Peter Ruben

Peter Ruben (born December 1, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German philosopher .

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After graduating from high school in Berlin-Adlershof and three years of service in the barracked people's police , Peter Ruben studied philosophy at Berlin's Humboldt University . In 1958 he was forcibly de-registered for political reasons and had to "prove himself in production" when setting up the Berlin-Schönefeld airport . From autumn 1961 he was able to continue his studies and graduated in 1963 with a thesis on the Descartes - Leibniz dispute and the "relationship between dialectics and mechanics". In 1969 he received his doctorate on mechanics and dialectics . In 1975 he moved from the Humboldt University to the Central Institute for Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR , where he eventually became deputy head of the “Dialectical Materialism” department. During this time he completed his habilitation on contradiction and natural dialectics and was a visiting professor at Aarhus University in Denmark for a year . In 1981, a campaign staged against him and his colleagues in his department for “ dissident ideas” before the Central Party Control Commission ended with his expulsion from the SED , a teaching ban and restricted publication opportunities.

In 1990 he was appointed professor and rehabilitated by the PDS ; participated in the round table of the Academy of Sciences from March to June 1990 . On June 1, 1990, he succeeded Manfred Buhr as the first and only director of the Central Institute for Philosophy who was freely elected by the staff until it was wound up at the end of 1990. From 1994 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the European University in Frankfurt / Oder .

Peter Ruben initially worked on natural philosophy and developed a philosophy of work based on Marxism based on the understanding of scientific analysis as a materially mediated process .

Fonts

Dialectics and work of philosophy. Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7609-0375-4 .
Friedrich Engels and the philosophical foundation of mathematics . In: 100 years of " Anti-Dühring ". Marxism. Worldview. Science . Edited by Rolf Kirchhoff and TI Oiserman. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 309-324.
Philosophy and mathematics. Leipzig 1979.
Peter Ruben, Camilla Warnke : Philosophical Papers I . Aarhus, Paris, Florence 1981 (pirated print)
Contradiction and Natural Dialectics Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Preprint 20
Modern communism and the social question. Berlin 1999.
with Hans-Christoph Rauh : Attempts at thinking: GDR philosophy in the 1960s. links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-359-6 .

literature

Erhard Crome , Udo Tietz (ed.): Dialectics - Work - Society. Festschrift for Peter Ruben. Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-941880-73-3 .

Erhard Crome: Thinking about society with Peter Ruben . In: Initial - Berliner Debatte, Vol. 24 (2013), Issue 4, pp. 105–122 ( online ).

Hans-Christoph Rauh (ed.): Fettered contradiction. The Peter Ruben affair. Dietz, Berlin 1991.

Hans-Christoph Rauh, Hans-Martin Gerlach (Ed.): Exits. On the GDR philosophy in the 70s and 80s. Berlin 2009.

Hans-Christoph Rauh, Camilla Wernke: Peter Ruben . In: Thomas Bedorf, Andreas Gelhard (Ed.): The German Philosophy in the 20th Century: An Author's Handbook. Darmstadt 2013.

Erhard Crome, Manfred Lauermann , Oliver Schlaudt, Rainer Schwarz: On the topicality of Peter Rubens' philosophical work - Lectures as part of an event on the occasion of Peter Ruben's 80th birthday . Philosophical Conversations Volume 37. Helle Panke. Berlin, 2015, 62 pp.

Camilla Warnke: Peter Ruben on his 85th birthday . In: Berliner Debatte Initial 30.Jg. (2019) Issue 1.

Jan Wielgohs: Ruben, Peter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Web presence with philosophical writings

Individual evidence

↑ peter-ruben.de
↑ peter-ruben.de
↑ cit. n. Heinz Mohnhaupt u. a .: Enforcement of norms in Eastern European post-war societies (1944–1989): Introduction to legal development with source documentation. Volume 5.2: German Democratic Republic (1958–1989). Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-465-03300-0 , p. 555.
↑ H.-C. Rauh (ed.): Fettered contradiction. The Peter Ruben affair. Dietz, Berlin 1991.
↑ Camilla Warnke: Not compatible with Marxism-Leninism! The exclusion of Peter Ruben from the GDR philosophy 1980/81. In: H.-C. Rauh, H.-M. Gerlach (ed.): Exits. On the GDR philosophy in the 70s and 80s. Berlin 1981; Camilla Warnke: Analytics and Dialectics. Comments on Peter Rubens' philosophy concept. In: Erhard Crome, Udo Tietz (Hrsg.): Dialektik - Arbeit - Gesellschaft. Festschrift for Peter Ruben. Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-941880-73-3 .
↑ cf. Also a preliminary remark by the editor, in: Peter Ruben: Philosophische Schriften

personal data
SURNAME	Ruben, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] ter-ruben.de

[2] ter-ruben.de

[3] t. n. Heinz Mohnhaupt u. a .: Enforcement of norms in Eastern European post-war societies (1944–1989): Introduction to legal development with source documentation. Volume 5.2: German Democratic Republic (1958–1989). Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-465-03300-0 , p. 555.

[4] H.-C. Rauh (ed.): Fettered contradiction. The Peter Ruben affair. Dietz, Berlin 1991.

[5] Camilla Warnke: Not compatible with Marxism-Leninism! The exclusion of Peter Ruben from the GDR philosophy 1980/81. In: H.-C. Rauh, H.-M. Gerlach (ed.): Exits. On the GDR philosophy in the 70s and 80s. Berlin 1981; Camilla Warnke: Analytics and Dialectics. Comments on Peter Rubens' philosophy concept. In: Erhard Crome, Udo Tietz (Hrsg.): Dialektik - Arbeit - Gesellschaft. Festschrift for Peter Ruben. Potsdam 2013, ISBN 978-3-941880-73-3 .

[6] . Also a preliminary remark by the editor, in: Peter Ruben: Philosophische Schriften