Alois Halder

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Alois Halder (born August 12, 1928 in Ulm ; † January 16, 2020 ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

life and work

Halder studied at the Universities of Tübingen and Freiburg i. Br. Philosophy , German Studies and Art History . In 1955 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with "Studies on Art and Cult", which appeared in 1956 as volume 15 in the philosophical series " Symposion ". In 1958, together with his teacher Max Müller, he published »Herder's Little Philosophical Dictionary«, which later saw many edited editions as »Philosophical Dictionary« and was revised several times by Halder after Müller's death in 1994, most recently for the new edition from 2008.1961 Halder went as Assistant to Max Müller with him at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1967 and became a private lecturer. After a subsequent professorship at the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , he came to the University of Augsburg, which had recently been founded, in 1971 . There he was a full professor of philosophy in the theological faculty from 1972 until his retirement in 1994. From 1991 to 1993 Halder was Vice Rector of the University of Augsburg.

»The arc of his engagement with metaphysics was broad: from its Platonic and Aristotelian beginnings to its medieval developments, to its modern metamorphoses and modern transformations. The view of this story was not only aimed at the different forms of metaphysics, their open and hidden ramifications. He also aimed at their overall context, at those determinations of metaphysics which, in deep-seated formations, run through and shape the long path of metaphysical thinking and thus tie the ramified process of metaphysics together in a unity. ... His philosophizing took place in undiminished openness to what the advancing modernity philosophically undertook, achieved and offered, with careful caution towards the claims of the latest drafts, with a smiling distance from all final certainty of philosophical reflection. " 

Publications by Alois Halder (excerpt)

  • Div. Chapter in the large chapter "Philosophy" ("The general situation of philosophy today", "New idealism, historicism and philosophy of life", "The continuation of classical metaphysics") In: Der Grosse Herder. Volume 12, supplementary volume 2, Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1962, column 1187–1199.
  • Art and cult, On the aesthetics and philosophy of art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br./ München 1964, 2nd unchanged edition 1987. ISBN 3-495-47109-X
  • Metaphysics. In: Karl Rahner (Ed.): Herders Theologisches Taschenlexikon. Volume 5, Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1973, ISBN 3-451-01955-8 , pp. 63-71.
  • The many, the one and the “self” at Meister Eckhart. In: Dieter Henrich (Ed.): All-Unity: Ways of a Thought in East and West. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-608-91394-7 .
  • Metaphysics. In: Peter Eicher (ed.): New manual of theological basic concepts. Volume 3, Kösel, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-466-20346-5 , pp. 359-372.
  • Philosophical Dictionary . Co-founded by Max Müller. Revised new edition 2008. Verlag Herder Freiburg i. Br. 2008. ISBN 978-3-451-05967-4 . (After many edits, last edition of the »Herder's small philosophical dictionary« written by Max Müller and Alois Halder in 1958)

Festschrift

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  • Information philosophy (journal): Alois Halder. Retrieved on January 6, 2020 (Various philosophers are presented there, including Alois Halder.).
  • Dieter Henrich (ed.): All-unity: ways of one thought in East and West . Klett-Cotta, 1985, ISBN 3-608-91394-7 , pp. 280 ( limited preview in Google book search - there brief information about Alois Halder .).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alois Halder's obituary notice. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . January 18, 2020, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Alois Halder. In: Information Philosophy.
  3. ^ Dieter Henrich: Alois Halder.
  4. ↑ a b Jörg Ernesti (Diocese of Augsburg, Dean): Prof. em. Dr. Alois Halder passed away. (Obituary). x (accessed January 22, 2020)
  5. ↑ Alois Halder on his 70th birthday. "Reflecting on Metaphysics". Preface.
personal data
SURNAME Halder, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2020