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Norbert Leser, Painting by Ernst Bader 1987

Norbert Leser (born May 31, 1933 in Oberwart , Burgenland ; † December 31, 2014 in Eisenstadt , Burgenland) was an Austrian social philosopher, best known for his critical preoccupation with Austrian social democracy.

Life

Norbert Leser was born in 1933 in the easternmost Austrian state, whose first governor after 1945 was his uncle Ludwig Leser . He studied law and sociology at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1958. Dr. iur.

His habilitation for legal and state philosophy took place in 1969 at the University of Graz . From 1971 to 1980 he was first full professor of political science in Austria at the University of Salzburg ; from 1980 until his retirement in 2001 he taught as full professor for social philosophy at the University of Vienna. From 1984 he headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Modern Austrian Intellectual History.

He was a member of the Austrian PEN Club .

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He gained notoriety primarily through his critical examination of Austrian social democracy and Austromarxism . His habilitation thesis on this subject with the title “Between Reformism and Bolshevism” is recognized as a standard work. Another concern of his was the particularly difficult rapprochement between social democracy and the Christian faith in Austria (for historical reasons) .

He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles in magazines and edited volumes. His philosophical writings include the history of political ideas, contemporary history, legal and state philosophy , Marxism and social democracy, Christianity and Catholicism , the question of God, etc.

The interdisciplinary breadth of his work, but also his importance and recognition, is particularly clear in the Festschrift published by his former colleague Erwin Bader , in which 38 well-known scientists from 16 disciplines and 14 universities from different countries contributed.

Reader died on December 31, 2014 in Eisenstadt.

Awards

Works

Editing

  • Work and Reverberation , 1964
  • Religion and Culture at the Turn of Times , 1984
  • Army show , 1985
  • Power and Violence in Politics and Literature of the 20th Century , 1985
  • Theodor Herzl and the Vienna of the “fin de siècle” , 1987
  • Austria's political symbols , 1994
  • 1927 - when the republic burned , 2002

Monographs

  • Between Reformism and Bolshevism , 1968
  • The Odyssey of Marxism , 1971
  • Beyond Marx and Freud , 1980
  • The intellectual life of Vienna in the interwar period , 1981
  • Grenzgänger , 2 vols., 1981/82
  • Social Philosophy , 1984
  • Genius Austriacus, 1986
  • Salt of Society , 1988
  • Reader to Reader, 1992
  • Elegy on Red , 1998
  • "... half way and half way ...". Political Effects of an Austrian Sensitivity, 2000
  • God's Doors and Windows , 2001
  • Contemporary witness at Crossroads , 2003
  • The Fall of the Eagle: 120 Years of Austrian Social Democracy, 2008
  • Bizarre Encounters - Mosaics on Austrian Intellectual History , foreword by William M. Johnston, 2011
  • Greetings from God - Against the presumption of reductionism and evolutionism , preface Anton Zeilinger, 2013

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Reader, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwart
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2014
Place of death Eisenstadt