Karlfriedrich Herb

Karlfriedrich Herb (born January 6, 1957 in Viersen ) is a German philosopher and political scientist . Since 2001 he has held the chair for political philosophy and the history of ideas at the political science institute of the University of Regensburg .

Career

Herb studied philosophy, comparative religious studies and psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and was established in 1986 with a dissertation on the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau doctorate .

After various research projects and a stay at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris , he completed his habilitation in 1997 with a thesis on the modern concept of freedom at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he also worked as a research assistant . He then taught there as a private lecturer . Since then, Herb has held visiting professorships, including a. in Brasília , Recife , Campinas and São Paulo , and was appointed endowed professor for philosophy at Ulm University in 2001. He also teaches at the University of Politics and the University of Philosophy in Munich.

Work areas

The focus of his academic work lies in the field of modern political philosophy. The focus is on the history of ideas in contract theory , the emergence of the modern concept of citizenship and the philosophy of the Enlightenment . He is particularly interested in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , to whose research he made important contributions. He is also dedicated to political anthropology and questions of political and moral responsibility in business and society.

In 2008, Herb was involved in founding the Bavarian Center for Political Theory (BayPol) and has been a board member ever since. Since 2011 he has acted as spokesman for the board. In addition, Herb is responsible for the scientific management of the centre's doctoral program together with other participating university professors.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Hobbes on freedom (together with Georg Geismann ), Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 1988, 228 pp.
• Rousseau's theory of legitimate rule. Requirements and justifications , Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann 1989, 284 pp.
• Civil liberty. Political philosophy from Hobbes to Constant , Freiburg - Munich: Karl Alber 1999, 243 pp.
• Classic laying out. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the social contract or principles of constitutional law (together with Reinhard Brandt ), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2000, 308 pp.
• Old State - New Politics. Tocqueville's discovery of modern democracy (together with Oliver Hidalgo), Baden-Baden: Nomos 2004, 177 pp.
• Alexis de Tocqueville (together with Oliver Hidalgo), Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2005, 176 pp.
• Montesquieu's understanding of the state. The nature of the state (together with Oliver Hidalgo), Baden-Baden: Nomos, October 2008, 168 pp.
• Rousseau Breviary. Key texts and explanations (together with Bernhard HF Taureck), Paderborn: Bernhard Fink 2011, 237 pp.
• Rousseau's magic. Readings of political philosophy (Ed. Together with Magdalena Scherl), Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2012, 192 pp.

Essays

• Light and shadow. On the ideal of the republic with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Hannah Arendt , in: Political Thinking. Edited by K. Graf Ballestrem / V. Gerhardt / H. Ottmann / MP Thompson. Yearbook 2001, pp. 59-68.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A modern man with an ancient soul , in: Great philosophers - from antiquity to today, Darmstadt: Primus Verlag 2001, pp. 534–549.
• L'avenir de la republique. Sur la lecture contractualiste de l'histoire chez Hobbes et Kant , in: Denis Thouard / Luc Foisneau, Les origines de la modernité politique et l'idéalisme allemand, Paris 2003, pp. 123-131.
• The beginning of the end of the story. Philosophical visions of progress , in: Stephan Bierling / Karlfriedrich Herb / Jerzy Maćków / Martin Sebaldt: Thinking about political change. Challenges of Democracy from a European and Global Perspective, Hamburg: Lit 2004, pp. 7–17.
• Au-délà de la citoyenneté. Hobbes et leproblemème de l'autorité , in: Nuove prospettive critiche sul Leviatano di Hobbes nel 350 ° anniversario di pubblicazione, Ed. Luc Foisneau, George Wright, Rivista di storia della filosofia, Vol. 1 (2004) pp. 219-227.
• Power issues. Four philosophical answers , in: The Political Opinion Vol. 53 (2008), pp. 68–76.
• "Apart from the republic there is no salvation". Profane and sacred patterns of interpretation of the state in Kant's philosophy of history (together with Thomas Nawrath), in: Henning Ottmann (ed.) Kant's doctrine of state and peace, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009, pp. 28–41.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karlfriedrich Herb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Regensburg
• Bavarian Center for Political Theory (BayPol)