Gerhard Krüger (philosopher)

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Gerhard Krüger (born January 30, 1902 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin ; † February 14, 1972 in Baden-Baden ) was a German philosopher and cultural scientist.

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Krüger attended grammar school in Friedenau and studied philosophy, Protestant theology and history in Jena, Tübingen and especially Marburg. His academic teachers were Bruno Bauch , Johannes Haller , Paul Natorp , Martin Heidegger , Nicolai Hartmann and Rudolf Bultmann . He received his doctorate from Hartmann in 1925. After his habilitation in 1929 with the thesis Philosophy and Morals in the Kantian Critique, he worked as a private lecturer in Marburg.

Krüger was a student and friend of Rudolf Bultmann . With his Marburg teacher Martin Heidegger and his Marburg colleague Hans-Georg Gadamer , he was on the list of signatories of the National Socialists' appeal for elections on November 11, 1933: Professors at German universities and colleges committed to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . Since he was said to be close to the Confessing Church, his appointment as associate professor at the University of Marburg was delayed until 1938. After substituting professorships in Göttingen and Frankfurt / Main, he succeeded Peter Wust as full professor of philosophy in Münster in 1940 . In 1946 he followed a call to Tübingen.

In 1952, Krüger moved to Frankfurt / Main as the successor to Gadamer, who took over the chair from Karl Jaspers in Heidelberg, where he held a chair for the history of philosophy , the philosophy of history and metaphysics until his retirement in 1956 . At the end of 1952 he suffered a very severe stroke, so that he had to give up the apprenticeship.

In 1956 he converted to the Catholic Church. Since 1957 he lived in Heidelberg.

Krüger is one of Richard Schaeffler's and Klaus Oehler's philosophical teachers . His book Insight and Passion. The essence of the platonic dialogue (1939) appeared in its sixth edition in 1992 and was translated into Italian by Enrico Peroli (professor of philosophy at the Università di Chieti) ( Ragione e passione. L'essenza del pensiero platonico ).

There is an estate in the Tübingen University Library (shelf number: Mn 13).

Works (selection)

  • Kant's doctrine of the affection of the senses. Diss. Phil. mach. Marburg 1925
  • Philosophy and Morality in Kantian Philosophy (1931)
  • The origin of philosophical self-consciousness , in: Logos 22, 1933, separately: WBG, Darmstadt 1962
  • Insight and passion. The essence of platonic thought (1939). 6th edition, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 978-3-465-02570-2 , (the work represents an intensive commentary on Plato's Dialog Symposion )
  • Western humanity. Two chapters on the relationship between humanity, antiquity and Christianity (1952).
  • Basic questions of philosophy. History, truth, knowledge. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1958, 2nd, revised edition 1965
  • Freedom and world administration. Essays on the philosophy of history. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. and Munich 1958 (important collection of essays)
  • Religious and profane world experience . Edited by Richard Schaeffler. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 978-3-465-01018-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives, Central Database of Legacies . Retrieved September 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1972
Place of death Baden-Baden