Sibylle Tönnies
Sibylle Tönnies (born November 24, 1944 in Potsdam ; † March 25, 2017 ) was a German lawyer , sociologist and publicist .
Life
Sibylle Tönnies was the daughter of the lawyer Kuno Tönnies and the granddaughter of the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies . After attending school and graduating from high school (1963) in Eutin , she studied law at the Universities of Kiel and Freiburg and sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1971 she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Kiel . From 1974 to 1978 she practiced as a lawyer, mainly as a criminal defense attorney . In 1973 she had already become a professor in the social affairs department at the University of Bremen , which she remained until she reached retirement age. She then took on teaching positions at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and then at the University of Potsdam .
As a publicist, Sibylle Tönnies wrote for Die Welt , Die Zeit , the daily newspaper and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others . Her often provocative and inappropriate contributions, for example her criticism of the “left Salonatavism” and the Frankfurt School , regularly aroused opposition. A recurring theme in her last creative years was the demand for universally applicable human rights that could only be guaranteed by a world state . In her argument she referred to Thomas Hobbes and the Hobbes interpretation of her grandfather Ferdinand Tönnies. For a long time she hoped that the USA could take on the role of such a world state.
Publications
Books
- The expansion of the concept of deception through the construction of deception . Kiel 1971 (also dissertation at Kiel University, Faculty of Law, 1971).
- The dimorphism of truth , universalism and relativism in the philosophy of law , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 3-531-12337-8 .
- Western universalism. a defense of classical positions , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-531-12726-8 (3rd, revised edition, Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 978-3-531-32988-8 ).
- The celebration of the concrete: left Salonatavism , Steidel, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-88243-392-2 .
- Pacifism passé ?: A Polemik Rotbuch, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-88022-597-4 .
- Cosmopolis now: on the way to becoming a world state , European Publishing House , Hamburg 2002 ISBN 3-434-50530-X .
- The human rights idea. An occidental export good , VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-16434-2 .
Articles (selection)
- The cat of Dionysus . The secret relationship between postmodernism and community . In: Lars Clausen . Carsten Schlüter (Ed.): One Hundred Years of “ Community and Society ” . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1991, pp. 215-249, ISBN 3-8100-0750-1 .
- Hartz IV needs a new spirit . In: Uwe Carstens u. a. (Ed.): Reorganization of social benefits . Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft , Kiel 2006, pp. 287-304, ISBN 978-3-8334-6477-5 , OCLC 255873950 .
- From community to society - a trend beyond Europe . In: Uwe Carstens u. a. (Ed.): Constitution, Constitution, Constitution . Ferdinand-Tönnies-Gesellschaft, BoD, Norderstedt 2008, pp. 87-94, ISBN 978-3-83704-858-2 , OCLC 551857629 .
- The emperor's new clothes - no homage . On the 80th birthday of Jürgen Habermas . Deutschlandfunk , June 7, 2009, printed in: Tönnies-Forum , Vol. 18, 2009, Issue 2, pp. 26–36.
obituary
Christoph Sebastian Widdau: Idiosyncratic and ready for dialogue: On the death of Sibylle Tönnies , in: WeltTrends 129, 2017, pp. 60–61; also printed in the Tönnies Forum , Volume 26, 3/2017, pp. 8–9.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sibylle Tönnies in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sibylle Tönnies: Cosmopolis now. On the way to becoming a world state , NZZ review at Perlentaucher.de from July 6, 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information is based on: Uwe Carstens , "Death is always the concrete death of individuals ..." . In: Tönnies-Forum , Volume 26, 3/2017, p. 7.
- ↑ Information on the journalistic and scientific work is based, unless otherwise proven, on: Christoph Sebastian Widdau, Eigenwillig und dialogbereits. On the death of Sibylle Tönnies . In: WeltTrends 129, 2017, pp. 60–61, also printed in Tönnies-Forum , Volume 26, 3/2017, pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Sybille Tönnies, Longing for World Government . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 11, 2009, online , accessed December 9, 2017.
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SURNAME | Tönnies, Sibylle |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hotti (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal philosopher, sociologist and essayist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2017 |