Reiner Wiehl

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Reiner Wiehl (born November 14, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 30, 2010 in Heidelberg ) was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at Heidelberg University .

Life

Reiner Wiehl came from a Jewish-Christian family. His mother, Margarete Wiehl, b. Sommer (1895–1972), was Jewish and his father was a Protestant Christian. Hans Ehrenberg and Franz Rosenzweig were among his relatives . In 1937 his father, Karl Wiehl (1898–1952), who was a professor of interior design at the Stuttgart Art Academy, was banned from working. In 1943 the son was forbidden from attending the humanistic grammar school. He continued his school education autodidactically. The mother had to do forced labor and was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in March . Rainer Wiehl was deported to a camp in the Harz Mountains in 1945. Both survived, as Wiehl himself said, “only by chance”.

After the war he went to the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt a. M. passed the school leaving examination and then studied mathematics , physics , Romance studies and philosophy at the Universities of Frankfurt a. M. , Pisa , Nancy , Genoa and Heidelberg . In 1954 in Nancy he submitted a thesis on Benedetto Croce's historical thinking at the university . In Frankfurt he did his doctorate with Wolfgang Cramer with a dissertation on Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy. Second reviewer was Max Horkheimer . At the end of 1959 Wiehl first became a research assistant, soon afterwards Hans-Georg Gadamer's assistant . He completed his habilitation in 1968 with a thesis on the concept of dialectics in Plato and Hegel , followed in 1969 a call as full professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg . In 1977, at the instigation of Gadamer and Dieter Henrich , he returned to Heidelberg University as the successor to Ernst Tugendhat , where he researched and taught until his retirement.

Work and action

Wiehl mainly worked in the fields of philosophical psychology , anthropology , hermeneutics and ontology . His historical research and teaching areas were the philosophy of antiquity , German idealism and neo-Kantianism , in particular Plato , Spinoza , Kant , Hegel , Nietzsche , Hermann Cohen , Franz Rosenzweig , Heidegger , Jaspers and Whitehead , whose work he wrote for German-language philosophy he concluded.

The subject of “ metaphysics ” was central to Wiehl . He was less concerned with looking back at the previous history of metaphysics than with "its present, recognizable significance for all the rest of philosophy, for the technical sciences and for a fulfilled life", as Hans Friedrich Fulda noted in his laudation on his 80th birthday. The preservation of Jewish thought from oblivion was a particular concern of Wiehl. "His own orientation was very close not only to the ' Principia Mathematica ', but also to philosophical questions in modern physics ."

In his investigations into the correlation between “metaphysics and experience”, “subjectivity and systems” and the theory of “worlds of time”, Wiehl showed “that even under the conditions of advanced specialization and scientification of the philosophical discourse, questions of humanity can be taken up without blocking the way to bar their answer through sterile scholarship ”. “ From Wiehl's point of view, truth cannot only be understood as a property of theories or sentences. Rather, it has to be understood as a 'world given' and thought of by people in their respective situation. ”The world given of truth can only be realized there“ where people respect and honor one another as persons ”.

From 1993 to 2006 Wiehl was President of the International Karl Jaspers Foundation in Basel. He was a member of the Institut International de Philosophie in Paris and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg . In 1990 he received the Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation for Anthropology and Humanistic Psychology .

At the 50th anniversary of the Heidelberg University's sister school in June 2003, Reiner Wiehl gave the keynote lecture on the subject of “In search of a new image of man between technology and ethics” and was impressed by the first headmaster of this school, Olga von Lersner .

Publications (selection)

author
  • From the inner bondage of man. Philosophical essays on emotions. Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-495-48432-6
editor
  • with Rüdiger Bubner and Konrad Cramer: "New Hefts for Philosophy" (1973–1992) and from 1992 "New Studies in Philosophy"
  • History of philosophy in text and presentation. Volume 8: 20th Century. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, 1984, 1987, 1995. ISBN 3-15-009918-8
  • The ancient philosophy in its meaning for the present. Colloquium in honor of the 80th birthday of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Winter, Heidelberg 1981. ISBN 3-533-02982-4
  • with Dominic Kaegi: Karl Jaspers - Philosophy and Politics. International Symposium Heidelberg 1998. Winter, Heidelberg 1999. ISBN 3-8253-0920-7
  • with Friedrich Rapp : Whitehead's Metaphysics of Creativity. International Whitehead Symposium Bad Homburg 1983, Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1986, ISBN 3-495-47612-1

literature

  • Stefan Hübsch, Dominic Kaegi (Ed.): Affekte. Philosophical contributions to the theory of emotions. Dedicated to Reiner Wiehl . Winter, Heidelberg 1999. ( ISBN 3-8253-0834-0 )
  • Michel Weber and Pierfrancesco Basile (eds.), Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality , Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought XIV, 2006.
  • Anton Hügli (Ed.): Existence and Meaning. Karl Jaspers in context. Festschrift for Reiner Wiehl . Winter, Heidelberg 2009. ( ISBN 978-3-8253-5693-4 )
  • Ana María Rabe, Stascha Rohmer (ed.): Homo naturalis. On the position of man within nature. Collection of articles. Dedicated to the memory of Reiner Wiehl , Freiburg / Munich 2012. ( ISBN 978-3-495-48471-5 )
  • Eveline Goodman-Thau, Hans-Georg Flickinger (Ed.): On the topicality of the untimely. Contributions to Jewish thought. Reiner Wiehl as a souvenir , Bautz, Nordhausen 2013. ( ISBN 978-3-88309-827-2 )

Web links

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ See article "Reiner Wiehl", in: Dagmar Drüll, Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933-1986. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, p. 667
  2. ↑ See Karl Wiehl. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ↑ Hans -Friedrich Fulda, laudation on the 75th birthday of Reiner Wiehl ( see web links )
  4. ↑ Information Philosophy Volume 39, Issue 2/2011, p. 133
  5. ↑ Stascha Rohmer on the death of Reiner Wiehl in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung January 8, 2011: http://stascha-rohmer.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NachrufR.Wiehl_.pdf
  6. ↑ Wiehl was the laudator at the awarding of the Karl Jaspers Prize to Emmanuel Levinas . He had previously succeeded in persuading Levinas to accept the award, although after the murder of his family members by the Nazis, he had vowed never to step on the soil of Germany again and kept this vow. His son accepted the award for him in the old auditorium of Heidelberg University.
  7. ↑ Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the sister school of Heidelberg University on June 26 and 27, 2003, with a lecture Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the sister school of Heidelberg University on June 26 and 27, 2003, with a lecture Reiner Wiehl: Auf der Search for a new image of man between technology and ethics, pp. 25–33.
personal data
SURNAME Wiehl, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2010
Place of death Heidelberg