Richard Faber

Richard Faber (born June 6, 1943 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German literary, religious and cultural sociologist.

academic career

Faber studied German, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies and sociology and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1973. Since his habilitation with a thesis on the criticism of the conservative revolution in 1977, he has been a private lecturer in sociology (especially sociology of literature) at the Free University of Berlin , and since 2006 honorary professor.

Topics of his research and numerous publications are the Western Movement , Humanism , Political Theology , Catholicism , Protestantism and Judaism , Atheism , National Socialism and Fascism as well as the 1968 Cultural Revolution .

Fonts

Monographs

• Hop and Palatinate, God save. Historical reflections and personal memories on the occasion of Europe-wide re-regionalization and renationalization. A two-hour lecture in thirteen chapters. Together with a contribution to the cultural geography of Ernst Bloch's traces . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019
• From Brecht, Hauff and Koeppen to Melville, Ovid and Virgil to Benjamin, Krauss and Minder. Selected contributions to literary studies and the history of literary studies. 1982-2014 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018
• Speaking of which. Cultural studies mishaps by and for Richard Faber. Edited by Christine Holste and Barbara von Reibnitz, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013
• "... he'll pick up the first stone." Humanity, politics and religion with Theodor Fontane. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012
• A literary intellectual typology. Thomas Mann's contribution to the history and theory of (anti) humanism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011
• German-conscious Judaism and Jewish-conscious Germanness. The historical and political theologian Hans-Joachim Schoeps. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
• Political demonology. About modern Marcionism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
• Advanced esthete and political moralist. The universal intellectual Susan Sontag. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006.
• "We are one". About political-religious holistic ideas of European fascisms. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
• “People don't let themselves be said, but they let themselves be told everything.” About Grimm-Hebel's story, morality and utopia from a Benjaminian perspective. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002.
• Latin fascism. About Carl Schmitt the Roman and Catholic. Philo Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 2001. ( Review )
• Eternal Rome or: the city and the world. On the archeology of “occidental” globalization. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000.
• The Tasso myth. A Goethe criticism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999.
• Remembering and representing the inextinguishable. About Jorge Semprúns concentration camp literature. Berlin 1995.
• Men’s group with Countess. The “cosmics” Derleth, George, Klages, Schuler, Wolfskehl and Franziska zu Reventlow. Frankfurt am Main 1994.
• Franziska zu Reventlow and the Schwabing counterculture. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1993 (European cultural studies, 3)
• Inheritance from that time. To Ernst Bloch and Hermann Broch. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989.
• The Prometheus Complex. On the criticism of the political theology of Eric Voegelin and Hans Blumenberg. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1984.
• Roma aeterna. On the criticism of the “Conservative Revolution”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1981.
• Occident. A "political battle term". Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1979. (Slightly abridged and updated new edition: Philo-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 2002) (cultural studies studies, vol. 10)
• The collage essay. A scientific form of representation. Homage to Walter Benjamin. Hildesheim 1979. (2nd, almost unchanged edition. Frankfurt am Main 2005)
• Political idyll. On the social mythology of Arcadia. Klett, Stuttgart 1977. (Literary Studies - Social Science, 26)
• The proclamation of Virgil: Empire - Church - State. On the criticism of “political theology”. Olms, Hildesheim 1975. (Classical texts and studies, 4)
• Novalis: The imagination in power. Stuttgart 1970.

Editorships

• (with Christine Holste): From the Jewish ban on images to the foundation of Israeli art history. On the life and work of Moshe Barasch. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019
• (with Christine Holste): Alfred von Martin. The crisis of bourgeois man. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019
• (with Olaf Briese ): Heimatland - Vaterland - Abendland: About old and new populisms. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018
• (with Uwe Puschner): Luther : contemporary, historical, controversial. Peter Lang, Pieterlen 2017
• (with Almut-Barbara Renger): Religion and Literature: Divergences and Convergences. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017
• (with Roland Berbig , H. Christof Müller-Busch ): Illness, dying and death in the life of European writers: Volume 1: The 18th and 19th centuries. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017
• (with Roland Berbig , H. Christof Müller-Busch ): Illness, dying and death in the life of European writers: Volume 2: The 20th and 21st centuries. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017
• (with Christine Holste): Alfred von Martin : Sociology of the Renaissance. Springer, Wiesbaden 2016
• (with Hanna Delf von Wolzüge): Theodor Fontane : poet and novelist. Its reception in the 20th and 21st centuries. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015
• (with Achim Lichtenberger ): A pluriverse universe. Civilization and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean. Wilhelm Fink, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015
• (with Olaf Briese , Madleen Podewski): Actuality of the apocalyptic. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015
• (with Hanna Delf von Wolzüge, Helmut Peitsch ): Theodor Fontane. Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, Europe and the world. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014
• (with Bolko Pfau): Fritz Hartmann, Medical Anthropology and Humanity. Collected Essays. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014
• (with Ina Ulrike Paul): The historical novel between art, ideology and science. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013
• Total education in European and American literature. Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2013
• Total institutions? Cadet schools, convent schools and country schools in beautiful literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013
• (with Perdita Ladwig): Society and humanity. The cultural sociologist Alfred von Martin (1882-1979). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013.
• (with Michael N. Ebertz ): Angels among us. Sociological and theological miniatures . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3850-1 .
• (with Frithjof Hager): return of religion or secular culture? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
• The field of Frankfurt cultural and social sciences after 1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
• The imagination to power? 1968 - Attempt to take stock. EVA European Publishing House, Hamburg 2008.
• Populism in the past and present. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
• The field of Frankfurt cultural and social sciences before 1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007.
• (with Susanne Lanwerd): Atheism: Ideology, Philosophy or Mentality? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-2895-3 .
• Catholicism Past and Present. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
• Between affirmation and criticism of power. On the history of Protestantism and Protestant mentalities. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2005.
• Open humanism between the fronts of the Cold War. About the universal historian, political journalist and religious essayist Friedrich Heer . With personal memories from Carl Amery and Reinhold Knoll. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005
• Imperialism past and present. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
• Living tradition and anticipated modernity. About Johann Peter Hebel . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004.
• Protestantism - ideology, denomination or culture? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003.
• Dispute over humanism. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003.
• (with Barbara von Reibnitz ): Hubert Cancik , verses and things. Cultural interpretations of Roman poetry . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2467-2 .
• Humanism past and present. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002.
• Occidental eschatology. Ad Jacob Taubes . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001.
• Secularization and resacralization. On the history of the hymn and its reception. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001.
• Liberalism Past and Present. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000.
• (with Volkhard Krech ): Art and Religion. Studies in cultural sociology and cultural history. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999
• (with Christine Holste): Circles, groups, frets. On the sociology of modern intellectual association. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1747-1 .
• (with Barbara Naumann): Literary Philosophy - Philosophical Literature. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1999.
• Hubert Cancik: Antique - Modern. Contributions to Roman and German cultural history . Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-476-01572-6 .
• Political Religion - Religious Politics. (Hubert Cancik on his 60th birthday). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997.
• (with Bernd Seidensticker ): Words, pictures, sounds. Studies on antiquity and the reception of antiquity. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1179-1 . (Festschrift for Bernhard Kytzler). Google books
• (with Barbara Naumann): literature of the border - theory of the border. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1995.
• (with Bernhard Kytzler ): Antiquity today. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1992.
• Conservatism Past and Present. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991.

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Richard Faber at perlentaucher.de
• Literature by and about Richard Faber in the catalog of the German National Library