Manfred Riedel

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Manfred Riedel (born May 10, 1936 in Etzoldshain , Zeitz district , Province of Saxony , † May 11, 2009 in Erlangen ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Riedel studied philosophy, history, German literature, psychology and sociology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1954 to 1957, with Ernst Bloch , Hans Mayer and Hermann August Korff , among others . In 1957 he fled the GDR to Heidelberg. There he continued his studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität with Karl Löwith , Hans-Georg Gadamer , Arthur Henkel and Werner Conze . In 1960 he did his doctorate under Löwith with a thesis on theory and practice in Hegel's thinking . Contrary to the general trend of the 1960s, Riedel did not understand Hegel from the perspective of Marx , but from the old European traditions of practical philosophy that went back to Aristotle . In 1968 he completed his habilitation at Heidelberg University with a thesis on civil society. A category of classical politics and modern natural law .

After teaching at the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Saarbrücken , Riedel became full professor of philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1970 . In 1980/81 he held the Theodor Heuss Professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York City . Visiting professorships followed in Turin, Rome, Venice and Atlanta / Georgia. In 1992/93 he was a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and in 1992 he received the chair for practical philosophy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Riedel retired in 2004 .

From 1991 to 2003 Riedel was President of the Martin Heidegger Society , from 2005 a member of L'Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM) in Florence .

Research and Teaching

Riedel was a philosopher who developed his own philosophical thinking, especially in his art of interpreting classical texts, and is therefore considered to be a late exponent of Humboldt's university tradition. Not the school but the world concept of philosophy was the focus for him. Looking back at antiquity, Riedel was connected to German idealism and the post-idealistic philosophy of Kant , Hegel , Nietzsche , Dilthey and Heidegger .

His research focused on three main areas:

  1. History and formation of the basic type of European civil society in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times.
  2. Investigations into the history of the origins of the modern humanities and their methods, in which he looks for a way out of the forced alternative between hermeneutic and analytical ways of thinking of the present.
  3. As an alternative to the emerging “anarchy of thought” of postmodernism since the late 1980s, the decline to the original anarchic sources of a “second” philosophy of ancient Europe oriented towards myth, mystery religion and art, as opposed to the “first” (archontic), from Aristotle to towards Husserl with the claim to justify apodictically strict science.

The third focus is linked to a series of studies on the relationship between philosophy and poetry in early Greek culture and in modern European poetry from Goethe and Hölderlin to Leopardi to Rilke and George. Riedel initiated several international congresses, for example on the relationship between philology and philosophy in Nietzsche (Naumburg 1994), hermeneutics in the Age of Enlightenment (1996), nature and art in Nietzsche's thinking (2001), Heidegger and German idealism (2002), philosophy , Medicine and Psychology (2003).

Honors

  • Dr. hc mult.
  • Italian Nietzsche Prize 1990 together with Richard Rorty
  • Festschrift for the 60th birthday: In the midst of time . Wuerzburg 1996
  • Festschrift for the 65th birthday: Understanding in word and writing . Edited by Harald Seubert Weimar 2004

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Theory and Practice in Hegel's Thought. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1965, 2nd edition Ullstein, Berlin 1976 (Korean 1982, Japanese 1987)
  • Between tradition and revolution. Studies on Hegel's legal philosophy. 1969, 3rd expanded edition 1982 (Italian 1975, Japanese 1976, Spanish 1979, Korean 1983, English 1984)
  • Metaphysics and metapolitics. Studies on Aristotle and the political language of modern philosophy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1975 (Spanish 1976, English 1986, Italian 1987)
  • Understand or Explain? On the theory and history of the hermeneutic sciences. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978 (Italian 1987, Romanian 1989)
  • Norm and value judgment. Basic problems of ethics. Reclam, Stuttgart 1979 (Japanese 1982)
  • Lineamenti di etica comunicativa. Elementi e principi di una teoria del discorso morale. Padova 1981
  • L'Universalità della Scienza Europea e il Primato della Filosofìa. Napoli 1982
  • Fra Mito e Scienza. L'inizio della filosofia greca. Napoli 1986
  • For a second philosophy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1988 (Italian 1989, Hungarian 1990)
  • Judgment and Reason. Kant's original question. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1989
  • Listen to the language. The acroamatic dimension of hermeneutics. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1990
  • Time turn in Germany. Paths to the forgotten land. Siedler, Berlin 1991 (Russian 1996)
  • Tradition and utopia. Ernst Bloch's philosophy in the light of our historical experience of thought . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1994
  • Nietzsche in Weimar. A German drama. Reclam, Leipzig 1997
  • Nietzsche's Lenzerheide fragment on European nihilism. History and effect. Zollikon-Zurich 2000. ISBN 3-906640-99-X .
  • Open air thoughts. Nietzsche's poetic world experience. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1998 (Italian from St. Wagner and N. Russo, Napoli 2005)
  • Secret Germany. Stefan George and the Stauffenberg brothers . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-412-07706-2 (TB 2014, ISBN 978-3-86599-250-5 )
  • In dialogue with Nietzsche and Goethe. Weimar Classics and Classical Modernism. Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2009
  • Civil society. A category of classical politics and modern natural law. Edited by Harald Seubert with the assistance of Friedemann Sprang. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2011.
  • Preludes to the Eternal Coming. Nietzsche's basic theory. Edited by Harald Seubert with the assistance of Friedemann Sprang. Böhlau Verlag Vienna Cologne Weimar 2012. ISBN 978-3-412-20939-1 (Collegium Hermeneuticum 14).
  • Manfred Riedel and Harald Seubert: Introduction to Philosophy. Edited by Friedemann Sprang. Böhlau Verlag Vienna Cologne Weimar 2015. UTB Volume 4424. ISBN 978-3-8252-4424-8 . eISBN 978-3-8463-4424-8.

Articles (selection)

  • From Biedermeier to the Machine Age , In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 43 (1961), pp. 100–123; Reprinted in: H. Segeberg (Hrsg.), Technik in der Literatur. Frankfurt / Main 1987, pp. 102-132.
  • On the topic of the classical-political and the modern-natural legal concept of society , In: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 51 (1965), pp. 291-318.
  • Nature and Freedom in Hegel's Philosophy of Right , In: ZA Pelczynski (Ed.), Hegel's Political Philosophy. Problems and Perspectives, Cambridge 1971, pp. 136-151.
  • About some aporias of the practical philosophy of Aristotle , In: M. Riedel (Ed.), Rehabilitation of practical philosophy, Vol. 1, Freiburg / Breisgau 1972, pp. 79-97.
  • Aristotelianism and Humanism , In: Journal for Philosophical Research, Vol. XXVII (1973), pp. 367-377.
  • The concept of "civil society" and the problem of its historical origin , In: EW Böckenförde (Ed.), State and Society, Darmstadt 1976 (= Paths of Research Volume 471), pp. 77-108.
  • Historical, metaphysical and transcendental concept of time , In: R. Koselleck (Ed.), Studies at the beginning of the modern world, Stuttgart 1977, pp. 300-316.
  • Moral and legal norms. On some basic questions of the theory of norms , In: Perspektiven der Philosophie, New Years III (1978), pp. 81–95.
  • Philosophizing after the 'end of philosophy'? In: H. Lübbe (Ed.), Why Philosophy? Berlin, New York 1978, pp. 259-287; in an abridged version also in: Neue Deutsche Hefte 25 (1978), pp. 451-470.
  • The universality of European science as a conceptual and scientific-historical problem , In: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie X (1979), pp. 267–287.
  • Critique of Pure Reason and Language. On the problem of categories in Kant , In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 7.2. (1982), pp. 1-16.
  • Philosophy as a profession , In: J. Schickel (Ed.), Philosophy as a profession. Frankfurt / Main 1982, pp. 21-42.
  • Between Plato and Aristotle. Heidegger's double exposure of the question of being and the approach of Gadamer's hermeneutic dialectic of conversation , In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 11.3 (1986), pp. 1–28.
  • Das Grundwort des Anaximander , In: Archive for the history of philosophy 69 (1987), pp. 1–17.
  • Understanding of being and a sense of what is possible. The hermeneutic path to practical philosophy , In: H. Maier et al. (Ed.), Politics, Philosophy, Practice. Festschrift for Wilhelm Hennis on his 65th birthday, Stuttgart 1988, pp. 280–302.
  • The acroamatic dimension of hermeneutics , In: A. Gethmann-Siefert (Ed.), Philosophy and Poetry. Otto Pöggeler on his 60th birthday, Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt 1988, Volume 1, pp. 107-120.
  • Hegel and the problem of the beginning of Greek philosophy , In: Antike und Abendland, XXXIV (1988), pp. 28–42; also In: Man and World 21 (1988), pp. 395-415.
  • First and different beginning. Hegel's Determination of the Origin and Grounds of Greek Philosophy , In: H.-Chr. Lukas and G. Planty-Bonjour (eds.), Logic and History in Hegel's System, Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt 1989, pp. 173–197.
  • Imputation of the action and application of the moral law. About the connection between hermeneutics and practical judgment in Kant's doctrine of the “fact of reason” , In: KO Apel, R. Pozzi (ed.), Memorial for K.-H. Ilting, Stuttgart 1988, pp. 418-446; also in: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 14.1 (1989), pp. 27–51.
  • Time and experience of nature. Hegel and the origin of the occidental atomic theory , In: H. Busche, G. Heffernan and D. Lohmar (Eds.), Consciousness and Temporality. A problem cut through the philosophy of modern times, Festschrift for G. Schmidt, Würzburg 1990, pp. 103–125.
  • Human rights universalism and patriotism. Kant's political legacy to our time , In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 18.1 (1993), pp. 1–23; also in: W. Böhm (Ed.), Education and Human Rights, Würzburg 1995, pp. 37–57.
  • The idea of ​​a different Germany. Legend and Reality , 20th Kassel University Week, Volume 16, Kassel 1994.
  • Sensitivity to nature. Aesthetic experience and interpretation in Kant's philosophy of the beautiful , In: D. Schönrich, Y. Kato (ed.), Kant in the discussion of modernity. Frankfurt / M. 1996, pp. 506-525.
  • Europa in Leibnizʼ History Thinking , In: R. Enskat (Ed.), Amicus Plato magis amica veritas, Festschrift for Wolfgang Wieland on his 65th birthday, Berlin, New York 1998, pp. 194–218.
  • Nietzsche's poem 'Sils Maria'. History and interpretation , In: Nietzsche-Studien 27 (1998), pp. 268–283.
  • The invention of the philologist. Friedrich August Wolf and Friedrich Nietzsche , In: HA Adriaanse and R. Enskat (eds.), Strangeness and familiarity. Hermeneutics in a European Context, Leuven 2000, pp. 97–122.
  • Song of exile? Post-war encounters with Nietzsche , In: Günter Seubold , G. Baruchello (Ed.), What Nietzsche means to me. Prominent figures from art, politics and philosophy answer, Bonn 2001.
  • Pathos of hearing. Orphic singing by Nietzsche and Rilke , In: Blätter der Rilke-Gesellschaft 24 (2002), pp. 33–52.
  • Nietzsche's theory of the three metamorphoses: Metamorphoses of the spirit , In: expressis verbis. Philosophical reflections, Festschrift for Günter Schenk on his 65th birthday, Halle 2003, pp. 272–283.
  • "Extirpation of the German Spirit". Nietzsche's fight against the Bismarck Empire , In: E. Conze, U. Schlie, H. Seubert (eds.), History between science and politics. Festschrift for Michael Stürmer on his 64th birthday, Baden-Baden 2003, pp. 191–206.
  • Nietzsche and the young Hofmannsthal , In: L. Kais (Ed.), The Daedalus principle. A discourse on the assembly and disassembly of ideologies, Festschrift for Steffen Dietzsch on his 65th birthday, Berlin 2009, pp. 285–304.
  • Philosopher of the “other Germany”? Ernst Bloch in Leipzig , In: A. Gallus, W. Müller, Sonde 1957 (series of publications by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung 98), pp. 363–377.
  • “What glimmer of the southern sea hit me?” - On George's poem 'Goethe's last night in Italy' , In: B. Pieger and B. Schefold, Stefan George. Poetry - Ethos - State, Thoughts for a Secret European Germany, Berlin 2010, pp. 95–130.
  • "Capture yourself in the circle that love closes". Nietzsche and George , In: B. Pieger and B. Schefold, Stefan George. Poetry - Ethos - State, Ideas for a Secret European Germany, Berlin 2010, pp. 399–416.

