Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann

Aktuelle Themenbereiche

• Der Begriff der Involution als Politische Philosophie der Zivilgesellschaft wie der partizipatorischen Demokratie im Anschluss an Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Judith Butler
• Politische Philosophie und Philosophie der Bildung
• Existentialismus
• Poststrukturalismus

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Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen im Sommersemester 2020

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Vorlesung
(Studium generale, Seniorenstudium, Gender-Studies)
Politik und Geschichte: Michel Foucault, Die Ordnung der Dinge (1966)

Donnerstag 18.15h-20h 2 std. Hauptgebäude A 021

Erst der Foucault der siebziger Jahre gilt als der Genealoge der Macht, nicht seine Texte der sechziger Jahre. Dagegen entfaltet bereits sein literarisch bestes Buch Die Ordnung der Dinge eine eingehende Analyse des Verhältnisses von Wissen und Macht, das sich in Abgrenzung vom Marxismus um ein anderes Geschichtsverständnis bemüht, dass ich der Indienstnahme durch politische Ideologien und Religionen verweigert. Natürlich wird die Vorlesung auch auf Foucaults dieses Jahr erst erschienenen vierten Band von Sexualität und Wahrheit eingehen Die Geständnisse des Fleisches und die Frage diskutieren, ob Foucault doch Machtgenealoge geblieben ist und die Rede vom späten Foucault als Denker einer individuellen Lebenskunst ein großes Missverständnis war.

Literatur: Michel Foucault, Die Ordnung der Dinge (1966); Die Geständnisse des Fleisches; Schönherr-Mann, Der Übermensch als Lebenskünstlerin – Nietzsche, Foucault und die Ethik (2009); Michel Foucault als politischer Philosoph (2018); Dekonstruktion als Gerechtigkeit – Jacques Derridas Staatsverständnis und politische Philosophie

Doktorandenseminar

Das Seminar (kein Scheinerwerb) ist ein Lektürekurs vornehmlich klassischer Texte der politischen Philosophie und steht interessierten Studenten offen. Aktuell werden ausgewählte Stellen bei Nietzsche gelesen. Es könnte mit Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft weitergehen.

Bis 16.4. Donnerstag 18.30-20h, 2 std. Oettingen Str. 131 oder 133
Vom 23.4. bis 28.4. entfällt die Veranstaltung
Ab 1.6. bis 20.7. Montag 18.30h-20h, Oettingenstr. 67, Raum 065
Ab 30.7. bis 24.9. Donnerstag 18.30-20h Oettingenstr. 67 065
Teilnahme jederzeit möglich

VENICE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, VENEDIG
(Unterricht in englischer Sprache)

Sommersemester 2020

Seminar
Ecology and Technology as challenges of Ethics

a) In the nineteen seventies started the ethical discussion about a changing ethical horizon, which the increasing development of the technological world was producing. It was one aspect of a new general interest in ethics after more than 150 years of preferring violence than morals: Hegel, Marx, Carl Schmitt. On the one side the ideologies couldn’t anymore hide their failure. On the other side a lot of problems of the technological world seemed to need also ethical and moral answers. For example for a lot of thinkers the ecological crisis cannot be solved only by technological methods. In spite it needs an ascetic answer, that means an ethical answer, which includes in the ethical sphere also the nature and environmental problems. So Hans Jonas wrote in 1979 the first ecological ethics. The imperative of responsibility – a new kind of ethics involved by Max Weber – since is dominating the ethical discussions about the technological society. Since the debate on changing of the climate especially Bruno Latour demands urgently an ecological understanding of democracy. Ulrich Beck developed the concept of a world risk society. Also the technological world of computing and internet has completely changed daily life and it is producing a lot of new especially political risk, as the vote for Brexit and the US presidential votes in 2016 are showing. These developments need an ethical answer on the individual side and from the political sphere.
b) The seminar shall give information about the technological challenge and shall give an introduction into the ecological ethics and the ethics of the technological world. Naturally it is necessary to have also a look on the history of ethics and the philosophy of technology
c) Teaching Methods: Discourse, Statement, Lecture of the students, Reading an Analysing Texts in the Seminar together, Discussion
Evaluation: presentation, written exam, each 50 %
d) Literature
Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society, Cambridge Polity Press 1998
Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility - In Search of Ethics for the Technological Age, University of Chicago Press 1984
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth - Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Polity Press 2017
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, University of Minnesota Press, 1984
Michel Serres, The Natural Contract, University of Michigan Press 1995
Gianni Vattimo, The Transparent Society, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Time: Monday 11-12.30h, Room 9B

Seminar
Globalization, Ethics, Welfare and Human Rights

a) Globalization has different effects in different fields: primarily as an economic and political process, starting already as the imperialism of the 19th century, at least as the worldwide financial crisis 2008; political on different fields of international cooperation for example in the United Nations for example concerning the international agenda for climate politics combined with efforts for technological innovation of energy production; of global political influence by the USA or for example China; and the global reflections of regional political conflicts for example in the Ukraine, the Iranian efforts to get nuclear technologies; and the worldwide terrorism and the so called global war on it. The spreading neoliberalism weakens the national states as well as supranational organizations. Especially the welfare state is object of political reforms aiming to reduce its costs with the consequence of increasing social inequality. On the other side a lot of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) emerged in the last decades as well as a lot of protest movements based on ethical, political, economic or ecological ideas and criticism, which try to fight against the different outgrowths of global capitalism. Naturally the globalization is accelerated by computerization, especially the internet, which become a field of war as well a controlling system, but on the other side also a place of communication of individual citizens. Therefore it is offering chance for people power and the fight for human rights.

b) The course offers possibilities for the students to work about the themes of globalization from different disciplines and from different national perspectives; for example economic, political, humanitarian, social or technological perspectives of globalization in their own countries.
c) Teaching Methods: Discourse, Statement, Lecture of the students, Reading an Analysing Texts in the Seminar together, Discussion
Evaluation: presentation, written exam, each 50 %
d) Literature
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man. Free Press, 1992
Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Simon & Schuster, New York 1996
Paul Gorden Lauren: The evolution of international human rights. Visions seen. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2011
Paul Mason, PostCapitalism – A Guide to Our Future, Penguin, London 1015
John Rawls, Political Liberalism, Columbia University Press, New York 1993
Michael Walzer, On Toleration, Yale University Press, 1997
Michael Walzer, Toward a Global Civil Society, Berghahn Books, 1995

Time: Monday 9.15-10.45h, Room 9A