Thorsten Paprotny

Thorsten Paprotny (* 1971 ) is a German Roman Catholic philosopher , literary critic and author .

Thorsten Paprotny studied philosophy and German, as well as theology , sociology and pedagogy . In 1997 he did his doctorate at the Leibniz University in Hanover with Gerd-Günther Grau in the field of philosophical anthropology on the subject of “Dissonant Harmony. On the cultural-anthropological significance of symbolic forms ”. He then held lectureships at the Philosophical Seminar at the same university until 2010 , from 2010 to 2014 he was a research assistant and then until 2017 a lecturer at the Institute for Theology and Religious Studies. Since then he has been working as a freelance writer.

His main topics are the history of philosophy, theology, cultural and religious philosophy, political theory and religious studies, where he works as a reviewer and author. In addition to works on the history of philosophy, he also published children's books. He regularly publishes comments and essays in the non-church, private online magazine kath.net , which represents a conservative theological and socio-political point of view, and in the similarly oriented news portal CNA deutsch ; there he criticizes the German Bishops' Conference and the Synodal Way of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany.

Publications

• Politics as a duty? On the political philosophy of Max Weber and Karl Jaspers. Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1996 (Master's thesis, 169 pages; ISBN 978-3-631-30185-2 kart.)
• Dissonant harmony. On the cultural-anthropological significance of symbolic forms. Königshausen and Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 1999 (dissertation, 247 pages; ISBN 978-3-8260-1520-5 kart.)
• Brief history of ancient philosophy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2003 (224 pages; ISBN 978-3-451-05286-6 cart.)
• The risk of philosophy. Paths of thought and discourses with Karl Jaspers. Alber Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich 2003 (200 pages; ISBN 978-3-495-48095-3 kart.)
• Elephants on the way to Bethlehem. Traugott Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2004 (67 pages; ISBN 978-3-88309-159-4 ; online resource: ISBN 978-3-86945-370-5 ).
• Philosophize. Instructions to think about yourself and life. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005 (210 pages; ISBN 978-3-534-17498-0 ).
• Brief History of Enlightenment Philosophy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2005 (219 pages; ISBN 978-3-451-05557-7 cart.)
• Read Karl Jaspers' philosophy from an intercultural perspective. Traugott Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2006 (114 pages; ISBN 978-3-88309-204-1 ; online resource: ISBN 978-3-86945-032-2 ).
• The philosophical seducers. Thinking about love. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006 (228 pages; ISBN 978-3-534-18113-1 )
• My great friend Kunibert. Traugott Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2006 (93 pages; ISBN 978-3-88309-352-9 ; online resource: ISBN 978-3-86945-238-8 ).
• Brief history of medieval philosophy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2007 (189 pages; ISBN 978-3-451-05777-9 cart.)
• [As editor:] Romano Guardini today. Traugott Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2007 (265 pages; ISBN 978-3-88309-404-5 card.)
• Brief history of modern philosophy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2008 (191 pages; ISBN 978-3-451-05932-2 kart.)
• Brief history of contemporary philosophy. Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2009 (190 pages; ISBN 978-3-451-06009-0 cart.)
• Thinking theologically with Benedict XVI. Traugott Bautz Verlag, Nordhausen 2018 (112 pages; ISBN 978-3-95948-336-0 brochure; online resource (pdf): ISBN 978-3-95948-899-0 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rezensions.ch: Pap .
2. ↑ catholicnewsagency.com: Thorsten Paprotny .