Helmut Fahrenbach

Helmut Fahrenbach (born December 18, 1928 ) is a German philosopher and professor emeritus at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Life

After completing his doctorate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with Karl Löwith , Helmut Fahrenbach came to the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen as assistant to Walter Schulz in 1956 , where he taught as a professor after completing his habilitation in 1968 until his retirement in 1991. Fahrbach's main areas of work include philosophical anthropology , practical philosophy , existential philosophy and existentialism as well as critical theory of society.

Fonts

Books

• The essence and meaning of hope . Phil. Diss. Heidelberg 1955.
• The current Kierkegaard interpretation (1948-1962) . Supplement 3, Philosophische Rundschau, Tübingen 1962.
• Kierkegaard's existential dialectic ethics . Frankfurt a. M .: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 1968.
• Existential philosophy and ethics . Frankfurt a. M .: Verlag Vittoro Klostermann, 1970.
• Reality and reflection. Festschrift for Walter Schulz . Pfullingen: Günter Neske Verlag, 1973.
• On the problem of philosophy. A systematic orientation . Frankfurt a. M .: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 1975.
• Bertolt Brecht for an introduction . Hamburg: Junius Verlag, 1986.
• Philosophy - Politics - Socialism. A precarious relationship in Germany . Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 2016.
• Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and utopia - in context and discourse . Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 2017.
• Karl Jaspers - Philosophy of Human Existence and Reason . Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 2018.
• Bertolt Brecht - Philosophy as a theory of behavior . Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 2018.

Important essays

• Finiteness of consciousness and absolute certainty in Descartes. In: Subjectivity and Metaphysics. Festschrift for Wolfgang Cramer . Frankfurt a. M. 1966, pp. 64-91.
• Nietzsche's Critique of Morality and the Approaches of Existential Ethics. In: Nature and History. Festschrift for Karl Löwith . Stuttgart 1967, pp. 85-110.
• Heidegger and the problem of a 'philosophical anthropology'. In: Perspectives. Festschrift for Martin Heidegger . Frankfurt a. M .: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 1970, pp. 97-131.
• The logical-hermeneutical problem in Wittgenstein 's 'Tractatus'. In: Hermeneutics and Dialectics. Festschrift for Hans-Georg Gadamer . Tübingen: Siebeck-Mohr, 1970, pp. 25-54.
• Future as a theme of philosophy. In: Reality and Reflection. Festschrift for Walter Schulz . Edited by Helmut Fahrenbach. Pfullingen: Verlag Günter Neske, 1973, pp. 99–135.
• Future research and philosophy of the future. A discussion in Ernst Bloch's sphere of activity . In: Ernst Bloch's effect. A workbook for the 90th birthday . Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1975, pp. 325-361.
• On the conception of a philosophical language anthropology. In: The relationship between doctor and patient. Festschrift for Wolfgang Loch . Edited by S. Goeppert. Munich 1975, pp. 122-147.
• Language analysis within the framework of systematic philosophy. In: Is Systematic Philosophy Possible? . Edited by Dieter Henrich. Bonn 1977, pp. 341-363.
• 'Philosophical of Life' or 'Philosophical of Existence' Anthropology? Plessner's argument with Heidegger. In: Dilthey-Jahrbuch 7 (1990/91), pp. 71–111.
• 'Philosophy in Cosmopolitan Meaning'. Kant's highest definition of the meaning of philosophy according to its 'world concept'. In: Human dignity and rights. Festschrift for Johannes Schwartländer . Edited by Heiner Bielefeldt [and a.]. Würzburg: Köngishusen & Neumann, 1992, pp. 35-64.
• Philosophy and Politics after the Experience of National Socialism. In: The Political of Philosophy. On the social responsibility of political thinking . Edited by Reinhard Brunner a. Franz-Josef Deiters. Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 1993, pp. 75-125.
• Philosophy, Marxism and Socialist Theory. In: The Political of Philosophy. On the social responsibility of political thinking . Edited by Reinhard Brunner a. Franz-Josef Deiters. Mössingen-Talheim: Talheimer Verlag, 1993, pp. 126-166.
• Differential interpretation, structural analysis, open question of essence. Otto Friedrich Bollnow's contribution to the reflection on methods of philosophical anthropology. In: Otto Friedrich Bollnow. Hermeneutic Philosophy and Pedagogy . Edited by Friedrich Caraway. Freiburg 1997, pp. 80-118.
• My, knowledge, belief. About the necessity of the Kantian differentiation of 'modes of holding for truth' for every philosophy that should be able to appear as metaphysics. In: Synthetic Philosophy. Festschrift for Dieter Henrich . Edited by Marcello tribe. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1998, pp. 299-345.
• Existentialism and Marxism. An early project by Herbert Marcuse . In: Critique and Practice. Festschrift for Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik . Edited by Hans Eidam [u. a.]. Lüneburg: Zur Klampen Verlag, 1999, pp. 340–352.

literature

• Human and modern. Contributions to philosophical anthropology and social criticism. Helmut Fahrenbach on his 60th birthday . Edited by Clemens Bellut u. Ulrich Müller Schöll. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1989.
• Anthropology, Ethics and Society. For Helmut Fahrenbach . Edited by Reinhard Brunner a. Peter Kelbel. Frankfurt a. M./New York: Campus Verlag, 2000. [This volume contains a bibliography of Fahrenbach's writings that goes back to the year 2000].

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Fahrenbach in the catalog of the German National Library