Wolfgang Müller-Lauter

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Wolfgang Müller-Lauter , born as Wolfgang Siegfried Müller (born August 31, 1924 in Weimar ; † August 9, 2001 in Berlin ), was a German philosopher . He is particularly famous for his Nietzsche interpretations.

Life

Wolfgang Müller-Lauter attended the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Weimar. He studied philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , where he became a research assistant to Wilhelm Weischedel towards the end of his studies and received his doctorate from him in 1959 with a dissertation on possibility and reality with Martin Heidegger (published 1960). Since the winter semester 1961/1962 he was full professor of philosophy at the Church University of Berlin and from 1974 to 1976 rector. In 1991 he retired. Since 1993 he has been Professor Emeritus of the Humboldt University in Berlin , since the Church University was transferred to its theological faculty. He was a founding member and member of the advisory board of the Nietzsche Society in Naumburg . In 1996, Müller-Lauter was the first to receive the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. After a long illness, he died on August 9, 2001. His scientific legacy has been in the Nietzsche Documentation Center in Naumburg since 2012 .

philosophy

Müller-Lauter is best known today for his Nietzsche interpretations. Nietzsche, used for propaganda purposes by the National Socialists, had a "repulsive" effect on the young Müller-Lauter. Jean-Paul Sartre was first important to him , and his main work Das Sein und das Nothing led him to Heidegger's Being and Time , to which he devoted his dissertation. Then he turned to the subject of nihilism . From then on, this basic theme pervades his engagement with thinkers as diverse as Weischedel, Heidegger, Albert Camus and Sartre, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , Fjodor M. Dostoewskij and Friedrich Nietzsche . His systematically oriented work includes, in particular, his critical examination of Weischedel’s essay Philosophical Theology in the Shadow of Nihilism (1962). In the summer semester of 1963, Müller-Lauter began his research into the early history of the concept of nihilism, especially Jacobi and Fichte. The title of his discussion with Weischedel, “Zarathustra's shadow has long legs…” (1962), refers to Nietzsche. The interest in Nietzsche arises in the thematic context of nihilism, as the title of the lecture announced in the winter semester 1962/1963 shows: “Nietzsche and the consequences. On the problem of nihilism ”. In 1971 Müller-Lauter's best-known book, Nietzsche, was published. His philosophy of opposites and the opposites of his philosophy . The Heidegger criticism was particularly noted here. Heidegger sees in Nietzsche the finisher of metaphysics; his attempt to overcome it must ultimately fail. With Müller-Lauter, on the other hand, Nietzsche progressed, ultimately beyond Heidegger. Heidegger's Nietzsche reading is still - according to Müller-Lauter - determined by the interpretation of the will to power as original simplicity and metaphysical unity. But the singular will to power is deceptive: Müller-Lauter is currently working out “the multiplicity of wills to power as that which, according to Nietzsche, is' last given”, a multiplicity of 'quanta' “which must not be traced back to the one thing that is metaphysically founded”. Nor are they atoms or monads , but processes, plural processes. The 'doctrine' of the will to power is therefore not Nietzsche's metaphysics; the 'doctrine' itself, according to which the will to power interpret, has a perspective, interpretative character. Together with Mazzino Montinari and Heinz Wenzel, Müller-Lauter founded the journal "Nietzsche Studies. International Yearbook for Nietzsche Research" and the series of monographs and texts on Nietzsche research (both at Verlag Walter de Gruyter ) in 1972 their co-editor. After Mazzino Montinari's death in the autumn of 1986, he became co-editor of the Critical Complete Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Works (KGW). Since 1990 he has also published the Supplementa Nietzscheana together with Karl Pestalozzi (also with the Walter de Gruyter publishing house).

Works

Monographs

  • Possibility and reality with Martin Heidegger. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1960.
  • Nietzsche. His philosophy of opposites and the opposites of his philosophy. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1971, ISBN 3-11-003577-4 .
  • Dostoevskij's dialectic of ideas. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1974, ISBN 3-11-005731-X .
  • About becoming and the will to power. Nietzsche interpretations I. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1999, ISBN 3-11-013451-9 .
  • About freedom and chaos. Nietzsche interpretations II. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1999, ISBN 3-11-013452-7 .
  • Heidegger and Nietzsche. Nietzsche interpretations III. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016791-3 .
  • Philosophical Problems of Idealism and Modern Nihilism , edited by v. Elke Axmacher, Berlin (private printing [Frank & Timme]) undated [2012].

