced presentation of the art holdings of the 20th century in the Galerie Neue Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) was initiated in 2017 by Paul Kaiser (* 1961, research assistant at the Technical University of Dresden ) and could be carried out via other museum cities (such as Potsdam and Leipzig ) experienced a nationwide broadcast. It is about the presentation of the large realistic holdings in German museums, not just about the fine arts of the GDR, which are not shown due to the proclaimed victory of abstract art .

Professional commitment

Joachim Fischer is a member of the Helmuth Plessner Society HPG.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Eccentric positionality. Studies on Helmuth Plessner , Weilerswist 2016, ISBN 9783958320932 .
  • Sociology of Space Travel , together with Dierk Spreen; with guest contributions by Heike Delitz and Helmuth Plessner, Bielefeld: transcript 2014, ISBN 9783837627756 .
  • How the bourgeoisie keeps in shape . Series on Klampen Essay, ed. v. Anne Hamilton, Springe: zu Klampen 2012, ISBN 9783866741744 .
  • Philosophical anthropology. A school of thought of the 20th century , Freiburg / Munich: Alber Verlag 2008, ISBN 9783495483695 .

Release

  • Sociological schools of thought in the Federal Republic of Germany , ed. together with Stephan Moebius , Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2019, ISBN 9783658222222 .
  • Sociology of Culture in the 21st Century , ed. together with Stephan Moebius, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014, ISBN 9783658032258 .
  • Plessner in Wiesbaden , ed. together with Tilman Allert, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014, ISBN 9783658054519 .
  • Theories of the Third. Innovations in Sociology and Social Philosophy , ed. together with Thomas Bedorf and Gesa Lindemann, Munich: Fink 2010, ISBN 9783770550210 .
  • Bourgeoisie without bourgeoisie . What country do we live in? , ed. together with Heinz Bude and Bernd Kaufmann, Munich: Fink 2010, ISBN 9783770546275 .
  • The architecture of society. Theories for the Sociology of Architecture , ed. together with Heike Delitz, Bielefeld: transcript 2009, ISBN 9783837611373 .
  • Potsdamer Platz. Sociological theories on a place of modernity , ed. together with Michael Makropoulos, Munich: Fink 2004, ISBN 9783770537082 .
  • Plessner's “ Limits of Community ”. A debate , ed. together with Wolfgang Eßbach and Helmut Lethen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2002, ISBN 9783518291412 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/eine-offene-geschichtstheorie-der-moderne.691.de.html?dram:article_id=218431
  2. ↑ See http://www.wiesbaden.de/guiapplications/newsdesk/publications/Landeshauptstadt_Wiesbaden/141010100000191839.php
  3. ↑ See http://www.wiesbaden.de/kultur/kulturfoerderung/kulturfoerderung-stadt/helmuth-plessner-preis-2017.php
  4. ↑ Philosophical Anthropology. A school of thought of the 20th century, Freiburg / Munich: Alber Verlag 2008.
  5. ↑ New Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology. The Cologne constellation between Scheler, Hartmann and Plessner, in: Gerald Hartung / Matthias Wunsch / Claudius Strube (eds.): From system philosophy to systematic philosophy - Nicolai Hartmann, Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 131–152.
  6. ↑ Interview with the sociologist Joachim Fischer, in DNN from April 30, 2018 (accessed on May 13, 2018). Cf. Fischer, Does Dresden have antennas? The function of the city for debates in society as a whole since 1989, in: Merkur. German Journal for European Thinking, H. 795, vol. 69, August 2015, pp. 16–28.
  7. ↑ http://helmuth-plessner.de/helmuth-plessner-gesellschaft/
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover