Wilhelm Goerdt

Wilhelm Goerdt (born December 9, 1921 in Bochum ; † September 7, 2014 in Neheim ) was a German philosopher at the University of Münster who was one of the few experts on non-Marxist Russian philosophy .

Wilhelm Goerdt. Signature 1991

Goerdt studied philosophy and Slavic studies in Münster. There he received his doctorate in 1960 and completed his habilitation in 1968; he is assigned to the school of Joachim Ritter . Then he first taught philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum , from 1974 until his retirement at the University of Münster.

In Germany, Eastern European philosophy outside of Marxism-Leninism was represented in the only relevant chair by Wilhelm Goerdt, who was not filled: his students Boris Groys (Vienna) and Alexander Haardt (Bochum) continue to write Russian philosophy history, but within the framework of broader teaching commitments .

Fonts

• Russian Philosophy: Basics, Herder 1995 and 2002 ISBN 9783495480762 (Polish Kraków 2012)
• Russian philosophy. Approaches and perspectives , texts, Alber 1984 and 1989
• Deification and society. Studies on the philosophy of Ivan von Kireevskij , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1968 [= habilitation thesis]
• The Soviet philosophy: agility and certainty. Documents , sc. Book Society, Darmstadt 1967
• The "all-round universal agility" (gibkost ') in Lenin's dialectic VI , Wiesbaden 1962 [= dissertation 1960]

literature

• Mariano Delgado et al. a. (Ed.): Europe, Thousand Year Reich and New World: Two Millennia of History and Utopia in the Reception of the Daniel Book , Kohlhammer, Freiburg-Stuttgart 2003 ISBN 978-3170178755
• Alexander Haardt, Nikolaj Plotnikov (eds.): The normative image of man in Russian philosophy , Syneidus, Vol. 2, Lit, Münster a. a. 2011 ISBN 978-3-825813321
• Eberhard Müller: Ivan v. Kireevskij and the German philosophy , in: Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 38 (1993) 3, pp. 417-436