Eberhard Braun

Eberhard Braun (born May 2, 1941 in Stuttgart , † April 26, 2006 in Heilbronn ) was a German philosopher, Marxist theorist and professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen.

Life

Eberhard Braun studied philosophy , political science and German at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1972 on Fichte's science theory. 1979 followed the habilitation on the "Abolition of Philosophy. Marx and the Consequences ”at the University of Tübingen . In 1974 he married Dorothea Braun-Ribbat, lived with her in Heilbronn and taught as an adjunct professor in Tübingen. He was u. a. Member of the board of the international Ernst Bloch Society and the Ernst Bloch Association. In August 1983 he suffered a stroke and from the 1984 summer semester was able to laboriously but successfully resume teaching until the end of his life. He is buried in the Tübingen mountain cemetery . His scientific legacy is kept in the Heilbronn city archive. The extensive book inventory was donated to the newly built Herat University in Afghanistan, where it forms the basis of the library as the Eberhard Braun Library .

His main areas include a. Theories of bourgeois society, theories of everyday life, history of metaphysics, practical philosophy, aesthetics, antiquity (especially Aristotle ), German idealism (especially Hegel's “ Phenomenology of Spirit ”), critical theory and the systematic reconstruction of Marx's work, v. a. the goods analysis. For example in his work “Outlines of a Better World. On the Political Philosophy of Hope ”he worked out the topicality of Ernst Bloch , whose student and assistant he was in Tübingen, examined the utopian potential of contemporary society and critically examined the writings of Georg Lukács . He raised democracy from the rigid form of a political system to a way of life. Eberhard Braun was one of the distinctive and independent thinkers of the Tübingen philosophy.

Fonts (selection)

• The Rose on the Cross of the Present: A Walk Through Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , ed. v. Matthias Mayer, Christian Palmizi, with the assistance of v. Irene Scherer, Talheimer Verlag 2014
• Reversal instead of reification - Marx's value form analysis with a view to "history and class consciousness" critical , in: Lukács-Jahrbuch 2000, pp. 51–94
• Abolition of philosophy. Marx and the consequences , Metzler Verlag Stuttgart u. Weimar 1993
• The transcendental self-reflection of knowledge. Subject and method of science teaching JG Fichtes , Phil. Diss., Tübingen 1972 (Schneider Verlag Stuttgart)
• with Felix Heine, Uwe Opolka: Political Philosophy. A reader. Texts, analyzes, comments. (= Rowohlt's Encyclopedia. ) Reinbek near Hamburg 1984 and more often, new edition 2008.
• On the wings of capital. Marx's representations of the critical philosophy of the form of goods. Commentary - Criticism - Construction , 1987
• Outlines of a better world. Contributions to the political philosophy of hope , Talheimer Verlag Mössingen / Talheim 1997

Honors

• The historicity of the utopian. For Eberhard Braun , ed. v. Reinhard Brunner and Franz-Josef Deiters , St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2001.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eberhard Braun at the University of Tübingen