Paul Good

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Paul Good (born October 29, 1942 in Mels , Switzerland ) is a Swiss philosopher . He lives and works in Bad Ragaz (Switzerland) and Düsseldorf (Germany).

He was professor of philosophy from 1983 to 2008 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In Bad Ragaz he has been running a "Philosophy Atelier" since 2007 for book and conference projects on philosophy and art.

biography

After graduating from high school in Immensee in 1962, he completed the novitiate (meditation year) and two years of philosophy in the Schöneck missionary seminar. In 1965 he continued studying philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His philosophical teacher there was Max Müller . The Paris year 1967/68 at the Sorbonne with his dissertation on Maurice Merleau-Ponty submitted in Munich in 1970 was decisive for the focus in his philosophy . This was followed by three years as an assistant in philosophy at the University of St. Gallen , in 1973 the habilitation there with the thesis "Language: Fiction and Function", several years of research at the Swiss National Science Foundation , various teaching assignments at various universities, 1976 a research stay at the University of California in Berkeley / USA with Paul Feyerabend and John Searle . In 1983 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he worked as a philosopher until 2008. Paul Good has been running a philosophical studio in Bad Ragaz / Switzerland since 2008. He is a member of the Swiss Alpine Club and the German Society for Philosophy .

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  1. Body philosophy / body philosophy: a first focus in his extensive work lies within phenomenology , based on the "phenomenology of perception", "the eye and the mind", "the visible and the invisible" of the French Maurice Merleau-Ponty , on far-reaching efforts To introduce “the body ” into a concept of thinking in such a way that this primordial corporeal “meaning” is finally set right against the abstract constitution of meaning through consciousness. Currently, this "sense" oriented towards perception, intuition, existence is directed against the disappearance of the body as it has been brought about by the global media society. In this context, the preoccupation with the laws of meaning in emotional life, as they were once worked out by the German philosopher Max Scheler , became relevant.
  2. Art : The body has a second focus that puts the arts at the center. Whether in painting, sculpture, performance, whether in drawing, music, or dance, in Goods' view the artists always bring their bodies with and into the artistic work. Good is always concerned with the question: what understanding of thinking, what image of thinking do certain works contain? So he draws something out of the arts for philosophy, for his difference thinking. A particular merit of the author is to practice a specific philosophical way of writing about art, to cultivate his own style , which manifests the special proximity to the arts.
  3. Difference : The key word that Paul Good wants to give the status of a concept in philosophy is think difference. The unified image of thought, which with Immanuel Kant postulated the same, common logos (the one reasonableness) for all who are of good will and which allowed generalizability to apply as the only criterion for truth and morality, is through the greatest unity, which through the economic Globalization has been brought about, has become completely obsolete due to the diversity of cultures and traditions. Difference is the value, Good always argues against all egalitarianism and conformity. You are something, you can do something, you see something that I am not, cannot, cannot see. If everyone contributes their strength in their own way, this results in a fullness of the world from which all derive a profit. The arts have long proven it. The greatest support for his difference thinking is the Frenchman Gilles Deleuze , whose work he considers to be the most important in the philosophy of the second half of the 20th century and which he conveyed extensively in lectures and seminars. Otherwise he has the line of ancestors Heraklit , ancient skeptics, cynics, Stoics, Plato , Meister Eckhart , Baruch Spinoza , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Lewis Carroll , Friedrich Nietzsche , Henri Bergson , Ludwig Wittgenstein , Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari , but also poets like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett , the composer John Cage a . a. to the side.

Fonts (selection)

  • You corps à la chair. Merleau-Ponty's path from phenomenology to "metaphysics" . Dissertation print Augsburg 1970
  • Language: fiction and function. An examination of language priorities in the cognitive process. Habilitation thesis of the University of St. Gallen 1973 (unpublished)
  • The nervous hand. On the semantics of Rolf Sackenheim's lines. DuMont Buchverlag Cologne 1991
  • The responsibility of knowledge. Frankfurt / ain 1992.
  • Heraclitus in Art and Philosophy. Three examples. Rimbaud Verlag Aachen 1993
  • Hermes or the philosophy of the island of Hombroich. (Text German / English) Neuss 1987, 3rd edition 1995
  • Organon & Harp. The artist Rolf Sackenheim. Düsseldorf / Bonn 1996
  • The immorality of art. Fink-Verlag Munich 1998
  • Minimalia for contemporary art. Parerga-Verlag Düsseldorf / Bonn 1998
  • Max Scheler. An introduction. Parerga-Verlag Düsseldorf / Bonn 1998
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An introduction. Parerga-Verlag Düsseldorf / Bonn 1998
  • The creator. Publishing house Hofhaus-Presse Düsseldorf 1998
  • Time Sculpture. Roman Signer's Work in Philosophical Perspective. Unique items Zurich / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Cologne 2002
  • Roman Signer: The acid test of beauty. DuMont, Cologne 2009.

Book edition (with contribution)

  • Max Scheler in contemporary philosophy. Francke-Verlag Bern / Munich 1975, with articles by M. Heidegger, HG Gadamer, H. Plessner, H. Kuhn, A. Dempf, H. Rombach, L. Landgrebe, M. Theunissen, P. Good, W. Welsch, E. Avé-Lallemant, A. Gehlen, HJ Schoeps, E. Ströker, D. Wyss / G. Huppmann, HJ Lieber, I. Fetscher, JM Bochenski
  • The responsibility of knowing. Positions of the more recent philosophy of science. Edition Suhrkamp 1122, Frankfurt a. M. 1982, with contributions by P. Feyerabend, HG Gadamer, K. Hübner, St. Toulmin, P. Good
  • Joseph Kopf - The tired smile in the elderberry tree. 95 poems. Edited with an afterword by P. Good, Pendo-Verlag Zurich 1989
  • A dark green starvation cloth the world. Bibliophile folder with 15 poems by Joseph Kopf and with 4 etchings by R. Sackenheim Ed. With an afterword by P. Good, Münsterschwarzach 1989; Reprinted in: Osiris. Magazine f. Literature 6/7, Rimbaud-Verlag Aachen 1998, 125–128
  • Joseph Kopf - Collected poems in two volumes: only one movement of light, Vol. I: Poems 1952–1963; das opened schneeblatt, vol. II: Gedichte 1967–1979. With afterword and critical appendix, ed. by P. Good, Rimbaud-Verlag Aachen 1992
  • Albrecht Fabri: Divertimenti. Selected texts from five decades. With an afterword ed. by P. Good, Parerga Verlag Düsseldorf / Bonn 1996
  • Organon and Harp. The artist Rolf Sackenheim. With an analysis on collage ed. by P. Good, Parerga Verlag Düsseldorf / Cologne 1996
  • Ch. Kronenberg / P. Good: Whispers of grass gathers around a stone. Art book with 25 color illustrations of Kronenberg's sculptures and a philosophical introduction by P. Good, Parerga Verlag Düsseldorf / Bonn 1996
  • Lewis Carroll: The Game of Logic. With an afterword ed. v. P. Good, Tropen Köln a. Frommann-Holzboog Verlag Stuttgart 1998 (second edition 1999)
  • Max Scheler: Grammar of Emotions. The emotional as the basis of ethics. Selected and edited with an introduction by P. Good. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag Munich 2000; Spanish translation: Gramática de los sentimientos. Traducción castellana de Daniel Camper. Critica B 2003

Symposia

  • 2007: The big picture has no shape. Wandering between thinking about art in China and in the west . With François Jullien, Paris; Liliana Albertazzi, Paris; Uli Sigg, Mauensee / Switzerland a. Beijing u. a. 2007 in the philosophy atelier, Bad Ragaz.
  • 2010: Rilke in Ragaz. A jump through the five gardens.

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personal data
SURNAME Good, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mels