Franz Vonessen (philosopher)

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Franz Vonessen (born March 8, 1923 in Cologne ; † January 19, 2011 in Oberried ) was a German philosopher and professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Life

In 1952 Vonessen was awarded the dissertation “The unique being. On the question of being paradoxes in Martin Heidegger " at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg doctorate . There he completed his habilitation in 1956. He became an adjunct professor in 1965. Franz Vonessen and Friedrich Georg Jünger were among the founders of the magazine “ Scheidewege - Quarterly Journal for Skeptical Thinking ” in 1971 . This developed into a "forum for conservative, technology-critical, ecological and progress-skeptical thinking". He was also appointed professor at the University of Freiburg in 1979.

Franz Vonessen was married to the German writer and editor Renate Vonessen (* 1940). With her "he undertook philosophically founded excursions into the world of fairy tales and into literature in general".

Teaching

Franz Vonessen radically questioned the beliefs of secularized modernity. Metaphysics did not replace or even overcome myth, but rather it emerged from it thanks to an unfathomable close relationship. It should be assumed that every statement about the gods - and such a statement is myth - can only have the meaning of telling the truth. It is by no means necessary to take off a mythical dress from Revelation in order to present a wholesome “naked truth” to modern man. The myth of the Bible and the Greeks is the revelation itself. It is not we have to clear up the myth, the myth clears up us about ourselves. The decline of philosophy manifests itself in the fact that we have become blind to the images of myth and deaf to the language of the first metaphysics. The achievement-oriented thinking that is solely oriented towards success is a "fatal joke". The real achievement consists in rest. “So what performance has its purpose in itself? Just the serious game of thoughts. Theoria, as Aristotle describes it, is valuable in itself, is a successful achievement ... "

"That truth, according to Heraclitus, hides itself through its unbelievability, was a basic axiom in Vonessen's thinking."

- Martin Thoemmes

Awards and memberships

Publications

  • The Defect in Children and Adolescents, 1959
  • Ed .: (together with H. Hiltmann): Dialectics and Dynamics of the Person, FS Robert Heiss , 1963
  • Myth and Truth, 1964, 2nd exp. 1972 edition
  • GW Leibnitz, Two Letters on the Binary Number System and Chinese Philosophy (together with R. Loosen), 1968
  • The reign of Leviathan, 1978, 2nd exp. Ed. 1991, 3rd ext. New edition 1996
  • What makes you sick is also beneficial. Mythological equality thinking, Aristotle's doctrine of catharsis and the idea of ​​homeopathic healing, 1980
  • Crisis of Practical Reason. Ethics after the "Death of God", 1988.
  • Signatures of the cosmos. Experience the world in myths, fairy tales and dreams. Collected Essays Vol. I, 1992
  • The unbelievable of the truth. Body and soul in the distorting mirror of the zeitgeist. Collected Essays Vol. II, 1994
  • The small world theater. The fairy tale and the philosophy. Collected Essays Vol. III, 1998
  • Metaphor as a method. Studies on Plato, 2001
  • Plato's theory of ideas. Rediscovering a Lost Path, 2001
  • The philosopher as king. Plato's theory of ideas, vol. II, 2003
  • Platonic love and community of women. Plato's theory of ideas vol. III, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Steber: The guardians of the concepts. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 286; Martin Thoemmes: The myth explains us. On the death of the philosopher Franz Vonessen, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 14, 2011, No. 37, p. 29
  2. ^ Research database of the University of Freiburg, accessed on April 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Martin Thoemmes: The myth clears us up. On the death of the philosopher Franz Vonessen, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 14, 2011, No. 37, p. 29
  4. ↑ Martin Thoemmes: The crisis of practical reason. The philosopher Franz Vonessen turns seventy, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 8, 1993, No. 56, p. 31
  5. ^ Franz Vonessen: Das kleine Welttheater, 1998, p. 11
  6. ^ Franz Vonessen: Das kleine Welttheater, 1998, p. 124
  7. ↑ Franz Vonessen: Myth and Truth, 1964
  8. ↑ Franz Vonessen: The achievement of the Danaiden. Principles and problems of the so-called performance society, in: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung (ed.), Sense and nonsense of the performance principle. Ein Symposion, Munich 1974, pp. 54–72, here p. 72
  9. ↑ Ursula Heindrichs: Obituary for Franz Vonessen, accessed on April 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Vonessen, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2011
Place of death Oberried