Hans-Martin Gerlach

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Hans-Martin Gerlach (born December 10, 1940 in Wimmelburg ; † January 5, 2011 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher.

Life

After completing his studies in Leipzig in 1964, Gerlach worked at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate in 1968 and habilitated in 1975 with a comparative thesis on Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers . After a period as a lecturer, he was made an adjunct professor in 1982 and was appointed professor for the history of philosophy in Halle in 1983 . After completion of his institute in Halle in 1991, he moved in 1993 to Mainz, where he C4 professor for seven semesters representation modern philosophy held and was appointed to this professorship 1997th From 1997 to 2005, Gerlach headed the Kant research center at the Philosophical Department of the University of Mainz . Since 1999 he has been a member of the board of the Kant Society .

In addition to existential philosophy , Gerlach dealt in particular with the philosophy of the Enlightenment and Friedrich Nietzsche . In 1990 he was one of the co-founders of the "Friedrich Nietzsche Association for Funding and Research", which has been known as the Nietzsche Society since 1998 . V. will be continued.

After his retirement in 2005, Hans-Martin Gerlach lived in Leipzig.

Fonts

  • Existential Philosophy and Politics (Dissertation Halle 1968), Berlin 1974.
  • The human being. New requests to speak on an old topic (collective of authors), Berlin 1982.
  • Bourgeois Philosophizing in Our Time (with Reinhard Mocek ), Berlin 1982.
  • Martin Heidegger. Thinking and wrong paths of a late bourgeois philosopher, Berlin 1982.
  • Existential philosophy - Karl Jaspers, Berlin 1987.
  • Christian Wolff or the 'freedom to philosophize' and its consequences. Texts and commentary on the expulsion of the philosopher Wolff from Halle, Halle 1993.
  • (Ed.) Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary half-yearly publication on research into the 18th century, vol. 12, vol. 2: Christian Wolff - his school and his opponents, Hamburg 2001.
  • (Ed. With Hans-Christoph Rauh ) Exits. On the GDR philosophy in the 70s and 80s, Berlin 2009.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the supposedly contradicting positions that Gerlach took on Nietzsche's philosophy before and after the end of the GDR, see p. Manfred Riedel (2000): Nietzsche in Weimar. A German Drama , Chapter 8. The fight against the western Nietzsche renaissance. §22 In the footsteps of Zarathustra: "Searches for the Warmonger" , pp. 241–245, and Chapter 9. Between state and church. §23 Two kinds of "Nietzsche Conferences" , pp. 248–256; critical of Riedel s. Evelyn Finger : People in a Gottier World , Wiener Zeitung, August 25, 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Hans-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimmelburg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2011
Place of death Leipzig