editor

  • Nature and history. Karl Löwith on his 70th birthday (with H. Braun). Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1967
  • Hegel study edition in 3 volumes (together with K. Löwith), Frankfurt / Main 1968.
  • W. Dilthey: The structure of the historical world in the humanities. Frankfurt a. M. 1970, 2nd edition (Suhrkamp pocket book science) 1973
  • Rehabilitation of Practical Philosophy. 2 volumes, Freiburg i. Br. 1972/74 (English 1987)
  • I. Kant, Writings on the Philosophy of History , Stuttgart 1974.
  • German idealism. History of philosophy and impact in sources and studies , Stuttgart 1980ff. (together with H.-M. Baumgartner, R. Bubner and others).
  • Materials on Hegel's Philosophy of Law , 2 volumes, Frankfurt a. M. 1975
  • History of Philosophy in the 19th Century , Stuttgart 1981
  • Contemporary German Philosophy , Vol. I-III, 1982ff. (in cooperation with R. Spaemann, W. Wieland, R. Wiehl)
  • Dialogos, European Thinking , Stuttgart 1983ff.
  • W. Dilthey: The essence of philosophy , Stuttgart 1984
  • Heidegger Studies Vol. II ff. 1987 ff. (With F.-W. von Herrmann, H. Boeder, O. Pöggeler and others)
  • Hegel and the ancient dialectic , 1990
  • F. Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks , Stuttgart 1994.
  • Collegium Hermeneuticum. German-Italian studies in cultural studies and philosophy , founded by M. Riedel and F. Tessitore, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1999ff. Volumes 1–14 have been published so far.

literature

  • Hans-Helmuth Gander: Europe and Philosophy . Verlag V. Klostermann, 1993, ISBN 3-465-02571-7 , p. 248

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.Retrieved on March 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Etzoldshain , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2009
Place of death gain