Hermann Schweppenhäuser

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Hermann Schweppenhäuser (born March 12, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 8, 2015 in Veitshöchheim ) was a German philosopher and publicist .

Life

Hermann Schweppenhäuser studied philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, first with Hans-Georg Gadamer , then with Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno . In the 1950s he worked as a research assistant at the newly founded Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as Adorno's assistant at the Philosophical Seminar. At the beginning of the 1960s he was appointed to the newly established chair for philosophy at the Lüneburg University of Education . Since the late 1960s Schweppenhäuser was also honorary professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, where he lectured on theCharacteristic of Adorno's thinking (WS 1983/84) held.

In Lüneburg, too, Schweppenhäuser remained closely associated with the Frankfurt Institute under Adorno's direction. Unlike Jürgen Habermas , Schweppenhäuser represented critical theory in the sense of Adorno and Horkheimer. His lectures, for example on the Dialectic of Enlightenment (summer semester 1999), enabled an authentic study of critical theory even after his retirement beyond the turn of the millennium.

In April 2008, the University of Lüneburg organized a conference “Image, Language, Culture. Aesthetic Perspectives of Critical Theory. Cultural studies conference on Hermann Schweppenhauser's 80th birthday ”. In July 2008 Schweppenhäuser received an honorary doctorate from the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art .

His philosophical writings deal in particular with questions of the philosophy of language, the self-reflection of dialectical thinking, aesthetics and cultural theory. His book Verbotene Frucht (Verbotene Frucht) ties in with Nietzsche's and Adorno's philosophical aphorism in terms of ideas and language and gathers pointed reflections on the criticism of society, religion, art, literature, mass culture and philosophy. From 1972 to 1999 Schweppenhäuser were together with Rolf Tiedemann , the collected writings of Walter Benjamin out. In his last years he dealt increasingly with questions of image theory.

Hermann Schweppenhäuser - he is the father of the university professor Gerhard Schweppenhäuser - lived in Deutsch Evern near Lüneburg . After the death of his wife, he moved to a retirement home in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg in January 2013 for health reasons .

His estate is in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main.

Fonts

As an author

  • Studies on Heidegger's language theory , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958; Edition Text and Criticism, München 1988, ISBN 3-88377-303-4 .
  • Forbidden fruit. Aphorisms and Fragments , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1967.
  • Kierkegaard's attack on speculation. A defense Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1967; Edition Text and Criticism, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88377-452-9 .
  • Tractanda. Contributions to the critical theory of culture and society , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-518-07347-8 .
  • Incorrect visualizations? Collected articles and lectures , zu Klampen, Lüneburg 1986, ISBN 3-924245-03-7 .
  • A physiognom of things. Aspects of Benjamin's Thought . zu Klampen, Lüneburg 1992, ISBN 3-924245-24-X .
  • Thinking intuition - looking thinking. Critical-aesthetic studies on the complementarity of sensitive and intellectual relationships . Muenster; LIT, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1565-3 .

As editor

  • Johann Gottfried Seume : Apocrypha. With an essay by Hermann Schweppenhäuser . Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verl. 1966 (Insel Collection. 18)
  • Friedrich Maximilian Klinger : Considerations and thoughts on various objects of the world and literature. Selection. With an essay by Hermann Schweppenhäuser . Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verl. 1967 (collection insel. 27)
  • Theodor W. Adorno in memory , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1971.
  • Benjamin on Kafka , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-27941-6 .

literature

  • Festschrift: Perspectives of Critical Theory. A collection for Hermann Schweppenhauser's 60th birthday , ed. v. C. Türcke. Lüneburg: zu Klampen, 1988, ISBN 3-924245-10-X .
  • Festschrift: Image - Language - Culture. Aesthetic Perspectives of Critical Theory. Hermann Schweppenhäuser on his 80th birthday , ed. v. S. Kramer. Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-4108-2 .
  • Wolfgang Bock : A third between two stars. Memory as a philosophical form. In: expression, charisma, aura. Synesthesia of inspiration in the media age. Edited by Karl Clausberg , Elize Bisanz and Cornelius Weiller. Hippocampus, Bad Honnef 2007, ISBN 978-3-936817-22-5 , pp. 117-132.
  • Wolfgang Bock, Frankfurt in Lüneburg. On the motif of critical theory in the diaspora, including an interview with Christoph Türcke. In: The field of the Frankfurt cultural and social sciences after 1945 , ed. v. Richard Faber and Eva-Maria Ziege, Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2008, pp. 235–262, ISBN 978-3-8260-3869-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Database of the German National Library. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  2. Christian Ammon: A Critical Thinker , Main-Post , March 14, 2013
  3. ^ After Adorno. Hermann Schweppenhauser's estate . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 21, 2017, p. 16.