Rudolf Lüthe

Rudolf Lüthe (born May 11, 1948 in Wassenberg ) is a German philosopher . He taught as a professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau . As a cultural philosopher, he has dealt in particular with the status and function of art and literature in the present. He is also particularly interested in the philosophical reflection of history and historical experience as well as the philosophy of the European Enlightenment (especially Hume and Kant ).

Career

Lüthe studied philosophy, English and comparative literature from 1967 to 1972 at RWTH Aachen University . In 1975 he received his doctorate from the Romanian-German philosopher and Heidegger student Walter Biemel with a thesis on " New Criticism and idealistic philosophy of art ". The habilitation followed in 1984, and in 1989 he was appointed associate professor . After various professorships and a research grant from the DFG for research on David Hume , Lüthe was professor at the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein from 1991 to 1996. From 1993 to 1996 and 2001/2002 he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich , Emory University in Atlanta (Georgia) and the State University of New York in Buffalo (New York). In 1996 he accepted a professorship for philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Koblenz.

Teaching and Research

Lüthe's work and research focuses on modern philosophy, cultural philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of history and the philosophy of science in the humanities. His philosophical positions arise from a discussion primarily with Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein , Montaigne , Schlegel and Schiller .

Lüthe represents an "undogmatic skepticism", that is, a skepticism that wants to protect itself from being dogmatized. Such skepticism looks critically at current dogmatic currents within philosophy, such as physicalism or naturalism .

In his book "Der Ernst der Ironie" (2002), Lüthe develops the basic features of a cultural philosophy of art and interprets postmodernism as a form of neo- romanticism .

Works

• New Criticism and Idealistic Art Philosophy . Bouvier, Bonn 1975. ISBN 3-416-01201-1
• Scientific method and historical significance. Philosophical - investigations into problems of historical experience . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1987. ISBN 3-495-47613-X
• David Hume - historian and philosopher . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1991. ISBN 3-495-47707-1
• Basic problems of a theory of historical experience . (Four-part study letter, Fernuniversität Hagen ), Hagen 1997
• The seriousness of irony. Studies to lay the foundations for an ironistic cultural philosophy in art . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-8260-2380-3
• Accidents. Stories. Illustrations by Detlef Kellermann . Aachen 2010.
• Absurd pride in life. Postmodern discussion of Albert Camus' philosophy , LIT Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-10530-1
• Edited with Petra Jaeger: Distance and proximity. Reflections and analyzes on contemporary art , commemorative publication for Walter Biemel . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1983. ISBN 3-88479-105-2
• Since 1980 co-editor of the Philosophical Literature Gazette
• Numerous treatises on Hume and on questions of aesthetics , philosophy of art, literary studies and philosophy of history in German and English

Web links

• University website by Prof. Lüthe (with list of publications)
• Interview with Rudolf Lüthe at "LEO - The Online Journal for Language and Communication" about the differences between the 68 student generation and today's student body, September 29, 2009: "There were also tired warriors back then" ( memento from September 19 2011 in the Internet Archive )