Volker Caysa

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Volker Caysa (born June 24, 1957 in Halberstadt ; † August 3, 2017 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Caysa studied philosophy at the Karl Marx University (KMU) in Leipzig with a degree in philosopher and stayed as an assistant at the philosophy faculty of the KMU. During this time Helmut Seidel's specific practice philosophy , which can be described as a historical-materialistic identity philosophy , was formative for him. In 1988 Volker Caysa did his doctorate at the KMU and began his career as a philosopher of sensible life with his dissertation on the "Science of Logic" as the metaphysics of the work of reason . He stayed until the philosophical faculty was liquidated in the course of the political changeas a university lecturer at the SME. As a GDR philosopher, he couldn't find a job as a university professor in Germany in the 1990s. After his discharge from the university he worked as a freelance philosopher and author until he was later given access again as a research assistant.

Caysa was one of the co-founders of the Nietzsche Society , of which he was a long-time member of the board and which he headed from 2002 to 2004 as chairman. In the 1990s he worked together with Helmut Seidel to set up the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Leipzig. In 2002 he received his habilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig with the work body utopias - a philosophical anthropology of sport . From 2003 to 2013 he worked as a professor at the universities in Opole and Łódź and from 2003 as a private lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. At the Nietzsche Society , he and Gunter Gebauer founded the working group “Anthropology of the Body” in 2005 with the aim of developing a modern body philosophy. Volker Caysa the philosophy of standing art of living and reasonable practice of life and especially the theory of empractical center stage.

In 1997 he received the Science Prize of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen , donated by Günter Reimann . His main work was published in 2015 under the title Empraktische Vernunft . On behalf of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Caysa contributed to the research reports on Rosa Luxemburg . In the field of art philosophy, Volker Caysa worked together with his wife Konstanze, Durs Grünbein and Jonathan Meese . They got involved on the board of the Nietzsche Society, as members of the cultural studies advisory board of the Bremen East Clinic and with the establishment of the Leipzig Forum for Art and Philosophy in February 2017 for the further development of the "theory of the empirical". From 2006 to 2010, Caysa gave lectures on this topic at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Leipzig. His wife transcribed the lectures and in addition to "Empractical Reason", the jointly developed volumes "Asceticism as a Behavioral Revolt" and "Thinking of the Empractical" were created.

Main areas of work as a philosopher

Others

Before studying philosophy, Caysa was active as an athlete in the GDR. In 1977 he achieved a best distance of 55.74 m in hammer throwing. As a former athlete, he advocated analyzing doping practices as an expression of the industrialization of the body .

Caysa has a son. He was married to the old Germanist Uta Störmer-Caysa , professor at the University of Mainz , and was married to the artist-philosopher Konstanze Caysa until his death.

Publications (selection)

  • The "science of logic" as the metaphysics of the work of reason. University of Leipzig, Diss. A, 1988.
  • Hope can be disappointed. Ernst Bloch in Leipzig. Co-authors: Petra Caysa, Elke Uhl, Klaus-Dieter Eichler ; Verlag Hain, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-445-08573-3 .
  • Designing Being: The Negative Metaphysics of Martin Heidegger . Daedalus, Peter Lang - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-47147-0 .
  • Sport is murder - texts to prevent physical activity. Reclam-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-379-01556-1 .
  • History of Philosophy and Hermeneutics. Co-author: Klaus-Dieter Eichler; Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 978-3-931922-13-9 .
  • Sports philosophy . Reclam, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 978-3-379-01578-3 .
  • In Search of the Citoyen: Concepts of Citoyenity. Daedalus / European thinking in German philosophy, Peter Lang - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1997, ISBN 978-3-631-31104-2 .
  • Through thick and thin. Reclam, 1998, ISBN 3-379-01614-4 .
  • Practice. Reason. Community. In search of a different reason. Co-author: Klaus-Dieter Eichler; Beltz Athenaeum, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89547-023-3 .
  • Reinhold Messner's philosophy: make sense in a world without sense. Co-author: Wilhelm Schmid ; edition Suhrkamp, ​​2001, ISBN 978-3-518-12242-6 .
  • On the concept of philosophical practice. The second practical discussion in the GDR . Co-authors: Dieter Wittich , Helmut Seidel; In: Texts on Philosophy. Issue 12, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, 2002.
  • Body utopias. A Philosophical Anthropology of Sport. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-1202-7 .
  • Spirit of the Leipzig Bloch period. Cultural philosophical reflections on memory and history. Verlag GNN, Schkeuditz / Leipzig 2003, ISBN 978-3-89819-137-1 .
  • Criticism as a utopia of self-government: On the existential turn of criticism after Nietzsche. Verlag Frank & Timme, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-86596-005-4 .
  • Nietzsche and the Left. Edited by Hans-Martin Gerlach and Volker Caysa, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89819-228-6 .
  • Hatred and violence. Philosophy and Psychology in Dialogue - Volume 3. Co-author: Rolf Haubl , Verlagsgruppe Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-45172-4 .
  • Culture - Nation - Europe: National cultural identities on an imaginary continent. Co-author: Bartlomiej Kozera, Daedalus, Peter Lang - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56982-5 .
  • Experiments of the body. Co-author: Konstanze Schwarzwald, LIT Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-1202-7 .
  • Nietzsche - power - greatness. Nietzsche - philosopher of power or the power of greatness. Co-author: Konstanze Schwarzwald, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-024572-1 .
  • Empractical reason. Peter Lang - Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66707-1 .
  • Rosa Luxemburg - the philosopher. Rosa Luxemburg Research Reports, on behalf of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony ed. by Klaus Kinner and Manfred Neuhaus , Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-947176-00-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Caysa: About the transformation of the spirit of the Leipzig Bloch period in the practical-philosophical debate around and before 1968 in the GDR. In: Klaus Kinner (Hrsg.): Die Linke - Erbe und Tradition. Part 1, Berlin 2010, p. 195 ff.
  2. ↑ Interview Konstanze Schwarzwalds with Volker Caysa in the philosophy student newspaper "Eigensinn" on January 5, 2006 (last accessed on March 7, 2018)
  3. ^ Obituary for Volker Caysa in the magazine Links! of October 10, 2017 (last accessed on March 7, 2018)
  4. ^ Wulf Skaun: Rosa Luxemburg as a philosopher. Article in the journal "Links!" Of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation from February 2016 (last accessed on March 7, 2018).
  5. ↑ Franz Bockrath: Obituary of the German Association of Sports Science, Sports Division philosophy for Volker Caysa. September 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Caysa, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2017
Place of death Leipzig