Roland Bothner

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Roland Bothner (born January 15, 1953 in Walheim in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg ) is a German philosopher , art historian and writer.

Life

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After graduating from high school in Besigheim in 1973, he studied art history and philosophy, German, sociology and political science at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, Bern, Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main from 1973 to 1981 . From 1977 to 1983 Bothner was a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Stuttgart and at the evening academy in Mannheim. In 1981 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the thesis “Art in the System. The Constructive Function of Art for Ernst Bloch's Philosophy ” with Professors Alfred Schmidt and Hermann Schweppenhäuser . Afterwards he was a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt in the field of comparative literature and art history until 1986. In addition, until 1989 he had a teaching position at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in art history.

In 1986 Bothner was a founding member of the international Ernst Bloch Society in Ludwigshafen and a member of the Heidelberg research group for art, literature and culture. He received his habilitation in 1996 at the University of Bremen in the subject of art history with the text “Grund und Figur. Auguste Rodin's Hell Gate and the History of the Relief ” . In 1997 he founded the publishing house “Edition Publish & Parish” and the philosophical practice “Concept and Category” . In 2007 he was appointed professor.

research

His scientific work was supported by personal acquaintance with the philosophers and scientists Max Bense , Dieter Jähnig , Gershom Scholem and Shmuel Sambursky .

His examination of the art of the fifties and personal acquaintance with Gerhard Hoehme , with KRH Sonderborg , an action painter , and with Raimund Girke , who examined the constitutional conditions of painting , had a defining effect on his Bothners work .

Publications

Bothner is the author of numerous articles in specialist journals.

philosophy
  • Reluctance to think. On the philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries. Heidelberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-934180-22-2 .
  • Metaphysics. Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-934180-21-5 .
  • Identity, order, existence. Or: the body, the thinking, the sensation, economy, technology, Christianity, culture, ethics, morality and morality. Treatise on categories, terms and intensities. Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-934180-06-X .
  • External control. Philosophy of technology. Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-934180-19-2 .
  • Morality, reason, power. Treatise on practical philosophy. Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-934180-13-0 .
  • Philosophy of art. With drawings by the author. Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-934180-11-6 .
  • Art in the system. The constructive function of art for Ernst Bloch's philosophy. Bonn 1982.
  • Matter, art and death. Studies on Ernst Bloch from 1986 to 2006. With drawings by the author. Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-934180-09-4 .
  • Swabian youth. Also a way to philosophy. A documentation. Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-934180-15-4 .
  • Gustave Flaubert, An experiment in 59 scenes that would not be possible without Jean-Paul Sartre's “Idiot of the Family”. Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-934180-17-8 .
  • Myths and Legends. Philosophical notes and drawings from 2000 to 2005. Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-934180-08-6 .
  • Malice and other trifles. Philosophical notes and drawings. Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-934180-05-1 .
Art history
  • Hermeneutic logic of the image. Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-934180-18-5 .
  • Reason and figure. The story of the relief and Auguste Rodin's gate to hell. Verlag W. Fink, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7705-2795-X .
  • Elements of the plastic from Donatello to Brancusi. Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-934180-01-9 .
  • Auguste Rodin, The Citizens of Calais. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-458-33183-2 .
  • Black and red. On the autonomy of color. History of color painting in the 20th century. Mössingen-Talheim 1999, ISBN 3-89376-075-X .
  • Venetian painting. Titian - Tintoretto - Veronese. Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-934180-00-0 .
  • Action painting - the end of painting. KRH Sonderborgs Wabash Chicago series. Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-934180-03-5 .
  • Das Merke and other texts from “Traces” by Ernst Bloch with seven original etchings by Gerhard Hoehme. Selected and provided with an afterword by Roland Bothner, Heidelberg 1985.
Fiction
  • The hat of Charles the Bold. A historical sheet of pictures of the Duchy of Burgundy from 1430 to 1489 with contemporary images. Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-934180-12-3 .
  • Spengler is coming. Dialogues, scenes and a play. Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-934180-07-8 .
  • Play money. Monologues, little pieces and a crime piece. With drawings by the author. Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-934180-10-9 .

Picture gallery

  • Red Yellow

  • Black red

  • Mallarmé sign

  • Action painting No. 19

  • Mallarmé sign

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information on Bense, Jähnig, Scholem, Sambursky in: Bothner, Schwäbische Jugend, Heidelberg 2011.
  2. ↑ On Hoehme, Sonderborg, Girke see: Das Merke and other texts from “Traces” by Ernst Bloch with seven original etchings by Gerhard Hoehme, selected and with an afterword by Roland Bothner, Heidelberg 1985.
  3. ↑ Action Painting - the end of painting. KRH Sonderborgs Wabash-Chicago-Serie, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-934180-03-5 .
  4. ↑ Painting of regressive synthesis - on Raimund Girke, in: Pantheon LIV, 1996, pp. 161–168.
personal data
SURNAME Bothner, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, art historian and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Walheim , Ludwigsburg district , Baden-Württemberg