Otto Kallscheuer

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Otto Kallscheuer (2011)

Otto Kallscheuer (* 1950 in Brühl ) is a German political scientist and philosopher .

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Kallscheuer was an assistant at the Free University of Berlin from 1977 to 1982, then lecturer at Rotbuch Verlag in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of Frankfurt . From 1993 to 1994 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , in 1999 he was a lecturer at the Salzburg University Weeks and from 2005 to 2006 professor at the Free University of Berlin . Other research and teaching centers were Naples, Vienna and Lucerne.

Otto Kallscheuer wrote numerous works, including on questions of theology in modern times. In this context, he gave as his own denomination "Rhenish Catholic".

In addition to his book publications as an author and editor, he wrote essays for the newspapers for German and international politics , the Frankfurter Hefte , the Kursbuch , Leviathan and the research journal Neue Sozialebewegung as well as for national newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit .

His main research interests include the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Norberto Bobbio .

Kallscheuer lives in Sassari on Sardinia and in Berlin.

Works

Monographs

  • Marxism and Epistemology in Western Europe. A political history of philosophy . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-593-33595-6
  • And now where? On the future of the left (with André Gorz ). Rotbuch, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88022-046-8 .
  • Questions of faith. About Karl Marx & Christ & other dead . Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-627-10250-9 .
  • God's word and the voice of the people. Faith - Power - Politics . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12235-X .
  • The science of God. A theology for orthodox and other believers, agnostics and atheists . Eichborn ( The Other Library 249), Frankfurt am Main 2006; Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-25221-8 .
  • On the future of the West . Essays. To Klampen, Springe 2009, ISBN 978-3-86674-040-2 .
  • The Pope at this time. The future of an institution . Berenberg, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3937834788 .

Editing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. his contribution: The influence of religions from a political science perspective. Reality - Chances - Dangers, In: Heinrich Schmidinger (Ed.), Religiosity at the End of Modernity: Crisis or Awakening? Innsbruck u. a. 1999. 124-162.
  2. ↑ Die neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte 37 (1990) 1152.
  3. ↑ See his essays: The denied dialogue, Hannah Arendt and the European intellectuals, In: P. Kemper (Ed.), The future of the political. Views of Hannah Arendt. Frankfurt a. M. 1993, 142-179; Hannah Arendt a Left ?, In: Loyalty as a sign of truth. Hannah Arendt: Work and Effect. Essen 1997. 121-138; Hannah Arendt and the Berlin Republic, In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 42 (1997) 1257–1267; America without God? Hannah Arendt's Picture of the United States - and Its Gaps, In: The Discovery of Freedom. America in Hannah Arendt's thinking. Berlin / Vienna 2003; Thinking without a railing. Hannah Arendt's perception of totalitarianism as a breakthrough to political thinking, In: A. Grunenberg (Ed.), Totalitarian rule and republican democracy. Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 2003.
  4. ↑ See his contributions: Conversation by Peter Glotz and Otto Kallscheuer with Norberto Bobbio . In: Die Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte H. 10, 1989; Norberto Bobbio. Italian democracy and human rights. In: Dialektik H. 3, 1998, 149ff; Noberto Bobbio and the tradition of liberal socialism in Italy. In: R. Faber (Ed.), Liberalism in Past and Present. Würzburg 2000. 163ff; Beyond Hegel. Visiting Norberto Bobbio. In: Kommune H. 4, 2001, 66ff.
  5. ↑ faz.net Otto Kallscheuer: Norbert Bobbio - Italy's skeptical lay pope . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , January 11, 2004
  6. ↑ 3sat.de Brief biographical information under 3sat on Otto Kallscheuer's places of residence, teaching and research

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SURNAME Kallscheuer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruehl (Rhineland)