Horst Wessel (philosopher)
Horst Wessel (born August 16, 1936 in Wuppertal ; † April 4, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German logician .
Life
The son of a worker was evacuated to Ufhoven near Langensalza in 1942 together with his brother Harald Wessel . From 1954 to 1989 he was a member of the SED . In 1954 he graduated from high school and then studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1959 . From 1959 to 1964 he worked in the student department of the Central Council of the Free German Youth . He then studied with Alexander Zinoviev at the Lomonossow University in Moscow. After completing his doctorate , he became senior assistant in 1967 and, in 1971, lecturer and head of the logic department at the Marxist-Leninist Philosophy Section at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After completing his habilitation in 1976, he became professor of logic at the Marxist-Leninist Philosophy Section at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1993 he was Professor of Logic at the Institute for Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2001 he retired. Horst Wessel died on April 4, 2019 in Berlin.
plant
Horst Wessel was one of Alexander Zinoviev's closest collaborators. Thanks to him, Zinoviev's central works were translated into German at an early stage. He continued his work on Zinoviev's conception of logic after his relocation to his chair in Berlin. The results of the Logiker group, which he leads, can be found in the volume Complex Logic - Symposium in Honor of Alexander Zinoviev .
Among other things, Wessel found Ex falso quodlibet to be paradoxical and tried to establish an alternative system. He tried language regulations of the form "X has the property Y" ("predication theory").
In his book Logic , he claimed (Chapter 12.2):
"If an electron is positively charged, the earth has the shape of a cube [...] is not true, since it can neither be obtained from an experiment or an observation nor from a logical corollary or from other statements."
Fonts
- (with Alexander Zinoviev) Logical language rules. An introduction to logic. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1975; W. Fink, Munich / Salzburg 1975, ISBN 3-7705-1264-2 .
- Logic. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1984. 4th, fundamentally revised edition: Logos, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89722-057-1 .
- Anti-irrationalism. Logical-philosophical essays. Logos, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8325-0266-1 .
List of publications in: Complex Logic - Symposium in honor of Alexander Sinowjew ( Scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Series Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 41). Humboldt University, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86004-109-6 , p. 118 ff.
literature
- Wessel, Horst. In: German Literature Lexicon . 3. Edition. Vol. 31 (2012), p. 112 ( online ).
- Hans-Christoph Rauh: Wessel, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Wessel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Horst Wessel died, Junge Welt April 9, 2019 [1] (accessed April 8, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complex Logic - Symposium in honor of Alexander Sinowjew ( Scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Series Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 41). Humboldt University, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86004-109-6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wessel, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th April 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |