Gerd Wolandt

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Gerd Wolandt (born February 10, 1928 in Heiligenhaus ; † February 3, 1997 ) was a German philosopher and university professor.

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After his family moved to Karthaus (West Prussia) in 1940 , Wolandt first attended the St. Johann grammar school in Danzig and later the high school in Berent . At the end of the Second World War he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1944 and then as a naval helper . He then passed his Abitur examination in Velbert after he returned to the Rhineland after the war.

In 1954 he was in Würzburg Dr. phil. PhD. With the study of Objectivity and Structure , he presented the first complete presentation of Richard Hönigswald's philosophy in 1964 . According to Rudolf Hoffmann (* 1929), the work shows “ how much closer Hönigswald's philosophy is to historical Kant than any of the neo-Kantian basic teachings. “In 1967 Wolandt was appointed professor in Bonn and in 1977 moved to RWTH Aachen as professor of general philosophy .

Publications

  • Asking for a Kant from within. On the importance of the great philosopher for our time . With a biographical note by Stephan Nachtsheim. Bonn 1997.
  • Ultimate reason and factual reference. Bonn 1983.
  • Idealism and facticity . Berlin 1971.
  • Philosophy of poetry. World position and objectivity of poetic thought . Berlin 1965.
  • Objectivity and structure. Investigations on Richard Hönigwald's theory of principles with special consideration for the problem of monadology . Cologne 1964.

literature

  • Stephan Nachtsheim: Biographical note , in: Gerd Wolandt: Asking for a Kant from within. On the importance of the great philosopher for our time . Bonn 1997.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 73 (1965) 179.
personal data
SURNAME Wolandt, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenhaus
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1997