Hermann Josef Schmidt

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Hermann Josef Schmidt (born May 5, 1939 in Cologne ) is a German philosopher .

biography

Schmidt studied philosophy with Eugen Fink and Wolfgang Struve at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He received his doctorate in 1968 on the subject of Nietzsche's image of Socrates . He has been teaching in Dortmund since 1969 , where he completed his habilitation at the PH Ruhr in 1976 and has been a professor at the University of Dortmund from 1980. In 2004 he said goodbye to his retirement with his “Lecture”. In it he asks: “Do you want to live under the rule of Ayatollas or the Taliban, of rabbis or of Opus dei? Remembrance: Enlightenment and criticism as philosophia perennis ”. Schmidt was the initiator and organizer of the Dortmund Nietzsche Colloquium since 1991. Most of its lectures and results were published in the yearbook Nietzscheforschung . He is also co-editor of the journal Enlightenment and Criticism of the Society for Critical Philosophy Nuremberg , member of the board of trustees of the Nietzsche Society , member of the advisory board of the International Federation of Non-Denominational and Atheists (IBKA), of the board of trustees of the Giordano Bruno Foundation and he is honorary chairman of Ernst -Ortlepp Society.

Friedrich Nietzsche is at the center of Schmidt's research . His psychological-biographical approach, which is unprecedented in Nietzsche research, is extraordinary. In his opinion, Nietzsche's philosophical development is mapped out by experiences in his childhood - the key experience is the early death of his father, which shook the four-year-old Nietzsche's belief in Christian God . Schmidt published his studies on Nietzsche's childhood and youth in the monumental work Nietzsche absconditus (4 volumes, 2500 pages). Schmidt is one of the few Nietzsche researchers of high standing who also consider the controversial work My Sister and I worth discussing in order to shed light on Nietzsche's childhood (in Part III: Nietzsche absconditissimus , pp. 629–663).

For the Nietzsche anniversary year 2000, Schmidt published a "pamphlet for more competence, consistency, courage, thoughtfulness and honesty in the interpretation of Nietzsche's notes" under the title Against Nietzsche's further disenfranchisement. In it he opposes the dominant Nietzsche research with an “interpretative catalog of vices” in 25 points. His reproach to the “mainstream”, which is largely made by theologians and philosophers of the theological mind, is Nietzsche's appropriation for their ideological purposes. Schmidt, on the other hand, insists that the genuine, not “riveted” Nietzsche belongs to the tradition of a perspective that is “committed to the Enlightenment and critical humanity”.

Works

  • Nietzsche and Socrates. Philosophical research on Nietzsche's image of Socrates , Meisenheim 1969
  • 'Philosophy' as a problem. Comments on the paradox and the meaningfulness of philosophy , Rheinstetten 1977
  • Nietzsche absconditus or reading traces from Nietzsche , Berlin / Aschaffenburg: IBDK-Verlag 1991–1994, 4 volumes, paperback, in a slipcase ISBN 3-932710-00-2
    • Childhood, part 1/2: At the source: In the pastor's family, Naumburg 1854-1858 or How a child scares discovers who it has become, undermines its “Christian upbringing” and wins its first “own country” in secret poetophilosophical autotherapy , Berlin / Aschaffenburg: IBDK-Verlag 1991 ISBN 3-932710-01-0 (pp. 1–567)
    • Childhood, part 3: [ditto] ISBN 3-932710-01-0 (pp. 568–1120)
    • Youth, Volume 1, 1858-1861: Interned in the scholarly school. Pforta 1858-1864 or How to develop what you can, has long been and continues to apply, how to evade and yet try out new paths , Berlin / Aschaffenburg: IBDK-Verlag 1993 ISBN 3-932710-02-9 (636 pp.)
    • Youth, 2nd part 1862-1864: [ditto 1994] ISBN 3-932710-03-7 (763 pages)
  • Against further riveting by Nietzsche. A pamphlet (= explanations on Nietzsche. Volume 1). Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2000. ISBN 3-932710-26-6 .
  • It was probably old Ortlepp after all, or: for more courage, competence and honesty in interpreting Nietzsche's notes . Aschaffenburg: Alibri-Verlag 2001 ISBN 3-932710-62-2 ; extended new edition: It was probably the old Ortlepp after all, or: For Ernst Ortlepp and more courage as well as genetic competence in the interpretation of Nietzsche . Aschaffenburg: Alibri-Verlag 2004 ISBN 3-932710-69-X
  • "To him it is death who has done this". Nietzsche's early development and some of its consequences . Aschaffenburg: Alibri-Verlag 2014 ISBN 978-3-86569-118-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A critical consideration: Klaus Goch: Mehlsuppe und Prophetenkuchen. Paths and aberrations of psycho-biographical Nietzsche research. In: Nietzsche research. Yearbook of the Nietzsche Society, Volume 16, 2009, pp. 283–304.
    A reply to this: Hermann Josef Schmidt: Wadenbeißerphilologie. Caricature of a biographer or a thankful presentation of basic objections? Klaus Goch is critical of the childhood volumes of 'Nietzsche absconditus, or reading traces in Nietzsche', 1991 . In: Enlightenment and Criticism 18, 2/2011, pp. 162–186; Shortest version: Demonstration of incompetence by a biographer posing     as a critic? Reply to Klaus Goch . In: Nietzsche research. Yearbook of the Nietzsche Society, Volume 17, 2010, pp. 293–297.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Hermann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne