Klaus Held

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Klaus Held (2010)

Klaus Held (born February 1, 1936 in Düsseldorf ) is a German philosopher .

The main fields of his research are the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger , ancient philosophy and political philosophy .

Life

Supported by the German National Academic Foundation , Held studied philosophy and classical philology in Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and Cologne from 1956 to 1962 . He received his doctorate in 1962 at the University of Cologne to Dr. phil. There he was assistant for philosophy at Ludwig Landgrebe from 1963 to 1970 and completed his habilitation in 1970. In 1971 he was appointed scientific advisor and professor at RWTH Aachen University. In 1974 he followed the call to the new chair for philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . He turned down a call to the University of Tübingen in 1984. Since 1977 he has been a member of the founding senate of the Bergische Universität. Since then he has looked after research guests and doctoral students from all continents. From 1987 to 1991 he was Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching. In 2001 he retired . Because of his development work, he is considered the "father of the Wuppertal philosophy".

Since the late seventies, the Wuppertal philosophy has developed into an internationally recognized center of phenomenological research. Held looked after a large number of research guests and doctoral students from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa and gave lectures in many countries on these continents. As a research fellow or visiting professor , he stayed in Japan several times for extended periods ( Hiroshima State University 1987, Kyoto State University 1993, 1996, 2001 and 2005). He was also visiting professor in the USA at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1991 and 2003), at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples (1992), at the European Humanistic University (EHU) in Minsk ( Belarus) ( 2001), the Chinese University in Hong Kong (2003) and the Seoul State University in South Korea (2007).

From 1987 to 1994 Held was President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research . In 1992, together with Bernhard Waldenfels , he founded the DFG- funded graduate college "Phenomenology and Hermeneutics" at the Universities of Wuppertal and Bochum and ran it with him until 1998. He also worked as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) , as a co- reviewer for the guidelines of grammar school philosophy lessons as well as for the philosophy requirements in the first state examination . From 1982 to 1990 he was a consultant and member of the planning advisory board at Dr. Tigges Travel Academies. From 1987 to 1994 Held was President of the German Society for Phenomenological Research , from 1992 to 1998 founder and (together with Bernhard Waldenfels) head of the graduate school “Phenomenology and Hermeneutics” at the universities of Wuppertal and Bochum .

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Klaus Held is dedicated to the continuation of the phenomenology founded by Edmund Husserl . He interprets it as the “phenomenology of the world” and as a modern renewal of the oldest idea of ​​philosophy and science among the Greeks. He relies primarily on Husserl's concept of the lifeworld and on the phenomenological elements in Martin Heidegger's thinking. Held's phenomenology of the world splits into a “phenomenology of the political world”, the attempt to create a new historical-systematic foundation of political philosophy based on the ideas of Hannah Arendt , and into a “phenomenology of the natural world”. In the context of these fields of research, Held also dealt with the position of Europe in the globalized world and its influence both by the Roman reception of Greek thought and by biblical belief. In addition to the philosophical publications, he also publishes for a wider audience. His books and articles have been translated into 18 languages.

Awards

Fonts

  • Living present. The question about the mode of being of the transcendental ego in Edmund Husserl, developed on the Leitfaden der Zeitproblematik , Phaenomenologica Volume 23, The Hague 1966 (Japanese Koyo-Verlag Kyoto 1978 and Hokuto Shuppan Verlag 1988, English The Living Present , Noesis Press, USA)
  • Heraclitus , Parmenides and the beginning of philosophy and science. A phenomenological reflection , Berlin 1980
  • Stato, interest e mondi vitali. Per una fenomenologia della politica , a cura di Antonio Ponsetto, Brescia 1981
  • Introduction to Husserl's phenomenology , in: Edmund Husserl: The phenomenological method and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology of the lifeworld , edited by Klaus Held, 3rd edition, Stuttgart, 1998 and 2000 (translated into Japanese and English)
  • Meeting point Plato . Philosophical travel guide through the countries of the Mediterranean , Stuttgart 1990 (3rd edition 2001, paperback edition 2009) (translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Italian)
  • La fenomenologia del mondo ei Greci, a cura di Renato Cristin , Milan 1995
  • Phenomenology of the Political World , Frankfurt am Main 2010 (translated into Polish)
  • Phenomenology of the natural world , Frankfurt am Main 2012
  • Europe and the world. Studies on cosmopolitan phenomenology , West-Eastern Paths of Thinking Volume 22, Sankt Augustin 2013
  • Contemporary considerations , Frankfurt am Main 2017
  • Biblical Faith, Phenomenology of Its Origin and Future , Frankfurt am Main 2018

literature

  • Heinrich Hüni and Peter Trawny (editor): The appearing world. Festschrift for Klaus Held . Berlin 2002 (contributions by 42 authors)
  • Tanja Staehler (Editor): International Journal of Philosophical Studies , Volume 15 Issue 3 - Special Issue for Klaus Held: Reflections on Time, Mood, and Phenomenological Method (contributions by eight authors)
  • Held, Klaus , in: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003. 19th edition. Volume I: A - J. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1231

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Section names are messages in Wuppertal Unimagazin no. 18 - June / July 2002
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf