Sibylle Tönnies

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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)

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

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical information is based on: Uwe Carstens , "Death is always the concrete death of individuals ..." . In: Tönnies-Forum , Volume 26, 3/2017, p. 7.
  2. 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.
  3. Sybille Tönnies, Longing for World Government . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 11, 2009, online , accessed December 9, 2017.