Essays

  • Zarathustra's shadow has long legs .... In: Evangelical Theologie 23. 1963, 113-131.
  • Kant's refutation of material idealism. In: Archive for the History of Philosophy 46. 1964, 60–82.
  • Nihilism as a consequence of idealism. In: Thinking in the Shadow of Nihilism. Festschrift for Wilhelm Weischedel. ed. by Alexander Schwan, Darmstadt 1975, 113–163.
  • Nietzsche's doctrine of the will to power. In: Nietzsche Studies 3 (1974), 1-60.
  • The organism as an internal struggle. The influence of Wilhelm Roux on Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche Studies 7. 1978, 189–235.
  • The will and the superman. A contribution to Heidegger's Nietzsche interpretations. In: Nietzsche Studies 10/11 , 1981/1982, 132–192.
  • Nietzsche's resolution of the problem of free will. In: Nietzsche today. The reception of his work after 1968. 15th Amherst Colloquium on German Literature , ed. by Sigrid Bauschinger , Susan L. Cocalis, Sara Lennox Bern / Stuttgart 1988, 23–73.
  • Constant challenge. About Mazzino Montinari's relationship with Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche Studies 18 (1989), 32–82.
  • The will to power as a book of the 'crisis' philosophical Nietzsche interpretation. In: Nietzsche Studies 24. 1995, 223-260.
  • About 'Nietzsche's consequences' and Nietzsche. In: Nietzscheforschung 4. 1998, 21–40.

literature

Bibliographies

  • List of writings by Wolfgang Müller-Lauter. In: Gunter Abel, Jorg Salaquarda (ed.): Crisis of Metaphysics - Wolfgang Müller-Lauter for his 65th birthday. Walter De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011269-8 .
  • Johannes Neininger: Personal bibliography Wolfgang Müller-Lauter. in Nietzsche studies. International Yearbook for Nietzsche Research 30. 2001, ISSN  0342-1422 , pp. 534-537.

Literature on the work and on the person

  • Günter Abel, Josef Simon, Werner Stegmaier: In memoriam Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (1924-2001). In Nietzsche studies. International Yearbook for Nietzsche Research 30. 2001, pp. VII-VIII.
  • Ciano Aydin: Müller-Lauter's Nietzsche. In: A. Woodward (ed.): Interpreting Nietzsche. Continuum, London / New York 2011, ISBN 978-1441120045 , pp. 99-115.
  • Marco Brusotti: Müller-Lauter, Wolfgang (1924-2001). In: Traugott Bautz (ed.): Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon .
  • Volker Gerhardt, Renate Reschke: In memoriam Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (1924-2001) In: Nietzscheforschung 9. 2002, pp. 9-10.
  • Peter Köster: The problem of scientific Nietzsche interpretation. Critical reflections on Wolfgang Müller-Lauter's Nietzschebuch. In: Nietzsche Studies 2 , 1973, 31–60.
  • Walter Schmitthals: In memory of Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (August 31, 1924 - August 9, 2001). On the first anniversary of his death. In: Nietzsche Research 2003 Aesthetics and Ethics according to Nietzsche. Pp. 319-326.
  • Walter Sparn: Introduction. In: Wolfgang Müller-Lauter: Philosophical Problems of Idealism and Modern Nihilism. published by Elke Axmacher, private print [Frank & Timme], Berlin no year 2012, pp. 11-18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Abel , Josef Simon , Werner Stegmaier : In Memoriam Müller Lauter (1924-2001). In Nietzsche studies. International Yearbook for Nietzsche Research 30. 2001, pp. VII-VIII. scribd.com, accessed November 16, 2012.
  2. ^ Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich : Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? : On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2002, xiv.
  3. ↑ a b Volker Gerhardt, Renate Reschke: In memoriam Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (1924-2001) In: Nietzscheforschung 9. 2002, pp. 9-10.
  4. ^ Prize winner nietzsche-gesellschaft.de, accessed on November 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ https://www.welt.de/newsticker/news3/article111267782/Nietzsche-Zentrum-erhaelt-Nachlass-des-Forschers-Mueller-Lauter.html .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Lauter, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wolfgang Siegfried (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2001
Place of death Berlin