Walter Reese-Shepherd

Walter Reese-Schäfer (* 1951 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German political scientist .

Life

Reese-Schäfer studied from 1969 to 1975 at the University of Hamburg . In 1978 he was promoted to Dr. phil. in 1979 he passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools. From 1978 to 1992 he worked as a documentary journalist for the weekly magazine Stern and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Afterwards he was assistant to the political scientist Richard Saage at the University of Halle , after the habilitation in 1995 senior assistant. In the summer semester 1999 he represented the political scientist Karl Rohe at the University of Essen , from the winter semester 1999/2000 to the winter semester 2000/2001 Udo Bermbach at the University of Hamburg. In 2001 he was appointed to the chair for political theory and history of ideas at the University of Göttingen as the successor to Walter Euchner . From October 2013 he was dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Research areas

Reese-Schäfer's research areas are ancient and contemporary political theory in North America and Europe, civic engagement and communitarianism .

Memberships

• Scientific Board of Trustees of the Deekeling Arndt Think Tank ; Head: Rainer Zimmermann
• Advisory Board in the Goettingen Journal of International Law

Fonts (selection)

author

• Karl-Otto Apel as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-88506-861-3 .
• Universalism, nationalism and the new unity of the Germans. Philosophers and Politics. Together with Petra Braitling. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-596-10963-9 .
• Lyotard for introduction. 3. Edition. Junius, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88506-913-X .
• Ancient political philosophy as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-88506-971-7 .
• Communitarianism. 3. Edition. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-593-36832-3 .
• Jürgen Habermas . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-593-36833-1 .
• Amitai Etzioni as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-88506-342-5 .
• Richard Rorty as an introduction. Junius, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-88506-623-8 .
• Political thinking today. Civil society, globalization and human rights. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58408-0 .
• The overwhelmed self. Globalization pressure and responsibility. Merus, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939519-26-3 .
• Aristotle read interculturally. Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-322-2 .
• Read Plato across cultures. Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-214-0 .
• Niklas Luhmann as an introduction. 6th edition. Junius, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88506-696-5 .
• Classic of the history of political ideas. From Plato to Marx . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70452-5 .
• Political theory of the present in eighteen models. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71346-6 .
• Limit gods of morality. The more recent European-American discourse on political ethics. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00166-7 .
• Interpretations of the present. To the criticism of scientific diagnosis of the times. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-476-04841-7 .

editor

• Ethics and politics. Discourse ethics, justice theory and political practice. Together with Karl Theodor Schuon. Schüre, Marburg 1991, ISBN 3-924800-69-3 .
• Identity and interest. The discourse of identity research. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2481-3 .
• Model and reality. Claim and Effect of Political Thought. Festschrift for Richard Saage on his 60th birthday. Together with Martin Kühnel and Axel Rüdiger. MDV, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-89812-112-7 .
• The intellectuals and the world course. Creators and missionaries of political ideas in the USA, Asia and Europe after 1945. Together with Harald Bluhm . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2254-7 .
• Handbook of Communitarianism. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Reese-Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Reese-Shepherd. University of Göttingen, accessed in 2020 . 
• Michael Koehler u. Walter Reese Schäfer: No normal philosophy (interview about Richard Rorty). Deutschlandfunk dated June 11, 2007, accessed on May 23, 2011 . 
• Robert Lembke: The overwhelmed self (review). Tabula Rasa, April 15, 2008, accessed May 11, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Reese-Schäfer: Richard Rorty for an introduction . Junius, Hamburg, 2006, p. 171.