Wolfgang Struve (philosopher)

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Wolfgang Struve (born July 14, 1917 in Hamburg ; † December 9, 2011 in Freiburg ) was a German philosopher and mystic . Until 1981 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Life

From 1937 , Wolfgang Struve studied philosophy , mathematics and physics at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Zurich . In 1943 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Aristotle under Martin Heidegger ; In 1948 he completed his habilitation under Wilhelm Szilasi with a thesis on Modern Philosophy as the Metaphysics of Subjectivity .

In 1955 he became professor of philosophy in Freiburg. He had been retired since 1981 . In addition to his specialist publications (including essays on e.g. Plotin , Descartes , Kant or Schelling ) he has emerged as the author of collections of aphorisms ( We and It ) or travel notes in which he tries to put his "philosophical mysticism" into words.

Works

As an author

  • The infinite and steady in Aristotle's “physics” . Dissertation ( typescript ), Freiburg 1943
  • Modern philosophy as the metaphysics of subjectivity. Interpretations on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche . In: Symposium. Yearbook for Philosophy , Volume 1, pp. 207–335. Alber, Freiburg 1949
  • We and It. Thought groups . Niehans, Zurich 1957
  • The other train. Thoughts and Notes on Mysticism . Five volumes (notebooks). Donors library, Salzburg 1967–69
  • Philosophy and transcendence. A propaedeutic lecture . Rombach (University Paperback 7), Freiburg 1969
  • Go over to reality. Philosophical and other travel notes . Donors library, Salzburg 1970
  • Incredible reality. Philosophical and other travel notes . Stifterbibliothek, Salzburg 1972
  • Homo mysticus . Two lectures: world and reality ; West-Eastern mysticism and the problem of absolute transcendence . Anders Leben, Wies 1983
  • About the non-conformity of the real . A presentation. Anders Leben, Wies 1986
  • Tracks and falls. Notes from sketchbooks 1984–1987 . Passagen, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-312-2

As translator

  • Blaise Pascal : From the spirit of geometry . French and German. Translated and introduced by WS Claassen & Würth (Die kleine Reihe 3), Darmstadt 1948
  • Søren Kierkegaard: Johannes Climacus or De omnibus dubitandum est . Translated into German for the first time and introduced by WS Claassen & Roether (Die kleine Reihe 7), Darmstadt 1948

Individual evidence

  • Son, Werner . A mystic without God. On the 100th birthday of Wolfgang Struve (†). COURAGE. Forum for Culture, Politics and History, No. 591, 2017.

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