Rudiger Bubner

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Rüdiger Bubner (born May 9, 1941 in Lüdenscheid ; † February 9, 2007 in Heidelberg ) was a German philosopher and professor at Heidelberg University .

biography

After graduating from high school in Lüdenscheidt at the age of 17, Rüdiger Bubner studied classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen , Vienna , Heidelberg and Oxford . In 1964 he was in Heidelberg by Hans-Georg Gadamer with the dissertation “Phenomenology, reflection and Cartesian existence. PhD on Jean-Paul Sartre's Concept of Consciousness ”, published as a dissertation print in 1964 in Heidelberg. In 1973 he succeeded Theodor W. Adornos as professor of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main , from 1979 he taught at the University of Tübingen, then from 1996 in Heidelberg. Bubner was President of the International Association for the Promotion of the Study of Hegelian Philosophy. Since 1995 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fields of activity

Historic areas of Bubners work were in antiquity Plato and Aristotle , in the modern era of German Idealism and the Modern of the 19th and 20th centuries. His systematic focus was on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of language , in political and practical philosophy as well as in aesthetics . He stood at a critical distance from the 1968 movement and insisted on the high value of enlightened, more responsible and middle-class citizenship, prepared to balance individual interests with the common good, as a form of existence of "political excellence", since, rightly understood, it is the "core of every demanding community" and so that it represents the foundation of culture, society and the state, without which “the whole rationality of the processes and techniques of modernity can no longer help”.

Honors

In 2005 Rüdiger Bubner received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

Publications

author
  • Aesthetic experience . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-518-11564-2 .
  • Ancient themes and their modern transformation . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-28598-X .
  • Dialectic as a topic. Building blocks for a lifeworld theory of rationality . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-518-11591-X .
  • Dialectics and science . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-00597-9 .
  • Three studies on political philosophy. Presented on May 10, 1997 (= Writings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences / Philosophical-Historical Class. 11). University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0863-4 .
  • History processes and norms of action . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-28063-5 .
  • Action, language and reason. Basic concepts of practical philosophy . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-27982-3 .
  • Innovations of idealism (= new studies. Volume 8). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-30508-7 .
  • Modern German Philosophy . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1981, ISBN 0-521-29711-7 .
  • Phenomenology, Reflection, and Cartesian Existence. On Jean-Paul Sartre's concept of consciousness . Dissertation . University of Heidelberg, 1964.
  • Polis and State. Basic lines of political philosophy . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-29187-4 .
  • What rationality does society get? Four chapters from natural law . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-28858-X .
  • Heckling. From the eventful years . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-11814-5 .
editor
  • Language and analysis . Goettingen 1968.
  • History of philosophy in text and presentation. 9 volumes. Reclam, Stuttgart 1978-2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Gessmann, last grand seigneur. Rudolf Bubner died at the age of 65 (see links above).
personal data
SURNAME Bubner, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, professor of philosophy at Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2007
Place of death Heidelberg