Norbert Kapferer

Norbert Kapferer (born June 15, 1948 in Sinsheim ; † January 17, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German historian of philosophy and political scientist.

Kapferer studied philosophy , psychology and political science at the Free University of Berlin from 1971 to 1987 . He received his doctorate in 1984 with a thesis on Martin Heidegger . From 1990 he was a university assistant in the political science department of the Free University of Berlin. In 1992 he completed his habilitation. In 1996 he was appointed visiting professor at the European Humanities University , which at the time was located in Minsk . In addition, since 1997 he was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wroclaw .

Kapferer was a research assistant in the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, then a private lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute there . He was also the Dean of Studies at the Lessing University in Berlin .

He was buried in the Friedenau cemetery in Berlin.

His brother was the political scientist Reinhard Rochus Kapferer (1932-2000), who taught at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg.

Fonts (selection)

• Marxist epistemology as affirmation: on the critique of reflection theory; on selected examples. Berlin 1977.
• Because actually the language speaks (Heidegger's trail in post-structuralism). Frankfurt am Main 1984 (dissertation).
• About the “original magic of the word”. Approaches to a theory of the origin of language in Sigmund Freud . Berlin 1989.
• The enemy image of Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the GDR 1945–1988. Darmstadt 1990.
• Interior views of East German philosophers (as editor). Darmstadt 1994.
• The concept of totalitarianism put to the test (historical, comparative and political aspects of a controversial term). Dresden 1996 (the lecture was given on January 10, 1995 at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the TU Dresden).
• The Nazification of philosophy at the University of Breslau 1933–1945. Munster 2001.
• The genealogy of (European) modernity: or: the ideological, social and political-historical constitution of modern Europe. Wroclaw 2005.
• Basic features and tendencies under the conditions of political division and reunification. Hamburg 2008.

Remarks

1. ↑ Vita on: Information Philosophy
2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Tagesspiegel
3. ↑ See the dedication on the imprint page of his monograph The Nazification of Philosophy at the University of Breslau 1933–1945 , Münster 2001.