Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch

Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch (born March 13, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German legal, political and cultural scientist.

He has been Professor of Political Science and Legal Theory at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 1971, as well as founder (1984) and co-director of the Research Center for Political Ecology. Together with Ulrich Weiss , he headed the political theory department at the Political School from 1996 to 2012. Mayer-Tasch has been chairman of the diploma examination committee since 1993; 1993–2014 he was also a member of the Senate of the Munich School of Politics. 1998–2002 he was its prorector, 2002–2010 its rector.

Life

Mayer-Tasch studied law and political science as well as history , art history and philosophy in Tübingen , Munich , Heidelberg , Oxford , Strasbourg and Bologna . In 1964 he was awarded a doctorate in law (summa cum laude); Diplomas for International Law and International Politics ( Johns Hopkins University ) and Diplomas for Droit Comparée (Strasbourg and Coimbra) each with distinction. In 1971 he completed his habilitation with Peter Schneider, Theodor Viehweg and Manfred Hättich at the University of Mainz for public law , legal philosophy and political science. In the same year he was appointed professor of political science and legal theory at the University of Munich. Between 1972 and 2003 he was a member of the board of directors of the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, mostly as managing director. In 1984 he founded and headed the Research Center for Political Ecology (from 1990 in association with Franz-Theo Gottwald and Franz Kohout). From 1993 to 2003 he was head of legal training for social scientists at the University of Munich. Between 1998 and 2002 he was vice-rector and from 2002 to 2010 rector of the Munich School of Politics and co-editor of the magazine for politics. Visiting professorships in Wismar, Venice and the USA. Wide-ranging lecturing activities. Since 2016 Mayer-Tasch has also been running a private philosophical practice (philosophische-praxis-boethius) in Schondorf am Ammersee.

Scientific focus

Mayer-Tasch works as a speaker, publicist and consultant, particularly in the environment of the ecological movement. His main research interests are political ecology, political legal theory and political philosophy (with an emphasis on cultural history and the philosophy of civilization). He is a member of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers, the Board of Trustees of the Öko-Institut and the Board of Trustees for More Democracy .

At Mayer-Tasch, professorial qualifications for political theory and philosophy as well as for political science and political ecology: Prof. Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann (LMU Munich), Dr. Armin Adam (Munich), Professor Dr. Franz Kohout (Univ. Of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich), Professor Dr. Kurt-Peter Merk (Univ. Koblenz), Professor Dr. Manuel Knoll (Istanbul Sehir University). Mayer-Tasch also supervised numerous doctorates from all branches of political science, in particular political ecology and political philosophy.

echo

In the 1970s and 1980s, Mayer-Tasch showed a strong presence in the media as a committed champion for greater citizen participation, more efficient environmental law and efficient environmental policy. 1982 Awarded the Medal of Honor from the Andean University of Bogotá. His book on The Citizens' Initiative Movement received great attention and was widely used . During his activity as managing director of the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, he appeared several times in public, arguing for the interests of the GSI.

His technology-critical and decidedly ecological stance in the face of innovations that are associated with health risks did not receive general approval. At times he was also said to have a special interest in esotericism (including Chinese, Indian and Germanic mythology and mysticism ) - an interest that was also reflected in his books on Prophecy and Politics (2000) and The Signs of Nature .

At the Political School, Mayer-Tasch is considered a comparatively strict examiner, which has sometimes led to criticism from students. On the other hand, during his tenure as Vice-Rector and Rector of the School of Politics (from 1998), he gained wide recognition for his critical stance towards the Bologna Process and his advocacy of maintaining his diploma (Dipl.sc.pol.Univ.) And before especially for his leading role in enforcing the right to award doctorates (Dr.sc.pol.) for students at the Munich School of Politics. His efforts to improve the communicative value of university life, the aesthetic upgrading of the university rooms and the festive design of the diploma and anniversary celebrations also met with great approval.

In the summer of 2009, Mayer-Tasch got caught in the crossfire of public opinion when he invited all parliamentary groups (including the NPD ) to a discussion in the state parliament for a seminar organized by the University of Politics with the CSU- affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . When the democratic parliamentary groups then withdrew their commitment and assumed that the Munich seminar group was close to the NPD, Mayer-Tasch published a critical letter to the parliamentary groups in the Schwerin state parliament and to the president of the state parliament, in which he emphatically instructed them about the difference between politics and political science and - also on behalf of the colleagues and the students - expressed his displeasure about the "missed opportunity" (as also the Schweriner Volkszeitung ).

Publications

About 200 articles in scientific journals and about 70 monographs and editions. Books (selection):

• Thomas Hobbes and the Right to Resist, 1965 (also Japanese)
• Corporatism and Authoritarianism, 1971
• Environmental Protection - Politics of Peripheral Intervention, 1974 (with CF Doran and M. Hinz)
• Changing environmental law, 1978
• The citizens' initiative movement, 1985 (5th ed.)
• The Contaminated Map, 1987
• The Rink Villa. A South German Passion (Ed. 1988)
• Transit. The Drama of Mobility (Ed. 1990) *
• Political theory of the constitutional state, 1990 (2nd edition 2009)
• A net for Icarus. To regain the unity of nature, culture and life, 1990 (2nd ed.)
• Hobbes and Rousseau , 1991 (3rd ed.)
• Legacy law. The ecological deficits of our legal system, 1992
• They're mixing concrete again. Living spaces between architecture and politics, 1994
• The signs of nature. Nature symbolism and holistic experience (2nd edition 1998)
• A paradise behind walls. The medieval garden, 2004 (8th edition 2016)
• Political ecology. An introduction, 1999 Springer Verlag ISBN 978-3-663-01126-2
• Jean Bodin , 2000 (2nd edition 2011)
• Prophecy and Politics, 2000
• Leave the kitchen in the village. A sensual ecologist cookbook, 2002 (2nd edition 2006)
• Portrait Gallery of Political Thinkers (Ed. With Bernd Mayerhofer), 2003
• Middle and measure. Model of humanism from the origins to the present, 2006
• Diario Veneziano. From the diary of a visiting professor, 2007
• Sea without fish (ed.), 2007
• Philosophers of Peace (Ed / Editor, bilingual), 2007
• World without water (ed.), 2009
• The Hunger of the World (Ed.), 2011
• Classic editions of the Six livres de la République by Jean Bodin (1981, 1986), the Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (since 1965, 2nd edition 2012) and the Second Treatise on Government by John Locke (since 1966, bilingual 2012)
• Space and Boundaries, 2013
• The Power of Beauty, 2014
• The ladder to heaven, 2015 (2nd edition)
• The inexhaustible power of the simple (Ed. With Franz-Theo Gottwald and Bernd Malunat), 2015
• The letters of philosophy, 2017
• Small Philosophy of Power, 2018
• Thinking in nature, 2019 (2nd edition, edited with A. Adam and H.-M. Schönherr-Mann)
• Big and small happiness, 2019
• Way and risk. Poems, 2019
• King Enzio of Sardinia - Conversations with the last Staufer beyond time and space, 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Cornelius Mayer-Tasch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German constitutional law teachers
2. ↑ oeko.de ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ mehr-demokratie.de