Werner Marx (philosopher)

Werner Marx (born September 19, 1910 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † November 21, 1994 in Bollschweil ) was a German philosopher .

Life

Marx passed his Abitur at the State Gymnasium in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1929 and then studied philosophy and law at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Bonn . He received his doctorate in law in 1933 and began his legal traineeship at the local court in Wesel. In the same year he had to give up his legal clerkship as a Jew for "racial reasons".

He left Germany and came to Palestine via Brussels and London . In 1938 he moved to the USA , did his doctorate on Aristotle under Karl Löwith and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1949 .

In 1958 he went back to Germany and in 1964, after being represented by Wilhelm Szilasi for 17 years, he succeeded Martin Heidegger's chair at the University of Freiburg . From 1964 he was also director of the Husserl archive. Marx developed his philosophy "on the basis of Heidegger's thought".

After a long illness, Werner Marx died in November 1994 in Bollschweil, Baden.

Ludwig Siep is one of his students .

Honors

• 1965: Ruhr Prize for Art and Science
• Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works (selection)

• The Meaning of Aristotle's "Ontology" , The Hague 1954
• Heidegger and tradition. An introduction to the history of problems in the basic determinations of being , Stuttgart 1961 (several editions, also in English: 1971)
• The determination of philosophy in German idealism , Stuttgart 1964 (inaugural lecture on May 11, 1964 in Freiburg i. Br.)
• Absolute reflection and language , Frankfurt am Main 1967
• Understanding and interpreting , Freiburg 1967
• The game. Reality and Method , Freiburg i. Br. 1967
• Reason and world. Between tradition and a different beginning , The Hague 1970 (also English: The Hague 1971)
• Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , Stuttgart 1971 (several editions; also English: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , Chicago 1975)
• Introduction to Aristotle's theory of beings , Freiburg i. Br. 1972
• Schelling: Geschichte, System, Freiheit , Freiburg 1977 (also English: The Philosophy of FWJ Schelling: History, System, and Freedom , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1984)
• as editor: Heidegger. Freiburg university lectures in his memory. HG Gadamer, W. Marx, CF v. Weizsäcker , Freiburg / Munich 1977
• Is there a measure on earth? Basic provisions of a nonmetaphysical ethics , Hamburg 1983 (also English: Is there a measure on earth? Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics , Chicago 1987)
• Ethos and lifeworld. Compassionate as Mass , Hamburg 1986
• The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl - An Introduction , Munich 1987 (several editions)
• Towards a Phenomenological Ethics , New York 1992

literature

• Barbara Kaufhold: Jewish life in Mülheim an der Ruhr , pp. 170–175. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89861-267-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 92 (1985) 407.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Marx in the catalog of the German National Library