Manfred Baum (philosopher)

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Manfred Baum (born April 15, 1939 in Cologne ) is a German philosopher and second chairman of the German Kant Society . In 1993 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , where he still teaches after his retirement.

At the center of his research is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant . But the philosophy of antiquity, the Enlightenment, German idealism, as well as Marxist theory are again and again the subject of his publications and teaching.

Life

Baum studied English, German, pedagogy and philosophy in Cologne and Munich from 1958 to 1970. He received his doctorate in 1970 with a thesis on "The transcendental deduction in Kant's criticism. Interpretations of critical philosophy" with Karl-Heinz Volkmann-Schluck and Ludwig Landgrebe as a doctor of philosophy.

After working at the Hegel archive of the Ruhr University in Bochum , he completed his habilitation in 1981 at the University of Siegen with a study on "The Origin of Hegelian Dialectics".

Since 1996 he has been co-editor of the Kant studies .

Publications (selection)

Books

  • The Transcendental Deduction in Kant's Critiques: Interpretations of Critical Philosophy . Thesis, dissertation, University of Cologne 1975.
  • Deduction and proof in Kant's transcendental philosophy . Investigations on the 'Critique of Pure Reason . Königstein / Ts: Hain near Athenaeum 1986.
  • The emergence of the Hegelian dialectic . Bonn: Bouvier 1986.
  • Small writings 1. Works on the theoretical philosophy of Kant , ed. by Marion Heinz , Berlin: De Gruyter 2019.
  • Small writings 2. Works on Kant's practical philosophy , ed. by Dieter Hüning, Berlin: de Gruyter 2020.

Essays and Articles

  • Holderlin's Pindar fragment 'Das Höchst' . In: Hölderlin yearbook. 13 (1963/64).
  • On the prehistory of Hegel's concept of infinity . -In: Hegel studies. 11 (1976). 89-124.
  • with Kurt Meist: Learning to live through philosophy. Hegel's conception of philosophy based on the newly found Jena manuscripts. -In: Hegel studies. 12 (1977). 43-81.
  • Common good and general will in Hegel's legal philosophy . -In: Archives for History of Philosophy. 60 (1978). 175-198.
  • Transcendental Proofs in the 'Critique of Pure Reason . -In: Transcendental Arguments and Science. Ed. by P. Bieri, R.-P. Horstmann and L. Kruger. Dordrecht 1978. 3-26.
  • Truth in Kant and Hegel . -In: Dieter Henrich (Ed.): Kant or Hegel? About forms of justification in philosophy. Stuttgart 1983. 230-249.
  • Knowing and doing in the “Critique of Pure Reason” . -In: Burkhard Tuschling (Ed.): Problems of the 'Critique of Pure Reason'. Berlin / New York 1984. 161-177.
  • Hegel's criticism of Kant's moral principle. -In: Hegel year book 1987. Bochum 1987. 235-244.
  • Kant on Cosmological Apperception . -In: International Philosophical Quarterly. 29 (1989). 281-289.
  • The structure of the deduction of the categories . -In: Proceedings: Sixth International Kant Congress. The Pennsylvania State University, 1985, ed. G. Funke & Th. M. Seebohm, Copyright 1989. The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc. and co-published with the University Press of America, Inc., Washington, DC, UNITED STATES. 143-156.
  • Kant's principle of expediency and Hegel's realization of the concept. -In: Hegel and the "Critique of Judgment". Edited by Hans-Friedrich Fulda and Rolf-Peter Horstmann. Stuttgart 1990. 158-173.
  • Cosmology and dialectics in Plato and Hegel . -In: Hegel and the ancient dialectic. Edited by Manfred Riedel. Frankfurt / M. 1990. 192-207.
  • Subjectivity, general validity and a priori of the judgment of taste in Kant . -In: German magazine for philosophy. 39 (1991). 272-284.
  • Things in themselves and space in Kant. -In: files of the Seventh International Kant Congress . Electoral Palace in Mainz, 1990. Ed. G. Spark. Bonn 1991. 63-72.
  • Metaphysical monism in Holderlin and Hegel . -In: Hegel studies. 28 (1993). 81-102.
  • Kant on mathematical knowledge of nature . -In: Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.): Interactions between philosophy and the empirical sciences. History of philosophy and science between Francis Bacon and Ernst Cassirer. Frankfurt am Main 1995. 95-104.
  • Kant's arguments about space and the foundation of transcendental idealism. -In: Kant. Analyzes -Problems -Critic. Vol. II. Ed. V. H. Upper. Würzburg 1996. 41-63.
  • The beginnings of Schelling's natural philosophy . -In: Schelling. Between Fichte and Hegel. Edited by Christoph Asmuth, Alfred Denker and Michael Vater. Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2000. 95-112.
  • Logical and personal self in Kant . -In: Problems of subjectivity in the past and present. Edited by Dietmar H. Heidemann. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002. 107-123.
  • On the relationship between logic and metaphysics in Leibniz . - In: Societas rationis. Festschrift for Burkhard Tuschling on his 65th birthday. Edited by D. Hüning, G. Stiening u. U. Vogel. Berlin 2002. 11-27.
  • Freedom with Marx . -In: Z -Zeitschrift für Marxist Renewal, Volume 14, Issue 55 (September 2003). 67-79.
  • Plato and Critical Philosophy . -In: Rainer Adolphi / Jörg Jantzen (ed.), The ancient thinking in the philosophy of Schelling. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2003. 579-600.
  • The possibility of experience and the analytical method at Reinhold . - In: Martin Bondeli and Alessandro Lazzari (eds.): Philosophy without additional names. System, freedom and history in the thinking of Carl Leonhard Reinhold. Basel 2004. 104-118.
  • Morality and freedom in Kant's 'foundation' . - In: Ethics foundations between universalism and relativism. Edited by Kristina Engelhard and Dietmar H. Heidemann. Berlin, New York 2005. 183-202.
  • Hermeneutics in Nietzsche . In: Kant and Nietzsche in conflict. On behalf of the Nietzsche Society, ed. by Beatrix Himmelmann. Berlin, New York 2005. 16-28.
  • Feeling, Desire, and Willing in Kant's Practical Philosophy . - In: Yearbook for Law and Ethics. Volume 14 (2006), 125-139.
  • Positive and negative freedom in Kant . - In: Yearbook for Law and Ethics. 16 (2008), 43-56.

Editions

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Collected Works . In connection with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ed. v. of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 5. Writings and drafts 1799-1808. Hamburg (Verlag Felix Meiner) 1998.
  • Transcendence and existence. Idealistic foundations and modern perspectives of transcendental thought. FS Wolfgang Janke. Edited by M. Baum and K. Hammacher. Amsterdam -Atlanta, GA 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Baum, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne