Rolf Denker

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Rolf Denker (born June 20, 1932 in Bielefeld , † November 23, 1999 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher and psychoanalyst . He was a professor of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Live and act

After training as a publishing bookseller, Denker studied philosophy, German, art history, sociology and psychoanalysis in Bonn and Tübingen. He was a student of Walter Schulz and Ernst Bloch and did his doctorate on the art philosophy of Kant and Goethe. After his habilitation, he was academic advisor and professor of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen until 1992. There he developed seminars and colloquia on the borderline between philosophical and medical anthropology with excursions into the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis. He then headed a private Anna Freud Institute for applied psychoanalysis and practical philosophy in Tübingen.

The aim of his anthropological considerations was to explore the economic, political and social-psychological conditions for a society of responsible individuals. They would have to be capable of character and ready for an argumentative discussion in a critical dialogue. Work and play as well as artistic and scientific activities should be designed and able to work in such a way that the development of pathological personalities with neurotic, authoritarian, narcissistic-aggressive or psychotic disorders, which is typical for bourgeois society, can be reduced.

Publications

  • Nature as the subject of painting , 1961.
  • Introductions by the editor to Goethe's writings on art in 2 volumes , Artemis dtv edition, Munich 1962.
  • Enlightenment about aggression , Stuttgart 1966, 5th revised and expanded edition 1975.
  • Individualism and a mature society , Stuttgart 1967.
  • Limits of Liberal Enlightenment , Stuttgart 1968
  • Science and Politics , 1968.
  • On the dialectic of civil society , 1969.
  • Human Limits , 1973.
  • Fear and Aggression , Stuttgart 1974.
  • Self-image as an external design. Essays on philosophy from Kant to Bloch , Tübingen 1985.
  • Anna Freud for an introduction , Hamburg 1995.
  • Farewell to conscience , from the estate published by Stephan Becker and Uwe Bernhardt, Gießen 2002.
  • Job - or the severity of happiness: a philosophical reader about living and letting go , edited from the estate by Uwe Bernhardt, Friederike Denker, Hans Martin Dober, Münster 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thinker at Psychosocial Publishing
personal data
SURNAME Thinker, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1999
Place of death Tübingen