Willem van Reijen

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Willem Lodewijk van Reijen (born July 27, 1938 in Ginneken en Bavel , Netherlands ; † June 4, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Dutch - German philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Reijen was born in 1938 as the son of a bookseller in Ginneken en Bavel . He studied philosophy, psychology , education and German in Leuven and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1967 Willem van Reijen received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on Immanuel Kant and Martin Heidegger .

From 1968 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the Universities of Stuttgart and Heidelberg. In 1975 he completed his habilitation in Stuttgart. In 1975 he initially took on a lectureship at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he was appointed to the Chair of Social Philosophy and Political Philosophy in 1985.

Reijen was honorary professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Book publications in German

  • Understanding finitude , Phil. Dissertation. (Freiburg / Br., 1967)
  • Consciousness, Identity and Meaning , Habilitation Thesis (Stuttgart, 1975)
  • Philosophy as criticism , Königstein / Ts. 1984/1986
  • Adorno for an introduction , Hanover 1980, Hamburg 1989
  • Horkheimer for an introduction , Hanover 1982. Hamburg 1987
  • with Gunzelin Schmid Noerr (Ed.): Grand Hotel Abgrund. A photobiography of critical theory , Hamburg 1988
  • Walter Benjamin (together with Norbert Bolz). Frankfurt / M. 1991
  • Modernization. Project and Paradox , (together with Hans van der Loo). Munich 1992, 2nd updated edition 1997
  • The authentic criticism of modernity , Munich, 1994
  • The Black Forest and Paris , Munich. 1998
  • Stays and passages. Life and work of Walter Benjamin (together with Herman van Doorn), Frankfurt / M. 2001
  • Heidegger , Munich 2009

Festschrift for van Reijen

  • Bert van der Brink, Marcus Düwell, Herman van Doorn (eds.): History - Politics - Philosophy: Festschrift for Willem van Reijen on his 65th birthday , Paderborn: Fink 2003, ISBN 3-7705-3880-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willem Lodewijk Van Reijen: Understanding of finiteness: historical and systematic investigations into a problem of the transcendental philosophy , J. Krause, 1967, p. 139 in the Google book search
  2. ^ Obituary for Willem van Reijen: Dialectical Magic ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Reijen, Willem van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reijen, Willem Lodewijk van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-German philosopher and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ginneken en Bavel , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2012
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau