Michael Theunissen

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Michael Theunissen (born October 11, 1932 in Berlin ; † April 18, 2015 there ) was a German philosopher .

biography

Theunissen studied philosophy and German in Bonn and Freiburg . In 1955 he received his doctorate from Sören Kierkegaard with Max Müller in Freiburg with the work The Concept “Ernst” , and he completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1964 with Der Andere: Studien zur Sozialontologie der Gegenwart . In 1967 he took over a professorship in philosophy at the University of Bern in Switzerland and was appointed to the University of Heidelberg in 1971 . From 1980 until his retirement in 1998 he held the chair for theoretical philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . The main areas of his research and publications were the philosophy of Hegel and Kierkegaard , modern social philosophy and phenomenology , the philosophy of the time as well as the ancient Greek poet Pindar and archaic Greek poetry. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences at the University of Lucerne . Another honorary doctorate was awarded to him on April 13, 2005 by the theological faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

"His numerous, astute and learned writings on the philosophy of modern times and antiquity have made Michael Theunissen one of the most prominent contemporary philosophers in the professional world," said Joachim Ringleben , systematist at the Göttingen Theological Faculty, who also called the scientist an "academic Teacher with an unusually large charisma ”. Theunissen has a special meaning for theology and the philosophy of religion through his work on the I-Thou relationship, on revelation, on philosophical Christology, on despair and on prayer.

His theological and philosophical work has received numerous honors and prizes, such as B. the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize 2001, the Karl Jaspers Prize (Heidelberg, 2004), the Hegel Prize (Stuttgart, 2015 posthumously) and several honorary doctorates. Emil Angehrn and Uwe Justus Wenzel are among his students .

Works (selection)

  • The term Ernst in Søren Kierkegaard. Freiburg i. Br. / Munich: Verlag Karl Alber 1958 (Symposion 1) ISBN 3-495-44030-5
  • The other: Studies on contemporary social ontology. Berlin: de Gruyter 1965 (2nd edition: ISBN 3-11-008657-3 )
  • Society and History: On the Critique of Critical Theory. Berlin: de Gruyter 1969 (2nd edition: ISBN 3-11-008687-5 )
  • Being and appearance: the critical function of Hegelian logic. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1978 ISBN 3-518-07209-9
  • Self-realization and universality: to criticize the present consciousness. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter 1982 ISBN 3-11-008781-2
  • Negative theology of the time. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1991 (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; 938) ISBN 3-518-28538-6
  • The self at the bottom of despair. Frankfurt am Main: Hain 1991 (Anton Hain; No. 14) ISBN 3-445-06014-2
  • The term despair: corrections to Kierkegaard. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1993 (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; 1062) ISBN 3-518-28662-5
  • Pindar: Humanless and the turn of time. Munich: Beck 2000. ISBN 3-406-46169-7 (3rd edition 2008)
  • Range and limits of memory , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2001.
  • Fate in antiquity and modernity (extended version of a lecture given at the Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens-Stiftung on May 17, 2004). Munich: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation 2004.

literature

Books

  • Emil Angehrn (Ed.): Dialectical Negativism: Michael Theunissen for his 60th birthday. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1992 (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft; 1034) ISBN 3-518-28634-X
  • Markus Hattstein (ed.): Experiences of negativity: Festschrift for Michael Theunissen for his 60th birthday. Hildesheim [u. a.]: Olms 1992. ISBN 3-487-09500-9
  • Emmanuel Siregar: Morally acting in relation: historical and personal thinking in conversation with Trinitarian ontology. Freiburg, Switzerland: Univ.-Verl .; Freiburg i. Br .; Vienna: Herder 1995. (Studies on theological ethics; 64) ISBN 3-451-23648-6
  • Susanne Scharf: Broken time - lived present: in a discourse with Michael Theunissen. Regensburg: Pustet 2005. (Ratio fidei; Vol. 27) ISBN 3-7917-1961-0

Essays and Articles

  • On the immediate and mediated social character of work in “Sein und Schein” in: Dieter Wolf, The dialectical contradiction in capital. Page 436 ff. Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-889-1 (PDF file; 155 kB)
  • The abolition of idealism in Schelling's late philosophy in: Philosophisches Jahrbuch 1976, S1-39 (PDF file; 1.5 MB)
  • W. Ette: The divine time. Review: M. Theunissen, Pindar. Munich 2000. In: Die Zeit, July 20, 2000.
  • T. Poiss: Review: M. Theunissen, Pindar. Munich 2000. In: FAZ, December 12, 2000.
  • Hartwig Wiedebach: From parting. To the philosopher Michael Theunissen for his seventieth. In: SZ, October 11, 2002.
  • Richard Klein: Philosophy transgressing itself. On the death of Michael Theunissen , in: Musik & Ästhetik 19 (2015), no. 75, pp. 51–57.
  • Tilo Wesche: Theunissen, Michael . In: Bedorf, Thomas; Gelhard, Andreas (ed.): The German philosophy in the 20th century. An author's handbook. 2., revised. and corr. Darmstadt, 2015. pp. 283–286. ISBN 978-3-534-26635-7

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Günter Figal : At the beginning and at the end there is poetry. His thinking was about life: on the death of the philosopher Michael Theunissen . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 21, 2015, p. 12.
  2. ^ University of Lucerne: Honorary doctorates - University of Lucerne. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Theunissen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2015
Place of death Berlin