Klaus Oehler

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Klaus Oehler (born August 31, 1928 in Solingen ) is a German philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg .

Life

After serving as an anti-aircraft helper in the last years of the war and graduating from high school in 1949, Oehler first studied philosophy , classical philology and evangelical theology , first in Marburg , and from 1950 in Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1953 from Gerhard Krüger . In 1956 the state examination for ancient languages ​​and philosophy followed in Frankfurt am Main . After a short teaching activity in Marburg, he worked from 1956 to 1958 with Georg Picht at the Platon archive in Hinterzarten . In 1959 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg , where he became a full professor in 1968for philosophy was. During this time he also made a name for himself as a staunch opponent of the 1968 movement . In 1990 he retired and has lived in Bad Pyrmont ever since .

Oehler has made a name for himself in the fields of pragmatism , semiotics and as an Aristotle researcher. He helped found the journal Semiosis. Journal for Semiotics and their Applications (1976) and the Journal for Semiotics (1979).

The editors of the Festschrift on his 80th birthday wrote in their foreword: "With his radical criticism of idealism and utopia, he succeeds his teacher Gerhard Krüger , whose philosophy in the context of the 20th century is a lonely, but all the more consequential, return to the represents the ontological roots of our understanding of reality, to which Klaus Oehler was able to directly connect with the intentions of his philosophical pragmatism that guided him. "

Office and dignity

Klaus Oehler has been a member of the Athens Academy since 1977 and of the German Society for Semiotics since 1981 . In 1982 he became the first German President of the Peirce Society. Since 1993 he has been an honorary doctor of the Panteion University of Athens . In 1998 he was awarded the International Prize of the Antonio Iannone Foundation in Rome.

Works

  • The doctrine of noetic and dianoetic thinking in Plato and Aristotle . CH Beck: Munich 1962.
  • A man begets a man. About the abuse of language analysis in Aristotle research . Klostermann: Frankfurt / Main 1963.
  • Ancient Philosophy and Byzantine Middle Ages - Essays on the History of Greek Thought . CH Beck: Munich 1969.
  • The immobile mover of Aristotle . Klostermann: Frankfurt / Main 1984.
  • Charles Sanders Peirce . CH Beck: Munich 1993. ISBN 978-3406346354 .
  • Things and signs. On the philosophy of pragmatism . Klostermann: Frankfurt / Main 1995.
  • Subjectivity and Self-Consciousness in Antiquity . Königshausen & Neumann: Würzburg 1997.
  • Views from the philosophy tower. A review . Olms: Hildesheim 2007. ISBN 978-3487084763 .
  • Oehler, Klaus (Ed.): Signs and Reality. Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verlag 1984, Vol. 1 ( ISBN 3-923721-81-1 )
  • Oehler, Klaus: Is a transcendental justification of semiotics possible? In: Oehler, Klaus (Ed.): Signs and Reality. Tübingen, Stauffenburg-Verlag 1984, Vol. 1, pp. 45-59

literature

  • Regina Claussen, Roland Daube-Schackat (ed.), Thought signs . Festschrift for Klaus Oehler on his 60th birthday , Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag 1988.
  • Wolfgang Künne , Klaus Oehler on his 70th birthday , in: Reports from the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1998.
  • Kai-Michael Hingst, Klaus Oehler , in: Information Philosophy 2001, 32–37.
  • Kai-Michael Hingst, Maria Liatsi (Ed.), Pragmata. Festschrift for Klaus Oehler on his 80th birthday , Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Oehler 2007, pp. 203-236.
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen