Klaus-Michael Kodalle

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Klaus-Michael Kodalle (born October 18, 1943 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German philosopher who specializes in political philosophy, ethics, and religious philosophy . Most recently he taught at the Institute for Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 1998 .

Live and act

Kodalle studied philosophy, education and German studies in Cologne from 1964 to 1969 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . At the end of 1969 Kodalle received his doctorate with a thesis on the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes . He was a research assistant at the University of Regensburg and moved to the University of Hamburg at the end of 1975 . In 1980 Kodalle completed his habilitation.

The next stations were in 1980/81 a visiting professorship for philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. 1981 research stay in Denmark. Visiting professorships in Padua, Philadelphia, Copenhagen (International Kierkegaard Research Center) and Be'er Scheva . In 1983, Kodalle became professor for the philosophy of religion and social ethics at the University of Hamburg , Department of Protestant Theology. From 1992 Kodalle taught practical philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he finally retired.

In 1995 Kodalle took over the chairmanship of the Thuringian Society for Philosophy and since 1997 organization and management of the “Thuringian Days for Philosophy”, which are aimed at the public and devote themselves to topics that are controversial in society (see the numerous Kodalle edited anthologies).

Kodalle was a member of the "Institut International de la Philosophie Politique" in Paris and from 2006 to 2012 President of the German-Hungarian Society for Philosophy.

In many publications since 1972, Kodalle has historically and systematically investigated the constellations of politics and religion. Another thematic focus since 1994 has been the development of a philosophy of forgiveness (cf. 2013 “Thinking forgiveness. The misunderstood basis of humane conditions”).

Kodalle is now almost completely blind and can therefore only publish with support.

Publications

Monographs

  • Thomas Hobbes - logic of rule and reason of peace. Munich 1972
  • Politics as power and myth. Carl Schmitt's 'Political Theology', Stuttgart 1973
  • (together with T. Koch and H. Schweppenhäuser) Negative dialectics and the idea of ​​reconciliation. A controversy about Theodor W. Adorno. Stuttgart 1973
  • Discomfort with Jesus. The challenge of psychoanalysis to theology. Olten / Switzerland, 1978
  • Conquering the useless. Critique of wishful thinking and functional rationality following Kierkegaard. Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich, 1988
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer. To the criticism of his theology. Gütersloh, 1991
  • Forgiveness after turning times? About intransigence and unsuccessful self-discharge. Jena Philosophical Lectures and Studies, Vol. 12, Erlangen and Jena, 1994
  • Shocking strangeness. Post-metaphysical ethics in the Weimar period of transition. Vienna, 1996, ISBN 978-3851652345
  • Approaches to a Theory of Forgiveness. Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Treatises of the humanities and social science class. Year 2006, No. 8 (Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart).
  • Looking back at the turnaround: How to deal with guilt? Observations and reflections. Wurzburg 2009.
  • Think forgiveness. The misunderstood basis of humane conditions. Munich 2013.

editor

  • Tradition as a burden? Legitimation problems of the Bundeswehr , Cologne 1981
  • (together with U. Bermbach) fear and freedom. Leviathan discussion 300 years after Thomas Hobbes, Opladen 1982
  • Presence of the Absolute. Philosophical-theological discourses on Christology, Gütersloh 1984
  • Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) and the 'Krausismo' writings on transcendental philosophy, Vol. 5, Hamburg 1985
  • God and Politics in USA. About the influence of the religious. An inventory, Frankfurt 1988
  • The peace of reason. Kant's design in conflict. Critical Yearbook of Philosophy (Jena) Vol. 1, Würzburg 1996
  • Add. with Klaus Dicke: Republic and world citizenship. Kantian suggestions for the theory of political order after the end of the East-West conflict, Weimar / Cologne / Vienna 1998.
  • Punishment is needed! - Is there a punishment? Würzburg 1998 (Supplement 1 to the “Critical Yearbook of Philosophy”).
  • Waste of time. A symposium, Würzburg 1999.
  • (Together with M. Ohst) Fichte's discharge. The atheism dispute 200 years ago. (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy Vol. 4), Würzburg 1999.
  • The call for elites. (Supplement 2 - 1999 - to the Critical Yearbook of Philosophy), Würzburg 2000.
  • Fear of the modern. Philosophical answers to crisis experiences. The microcosm of Jena 1900–1940, (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy Vol. 5), Würzburg 2000.
  • Work and meaning in life. A current challenge from a historical and systematic perspective. (Critical Yearbook for Philosophy, Supplement 3), Würzburg 2001.
  • (together with Anne M. Steinmeier) Subjective spirit. Reflection and experience in faith. FS for Traugott Koch's 65th birthday. Wurzburg 2002.
  • The right to die with dignity. A current challenge from a historical and systematic perspective. (Supplement 4 to the “Critical Yearbook of Philosophy”), Würzburg 2003.
  • Philosophy of a non-conformist: Hans Leisegang. Wuerzburg 2003.
  • Hegel yearbook 2003. Faith and knowledge. (First part), ed. v. A. Arndt, K. Bal, H. Ottmann - in connection with K.-M. Kodalle u. K. Vieweg, Berlin 2003.
  • Add. with U. Zwiener u. W. Frindte (Ed.), Extremism-Violence-Terrorism. Backgrounds and consequences of action. Jena u. Erlangen 2003.
  • Homo Perfectus? Disability and human existence. (Supplement 5 to the “Critical Yearbook of Philosophy”), Würzburg 2004.
  • Eberhard Grisebach. Present. A critical ethic. Newly published and introduced by Klaus-M. Kodalle (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy Vol. 9), Würzburg 2004.
  • The tested person. About the sense and nonsense of the examination system. (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy, Supplement 6), Würzburg 2005.
  • Basic problems of civil liberty today. (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy, Supplement 6), Würzburg 2007.
  • Humanities - in the face of the zeitgeist? (At the end of the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy). Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class, year 2007, No. 1 (Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart).
  • (together with H. Rosa), Rasender Standstill. The Acceleration of Reality Change: Consequences and Limits. (Critical Yearbook of Philosophy, Vol. 12, 2005/2007), Würzburg 2008.
  • (together with Dirk Preuss and Nikolaus Knoepffler), Body parts - sharing bodies? Critical Yearbook of Philosophy Supplement 8/2009, Würzburg 2009.
  • (together with Tilman Reitz), Bruno Bauer. A “partisan of the world spirit”? , Würzburg 2010.
  • (together with R. Albrecht, N. Knoepffler), corruption. Moral corruption or the result of wrong structures? Wuerzburg 2010.

literature

  • Claus Dierksmeier (ed.): Think the exception. Festschrift for Klaus-Michael Kodalle on his 60th birthday. Two volumes. Würzburg, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry of Klaus-Michael Kodalle at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 11.10.17
  2. ↑ Kodalle, Klaus-Michael: Carl Schmitt and his debt . In: The State . tape 58 , no. 2 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2019, p. 171 .
personal data
SURNAME Kodalle, Klaus-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia