John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue (born January 1, 1956 in County Clare in Ireland , † January 4, 2008 in France ) was an Irish philosopher , Catholic priest and writer .

biography

John O'Donohue was born in 1956 and grew up in a farming village in County Clare, a barren landscape in western Ireland. In 1990 he did his doctorate at the University of Tübingen with the writing Person as Mediation .

As a philosopher and author, he dealt with Celtic wisdom and Celtic-Christian ideas. He was particularly well known with the bestseller Anam Ċara ( anɪm kɑɾɾɑ ) - The Book of Celtic Wisdom (German by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini). In addition, O'Donohue was considered a profound connoisseur of Hegel's philosophy . Since the mid-1990s he lived in Connemara ( County Galway ). At the beginning of January 2008 he died while on vacation in France.

As a former Catholic priest, O'Donohue was also a member of a citizens' movement for many years to preserve the natural integrity of his native Burren region and spoke Gaelic .

Works

• Anam Ċara. Munich: dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-423-24119-9 .
• Echo of the soul. dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-423-24180-9 .
• Beauty: From the richness of life. dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24391-0 .
  • New edition: On the Wealth of Life: Awakening Beauty. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34410-4 .
• Benedictus: The Book of Irish Blessings. Pattloch, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-629-02220-2 .
• Connemara Blues. Poems. English and German. dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-342-3-24295-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Person as mediation - the dialectic of individuality and generality in Hegel's “Phenomenology of Spirit”. A philosophical-theological interpretation. Tuebingen studies on theology and philosophy, volume 4. Grünewald, Mainz 1993, ISBN 978-3-7867-1625-9 .
2. ^ Death of poet and philosopher O'Donoghue. From RTÉ News on January 4, 2008, accessed March 3, 2011. (English)
3. ↑ John O'Donohue is dead. In Spiegel Online on January 8, 2008 accessed 3 March 2011.
4. ↑ Reading sample (PDF file, 72 kB) ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German paperback publishing house . Retrieved March 3, 2011. 
5. ↑ Reading sample (PDF file, 0.3 MB) at Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
6. ↑ Beauty has its home in the intermediate realm of self and object. Conversation ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Adelbert Reif with the author. In the cultural magazine Die Drei . Retrieved March 3, 2011 (PDF file, 0.1 MB) 
7. ↑ Susanne Mack: A divine gift. Book review at Deutschlandradio Kultur on June 27, 2007, accessed on March 3, 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about John O'Donohue in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by John O'Donohue at perlentaucher.de
• John O'Donohue's website (English)
• Texts on John O'Donohue in the Ireland Journal. (PDF file, 1.4 MB)
• Belief. Interview with O'Donohue on BBC 3 , April 9, 2004 (English text version)
• “Death of poet and philosopher O'Donoghue” , RTÉ News , January 4, 2008
• John O'Donohue on Irish Writers Online (English)
• Irish pronunciation of Anam Ċara