Rudolf zur Lippe

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Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe (born January 8, 1937 in Berlin ; † September 6, 2019 there ) was a German philosopher and artist .

Life

Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe was the only son of Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz zur Lippe (born November 27, 1890 in Berlin; † October 24, 1938) and Godela von Oven (born December 17, 1906 in Glogau ; † November 2, 1989 in Detmold ) . After attending grammar school in Detmold, he studied law, political science and economics in Bonn and Göttingen up to a diploma. From 1956 he was a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . Membership in the corps was suspended from 1968. From 1960, Zur Lippe was a student of the ZaZen exercises with Karlfried Graf Dürckheim . He received his doctorate in 1965 after a second degree in middle and modern history in Heidelberg and Paris with a dissertation on French policy towards Germany towards the Weimar Republic. During this time he worked as a painter and in 1964 (together with René Laubies [1924–2006]) had his first exhibition with Hanna Grisebach in Heidelberg. He had theater assignments as a set designer and was apprenticed to director Raymond Gérome (1920–2002) in Paris .

From 1965 he was initially a translator for Gabriel Marcel , then an editor at Propylänen Verlag , for whom he was in charge of André Breton's Surrealism and Painting and, in 1967, together with Bernhard Heiliger and Alexander Camaro, created 48 collages on Giacomo Casanova's utopian novel (the originals of which were first reproduced in of the publication were exhibited in the Berlin Werkstattgalerie and which are part of the art collection of the Berlin Academy of the Arts). In 1968 he edited the conference proceedings Creating a Wider Interest in Traditional Music at the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation . In 1969 he began with Theodor W. Adorno his philosophically oriented history of the body in the modern age, which in 1973 led to the habilitation on social philosophy and aesthetics at the Philosophical Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . During this time he made a film about the ballet by Maurice Béjart , which uses classical material to analyze the style of his exciting new forms of expression.

From 1971 to 1976 zur Lippe taught philosophy in Frankfurt , most recently sociology at the professorship for cultural theory. From 1974 on he held the chair for aesthetics at the University of Oldenburg , where, among other things , he was in charge of the federal model test “Single-phase teacher training, testing of interdisciplinary project studies”. In 1981 and 1982 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 1982 he participated in the founding of the Institute for Practical Anthropology e. V. , with whom he brought a scientific exhibition on the "Geometrization of Man" to various countries around the world. Since then he has also been the editor of the magazine POIESIS - practical-theoretical ways of aesthetic self-education . In 1989 he initiated the Karl Jaspers lectures on questions of the time with intercultural visiting professors and colloquia. From 1999 zur Lippe was a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2005, together with Hans-Peter Dürr and Daniel Dahm, he was co-author of the Potsdam Manifesto and the Potsdam memorandum “to think in a new way…” .

Works

  • The "Union pour la verité" on French policy towards Germany after 1918 , Heidelberg 1964, DNB 482633085 and 1965, DNB 482238054 (Dissertation University of Heidelberg, Philosophical Faculty, February 26, 1965, 141 pages).
  • Mastery of nature in humans. Two volumes. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • Bourgeois subjectivity. Autonomy as self-destruction . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-518-00749-1 .
  • On your own body: to the economy of life . Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8108-0070-8 .
  • Freedom we mean. Philosophical draft for the economic organization of freedom and the transcendence of freely fulfilling life. Rowohlt, 1991, ISBN 978-3-499-12900-1 .
  • with Hugo Kükelhaus : Developing the senses. Experiences with the field of experience. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, 13th edition, ISBN 978-3-596-24065-4 .
  • New considerations of reality. Delusional system "reality" . EVA, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3434520016 .
  • Sense consciousness. Foundation of an anthropological aesthetic . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987; New edition in two volumes: Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2000, ISBN 3-89676-257-5 .
  • Make your mind dance. Philosophy of change and movement . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich 2010, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-495-48431-9 .
  • Plural economy. Polemic for measure, wealth and abundance . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-495-48480-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Rudolph He made thinking dance. In: Tagesspiegel , September 8, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142, 905
  3. ^ Potsdam Manifesto (VDW) ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Lippe, Rudolf zur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lippe-Biesterfeld, Rudolf Prinz zur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2019
Place of death Berlin