Kurt Appel

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Kurt Appel (born October 28, 1968 in Tulln ) is a religious philosopher and Catholic theologian. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Basic Theological Research at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . His research interests lie in the question of God, in the formulation of a theory of time or a theory of history, in the interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and German idealism in the light of postmodern thinking and in the development of a new humanism in interdisciplinary discussion. In addition, the question of the theological and philosophical significance of the Europe project is particularly important for Appel's work.

Life

Kurt Appel, who was born in Tulln in 1968 , studied theology, philosophy, history and German literature between 1988 and 1999. In 2000 he received his doctorate in philosophy (title of the dissertation: Kant's Theodizeekritik: An examination of the theodicy concepts of Leibniz and Kant ), in 2002 the doctorate in theology (title of the dissertation: Correspondence in the contradiction: An examination of the concept of revelation in political theology of young Hegel ) and in 2005 the habilitation in the department of fundamental theology (title of the habilitation: Time and God. Myth and Logos of Time following Hegel and Schelling ) at the University of Vienna . Since 2010 Kurt Appel has been the spokesman for the research center "Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society" and since 2011 professor for basic theological research at the University of Vienna.

Kurt Appel has held numerous visiting professorships. A guest professorship at the Facoltà teologica dell 'Emiglia Romagna (Bologna) in 2009 was followed by a regular guest professorship at the Facoltà teologica dell' Italia Settentrionale (Milan) from 2010 to 2015, parallel to research and teaching in Vienna . In addition, Appel was both visiting professor at the Waldensian University in Rome in 2016 and visiting professor for philosophy of religion at the Dipartimento di lettere e di filosofia at the University of Trento. In 2020, a visiting professorship in philosophy of religion at the University of Denver followed.

Research priorities

Appel's orientation in the sense of an interdisciplinary oriented basic research in the field of religious philosophy and fundamental theology results from the fact that clearly delineated religious worlds as well as traditional distinctions like religious / non-religious have become fragile and partly outdated. Accordingly, in dialogue with other sciences (philosophy, literary studies, physics, social sciences, etc.) theology has to perform its task of criticizing culture, knowledge and religion.

The main theme of Appel's research is the search for religious potentials and their secular transformations for a project of a new humanism. The associated challenge of gaining a new view of the human in its unavailability, vulnerability and singularity is explored by Appel primarily in five different questions.

1. The topic of the Apocalypse stands for the question of the essence of time against the background of an increasingly positivist shortened understanding of time and history that knows no place for a vision of the human and an open future. Against this understanding of time, Appel works on the basis of German idealism that there is no subject-independent time and develops a conception of time that, among other things, a. can also re-open the biblical understanding of time. The understanding of the apocalypse that follows from this does not consist in a chronological end of time, but in a form of tense in which the past can be opened up to the future.

2.      Hegel's main works, namely the phenomenology of mind and the science of logic , form a focus of Appels research. Appel refutes the accusation of a totalitarian systematic thinking against Hegel and develops an age-sensitive reading of Hegel, trained on the influence of Hegel on postmodern discourses (from Ricoeur , Derrida , Levinas , to Agamben ). Appel locates the potential of Hegel and a. in his criticism of a violent scientific character that obscures the human.

3. The question about God is a question which, according to Appel, questions the dimension of the question as such. Against the replacement of the question of God in the western world by questions inherent in the world, Appel tries to think of the question of God as the exit from all symbolic, temporal, spatial and political fixations. According to Appel, the openness of the idea of ​​God is virulent in contemporary culture in a transformed form in literature, film and music, knowing that the world can no longer be mastered by our knowledge structures.

4. For Appel, the question of Europe means the question of the hospitable reception of plural worlds. Europe is not only a memory of hospitable homelessness (Odysseus, Virgil, Abraham, Jesus), a multitude of languages ​​and a democratization of all areas of life, but also the memory of the moral obligation to the vulnerable human being.

5. Appel formulates the resurrection as a theological topos as a question of the gift of mortality. A society which, on the one hand, increasingly excludes the dead and empties death of all meaning and, on the other hand, tries to overcome mortality, leads, according to Appel, either to nihilism or to a world of the living dead. In contrast, he understands mortality as a gift of humanity, which enables the abandonment of one's own claims to power and property. Appel therefore advocates a new articulation of the idea of ​​the resurrection, at the center of which is not immortality, but the gift of mortality.

