Karin priest

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Karin Priester , née Brachmann (born December 29, 1941 in Gleiwitz , † April 25, 2020 in Münster ) was a German historian and political scientist .

life and work

Karin Priester studied Romance studies, history, philosophy and political science at the universities in Cologne , Aix-en-Provence , Berlin and Florence . She did her doctorate in history and completed her habilitation in political science at the Philipps University of Marburg with a thesis on the state theory of Italian Marxism . After substituting professorships at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the RWTH Aachen University , from 1980 she held a professorship with a focus on political sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In February 2007 she retired . After that, Priester dealt primarily with the topics of populism and right-wing extremism , whereby her numerous publications reflect a broad spectrum of interests and also include literary and biographical works. Karin Priester died in April 2020 at the age of 78 in Münster.

Fonts (selection)

  • Italian fascism. Economic and ideological foundations , Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Cologne 1972.
  • Studies on the state theory of Italian Marxism: Gramsci and Della Volpe. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981 (also Univ.Habil.-Schr.).
  • Does Eurocommunism Have a Future? Perspectives and Limits of System Change in Western Europe , Beck, Munich 1982.
  • Racism and Cultural Difference. Lit, Münster 1997.
  • The myth of death. Death and the experience of death in modern literature , Philo Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • Mary Shelley. The woman who invented Frankenstein. A biography , Langen Müller Verlag, Munich 2001.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A life for women's rights , Langen-Müller, Munich 2002.
  • Racism. A social history , Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 2003.
  • History of the Lombards. Society - Culture - Everyday Life , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.
  • Populism. Historical and current manifestations , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • Right and left populism: approaching a chameleon. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
  • The phenomenon of Berlusconism . In: Peter Bathke, Anke Hoffstadt (ed.): The new right in Europe. Between neoliberalism and racism , Cologne 2013.
  • Mysticism and politics. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and radical democracy , Würzburg 2014.
  • Why Europeans go to holy war. Jihadism as a radical right-wing youth movement , Frankfurt am Main 2017 (the first edition was recalled by the publisher)
  • Right-wing populism - a controversial theoretical and political phenomenon . In: Fabian Virchow , Martin Langebach and Alexander Häusler (eds.): Handbuch right-wing extremism , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Editorial note , in: Louis Althusser, Für Marx . Complete and revised edition ed. by Frieder Otto Wolf , Suhrkamp: Berlin, 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-518-12600-4 ), pp. 381 - 383 (383): “Special thanks go to the translators Karin Priester (née Brachmann), [ ...] as well as their publishers, who made this new edition possible through their willingness to cooperate. "
  2. ↑ Obituaries of Karin Priester.Retrieved on May 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Stanford University Libraries
  4. ^ Review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 10, 2001, perlentaucher.de
  5. ^ Review in the FAZ, October 1, 2002, perlentaucher.de
  6. ↑ cf. Callback of Campus Verlag GmbH in the Börsenblatt : online
personal data
SURNAME Priest, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brachmann, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2020
Place of death Muenster