Hermann Moerchen

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Hermann Mörchen (born April 27, 1906 in Köselitz ; † May 6, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German philosopher, religious scholar and literary scholar.

Mörchen studied in Halle and Marburg 1925–1929, among other things, Protestant theology with Rudolf Bultmann and philosophy with Martin Heidegger . He completed his dissertation with Heidegger under the title “The imagination of Kant” in 1927/28 summa cum laude. Since the early 1930s, interrupted by military service and Soviet imprisonment, he worked as a teacher at grammar schools (especially at the castle school in Salem with Kurt Hahn , at the Edertal school in Frankenberg and at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Frankfurt , most recently as Head of German at the Frankfurt Study Seminar 1).

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He was not only an important Heidegger student, but also, besides the philosopher Hans Jonas (1903–1993), the only other doctoral student from Heidegger's time in Marburg (1923–1928). He dealt with the fields of philosophy, theology and literary studies. While Hans Jonas went completely different paths in his emigration forced by the Nazi regime, Hermann Mörchen remained true to his intellectual origins. Based on Heidegger's Kant lectures and thus in anticipation of certain lines of thought from Heidegger's Kant book of 1929, this topic led Mörchen to philosophical problems that had only been hinted at by Kant. This is followed by a large number of essays, reviews and books on the subjects of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Rilke, Gadamer, Buber, Russell, Wiplinger, Frankfurter Schule and others. Mörchen's work culminates in the investigation of the philosophical refusal to communicate between Adorno and Heidegger. As a proven connoisseur of both schools, he comes to the further conclusion that is well founded: It is wrong to say that the dead cannot say anything new beyond what they shared with us during their lifetime and communicated to us.

Works (selection)

  • Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958.
  • The imagination in Kant. 2nd edition. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1970.
  • Power and rule in the thinking of Heidegger and Adorno. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-915270-9 .
  • Adorno and Heidegger, Investigation of a Philosophical Refusal to Communicate. Klett-Cotta , Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-915390-X .
  • Thinking, believing, poetry, interpreting; Articles and lectures from the years 1953 to 1990. Edited by Ulrich Mörchen and Willfred Hartig on the occasion of Hermann Mörchen's 100th birthday. Monsenstein and Vannerdat , 2006, ISBN 3-86582-299-1 . (On this G. Neumann: "Thinking - Believing - Dichten - Dialogisches Deuten" in Heidegger Studies Volume 25, Berlin 2009, pp. 255–261)
  • as publisher: Dieter Bassermann: The other Rilke. Collected writings from the estate. Gentner, Stuttgart 1961.
  • as publisher: Martin Heidegger: From the essence of truth. Regarding Plato's allegory of the cave and Theätet. (= Complete Edition. Volume 34). Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-465-02924-0 . (2nd edition 1996 and 1997)

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SURNAME Mörchen, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, religious and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Köselitz , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1990
Place of death Frankfurt am Main