Theo Kobusch

Theo Kobusch (2013)

Theo Kobusch (born April 9, 1948 in Niedertiefenbach ) is a German philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Kobusch is emeritus professor for philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and was managing director of the institute for philosophy there. With numerous publications on Plato , he became known beyond the specialist community. He is editorially responsible co-editor and author of several articles of the historical dictionary of philosophy as well as chairman of the working group of German-speaking philosophy lecturers in the study of Catholic theology. He is also the managing director of the Society for Ancient Philosophy. V .

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Kobusch was born in Niedertiefenbach near Limburg an der Lahn . There he attended elementary school. From 1958 to 1966 he was a student at the ancient language grammar school in Hadamar . From 1966 to 1971 he studied philosophy, Greek and Latin in Giessen and Bern . He completed his studies with the state examination.

In 1972 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "Studies on the Philosophy of Hierocles of Alexandria" at the University of Giessen . From 1975 Kobusch was a research assistant in the department for basic philosophical questions in theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen . In 1982 he qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen and received the license to teach philosophy a year later, with special emphasis on patristic and scholasticism .

Kobusch was C2 professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1983 to 1988 . In the meantime, he took over professorships in Bamberg and Bochum and received the Heisenberg scholarship . In 1990 he was appointed to the chair for philosophical-theological border issues at the Ruhr University in Bochum. There he was dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty from 1993 to 1994.

Since 2003 Kobusch has held the Chair C4 for Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. From October 2007 he was also a fellow at the Max Weber College in Erfurt for one year . Together with Manfred Gerwing , he is the editor of the articles on the history of philosophy and theology .

Publications

• Studies on the philosophy of Hierocles of Alexandria. Studies on Christian Neoplatonism. Berchmans, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-87056-008-8 .
• Being and language. Historical foundation of an ontology of language. Brill, Leiden / New York / København / Cologne 1987, ISBN 90-04-07562-3 .
• (Ed.): Ludger Oeing-Hanhoff , Walter Jaeschke (Ed.): Metaphysics and freedom. Collected Treatises. Wewel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-87904-141-5 .
• (Ed.): Burkhard Mojsisch (Ed.): Platon. His dialogues in the view of recent research. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 978-3-534-12632-3 .
• (Hrsg.): Burkhard Mojsisch (Hrsg.): Plato in the occidental intellectual history. New research on Platonism. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-12956-3 .
• The discovery of the person. Metaphysics of freedom and the modern image of man. (1993), 2nd, expanded edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-534-13377-3 .
• (Ed.): Philosophers of the Middle Ages. An introduction. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 978-3-534-14144-9 .
• (as ed.), Markus Knapp (ed.): Religion - Metaphysics (criticism) - Theology in the context of modernity / postmodernism. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016806-5 .
• (Ed.): Michael Erler (Ed.): Metaphysics and Religion. To the signature of late antique thinking. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-598-77709-4 .
• (Ed.): Burkhard Mojsisch (Ed.), Orrin F. Summerell (Ed.): Self - Singularity - Subjectivity. From Neoplatonism to German idealism. Grüner, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2002, ISBN 90-6032-467-6 .
• Christian philosophy. The discovery of subjectivity. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-534-19746-0 .
• The philosophy of the high and late middle ages. (= History of Philosophy. Vol. 5). Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-31269-4 .
• with Marcel van Ackeren , Jörn Müller (Ed.): Why still philosophy? Historical, systematic and social positions. Collection of articles. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-022375-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Theo Kobusch in the catalog of the German National Library