Heinz Pepperle

Heinz Pepperle (born June 1, 1931 in Grasengrün ) is a German historian of philosophy .

Life

After moving to Germany in 1946, Heinz Pepperle completed vocational training as an electrician and radio mechanic. He passed his Abitur in 1952 at the  Workers and Farmers Faculty of the University of Jena . He then studied philosophy , political economy and history until 1957 . From 1957 to 1960 he was a research assistant at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Halle . Then Heinz Pepperle moved to the emerging Institute for Philosophy of the German Academy of Sciences (later Central Institute for Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR). There he worked on the Philosophical Dictionary , the first edition published by Georg Klaus and Manfred Buhr in 1964 (article on Catholic philosophy and terms from ancient ontology and metaphysics ). In 1966 he received his doctorate. From 1976 to 1992, Heinz Pepperle was a professor at Humboldt University : in 1977 he received his doctorate as a Dr. sc. phil., in 1978 he took over a lectureship and in 1983 he was appointed full professor. The main subject areas in the history of philosophy were the history of philosophy from the beginning of classical German philosophy to the present day, the history of Marxist philosophy, and the history and problems of the criticism of religion and atheism . The main research area has been the German Vormärz since graduating from university .

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• Comments on the critique of Neuthomism , in: Wissenschaftliche Zeitung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg , Society and Linguistic Series VII / 5, August 1958, pp. 969-1010.
• Jean-Yves Calvez : Karl Marx . Presentation and criticism of his thinking , Olten and Freiburg / Br. 1964, in: German Journal for Philosophy , Berlin 1966, vol. 14/5, pp. 612–621.
• The determinism of the materialistic conception of history and modern bourgeois philosophy , in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie , Berlin 1986, vol. 34/5, pp. 434–442.
• Revision of the Marxist Nietzsche image? From the inner context of a fragmentary philosophy , in: Sinn und Form , ed. v. der Akademie der Künste der DDR, vol. 1986/5, pp. 934–969 and Whoever proves too much, proves nothing, in: Sinn und Form , ed. v. of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, vol. 1988/1, pp. 210–220.
• The main controversies in Nietzsche research , in: Europa um 1900 , ed. v. F. Klein u. KO v. Aretin, Berlin 1989, pp. 283-301.
• The philosophy and ideology of romanticism , in: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University , social science series, 1989/4, pp. 418–431.
• Heine as a philosopher , in: Heinrich Heine, Aesthetic-Political Profile , ed. v. G. Höhn, Frankfurt / M. 1991.

As editor

• The Hegelian Left . Documents on philosophy and politics in the German pre-March , ed. v. Ingrid et al. Heinz Pepperle, Leipzig 1985; 2nd edition, Frankfurt / M. 1986.
• Karl Friedrich Köppen . Selected writings in two volumes, with a biographical and analytical introduction , ed. v. Heinz Pepperle, Berlin 2003 (Hegel research, ed. By Andreas Arndt, Karol Bal and Henning Ottmann).
• Georg Herwegh , Works and Letters, Critical and Commented Complete Edition , ed. v. Ingrid Pepperle , in connection with Volker Giel, Heinz Pepperle, Norbert Rothe u. Hendrik Stein, Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2005 ff.

Web links

• Karl Friedrich Köppen: Selected writings in two volumes
• Georg Herwegh complete edition of the works and letters