Helmut Kohlenberger (born 1942 in

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) is a German philosopher, translator, editor and university lecturer at both the Universities of Vienna and

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. He is the author of several works, including ''The European Idea and Culture'', ''Theoretical issues of the Middle Ages'' and ''Modernism''.World Association of International Studies - Profile of Helmut Kohlenberger
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Biography

Kohlenberger was born in Wigstadtl in

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(now

in the

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) in 1942 but was schooled in postwar

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. He studied the history of philosophy in the German 19th-century tradition,

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and

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, at the

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. He also worked with Friedrich Tenbruck on sociological questions in the

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tradition. Kohlenberger continued Medieval studies at the University of Bochum and then worked in the field of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

, the development of universities and the collapse of the Christian values in modern society. He joined Raymond Klibansky on the Oxford committee for Medieval studies and spent thirty years working on the

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sponsored ''International Bibliography of Philosophy''. He was associated with

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and the Charta 77 movement in Prague in the 1960s and '70s. He was an employee of the magazine ''Tumult'' which covered Transport Economics of Vienna & Munich. He taught the

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at the

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in 1973–1987, plus working for Austrian Radio. Since the late 1980s he has taught at the

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plus lecturing abroad, translating and participating on editorial boards. He translated texts by

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from French into German, and was an editor of the magazine ''Stredni Europe'' (''Central Europe'').

Publications

* ''Similitudo und Ratio'' (1972) * ''Die Wahrheit des Ganzen'' (1976) * ''Von der Notwendigkeit der Philosophie in der Gegenwart: Festschrift für Karl Ulmer zum 60.''(1976) * ''Cuando el jego va en serio'' (1991) * ''Gesellschaftstheorien in Österreich'' (with R. Knoll, 1994) * ''Briefe über Deutschland'' (1996) * ''25 Years (1969–1994) of Anselm Studies'' (Editor, 1996) * Reason, Action, and Experience: Essays in Honor of Raymond Klibansky, (Editor, 1998) * ''Von der Romantik zur ästhetischen Religion'' (Contributor, 2004) * ''Rechtsphilosophie: Vom Grundlagenfach zur Transdisziplinarität in den Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. '' (Contributor 2010) * ''How the West was Won: Essays on the Literary Imagination, the Canon,'' (Contributor, The Monastic Challenge, 2010) * ''Prozeß, Spiel: Fragmente zum 2. Jahrtausend'' (with Willi Donner, 2013)

References

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