Norbert Wokart

Norbert Wokart, 2008

Norbert Wokart (born August 30, 1941 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German philosopher and author .

biography

Wokart attended the old language grammar school in his hometown and after graduating from high school , studied philosophy , German and Catholic theology in Marburg , Vienna , Würzburg and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in 1969 from Karl Ulmer in Tübingen with a thesis on the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty . From 1970 to 1977 he worked at the University of Education in Lörrach and from 1979 at a research institute at the University of Tübingen, including stays in Basel and Zurich , before setting up as a freelance author in Tübingen in 1985.

Publications

Books

• Attempt at a new foundation of philosophy by Merleau-Ponty. A systematic-critical discussion. Tübingen 1975 (diss.).
• Disappointments. 20th Century Philosophical Signatures. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1991.
• Antagonism of freedom. Against the trivialization of a term. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1992.
• The world in your head. A course book for thinking. JB Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1998.
• The sandals of Empedocles. A little philosophy of everyday life. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2001 (TB edition of “Die Welt im Kopf”).
• Flotsam. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
• Reed. Records 1981-2006. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
• Naxiotic epigrams. Aldus-Presse, Reicheneck 2011.
• The rocks of Gyrai. Records 2006-2011. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011.
• Experience. In a detour to no destination. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012.
• Odysseus or The Longing. Records 2011–2012. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013.
• Contaminations. Ancient traces in our thinking. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.
• Before the shipwreck. Records 2013-2014. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015.
• News from the archipelago. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016.
• Postscript. Records 2016-2017. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017.
• Shadow dreams. Records 2017-2018. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019.
• Banquet in the Holbach house. Quasi a novel. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019.
• Ithaca. Records 2019-2020. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020.

Articles (selection)

• Hellenic theology. The religious reform of Georgios Gemistos Plethon. In: The Restoration of the Gods. Ancient religion and neo-paganism. Eds. R. Faber, R. Schlesier. Würzburg 1986, 183-197.
• In Arcadia nemo. In: No man's land. Journal between Cultures. Edited by W. Dreßen, E. Gillen, S. Radlach. Berlin 1987, Volume 1, Issue 3, 17-25
• Concept of nature and freedom. On the development of the relationship between man and nature. In: Announcements of the German Classical Philology Association Braunschweig 1987, 37th year, No. 1, 8-18.
• Responsibility. Guarantor of conservative ethics. In: No man's land. Journal between Cultures. Edited by W. Dreßen, E. Gillen, S. Radlach. Berlin 1989, Volume 3, Issue 8/9, 162-171.
• Human rights. The wrong world of right reason. In: Symposion: On the history of the human rights discussion. Loccumer protocols 77/1989. Ed. I. Reimers-Tovote, H. Reichardt. Rehburg-Loccum 1990, 9-27.
• Mission consciousness and bondage. On the philosophical mentality in the 20th century. In: Conservatism Past and Present. Ed. R. Faber. Wuerzburg 1991, 205-217.
• Plea against tolerance. In: Human Rights. Loccumer protocols 77/1990. Ed. I. Reimers-Tovote, W. Greie. Rehburg-Loccum 1991, 75-86.
• New ethics, old immorality. In: No man's land: magazine between cultures. Eds. W. Dreßen, E. Gillen, D. Grünbein, I. Lutz. Berlin 1992, Volume 4, Issue 10/11, 207-218.
• Human dignity. On the legacy of stoicism. In: Antiquity Today. Eds. R. Faber, B. Kytzler. Würzburg 1992, 261-270.
• The cultural diversity of the Mediterranean. A classic topic and its topicality. In: The ancient language teaching: workbooks on its scientific justification and practical form. Volume XXXVI, issue 2, March 1993, 6-15.
• The (un) holy experiment of the Jesuit state in Paraguay. In: Socialism Past and Present. Ed. R. Faber. Wuerzburg 1994, 105-117.
• Bible, Hegel and dime novel. To the change of the idea of ​​salvation. In: Bible and Literature. Edited by J. Ebach, R. Faber. Munich 1995, 31-45.
• Differentiations in the concept of border. On the diversity of an apparently simple term. In: literature of the border. Theory of the limit. Eds. R. Faber, B. Naumann. Würzburg 1995, 275-289.
• Anthropofugal Thinking and Negative Anthropology. In: Philosophical Anthropology of Modernity. Ed. R. Wieland. Weinheim 1995, 174-183.
• On the influence of Christian ideas on political conditions. A comparison between modern and ancient democracy. In: Political Religion, Religious Politics. Ed. R. Faber. Würzburg 1997, 293-308.
• Wars of faith over the literary form of philosophy. In: Literary Philosophy, Philosophical Literature. Eds. R. Faber, B. Naumann. Würzburg 1999, 21-35.
• How the truth comes to light. Heidegger in Greece. In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History. 56th year, issue 4 (2004), 374-376.
• Catholic philosophy? Inquiries to ancient and medieval philosophy. In: Catholicism Past and Present. Ed. R. Faber. Würzburg 2005, 51-64.
• Moral bankruptcy. Contemporary science. In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History. 57th year, issue 2 (2005), 176-178.
• Nemo in Arcadia. A criticism. In: Arcadian cultural landscape and garden art. A Tour d'Horizont. Ed. R. Faber, Chr. Holste. Würzburg 2010, 23-33.

Contributions

• Aphorisms. Selection. In: Aphorisms Archive (2008). http://aphorismen-archiv.de/W4219.html
• Meaning of life from short sayings - does that make sense? In: Thought, Image and Joke. Aphorisms, specialist articles, illustrations. Eds. P. Kamburg, Fr. Spicker, J. Wilbert. Bochum 2009, 30-39.
• New German aphorisms. An anthology. Eds. Grüterich, Eilers, Blume. Dresden 2010, 94-95, 258.
• New German aphorisms. Extended, revised new edition. Edited by Alexander Eilers, Tobias Grüterich. Dresden 2014, 107, 281.

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Wokart in the catalog of the German National Library