Rainer Marten

Rainer Marten (born November 28, 1928 in Mill Valley , California , United States of America ) is a German philosopher .

Life

Marten studied Classical Philology (Greek), Ancient History and Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . In 1955 he received his doctorate in philosophy on the terms οὐσία ( ousia ) and ἀρχή ( arché ) from Plato . In 1963 he completed his habilitation with a study on Plato's Sophistes at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Marten later belonged to Martin Heidegger's circle of students : after the end of the Second World War , he took part in Heidegger's private and public seminars between 1950 and 1962.

Rainer Marten was appointed adjunct professor in Freiburg in 1969. In 1978 he was given a full professorship in philosophy.

Scientific work

In his scientific work, Marten dealt intensively with ancient philosophy, especially with Plato and Aristotle . Work on the philosophy of language and the art of living followed later . Again and again he published on hermeneutical and phenomenological topics and dealt with the philosophy and the person of Martin Heidegger, whose thinking he strongly criticized with regard to its proximity to National Socialism and the nationalism that continued even after the collapse. After the publication of the first three volumes of Heidegger's Black Heights in 2014, Marten renewed and intensified his Heidegger criticism. In a public appeal, Marten calls for unrestricted access to Heidegger's estate, which is located in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

In his most recent publications, Marten wrote about the poetic character of philosophy, religion and literature and about the concept and phenomenon of excess.

Publications

• Ousia in Plato's thought. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1962.
• The logos of dialectic: a theory on Plato's Sophistes. de Gruyter, Berlin 1965. Habilitation thesis from February 23, 1963.
• Existence, Being True and Understanding: Investigations into the ontological basis of linguistic understanding. de Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-003583-9 .
• Plato's theory of the idea. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. / Munich 1975, ISBN 3-495-47312-2 .
• Human death. A philosophical revision. Schöningh, Paderborn 1987, ISBN 3-506-76535-3 .
• The human being: farewell to utopian thinking. Schöningh, Paderborn 1988, ISBN 3-506-75350-9 . New edition extended by an afterword. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-495-48121-9
• Thinking: Critique of Ontology. Schöningh, Paderborn 1989, ISBN 3-506-75351-7 .
• Read Heidegger. Fink, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7705-2690-2 .
• Art of living. Fink, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7705-2841-7 .
• Human truth. Fink, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3522-7 .
• The possibility of the impossible: to poetry in philosophy and religion. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-495-48186-9 .
• Excessiveness: the necessity of the unnecessary. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-495-48311-4 .
• Radicality of the spirit: Heidegger - Paulus - Proust. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. / Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-495-48512-5 . ( Reading sample ; PDF; 125 kB)
• Finiteness. To the drama of death and life. Alber, Freiburg i.Br. / Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-495-48600-9 .
• Praise to duality. A philosophical venture , Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-495-48896-6 .
• Thinking about us. Philosophical texts , with a foreword by Nikolas Marten, ed. v. Lukas Trabert, Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-495-49050-1 .
• My zeitgeist. Philosophizing before the end of life , Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-95757-862-4 .

literature

• Guido Löhrer, Christian Strub, Hartmut Westermann (eds.): Philosophical anthropology and the art of living: Rainer Marten in discussion. Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7705-4059-X ( online ).
• Willem van Reijen , Utz Maas (ed.): Divided language: Festschrift for Rainer Marten . BR Grüner, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-6032-314-9 .

Web links

• Publications by Rainer Marten on the Freiburg document server (FreiDoc) of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg online.
• How philosophy depends on words ( M4A ; 25.2 MB). Lecture by Marten, given on June 11, 1983 in the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. As part of the Speech of the Month series by the Freiburg University Library and the Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg online.
• Kurt Flasch : The more impossible, the better . Review of Martens The Possibility of the Impossible: On Poetry in Philosophy and Religion in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from July 28, 2006.
• Dirk Lüddecke: The completion has now been achieved for this evening . Review of Martens Excessiveness. On the necessity of the unnecessary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 1, 2010.
• The most wonderful and terrible being . Interview of the Badische Zeitung of January 16, 2009 with Marten on art, poetry, religion and the Enlightenment.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A racist concept of humanity. Reflections on Victor Farias' Heidegger book and the correct handling of Heidegger's philosophy (PDF; 123 kB), Badische Zeitung 19./20. Dec. 1987 (= No. 293), p. 14.
2. ↑ Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger (PDF; 258 kB), Edith Stein Jahrbuch 2 (1996), pp. 347-360.
3. ^ Heidegger's Geist (PDF; 194 kB), Allmende 20 (1988), pp. 82–95
4. ↑ Rainer Marten: Martin Heidegger, the deluded prophet. About the perfection of the modern age and the barbaric principle. In: Badische Zeitung of March 22, 2014
5. ^ Rainer Marten: Guardian of the Grail with the last willingness to be loyal. In: Die Zeit No. 11 of March 12, 2015, p. 51.