Memberships and offices

Kurt Appel has held the Chair for Basic Theological Research (formerly Fundamental Theology) of the Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Vienna since 2011 .

Since 2010 Appel has been the spokesman for the interdisciplinary research center “ Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society ” at the University of Vienna.

Since 2015 Appel has been chief editor alongside Jakob Deibl and Lukas Pokorny of the interdisciplinary open access online journal "Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society" (JRAT) , which is published by Brill.

Appel is also a member of the advisory boards of numerous international scientific journals .

Honors

Kurt Appel is the recipient of the "Academic Leadership Award", which was presented in 2019 by the Association of African Theologians in Enugo, Nigeria as part of the "Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life".

Publications

Monographs

  • Il neognosticismo, together with Isabella Guanzini, Brescia 2018.
  • Tempo e Dio. Aperture contemporanee a partire da Hegel e Schelling (BTC 187), Brescia 2018.
  • Apprezzare la morte. Cristianesimo e nuovo umanesimo (perconoscenza 5), ​​Bologna 2015.
  • Time and god. Myth and Logos of the Time following Hegel and Schelling (Vienna, Univ., Habil. 2005 revised), Paderborn 2008.
  • Correspondence in the contradiction. An examination of the concept of revelation in the political theology of the young Hegel (Vienna, Univ., Diss. 2002 revised), Münster a. a. 2003.
  • Kant's theodicy criticism. An examination of the theodicy concepts of Leibniz and Kant (Vienna, Univ., Diss. 2000 revised), Frankfurt a. a. 2003.

Editing (selection)

  • according to with Massimo Nardello and Torres Queiruga (Eds.), Dio, dove sei? Ripensare la preghiera nel tempo dell'emergenza, EDB: Bologna 2020.
  • according to with Daniela Menozzi, Pierangelo Sequeri, Stella Morra, Paolo Benanti , Angelo Vincenzo Zani (Eds.), Profezia di Francesco. Traiettorie di un pontificato. Prefazione di Marcello Neri, EDB: Bologna 2020.
  • according to with Carl Raschke (Eds.), The Crisis of Representation. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation (JRAT) 4/2, V&R unipress: Göttingen 2018.
  • according to with Erwin Dirscherl (Eds.), Das Testament der Zeit. Apocalyptic and its current reception (QD 278), Herder: Freiburg 2016.
  • according to with Jakob Helmut Deibl (Eds.), Mercy and tender love. The theological program of Pope Francis, Herder: Freiburg 2016.
  • according to with Isabella Guanzini (Eds.), Religious Fundamentalism. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (JRAT) 2/2, V&R unipress: Göttingen 2016.
  • Price of mortality. Christianity and New Humanism (QD 271), Herder: Freiburg 2015. Italian version: Apprezzare la morte. Cristianesimo e nuovo umanesimo (perconoscenza 5), ​​EDB: Bologna 2015.
  • according to with Johann Baptist Metz / Jan-Heiner Tück : Giving a memory to suffering. Theses on an anamnetic Christology (Festschrift Johann Reikerstorfer) (Vienna Forum for Theology and Religious Studies ), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012.

Article (selection)

  • Ludwig Feuerbach: The essence of Christianity: sacraments, faith and love, final application, in: A. Arndt (Ed.), Ludwig Feuerbach: The essence of Christianity: sacraments, faith and love, final application (chap. 26-28), DeGruyter : Berlin 2020, 187–203.
  • In cerca della preghiera, in: Kurt Appel / Massimo Nardello / Andrés Torres Queiruga, Dio, dove sei? Ripensare la preghiera nel tempo dell'emergenza, EDB, Bologna 2020, 9–19.
  • Dopo Francesco, quello che resta, in: D. Menozzi, P. Sequeri, S. Morra, P. Benanti, A. Zani, K. Appel (Eds.), Profezia di Francesco. Traiettorie di un pontificato. Prefazione di Marcello Neri. EDB: Bologna 2020, 105–115.
  • Il significato del mito nella filosofia di Pareyson e nella filosofia di Schelling, in: C. Ciancio, M. Pagano (Ed.), Il pensiero della libertà. Luigi Pareyson a cent'anni dalla nascita (Essere e libertà 30), Mimesis Edizioni: Milano, Udine 2020, 75–102.
  • La giustizia della verità. Riflessioni intorno alla teologia per l´università che verrà, in: D. Cornati, E. Prato (ed.), Fratello Dio. Invenzioni a più voci. Studi in onore di Pierangelo Sequeri nel suo LXXV compleanno, Glossa: Milano 2020, 465–482.
  • The Testament of Time - The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben, in: V. Wieser (Ed.), Empire, Death and Afterlife in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, De Gruyter: Berlin 2020, 293-318 .
  • The Border of Borders, Christianity and the Rethinking of Public Space, in: Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation 5 (2019), Ferdinand Schöningh: Paderborn, 514-528.
  • L'essenza soggettiva della religione. Interpretation e discussione di L. Feuerbach, L´essenza del cristianesimo (capitoli 26-28), in: G. Garelli, G. Lingua, La filosofia attraverso il prisma delle culture. Dialoghi con Maurizio Pagano, in: philosophica: serie rossa, Edizioni ETS: Pisa 2019, 213–229.
  • Biblical Traces of the Guest, in: Re-Learning to be Human in Global Times: Brigitte Buchhammer (Ed.), Challenges and Opportunities from the Perspectives of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series IV, Western European Philosophical Studies. Volume 12, Washington 2019, 5-16. German version: Biblical traces of the guest, in: B. Liebsch / M. Staudigl, Outlines of an Ethos of European Hospitality, Velbrück, Weilerswist 2016, 411–422.
  • Critiques of Master-Representations: The Political Dimension of the Canon between the Bible and the Qur'an, in: K. Appel, C. Raschke (Eds.), The Crisis of Representation. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 7. V&R unipress: Göttingen 2018, 14–39.
  • Desacralization as the Sanctification of the Church. Rosmini's Diagnosis on the Plagues of the Church and their Topicality, in: Rosmini-Studies 5 (2018), 49-61.
  • God in Hegel's speculative philosophy, in: Ch. Danz, J. Stolzenberg, V. Waibel (eds.), Systems of Reason. Kant and German Idealism (Volume 5). System conceptions in the horizon of the theism dispute (1811–1821), Hamburg: Meiner Verlag 2018, 263–289.
  • This is a tree is a tree. The absolute spirit as the free existence of reality, in: T. Oehl, A. Kok, Objective and absolute spirit according to Hegel. Art, religion and philosophy within and outside of society and history, Brill: Leiden, Boston 2018, 57–80.
  • The Essence of Europe Consists in Pointing Beyond Itself, in: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (RJPT) 77: 1-2, 2016, 62–69.
  • Trinity and openness of God, in: K. Viertbauer, H. Schmidinger, Faith think. On the philosophical penetration of God's speech in the 21st century, WBG, Darmstadt 2016, 19–46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Kurt Appel on the homepage of the University of Vienna (accessed June 17, 2020)
  2. ↑ Kurt Appel, Time and God. Myths and Logos of the Times following Hegel and Schelling, Paderborn 2008
  3. ↑ Kurt Appel, Jakob Deibl, Isabella Guanzini: Price of mortality. Christianity and New Humanism (QD 271) . Ed .: Kurt Appel. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-02271-5 .
  4. ↑ Team of the Research Center Religion and Transformation: Research Center Religion and Transformation. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Kurt Appel: The Testament of Time - The Apocalypse of John and the recapitulatio of Time according to Giorgio Agamben . In: V. Wieser (Ed.): Empire, Death and Afterlife in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism . De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, p. 293-318 .
  6. ↑ Kurt Appel: Time and God. Myths and logos of the time following Hegel and Schelling . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2008.
  7. ↑ Kurt Appel: This is a tree is a tree. The absolute spirit as the free existence of reality . In: T. Oehl / A. Kok (ed.): Objective and absolute spirit according to Hegel. Art, religion and philosophy inside and outside of society and history . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2018, p. 57-80 .
  8. ↑ Kurt Appel: Trinity and Openness of God . In: K. Viertbauer / H. Schmidinger (eds.): Thinking about faith. On the philosophical penetration of God's speech in the 21st century . WBG, Darmstadt 2016, p. 19-46 .
  9. ↑ Kurt Appel: The essence of Europe is to point beyond yourself . In: K. Appel / I. Guanzini / A. Walser (eds.): Europe with or without religion? The contribution of religion to present and future Europe . V&R, Göttingen 2014, p. 13-22 .
  10. ^ Kurt Appel: Price of mortality. Christianity and New Humanism . (QD 271). Herder, Freiburg 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Appel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulln