Tilo Schabert

Tilo Schabert (* 1942 in Gotha ) is a German political scientist . He was a professor of political science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

Tilo Schabert grew up in the Upper Swabian vineyard . There he was active in the carnival and was the last "Altdorfer Schalknarr" of the Plätzler guild from the 1950s to 1962 before the revival of the fool figure in 2015. He was also the first to embody the fool figure of the "Wurzelsepp" as a single figure even before the introduction of the wooden masks.

In 1962 Schabert went to study at the pre-seminary theological seminar in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt and from 1963 studied political science, philosophy, theology and modern history at the University of Munich . In 1968 he received his doctorate "summa cum laude" from the University of Munich. During his studies, from 1964 to 1966, he worked as an employee at the Franco-German Youth Office and at the Secrétariat d`État de la Jeunesse et aux Sports (Paris). From 1969 to 1970 and again from 1972 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the University of Munich. In the meantime he was a Research Fellow from 1970 to 1972 , and from 1971 to 1972 also as a lecturer at Stanford University . From 1976 to 1978 Schabert worked as a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum . There he completed his habilitation in 1978 and received the "venia legendi" for political science. During his time as a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (1978–1985), he conducted research at Harvard University and the Institut d`Études Politiques in Paris and conducted intensive field research on the government of the city of Boston under Mayor Kevin White, including as urban planning officer for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. From 1986 until his retirement in 2008 he was Professor of Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In the winter semester 1992/93 Schabert taught at the Technical University of Dresden.

He taught as visiting professor at the University of Maryland (1983), in Rennes (1989, 1991–2007), Florence (1982), Salerno (1996–2006), Naples (2005), Paris (1994), Jerusalem (1996), Lisbon (2002), and Beijing (2014).

He also worked as a screenwriter and filmmaker for Bavarian television. Since 1990 he has been the organizer and leader of the classic Eranos conferences (Amici di Eranos) in Ascona (Switzerland), Pisa and Neamt Targu (Romania). From 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the board of directors of the Mishkenot Encounters in Religion and Culture (Jerusalem). Contributions from him in the fields of culture and politics appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the French newspapers Le Monde, Le Figaro, Le Point, and La Croix.

In 1995 and 1996 he was Secretary General of the Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines at UNESCO in Paris. 1996 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Docteur ès lettres honoris causa) from the University of Perpignan (France) and in 2002 the same title (Docteur en science politique honoris causa) from the University of Rennes I (France).

In 2002 Schabert was elected to the town council of Baierbrunn (district of Munich). He was a member until 2008.

In 2005 he received the Franco-German Parliamentary Prize, awarded by the German Bundestag and the Assemblée nationale . In 2007 he was appointed Knight of the French Legion of Honor .

Publications

• Nature and Revolution, Munich 1969
• Man as Creator of the World (Ed.), Munich 1971
• Aufbruch zur Moderne (Ed.), Munich 1974
• Violence and Humanity, Freiburg-Munich 1978
• Boston Politics: The Creativity of Power, Berlin-New York 1989
• Urban architecture mirror of the world, Zurich 1990 (Italian practice Naples 1994)
• Modernity and History, Würzburg 1990
• Die Welt der Stadt (Ed.), Munich 1991
• Resurrection and Immortality (Ed.), Munich 1993
• Structures of Chaos (Ed.), Munich 1994
• "Les structures mythologiques du chaos", topic number of the Diogène magazine (with parallel editions in English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic), 1994 (guest editor)
• Die Macht des Wort (Ed.), Munich 1996
• The architecture of the world. A cosmological reading of architectural forms, Munich 1997 (Franz. Übs. Paris 2012)
• Beginnings (Ed.), Munich 1998
• Schuld (Ed.), Munich 1999
• Cultures of Eros (Ed.), Munich 2001
• Il Principe del Caosmo. Sei capitoli sulla creatività politica: Il potere dei sindaci - il potere presidenziale, Naples 2002, 173 p
• How world history is made. France and German Unity, Stuttgart 2002, 592 pp. (French practice revised and expanded, Paris 2005. - American practice Columbia-London 2009).
• The Language of Masks (Ed.), Würzburg 2002
• The ordering of time (ed.), Würzburg 2003
• Prophets and Prophecies - Prophets and Prophecies (Ed.), Würzburg 2005
• People at War, at Peace with Nature - Humans at War, at Peace with Nature (Ed.), Würzburg 2006
• Religions - The Religious Experience - Religions - The Religious Experience (Hrsg.), Würzburg 2008
• The second birth of man. From the political beginnings of human existence, Freiburg-Munich 2009
• God or gods? - God or Gods? (Ed.), Würzburg 2009
• The City: Axis and Center of the World - The City: Axis and Center of the World (Hrsg.), Würzburg 2011
• A politika méltóságáról és jelentösegéröl (On the Dignity and Importance of Politics), Budapest 2013
• The Second Birth. On the Political Origins of Human Existence, Chicago 2015 (extended American version of "The Second Birth of Man").
• The Eranos Movement (ed.), A Story of Hermeneutics, Würzburg 2016.
• The face of modernity. On the irregularity of an age, Freiburg-Munich 2018.

literature

• Peter Nitschke: "Political existence with Tilo Schabert". In: "Zeitschrift für Politik", Issue 4, Dec. 2002, pp. 449–452.
• Politics - On the element of the personal in politics. Festschrift for Tilo Schabert, ed. Karl-Heinz Nusser, Matthias Riedl, Theresia Ritter, Berlin, Duncker and Humblot, 2008, 498 pp.
• The Primacy of Persons in Politics. Empiricism and Political Philosophy, ed. John von Heyking, Thomas Heilke, Washington, DC, The Catholic University of America Press, 2013, 292 p. With a bibliography of the major works of Tilo Schabert on the subject.
• Thierry Gontier: "Tilo Schabert and the Primacy of Persons in Politics". In: VoegelinView (Internet Journal), February 2, 2015, as well as in the journal "Éthique, politique, religions" (2015 - 1, no. 6), pp. 160–166.
• Special issue of the journal "International Political Anthropology" (Vol. 9, No. 2, November 2016) with articles by various authors on Tilo Schabert's study "The Second Birth".

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilo Schabert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Tilo Schabert

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museumsblättle der Plätzlerzunft 4/2013 ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 8 f. 
2. ^ Lecture "The Altdorfer Schalknarr" by Andreas Reutter, January 23, 2015 in Weingarten on the occasion of the reintroduction of the fool figure, with pictures, stories and comments by Tilo Schabert.