Wolfgang Eichhorn (philosopher)

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Wolfgang Eichhorn on his 85th birthday

Wolfgang Eichhorn (born February 23, 1930 in Unterneubrunn ) is a German Marxist philosopher .

Life

Wolfgang Eichhorn was born in Unterneubrunn, today at Schonbrunn, in the municipality of Schleusegrund in Hildburghausen in Thuringia belongs. Here he attended a primary school from 1936, switched to the advanced school in Hildburghausen in 1942 and passed the Abitur there in 1948 . Immediately afterwards, he began studying at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Jena . He mainly devoted himself to philosophy and philosophical methodology , but also to political economy and modern logic . Eichhorn completed his studies in 1951 with a diploma thesis on philosophical-theoretical approaches to political views and with participation in a state lecturer course including an examination.

In the fall semester of 1951, Eichhorn began teaching as a lecturer for the basics of Marxism-Leninism at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). In 1954 he joined the HUB, where he besides the philosophical teaching the possibility of the Institute of Philosophy doctoral postgraduate used. In 1956 he received his doctorate there with the dissertation on the law of dialectical contradiction and some questions of his work in the transition period from capitalism to socialism in the German Democratic Republic . After that, he continued to research, publish and teach on questions of the materialistic conception of history and ethics . This also resulted in the work on people in the socialist era , with which he completed his habilitation in 1964 . From 1957 to 1964 he was head of the historical materialism department at the Institute of Philosophy. At the same time, he was honorary, later deputy editor-in-chief of the German magazine for philosophy from 1960 . From 1960 he was also editor of the Scientific Weltanschauung series .

In 1965 Eichhorn became an employee of the Institute for Philosophy at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW). In 1966 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the DAW. From 1968 to 1970 he was in charge of the social sciences research department at the DAW Presidium.

In 1969 Eichhorn was elected as a corresponding member of the learned society of the DAW and in 1973 as a full member of the AdW. In 1970 the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR selected him as a member.

In 1990 he took early retirement. Eichhorn is a founding member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin and was the first secretary of the presidium and the first treasurer. Eichhorn is a member of the Marx-Engels-Foundation .

Eichhorn lives in Berlin. He is married for the second time and has one son and two daughters.

In the GDR, Eichhorn was known as Wolfgang Eichhorn I because there was a professor of philosophy of the same name, Wolfgang Eichhorn II, who was one year younger and who was director of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy section at Humboldt University.

Memberships and honors

Publications

  • About the contradictions in building socialism. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1959.
  • On the influence of scientific and technical progress on overcoming essential differences between mental and physical work. Humboldt University of Berlin, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation, Berlin 1964.
  • On the development of socialist man. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • How is ethics possible as a science? German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1965.
  • Ed .: Adolf Bauer among others: Basis and superstructure of society. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt a. M. 1974, ISBN 978-3-88012-278-9 .
  • Interrelationships between productive forces and production relations. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt a. M. 1975, ISBN 978-3-88012-279-6 .
  • with Adolf Bauer; Gisela Koch: The dialectic of productive forces and production relations. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Heinrich Scheel (ed.); Gerhard Schulz; Wolfgang Eichhorn: On the development of socialist production relations. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • Ed .: The material life of socialist society. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977.
  • Ed .: Marxist-Leninist Philosophy. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, 2nd edition 1982; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt a. M. 1979, ISBN 978-3-88012-563-6 .
  • Ed .: Values ​​in Socialism. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  • Dialectic - Revolution - World Process. Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR / G; Born in 1980, No. 13. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • Wolfgang Eichhorn; Adolf Bauer: On the dialectic of the historical process - studies on the material foundations of historical development. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983.
  • Ed .: Wolfgang Eichhorn; Hans Schulze: Philosophy in the Peace Struggle. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983; Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt a. M. 1979, 2nd edition 1984, ISBN 978-3-88012-694-7 .
  • Laws of Revolutions. Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR / G; Born in 1984, No. 11. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Revolution and peace. Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR / G; Born 1987, No. 13. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • with Wolfgang Küttler : "... that reason is in history" - formation history and revolutionary awakening of mankind. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989.
  • Ed .: Revolution of the way of thinking - on the 200th anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death . Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 69, year 2004. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-89626-495-4 .
  • Ed .: Wolfgang Eichhorn, Wolfgang Küttler : What is history? Current development tendencies in the philosophy of history and the science of history. Treatises of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 19, year 2008. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89626-626-2 .
  • In: New questions in the dialectic of productive forces and production relations in the 21st century. Helle Panke, Berlin 2010.

Eichhorn was involved in

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation of June 29, 1956
  2. ^ Norm data of the German National Library Wolfgang Eichhorn II
  3. ^ Christiane Lemke: Personality and Society. On the theory of personality in the GDR . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1980, p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Eichhorn, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Untereubrunn near Hildburghausen