Wolfgang Sohst

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Wolfgang Sohst (2015)

Wolfgang Karl Sohst (born March 12, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German publisher and philosopher. In 2002 he founded the science publisher xenomoi, based in Berlin, and as a freelance philosopher publishes primarily in the fields of metaphysics and ethics .

Life

In spring 1977 Sohst joined the Berlin branch of the Action Analysis Organization (AAO), which belonged to Otto Muehl's large commune . Sohst studied law at the Free University of Berlin from 1978 to 1984 . Shortly before his first state examination, at the request of the local authority in Burgenland, Austria, he moved to where he worked in the central communal administration until 1986. In the spring of 1987 he went to La Gomera on behalf of the AAO to manage the local authority there.

When the Muehl commune disintegrated in 1991, Sohst returned to Berlin. During this time he began intensive philosophical studies. In 1994 he joined the libertarian philosophical working group MoMo Berlin, which he has been organizing since 2007. In 2002 Sohst founded xenomoi Verlag. His first monograph was published in 2010 under the title "Process ontology. A systematic outline of the origin of existence".

Publishing activity

In the early years, xenomoi Verlag's program consisted mainly of legal titles. The publisher published various Spanish legal texts on civil, tax, corporate and real estate law, whose translation and commentary was done by Sohst. Since 2005, the publishing program has been continuously expanded to include texts from classical and contemporary philosophy.

Together with the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna , Sohst has been publishing the study edition of the works of Ernst Mach under the direction of Friedrich Stadler since 2008 . He is also co-editor of the Berlin Journal of Critical Theory.

The classic authors of the publishing program also include David Hume , Henri Poincaré , Lorenz von Stein and Bertrand Russell . As contemporary authors, xenomoi publishes, among others, Rainer E. Zimmermann , Dieter Mersch , Thomas Ebke, Rüdiger Zill, Matthias Kross, Henry Staten, Karl-Heinz Adler , Gil Schlesinger (partly in philosophical editors' volumes).

Research priorities

  • Analytical metaphysics, especially process-based ontologies
  • Metaphysics of the social, especially aspects of collective ethical responsibility
  • Formal process-logic statement systems

Monographs and edited volumes (selection)

  • Sohst, Wolfgang (ed.): The figure of the new . (= Volume 1 of the series Philosophical KonTexte ) Xenomoi, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-936532-77-7 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Process ontology. A systematic outline of the origin of existence . (= Volume 2 of the series Philosophical KonTexte ) Xenomoi, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-936532-60-9 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang (ed.): The globalization of affects . (= Volume 3 of the series Philosophical KonTexte ). Xenomoi, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942106-18-4 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: The Spanish Civil Code: Código Civil and Spanish Notarial Law , 5th edition. Xenomoi Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942106-09-2 . (Translation and commentary)
  • Sohst, Wolfgang (ed.): Political ethics and collective responsibility . Xenomoi, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-942106-34-4 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Real possibility - A general theory of becoming , Xenomoi, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942106-41-2 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Collective Moral Responsibility . Xenomoi, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-942106-51-1 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Mind pieces - thirty-three poems and short stories , 2nd extended edition. Xenomoi, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-942106-54-2 .
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Genuine Process Logic . The PhilPapers Foundation, Western University, Ontario, Canada ( https://philpapers.org/archive/SOHGPL.pdf ).
  • Sohst, Wolfgang: Handbook ontology, contribution: The ontology of forces, processes and emergence. Sein als Werden , JB Metzler (Springer Verlag), Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-476-04637-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Ralph Josef Kistler: La modernidad y los territorios del ocio: el caso de El Cabrito en La Gomera. Servicio de Publicaciones de ULL, La Laguna 2014, p. 9. online
  2. ↑ cf. About xenomoi Verlag (accessed December 19, 2017)
  3. ↑ cf. Ernst Mach study edition (accessed December 19, 2017)
  4. ↑ cf. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory: Editorial Board (accessed December 19, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Sohst, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sohst, Wolfgang Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin