Leopold Ziegler

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Leopold Ziegler, around 1905

Leopold Ziegler (born April 30, 1881 in Karlsruhe , † November 25, 1958 in Überlingen ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Leopold Ziegler grew up in Karlsruhe. At the Technical University of Karlsruhe he already attended lectures on Eduard von Hartmann's philosophy with Arthur Drews as a high school student . In 1900 Ziegler graduated from high school and two years later in 1902 he enrolled in philosophy at Heidelberg University. In the same year he published his first philosophical work Metaphysics of the Tragic . The work Das Wesen der Kultur followed in 1903 .

Due to his differing views from the philosopher Kuno Fischer and especially Wilhelm Windelband , who taught in Heidelberg, Ziegler decided to move to the University of Jena. There he received his doctorate in 1905 with the subject of Western Rationalism and Eros under Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel . Ziegler became seriously ill with hip tuberculosis in 1907. Even before that was his plan, at the University of Freiburg to habilitation , in rejecting the local philosophy department, particularly Heinrich Rickert failed.

From then on Ziegler lived as a freelance writer in unsecured material circumstances. At the end of 1918 he and his wife Johanna Ziegler (née Keim) moved to the vicinity of Lindau on Lake Constance; In 1925, with the help of a patron, the couple moved into a house in Überlingen, where Ziegler lived and worked until his death in 1958.

Work and effect

Ziegler's best known work is Gestaltwandel der Götter (1920). It is a story of the idea of ​​God in Europe, which can be compared with other cultural-historical works of the time such as Hermann Keyserling's travel diary of a philosopher and Oswald Spengler's The Fall of the West . Unlike Spengler, however, Ziegler saw religion as the indissoluble basis of every culture. He tended towards a symbolic interpretation that deciphered the religions as the creations of a “general man” whose figure should be rediscovered. For this conception, Goethe was just as important to him as the work of the French esotericist and religious philosopher René Guénon . The teachings and symbols of all, not only the great world religions, found his interest, as was his special and a. by Hermann Hesse estimated book Tradition (1936) shows. The two-volume work Human Incarnation , which was completed in 1944, can be addressed as Magnum opus . It is an interpretation of the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer , which Ziegler's decidedly Christian -oriented late work introduces.

Ziegler also gained importance as a conservative political writer in the circle of Edgar Julius Jung and Franz von Papen . With his books The Holy Empire of the Germans (1925) and The European Spirit (1929) he influenced the Conservative Revolution , especially Ernst Jünger and Friedrich Georg Jünger . You took many suggestions from Ziegler's work and met him personally. Thomas Assheuer noted in Die Zeit in 2017 that the Sloterdijk student Marc Jongen is at home in the school of thought of the Conservative Revolution in the spirit of Ziegler and repeatedly presents its “solutions”.

Ziegler initially proclaimed a “new Middle Ages” and wanted to direct the meaningful energies of the religions , above all Buddhism as an atheistic religion, to a future “German Empire”. Later vowed Ziegler, who was a pacifist, that idea he especially in his early work The Eternal Buddha had explained (1922), and returned with his work Incarnation (1948), in which he extensively with the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard , the Mystic and theosophist Jakob Böhme , as well as the philosopher Franz von Baader , returned to his Christian roots.

Awards

Fonts

  • Metaphysics of the tragic. A philosophical study. Leipzig 1902.
  • The essence of culture. Leipzig 1903.
  • Western rationalism and eros. Dissertation. University of Jena 1905.
  • The basic problem of post-Kantian rationalism: with special reference to Hegel, 1905
  • Hartmann's worldview. An assessment. Leipzig 1910.
  • Florentine introduction. To a philosophy of architecture and the fine arts. Leipzig 1912
  • The German man. Berlin 1915
  • People, State and Personality, 1917
  • Shape change of the gods. Berlin 1920
  • The eternal buddho. A temple scripture in four teachings. Darmstadt 1922
  • The Holy Empire of the Germans. Darmstadt 1925
  • Between man and economy, 1927
  • Magna Charter of a school. Darmstadt 1928
  • The European spirit. Darmstadt 1929
  • Lore. Leipzig 1936
  • Apollo's last epiphany. Leipzig 1937
  • Incarnation. Olten 1948
  • From Plato's statehood to the Christian state. Olten 1948
  • Goethe in our distress, 1949
  • The new science. Universitas aeterna. Munich 1951
  • Own hand late harvest. Munich 1953
  • Edgar Julius Jung. Monument and Legacy. Vienna 1955 (Donors' Library 61)
  • The doctrinal talk of the general man. Hamburg 1956
  • Correspondence between Reinhold Schneider and Leopold Ziegler. 1960
  • Three-wing picture, 1961
  • Leopold Ziegler. Letters 1901-1958. 1963
  • Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann : Georg von Lukács' Heidelberg aesthetics. On the way to the “theory of the novel”. Correspondence between Leopold Ziegler and Georg von Lukács. Literary Society Upper Rhine. Braun, Karlsruhe 2010 ISBN 978-3-7650-8572-7

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Leopold Ziegler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Assheuer: AfD: Tidying up in the dung stall of democracy . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/2017
  2. ^ Schneider: On Leopold Ziegler's “Human Becoming” . Leopold Ziegler Foundation
  3. ↑ 1953–1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kulturkreis.eu; Retrieved April 1, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kulturkreis.eu  
  4. ↑ to Kamper s. o. dissertation
  5. ↑ There are numerous other Jongen texts at the foundation
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1958
Place of death Überlingen