Willy Hochkeppel

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Willy Hochkeppel (* 1927 in Düsseldorf ) is a German philosopher and publicist . For decades he was culture editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk , employee of various large newspapers and magazines and editor of several anthologies on philosophy and sociology. In his BR broadcasts he pursued his artistic, literary and musical inclinations.

life and work

A review by the philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin provided an appreciation of Hochkeppel's work . He certified the “gnarled loner between philosophy and journalism” that an academic career was undoubtedly open to him because of his competence. He decided against it, and from it “the public interested in philosophy benefited immensely for decades.” Hochkeppel, “trained in analytical philosophy and critical rationalism", Differed from many analytical philosophers, especially in the USA," in that he knows and appreciates the classics of European philosophy. "His work, and probably also the person, is" characterized by a pathos of sobriety and clarity Without a passionate philosophical interest it would not have been sustained. ”Work on a volume 'Fatal Encounters' and on a kind of autobiography 'Plato was his year' has now been completed.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): The answers of the philosophers today. With contributions by Wilhelm Essler , Joachim Hölling , Friedrich Kambartel , Peter Krausser , Hans Lenk , Reinhart Maurer , Jürgen Mittelstraß , Werner Schneider . Szczesny, Munich 1967.
  • Thinking as a game: 111 intelligence exercises for beginners and advanced learners. With a linguistic contribution by Carl Amery. Langewiesche-Brandt, Ebenhausen near Munich, 1970, ISBN 3-7846-0051-4
  • (Ed.): Sociology between theory and empiricism. Basic problems. With original contributions by Th.W.Adorno, Hans Albert, Ernest Gellner, Ernst Topitsch, Amitai Etzioni, Talcott Parsons and others. a. Nymphenburger Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 1970.
  • Models of the Present Age. Theses of cultural philosophy in the twentieth century with a bio-bibliographical appendix. Nymphenburger, Munich 1973, ISBN 3485018325 .
  • Myth philosophy. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-455-09111-3 .
  • Was Epicurus an Epicurean? Current wisdom teachings of antiquity. dtv, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-10360-4 .
  • Finals. On philosophy in the 20th century. dtv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-04594-9 .
  • Meander valley. Parerga, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-930450-61-5 .
  • Philosophical treatises beyond the common. Revisions, alternatives, brochures. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5792-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Nida-Rümelin: Pathos of sobriety. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hochkeppel, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf