Helmut Seidel

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Helmut Seidel (born June 21, 1929 in Welkersdorf ; † July 27, 2007 in Leipzig ) was a German Marxist philosopher .

Life

Seidel studied philosophy in Leipzig and Moscow . He received his doctorate in 1961 from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with a topic on Rosa Luxemburg and the German labor movement . In 1966 he completed his habilitation, the habilitation thesis was entitled Philosophy and Reality. On the development and foundation of Marxist philosophy . From 1962 he was a lecturer at the Karl Marx University, from 1979 full professor for the history of philosophy there . From 1970 to 1974 he was director of the Marxist-Leninist Philosophy and Scientific Socialism section at Karl Marx University. As a university lecturer in Leipzig, he mainly devoted himself to Greek antiquity , Spinoza , German idealism , left Hegelianism and Marxist philosophy . Seidel's social philosophy, whose basic sexistential is the practice understood as work , moves in the area of ​​tension between work and dialogical interaction . “Seidel's philosophy of practice assumes that the reasonable reproduction of a humane existence is dependent on work in the sense of the fundamental, elementary form of human activity, conscious action , and that formal, abstract work as an elementary species activity of each individual, as the simplest and common life activity that enables a meaningful and recognized existence for people in the first place. ”After the end of the SED dictatorship in the GDR in 1990, he retired from the university and took early retirement. He was a founding member of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Leipzig.

He was married to the historian Jutta Seidel .

Awards in the GDR

Fonts

Seidel has published a large number of brochures, magazine articles and essays in compilations. In 2001 the Leipzig Rosa Luxemburg Foundation published a composite of Seidel's articles in the German Journal for Philosophy from 1966.

  • On the practical and theoretical relationship between people and reality. On the new edition of Chapter I of Volume I of the “ German Ideology ” by K. Marx and F. Engels . In: German magazine for philosophy . No. 10, 1966.
  • From Thales to Plato. Lectures on the history of philosophy . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • Spinoza, Baruch . In: Erhard Lange, Dietrich Alexander (Hrsg.): Philosophenlexikon. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 859-864.
  • Aristotle and the outcome of ancient philosophy. Lectures on the history of philosophy . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Scholasticism, Mysticism and Renaissance Philosophy. Lectures on the history of philosophy . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-320-01361-0
  • Spinoza as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1994. ISBN 3-88506-905-9
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 1997. ISBN 3-88506-957-1
  • Philosophy and reality. On the development and foundation of Marxist philosophy. Edited by Volker Caysa. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-89819-325-2

literature

  • Hans-Christoph Rauh:  Helmut Seidel . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 567-568.
  • Volker Caysa (ed.): Philosophy of reasonable life practice. Helmut Seidel , Leipzig 2009.
  • Volker Caysa, Klaus-Dieter Eichler (Ed.): Practice-Reason-Community. In search of a different reason. Helmut Seidel on his 65th birthday , Weinheim 1994.
  • Klaus Kinner : Topicality of the History of Philosophy. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Helmut Seidel, Leipzig 2005.
  • Giesela Neuhaus, Manfred Neuhaus (Red.): In Memoriam Helmut Seidel , Leipzig 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Seidel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
  2. ↑ Volker Caysa: About the transformation of the spirit of the Leipzig Bloch period in the practical-philosophical debate around and before 1968 in the GDR. In: Die Linke - Erbe und Tradition , Part 1 (Ed. Klaus Kinner), Berlin 2010, p. 194 ff

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personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Welkersdorf
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2007
Place of death Leipzig