Wolfgang Röd

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Wolfgang Röd (born May 13, 1926 in Oderberg , Eastern Silesia ; † August 17, 2014 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian historian of philosophy . From 1977 to 1996 he was professor for the history of philosophy and systematic philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . Röd came out particularly as an author and editor of works on the history of philosophy. He was editor of the fourteen-volume history of philosophy published by CH Beck .

Live and act

Röd came from a South Tyrolean family in the Puster Valley . After graduating from high school in 1944, he became a soldier and was taken prisoner of war. From 1947 he studied philosophy and history, first in Milan , then in Innsbruck. After completing his doctorate, he taught at various South Tyrolean schools and headed the Bruneck Middle School . After teaching at the University of Munich , he was appointed professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1977. In 1996 he retired.

Röd represented a philosophical position which he called "open transcendental philosophy " following Henri Lauener or, in contrast to other varieties, "problematic transcendental philosophy " and which he developed in his book Experience and Reflection . He understood this transcendental philosophy , which was loosely related to Kant and related to numerous similar projects by contemporary German philosophers (including Gerold Prauss , Peter Rohs ), as a theory of experience based on the analytical method. The positions of this theory also form the basis of his numerous works on the history of philosophy, in particular on Kant and Descartes as well as on other philosophers of the 17th century.

He was awarded the Tyrolean State Prize for Science (1986) and the Walther von der Vogelweide Prize (1989).

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Descartes. The inner genesis of the Cartesian system. Reinhardt, Munich 1964; 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition: The Genesis of Cartesian Rationalism. Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-09100-8 .
  • Geometrical Spirit and Natural Law: Methodological Studies on State Philosophy in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1970.
  • Descartes' first philosophy. Attempt an analysis with special reference to the Cartesian methodology. Bouvier, Bonn 1971 (habilitation thesis).
  • Dialectical philosophy of modern times. Beck, Munich 1974; 2nd, completely revised edition 1986, ISBN 3-406-31571-2 .
  • Experience and reflection. Theories of experience from a transcendental philosophical point of view. Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35231-6 .
  • The way of philosophy. 2 volumes. Beck, Munich 1994/1996, ISBN 3-406-38652-0 .
  • Little history of ancient philosophy. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42918-1 .
  • Benedictus de Spinoza. An introduction. Reclam, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-018193-3 .
  • The god of pure reason. Ontological proof of God and rationalistic philosophy. Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58569-2 .
  • Eureka. Philosophical forays into the light of anecdotes. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64529-7 .

As editor and author:

  • History of philosophy. Beck, Munich 1976 ff.
    • Vol. 1: Wolfgang Röd: The philosophy of antiquity 1: From Thales to Democritus. 1976, 3rd edition 2009.
    • Vol. 2: Andreas Graeser : The philosophy of antiquity II: Sophistics and Socratics, Plato and Aristotle. 1983, 2nd edition 1993.
    • Vol. 3: Malte Hossenfelder : The Philosophy of Antiquity III: Stoa, Epicureanism and Skepticism. 1985, 2nd edition 1995.
    • Vol. 4: Wolfgang Gombocz: The philosophy of the end of antiquity and the early Middle Ages. 1997.
    • Vol. 5: Theo Kobusch : The philosophy of the high Middle Ages. 2011 ( review ).
    • Vol. 6: The Philosophy of Humanism and the Renaissance (in preparation).
    • Vol. 7: Wolfgang Röd: The Philosophy of Modern Times 1: From Francis Bacon to Spinoza. 1978, 2nd edition 1999.
    • Vol. 8: Wolfgang Röd: The Philosophy of Modern Times 2: From Newton to Rousseau. 1984.
    • Vol. 9/1: Wolfgang Röd: The Philosophy of Modern Times 3rd Part One: Critical Philosophy from Kant to Schopenhauer. 2006.
    • Vol. 9/2: The Philosophy of Modern Times 3. Part Two: Classical German Philosophy from Fichte to Hegel. 2013.
    • Vol. 10: Stefano Poggi, Wolfgang Röd: The Philosophy of Modern Times 4: Positivism, Socialism and Spiritualism in the 19th Century. 1989.
    • Vol. 11: Pierfrancesco Basile, Wolfgang Röd: The philosophy of the late 19th and 20th centuries 1: Pragmatism and analytical philosophy. 2014.
    • Vol. 12: Helmut Holzhey , Wolfgang Röd: The philosophy of the late 19th and 20th centuries 2: Neo-Kantianism, idealism, realism, phenomenology. 2004 ( review ).
    • Vol. 13: Rainer Thurnher, Wolfgang Röd, Heinrich Schmidinger : Philosophy of Life and Philosophy of Existence. 2002 ( review ).
    • Vol. 14: Wilhelm K. Essler , Wolfgang Röd: The philosophy of the latest time. Hermeneutics, Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Analytical Philosophy. 2019.

literature

  • Karl Acham : Wolfgang Röd. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/2014, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, pp. 549–556.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice of the family , Tiroler Tageszeitung , August 26, 2014, accessed on August 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Obituary notice from the University of Innsbruck , Tiroler Tageszeitung , August 30, 2014, accessed on August 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Tyrolean State Prize for Science - Prize Winners 1984 to 2014 ( Memento from October 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Röd, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oderberg
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2014
Place of death innsbruck