Ludger Lütkehaus

Ludger Lütkehaus (born December 17, 1943 in Cloppenburg ; died November 22, 2019 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German philosopher and literary scholar .

Life

Lütkehaus - fourth child of the employee Eduard Lütkehaus and his wife Ida Lütkehaus - attended the elementary school in Cloppenburg from 1950 to 1954 and the old-language branch of the Clemens-August-Gymnasium in Cloppenburg from 1954 to 1963 . He then completed his studies in German, philosophy, pedagogy and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1968 as an MA.With his dissertation on Friedrich Hebbel , he received his PhD in 1976 at the University of Freiburg with Hans Peter Herrmann. phil. PhD. Lütkehaus completed his habilitation in modern German studies at the University of Siegen with Helmut Kreuzer with another thesis on Hebbel and taught in the 1980s at the University of Siegen and at Emory University in Atlanta. Lütkehaus taught modern German literature as an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg .

In 1997, Lütkehaus Max Kade was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany and editor of Arthur Schopenhauer's collected works .

His book Nothing (Zurich 1999) received a lot of attention . If you read the table of contents of this book, said Tobias Nagl, “you get the impression that someone is joking his way through the history of philosophy in a nihilistic manner. Based on Heidegger , Lütkehaus speaks of the oblivion of nothing as an occidental disease that must first and foremost be cured, makes the principle nothing against Ernst Bloch strong and headlines pathodicy of the dungeon or from ontology to ontoerotic: the woman as nothing and hole . ”The study is "more literary and remains philosophically superficial", said Günther Neumann. In 2001 Lütkehaus published a "biographical essay" on Nietzsche's friend Paul Rée . Friedrich Nietzsche and Günther Anders are among the philosophers who influenced him .

Lütkehaus professed atheism and was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation .

Lütkehaus died in November 2019 at the age of 75 after a long and serious illness in Freiburg. In his appraisal for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the philosopher Andreas Urs Sommer writes : “Lütkehaus has withdrawn himself from nihilin, which he found just as abundantly dosed among his thinkers' favorites as it was in his narrow Catholic background . He was by no means the bilious pessimist and contestant for being, for whom nothing would have been the better alternative. Rather, after swimming through the nihilistic seas, he showed himself to be devoted to this world, its pleasures and promises of happiness. In doing so, literature (especially that of China and Japan) and music became the real guarantors of the worthiness of life. "

The philosophical, scientific and literary estate as well as the scientific library of Ludger Lütkehaus went to the Nietzsche Documentation Center of the Nietzsche Society in Naumburg in 2020 and is available for research there.

Publications

Monographs

• 1992: "O lust, o hell". The masturbation. Stations of an inquisition . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-596-10661-3 .

• 1992: Hegel in Las Vegas. American glosses. Freiburg , Rombach, ISBN 978-3-7930-9088-5
• 1993: This true inner Africa. Texts on the discovery of the unconscious before Freud. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-596-26582-7
• 1999: nothing . Haffmans Verlag , Zurich, ISBN 3-251-00446-8
  • 2010, Rev. New edition: Nothing. Farewell to being, end of fear. Haffmans Verlag at Zweiausendeins , ISBN 978-3-86150-922-6
• 2004: Nirvana in Germany. From Leibniz to Schopenhauer. DTV , Munich, ISBN 3-423-34127-0
• 2006: Natality. Philosophy of birth . The gray edition , Kusterdingen , ISBN 978-3-906336-47-3
• 2008: From the beginning and from the end. Two essays . Suhrkamp (library of the art of living) ; Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-458-17395-3
• 2014: calm. Size. Sunlight. Friedrich Nietzsche in Sils-Maria (With photographs by AT Schaefer) . Libelle-Verlag, Lengwil (CH), ISBN 978-3-905707-58-8
• 2014: The never-ending end of the world. Tales of the last and first things , Corso Verlag, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-7374-0703-8

As editor (selection)

• 1991: The Schopenhauers. The family correspondence between Adele, Arthur, Heinrich Floris and Johanna Schopenhauer. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-251-20115-8
• 1996: The book as will and idea. Arthur Schopenhauer's correspondence with Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus . CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-406-40956-3
• 2002: Günther Anders: Exaggerations towards the truth. Shorthand notes, glosses, aphorisms. Edited and with a foreword by Ludger Lütkehaus. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-406-47612-0
• 2003: Hannah Arendt: Augustin's concept of love. Attempt at a philosophical interpretation. Philo, Berlin Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-86572-343-8 , foreword pp. 7–18, second edition 2005
• 2003: Arthur Schopenhauer. About writing and style. Alexander Verlag Berlin
• 2006: Enough of my mess. Freud for pleasure Reclam-Verlag Ditzingen, ISBN 978-3-15-018331-1
• 2007: Myth Medea. Texts from Euripides to Christa Wolf. As before, ISBN 978-3-15-020006-3
• 2010: Arthur Schopenhauer. I am a man who understands fun. Insights from a lucky pessimist. DTV Munich, ISBN 978-3-423-13910-6 .

honors and awards

• 1979: Special prize from the Schopenhauer Society
• 1996: Book and Culture Prize
• 2007: Robert Mächler Prize
• 2009: Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
• 2014: Silver spoon from the city of Cloppenburg, for his services to Cloppenburg

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludger Lütkehaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Freiburg
• Room for ideas , DIE ZEIT, December 20, 2006 (number 52)
• Marburg Forum Discussion ( Memento from January 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A way of thinking that still makes Schopenhauer less grouchy Obituary in the NZZ of November 25, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019
2. ↑ literaturkritik.de No. 1, January 2007
3. ↑ Cf. Rüdiger Safranski : The pure nothing, the naked that . In: Die Zeit, October 14, 1999.
   Ulrich Wanner: Unfortunately, you can still see that they are trees. Logging, a disillusionment: Ludger Lütkehaus is Hans Hackebeil in the forest of being . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 12, 1999.
4. ↑ Tobias Nagl: Nothingness . In: taz Hamburg, September 2, 1999, p. 23.
5. ^ Günther Neumann: The beginning of occidental philosophy . Berlin 2006. p. 62.
6. ↑ Cf. Hubert Driver: The Holy Immoralist. Ludger Lütkehaus frees Friedrich Nietzsche's friend Paul Rée from the drawbar . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 7, 2002.
7. ↑ L. Lütkehaus: The birth of the philosopher. A successful start to the Nietzsche year: the early writings of the young Friedrich Nietzsche . In: Die Zeit No. 12, March 18, 1994.
   L. Lütkehaus: The cruel return of Dionysus. Friedrich Nietzsche reads Euripides - and anticipates his own fate. An attempt at interpretation on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 26, 2000.
   L. Lütkehaus: Not antiquated. Günther Anders was born a hundred years ago . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 12, 2002.
8. ^ Giordano Bruno Foundation : Think Tank for Humanism and Enlightenment , accessed on December 12, 2012
9. ↑ [1] : Andreas Urs Sommer : Philosophy, also for flat countries. On the death of the philosopher Ludger Lütkehaus. The philosopher, literary scholar and critic Ludger Lütkehaus has died . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , vol. 240, November 25, 2019, accessed on November 25
10. ^ [2] : The Nietzsche Documentation Center receives an extensive estate from Ludger Lütkehaus . In: Naumburger Tageblatt , May 11, 2020, accessed on June 20, 2020
11. ↑ Badische Zeitung , August 20, 2008, Oliver Pfohlmann: Everyone said "Yes" (May 15, 2015)
12. ↑ perlentaucher.de