Karl Theodor Schuon

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Karl Theodor Schuon (* 1940 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German political scientist . He was a professor of political science at the Philipps University of Marburg and now lives in Hamburg .

Life

Karl Theodor Schuon studied political science, philosophy , sociology and German at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin (FU) and Marburg. After completing his doctorate (phil. Diss.) He was a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the Philipps University in Marburg (chair Wolfgang Abendroth ), then lecturer (habil.aL), then professor for political science at the same university.

Karl Theodor Schuon then taught at the universities of Münster, Wuppertal and Graz, at the Free University of Berlin and finally at the University of Hamburg in the fields of political philosophy , political theory and political sociology .

He is co-founder and co-editor of the social science journal "perspektiven ds".

He was married to Anneliese Konstantina Schuon-Wiehl (born 1942 in Asch, died 1977 in Marburg), director of studies in Giessen.

Scientific work

Karl Theodor Schuon dealt primarily with the theory of democracy and its theoretical and philosophical foundations. After an initial critical examination of empirical-analytical and system-theoretical democratic theory of the modern age (science, politics and scientific politics 1972, bourgeois social theory of the present 1975) he developed with the collaboration of Arno Waschkuhn , Ulrich Heyder, Michael Strübel u. a. a normative-critical conception of democracy (Political Theory of Democratic Socialism 1986). The main focus was on conveying the discourse-theoretical approach of Jürgen Habermas with the democratic-theoretical drafts of Karl Popper , Ernst Fraenkel and John Rawls . The practical consequence of this was to expand representative democracy in Germany in a plebiscitary, civil society and economic democratic way.

This novel concept of democracy was later specified by Schuon and introduced into the scientific debate about "deliberative democracy" (Theory of deliberative democracy 1997). Schuon attached great importance to keeping the model of democracy in balance for anthropological and sociological reasons. Representative and plebiscitary, institutional and civil society-deliberative elements of democracy were combined in his draft in such a way that a meaningful balance between the two respective poles was preserved. An in-depth epistemological and normative reflection (including ethics and politics 1991) also served this purpose.

Schuon's other academic priorities were German contemporary history and German foreign policy (including Germany in global responsibility 1999). On the question of a "new German foreign policy" after 1990 he pleaded for a strong participation of the reunified Germany in the maintenance of global security - also by military means.

selected Writings

  • Science, politics and scientific politics, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-7609-0049-6
  • Civil society theory of the present, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-462-01106-5
  • 25 years after Godesberg - does the SPD need a new basic program? (Ed. With Sven Papcke , author with Richard Löwenthal , Helga Grebing , Hans-Hermann Hartwich and others), Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-89025-010-6
  • Political theory of democratic socialism (with the collaboration of Arno Waschkuhn , Ulrich Heyder, Michael Strübel and others), Marburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-924800-61-1
  • Ethics and Politics (Ed. With Walter Reese-Schäfer , author with Thomas Noetzel , Peter Prechtl and others), Marburg 1991, ISBN 3-924800-69-3
  • Theory of deliberative democracy, special print from: Rethinking democracy. Festschrift for Wilfried Röhrich , ed. by Carsten Schlüter-Knauer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-09080-2
  • Germany in global responsibility (ed., Author with Reimund Seidelmann, Sven Papcke, Karsten D. Voigt and others), Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932089-36-7
  • Democratic theory based on discourse theory. On the grounds of deliberative politics, in: perspektiven ds, 12/1995, no. 3, pp. 186-197
  • New German Foreign Policy and Atlantic Partnership, in: perspektiven ds, 15/1998, no. 3, pp. 113–125
  • Germany at a crossroads. Counterpower or partner of America? The Iraq war and the "German way" of the Schröder / Fischer government, in: perspektiven ds, 21/2004, no. 1, pp. 80–91

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Uli Schöler, Wolfgang Abendroth (1906–1985), in: Eckhard Jesse, Sebastian Liebold (eds.), German Political Scientists - Work and Effect. Nomos Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-8452-4198-2 , pp. 85–98, here: p. 93
  2. ↑ Anneliese Konstantina Schuon-Wiehl: Fascism and social structure . 5th edition. Cologne and Frankfurt / M 1977, ISBN 978-3-434-20029-1 .
  3. ↑ See Bernd P. Löwe, "Karl Theodor Schuon: Science, Politics and Scientific Politics", in: German Journal for Philosophy, 22/1974, No. 1, pp. 111–116
  4. ↑ See Michael Daxner, "Karl Theodor Schuon: Wissenschaft, Politik und Wissenschaftliche Politik", in: Das Argument, 16/1974, H. 7–9, P. 660–662
  5. ↑ See Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, Bürgerliche Gesellschaftstheorie, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 19/1978, No. 1, pp. 70–72.
  6. ↑ Cf. Heinz Timmermann, Against the colonization of the lifeworld, in: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 34/1987, No. 8, p. 764
  7. ↑ Heiner Flohr, "Karl Theodor Schuon: Political Theory of Democratic Socialism", in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 29/1988, H. 1, S. 146/147
  8. ↑ Stefan Musiolik, Neopluralist Democracy Theory and Plebiscite, in: perspektiven ds, 6/1989, no. 1, pp. 51–56.
  9. ↑ See Oliver W. Lembcke, Claudia Ritzi, Gary S. Schaal (eds.), Zeitgenössische Demokratieheorie, 2 vol., Wiesbaden 2012/2016, vol. 1, pp. 355ff and vol. 2, pp. 251ff.
  10. ↑ See Arno Waschkuhn, Profile reflexiver Demokratie, in: Soziologische Revue, 21/1998, H. 4, S. 439-446, here: S. 442
  11. ↑ Gerhard Kümmel, Thinking about democracy, in: Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 46/1998, H. 6, S. 939. With this concept Schuon distinguished himself from Habermas, who described his own democracy draft as a "reading of radical democracy": Jürgen Habermas, factuality and validity, Frankfurt / M. 1992, p. 451.
  12. ^ Ralf Heming: Public, Discourse and Society . Springer, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 978-3-8244-4248-5 , pp. 296 .
  13. ↑ Portal for Political Science. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  14. ^ Matthias Stahl and Gisbert Binder: International Relations / Peace and Conflict Research . Ed .: Information Center for Social Sciences of the Working Group of Social Science Institutes eV Bonn.
personal data
SURNAME Schuon, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen