Peter Furth (social philosopher)

Peter Furth (born July 25, 1930 in Berlin ; † June 2, 2019 there ) was a German social philosopher .

Career

Furth studied philosophy and sociology in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. He was assistant to Theodor Adorno at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research . Since 1973 Furth was Professor of Social Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . There he supervised u. a. the doctoral thesis by Rudi Dutschke . He was active in the circle of friends of the SDS and the magazine Argument . On December 5th, 1998 he appeared together with Horst Mahler and Bernd Rabehl at the "Bogenhauser Talks" of the right-wing fraternity Danubia .

Works (selection)

• Peter Furth / Mathias Greffrath : Sociological Positions. Interviews and comments , FFM 1977 ISBN 3596219760 .
• Peter Furth: Phenomenology of disappointments, FFM 1991 ISBN 978-3-596-30892-7 , reissued 2015
• Peter Furth: Troy does not stop burning . Articles from 1981 to 2007; ed. by Olaf Weißbach , with an introduction by Helmut Fleischer and a photograph by Manfred Hamm . Landt Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-938844-01-4 ; 2nd expanded edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-938844-12-0 .
• Peter Furth: Recon without a mission. About the position of the Panajotis condylis . In: Falk Horst (ed.): Recon without a mission. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 53–76. ISBN 978-3-05-004316-6
• Peter Furth: mass democracy. About the historical compromise between liberalism and socialism as a form of rule . With an introduction by Frank Böckelmann . Landt Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944872-19-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Furth in the catalog of the German National Library
• “The 1968 revolt left a guard generation behind” : Interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 6, 2008.
• Biography on the Manuscriptum Verlagbuchhandlung website , accessed on February 25, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorial page of Peter Furth | Tagesspiegel mourning. Accessed June 11, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ March 18, 1999 express march to the far right National revolutionary APO veterans want to save "our country" by Volkmar Wölk
3. ↑ 1968: Ex-SDS members Bernd Rabehl, Peter Furth and Horst Mahler at the "Bogenhauser Talks" , Junge Freiheit, December 11, 1998.
4. ↑ Lecture texts of the Danubia fraternity , accessed on February 25, 2018.