Samuel IJsseling

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Samuel IJsseling (born December 21, 1932 in Delft , Province of South Holland , † May 14, 2015 in Leuven , Province of Flemish Brabant , Belgium ) was a Dutch Roman Catholic priest , philosopher and university professor who was professor between 1969 and his retirement in 1997 for philosophy of the present at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and dealt particularly with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl .

Life

Studies, priest and university professor

IJsseling joined the Augustinian Order in the early 1950s and was ordained a priest after studying Roman Catholic theology at the University of La Sapienza and philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the University of Paris .

In 1969 he took a professorship at the Higher Institute for Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and taught there until his retirement in 1997. One of his students was Ger Groot , who teaches cultural philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

With Herman Leo Van Breda and Rudolf Bernet , he was instrumental in researching the works and thinking of Edmund Husserl, and since 2001 has been the editor of the 59-volume work Husserliana . During this time he played a central role in Dutch-speaking philosophy as director of the Edmund Husserl archive there and as editor-in-chief of Tijdschrift voor Filosofie . At the same time he left his Roman Catholic background and devoted himself increasingly to the Greek gods . He was also instrumental in the French philosophy of postmodernism contribute to the Dutch doctrine and helped by his popular lectures.

Literary creation and philosophical thinking

At the beginning of the 1990s, IJsseling also intensified his literary work and, with his programmatic book Mimesis (1990), revealed the main direction of his philosophical thought, which was shaped by Martin Heidegger , Friedrich Nietzsche and above all Jacques Derrida .

In 1994 IJsseling published his widely acclaimed study Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite en de others , in which he combined philosophical topics with the narration of the mythological world. In it he recounted the history of the Greek gods, which he enriched with philosophical considerations, thereby merging philosophy, literature, theory and history.

In 2013 his former student Ger Groot wrote Dankbaar en aandachtig. In conversation with Samuel IJsseling . It became clear that he wasn't interested in a philosopher gaining recognition, but in how his work was put together. He believed that philosophy should not only be conceptual, but should look back on experiences and tell the story of real people. IJsseling's conception of philosophy has recently received little attention at Dutch universities, especially since he criticized the fact that academic philosophy was becoming increasingly technical and was almost exclusively written in English . He also criticized the fact that philosophical texts written in Dutch were not taken seriously, mainly because they were not easy to read. This would have left philosophy out of its role in public debate.

Publications

  • Rhetoric and philosophy in conflict: an historical survey , 1976
  • Think in Parijs: taal en Lacan, Foucault, Althusser, Derrida , 1979
  • Jacques Derrida: een inleiding in zijn Think , 1986
  • Husserl edition and Husserl research , 1990
  • Mimesis: over schijn en zijn , 1990
  • Apollo, Dionysos, Aphrodite en de others: Griekse goden in de hedendaagse filosofie , 1994
  • Three godinnen: Mnemosyne, Demeter, Moira , 1998
  • Macht en onmacht: Essays , 1999
  • Wat zou de wereld zijn zonder filosofie? , Co-author Ann Van Sevenant, 2007
in German language
  • Rhetoric and philosophy: a historical-systematic introduction , translation Birgit Nehren, 1988, ISBN 3-7728-1038-1
  • Husserl edition and Husserl research , 1990, ISBN 0-7923-0372-5
  • Husserliana , 59 volumes, 2001 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME IJsseling, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch philosopher, founder of deconstruction
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Delft , South Holland Province
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2015
Place of death Leuven , Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium