Helmuth Vetter

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Helmuth Vetter (born December 14, 1942 in Bratislava ) is a retired Austrian professor of philosophy.

Life

After elementary and secondary school (Maria Laah, Steyr, Enns), Helmuth Vetter attended the Federal Teachers' Training Institute in Linz from 1956 to 1961 and then studied philosophy , German , classical philology and education at the University of Vienna . From 1966 to 1968 ( doctorate ) he was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, and since the winter semester 1968/69 university assistant. In 1978 he completed his habilitation for the entire field of philosophy and taught as an associate professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. On October 1, 2004, he retired for health reasons. He is now fully dedicated to his extensive publication activities. Helmuth Vetter is married to Johanna Vetter, the marriage comes from their son Johannes.

Main areas of work: hermeneutics , phenomenology , metaphysics and ontology as well as the philosophy of antiquity . He was the founder and repeatedly head of the Vienna Phenomenology Conference. He wrote 180 articles for the dictionary of phenomenological terms he edited . He edited volume 23 of the Martin Heidegger edition (transcription, print version and epilogue) = history of philosophy from Thomas Aquinas to Kant , winter semester 1926/27 (section II: lectures 1919–1944).

Vetter was chairman of the Martin Heidegger Society from 2015 to 2016 , a member of the Austrian Society for Phenomenology, which he co-founded (President from 1996 to 2004), and a member of the International Bernhard Welte Society. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and the editorial committees in the following publications: Heidegger Studies; Heidegger yearbook; Eugen Fink Complete Edition (EFGA); Existential analysis. Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis; Studia Phaenomenologica - Romanian Journal for Phenomenology; Yearbook for German-French-Turkish Philosophy (Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi).

Fonts

  • Stages of existence. An investigation into Sören Kierkegaard's concept of existence. Vienna et al. 1979.
  • The pain and dignity of the person. Frankfurt a. M. 1980.
  • Philosophical Hermeneutics. On the way to Heidegger and Gadamer . Frankfurt a. M. 2007.
  • Heidegger floor plan. A handbook on life and work. Meiner, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7873-2276-3 .
  • Parmenides : Being and World. The fragments have been re-translated and commented on by Helmuth Vetter . With an appendix by Alfred Dunshirn on new literature on Parmenides. Verlag Karl Alber, (Freiburg / Munich) ISBN 978-3-495-48801-0

Essays

  • The question of “being nature” in Heidegger from the point of view of Kah Kyung Cho , in: Kah Kyung Cho, Young-Ho Lee (ed.): Phenomenological research. Special volume Phenomenology of Nature. Freiburg / Munich 1999, 15–29.
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Dialectical Theology. Heidegger and Bultmann, in: Andreas Großmann, Christoph Jamme (Ed.): Metaphysics of the practical world. Perspectives following Hegel and Heidegger. Festival ceremony for Otto Pöggeler. Amsterdam, Atlanta 2000 (Philosophy and Representation; 7), 268–286.
  • Thoughts on the logos of the psyche in view of the crisis in European science, in: Manfred Riedel et al. (Ed.): Between philosophy, medicine and psychology. Heidegger in dialogue with Medard Boss. Cologne et al. 2003, 217-233.
  • Perspectives of co-existence in Eugen Fink's thinking . Observations on Fink's "Treatise on Human Violence". In: Annette Hilt / Cathrin Nielsen (eds.): Education in the technical age. Being, human and world according to Eugen Fink. Freiburg / Munich 2005, 363-390.
  • "Life is fringed worldly". On Martin Heidegger's early phenomenology of life and hermeneutics of facticity, in: Hans Rainer Sepp, Ichiro Yamaguchi (eds.): Life as a phenomenon. The Freiburg Phenomenology in East-West Dialogue. Würzburg 2006, 67-83.
  • On the terminology of phenomenology using the example of Husserl and Heidegger, in: Archive for Concepts History 48 (2006) 203–225.
  • About the peculiarities of the room with Heidegger with special consideration of the contributions to philosophy, in: Damir Barbarić (Hrsg.): Das Spätwerk Heidegger. Event - legend - square. Würzburg 2007, 109–127.
  • Heidegger's destruction of tradition using the example of Aristotle, in: Heidegger-Jahrbuch 3 (2007) 77–95.
  • World of stories - Wilhelm Schapp, in: Günther Pöltner, Martin Wiesbauer (ed.): “Worlds” - On the world as a phenomenon. Frankfurt / M. 2008 (series of the Austrian Society for Phenomenology; 15), 97–111.
  • Righteousness for one's neighbor. Phenomenological information on Aristotle and Emmanuel Levinas, in: Patrick Gödicke et al. (Ed.): Festschrift for Jan Schapp on his seventieth birthday. Tübingen 2010, 473-489.
  • The night side of the world. Comments on Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink, in: Cathrin Nielsen, Hans Rainer Sepp (eds.): World think. Approaches to Eugen Fink's cosmology. Freiburg, Munich 2011, 184–207.
  • Heidegger's worldview and image. A preliminary inventory, in: Adriano Fabris, Annamaria Lossi, Ugo Perone (eds.): Image as a process. New perspectives on a phenomenology of vision. Würzburg 2011, 133-150.
  • Phenomenology as a method term. Reflections on the outcome of Heidegger's Marburg lecture “Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy”, in: Reinhold Esterbauer, Martin Ross (ed.): The human eye. Phenomenological approaches. FS Pöltner. Würzburg 2012, 23–39.
  • Fragments about fragments. Hermeneutic observations and materials on Parmenides, in particular on the Proömium of the didactic poem, in: FS Barbarić. Zagreb 2012, 33–4.
  • Wilhelm Dilthey, Martin Heidegger and Heidegger's anti-Semitism. Reflections and materials, in: Divinatio 38 (2013–14) 7–64.

Editorships

  • Co-editor of 10 volumes of the "WIENER REIHE. Topics of Philosophy". Vienna / Munich 1986 ff.
  • Founder and editor of the "Series of the Austrian Society for Phenomenology". Frankfurt / M. 1998 ff.
  • Dictionary of phenomenological terms. Meiner, Hamburg 2004 (Philosophical Library; Volume 555).
  • Martin Heidegger: History of philosophy from Thomas Aquinas to Kant. Frankfurt / M. 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava