Frank Werner Veauthier

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Frank Werner Veauthier (born February 23, 1927 in Saarbrücken ; † January 27, 2003 there ) was a German philosopher and university professor .

Life

Veauthier studied philosophy , theology and psychology at the universities of Trier and Bonn . In 1953 he did his doctorate in Bonn under Oskar Becker . From 1953 to 1954 he studied at the Sorbonne . In 1955, Veauthier was committed to the reintegration of the Saarland into the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957 he became a lecturer at the Peter Wust University in Saarbrücken and took over the art department in the Saarland Ministry of Culture. In 1958 Veauthier was co-editor of the book "Das Saarland. A contribution to the development of the youngest federal state in politics, culture and economy". From 1954 to 1964 he was head of the cultural department of the Saarland Ministry of Culture. In 1961 he was a co-founder of the Saarland cultural group. In 1968 Veauthier was appointed professor. From 1971 to 1975 he was rector of the Saarland University of Education . On April 25, 1977 Veauthier was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit. In 1978 he became professor of philosophy at Saarland University . He dedicated research and teaching in particular to phenomenology , neo-Kantianism , the German and French existential philosophy , the philosophy of religion , the Frankfurt School and the philosophy of the mind (body-soul problem). Other main areas of work were critical rationalism and dealing with Marxism . In the early 1980s he founded the Peter Wust Research Center, which was affiliated to Saarland University in 1985. Veauthier initiated symposia on Karl Jaspers , Martin Heidegger and Peter Wust . In 1997 his book "Cultural Criticism as a Task of Cultural Philosophy" was published.

Works (selection)

A complete overview of all publications can be found in: FW Veauthier: Notes on Biography, in: Ekkehard Blattmann (Ed.) Peter Wust. Aspects of his thinking. Münster 2004 pp. 10–12 ISBN 3-8258-7816-3

  • The analogy of being - analogy of being and ontological difference. Freiburg 1953.
  • The Saarland. A contribution to the development of the youngest federal state in politics, culture and economy. Saarbrücken 1958.
  • Film and dream . in: Thoughts on the film. Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1962
  • Emancipation and reflection. in: Writings of the Pädagogische Hochschule des Saarlandes, speech on taking over the rectorate 1971 pp. 21–41
  • On the problems of philosophical theology in: Synopsis, contributions to the discussion of theology with its natural sciences. Festschrift for Ulrich Mann (theologian) , ed. von Gert Hummel , Darmstadt 1975 pp. 236-262.
  • For self-enlightenment of the consciousness in: to be conscious. Gerhard Funke owns, ed. by Alexius J. Bucher, Hermann Drüe, Thomas M. Seebohm, Bonn 1975 pp. 59–75.
  • Instrumental and practical reason - the ethical dilemma of modern times in: Funkkolleg Practical Philosophy / Ethics: Dialogs Volume 1, III, ed. by Karl-Otto Apel , Dietrich Böhler and Gerd Kadelbach. Frankfurt 1984 pp. 331-382.
  • The religious a priori: On the ambivalence of E. Troeltsch's analysis of the element of reason in religion in: Kant-Studien , 78. Jg. H. 1 pp. 42–63, ed. by Gerhard Funke and Rudolf Malter , Berlin / New York 1987
  • From the priority of social responsibility in phenomenological thinking in: To the reconstruction of practical philosophy, Vol. II, 15, series "Speculation and Experience". Commemorative publication for Karl-Heinz Ilting , ed. by Karl-Otto Apel u. Riccardo Pozzo, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1990 pp. 150-186.
  • On the social responsibility priority in Edmund Husserl's socio-phenomenological thinking in: Analecta Husserliana, vol. XXXV, ed. by A.-T. Tymieniecka, Dordrecht 1991 pp. 141-158.
  • On the visible confirmation of phenomenology through painting in: Festschrift Lorenz Dittmann , ed. by Hans-Cord Graf von Bothmer , Klaus Güthlein and Rudolf Kuhn, Frankfurt 1994 pp. 95–106.
  • as editor: Karl Jaspers in honor. Symposium on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-533-03856-4 .
  • as editor: Martin Heidegger . Post-metaphysical thinker. Symposium on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-8253-4569-6 .
  • Cultural criticism as a task of cultural philosophy. Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0599-6 .
  • as Ed .: Uncertainty and Risk. Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7816-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Veauthier Frank Werner. In: saarland-biografien.de. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved June 29, 2015 .
  2. ^ FW Veauthier: Notes on biography, in: Ekkehard Blattmann (Ed.) Peter Wurst. Aspects of his thinking. Münster 2004 p. 9 ISBN 3-8258-7816-3
  3. ^ FW Veauthier: Notes on biography, in: Ekkehard Blattmann (Ed.) Peter Wurst. Aspects of his thinking. Münster 2004 p. 9 ISBN 3-8258-7816-3
  4. ^ Klaus Altmeyer: The Saarland. A contribution to the development of the youngest federal state in politics, culture and economy. Saarbrücken 1958.
  5. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 18 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken May 9, 1977, p. 391–392 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 244 kB ; accessed on May 27, 2017]).
  6. ^ FW Veauthier: Notes on biography, in: Ekkehard Blattmann (Ed.) Peter Wurst. Aspects of his thinking. Münster 2004 p. 9 ISBN 3-8258-7816-3
  7. ^ Frank Werner Veauthier: Cultural criticism as a task of the cultural philosophy. Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-8253-0599-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Veauthier, Frank Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2003
Place of death Saarbrücken