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 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Wolfgang Leidhold

Wolfgang Leidhold - Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas

Curriculum vitae

  • 2013 - 2018 Head of the project Modern Art and the Political Discourse in cooperation with Boris Lurie Art Foundation, New York
  • Since 2013 Head of the Internationale Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft, Munich
  • Since 2011 Initiator and head of the cooperation network Global Theory Network
  • Since 2011 Establishment of the international seminar serials International Seminar on Political Theory
  • Since 1992 Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas, INSTITUT FÜR POLITISCHE WISSENSCHAFT UND EUROPÄISCHE FRAGEN, UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN
  • 2001 - 2010 Head of several government-funded projects on national and EU level: Unirep-Online, evoLearn, SHARE, OpenDock, PolitikON
  • 2001 Recipient of the “Karl Carstens-Preis” for contributions to research in security policy
  • 1997 - 2001 Initiator and head of „VIRTUS“ [Virtual University Systems] –, funded by BERTELSMANN STIFTUNG and NIXDORF STIFTUNG

Selected publications

  • Gottes Gegenwart, Zur Logik der religiösen Erfahrung, Darmstadt 2008.
  • Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into the original of Our ideas of Beauty, Indianapolis, 2008.
  • Politische Philosophie, 2. verb. Aufl. (2002), Würzburg 2003.
  • Towards a History of Experience, the Changing Structure of Conscious Participation,
  • APSA 2012: http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/2012%20Papers/
  • The Noetic Turn: from Zarathustra to the Wisdom of Salomon, APSA 2011:
  • http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/2011%20Papers/
  • Demokratie, Religion, Erfahrung, in: E.-V. Kotowski, R. Sonnenschmidt (Hg.), Grenzgänge zwischen Politik und Religion, München 2009, S. 13-32.
  • Rationality – What Else? in: M. van Ackeren; O. F. Summerrell (eds.), The Political Identity of the West, Frankfurt/M. (u.a.) 2006, S. 189-199.
  • Vernunft, Erfahrung, Religion, Anmerkungen zu John Lockes’ Reasonableness of Christianity, in: Lothar Kreimendahl (Hg.), Aufklärung, Interdisziplinäres Jahrbuch, Band 18, Hamburg 2006, S. 159-178.
  • Aristoteles (384-322 v.Chr.), in: Wilhelm Bleek u. Hans J. Lietzmann (Hg.), Klassiker der Politikwissenschaft, von Aristoteles bis David Easton, München 2005, S. 19-32.
  • Wissensgesellschaft, in: K.-R. Korte, W. Weidenfeld (Hg.), Deutschland-TrendBuch, Opladen 2001, S. 429-460