Wilhelm Perpeet

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Edmund Ernst Wilhelm Perpeet (* 18th February 1915 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † 24. August 2002 ) was a German philosopher of culture. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn and there director of the Philosophical Seminar A.

Life

Wilhelm Perpeet grew up as the son of the factory worker Ernst Perpeet and his wife Margarete together with his six years younger brother Alfred in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 1934 he passed his Abitur at the state high school there. After two years in the Reich Labor Service , he went to Bonn in 1936 to study philosophy . In 1940 he received his doctorate from the art historian and philosopher Heinrich Lützeler at the University of Bonn. After that he was an officer from 1940 to 1945 (battery chief and officer in the division headquarters in France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Italy and Hungary). In 1954 he completed his habilitation with Erich Rothacker in Bonn.

Perpeet was influenced by Neo-Kantianism ( Wilhelm Windelband , Heinrich Rickert ) and a student of Erich Rothacker and Oskar Becker . As a cultural philosopher, among other things, he dealt with a definition of the term culture and with aesthetic issues in connection with art history. In his book Das Kunstschöne. Its origins in the Italian Renaissance (1987) he interpreted Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci as antiplatonic. Alfons Reckermann criticized that this interpretation "goes perfectly with a wave of anti-Platonism that has become fashionable in some areas of art-historical research", but does not do justice to Alberti's and Leonardo's texts .

He wrote a monograph on his teacher Rothacker.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philosophisches Jahrbuch 97 (1990) 422.

Fonts

  • Aesthetics in the Middle Ages, Freiburg: Alber 1977, Hamburg: adlibri Verlag 2008
  • Cultural philosophy, Bonn: Bouvier 1997
  • Kulturphilosophie, in: Archive for Conceptual History, Volume 20, 1976, p. 44
  • From the beautiful and from the art: selected studies, Bouvier 1997
  • Antike Ästhetik, Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg, 1961, 2nd edition 1988
  • Artistic beauty: its origins in the Italian Renaissance, Orbis academicus , Karl Alber Verlag 1987
  • On the peculiarity of Greek philosophy, Bouvier 1998
  • The being of art and the art-philosophical method, Alber Verlag 1970 (habilitation)
  • Heidegger's Kunstlehre, edited by Frank-Lothar Kroll, introduction by Otto Pöggeler (with Heidegger-Perpleet's correspondence and Kroll's essay: Cultural Studies as Cultural Interpretation)
  • Erich Rothacker: Philosophy of the spirit from the spirit of the German historical school, Bonn: Bouvier 1968
  • Ernst Cassirers Kulturphilosophie, in: Journal for philosophical research, Volume 36, 1982, pp. 252-262
  • Historical and systematic information on empathy aesthetics. Zeitschrift für Aesthetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Volume 11, 1966, pp. 193-216

literature

  • Frank-Lothar Kroll Cultural Studies as an Interpretation of Culture. The philosopher Wilhelm Perpeet , Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Volume 113, 2006, 359–369
  • Heinrich Lützeler a. a. (Ed.): Kulturwissenschaften: Festgabe für Wilhelm Perpeet for his 65th birthday, Bouvier 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Perpeet, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perpeet, Edmund Ernst Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2002