Wulff D. Rehfus

Wulff D. Rehfus (born September 26, 1944 in Zwettl , Austria ; † July 30, 2015 ) was a German philosopher and teacher who represented an influential approach to the didactics of philosophy . He was a founding member of the Langenfeld community founded in 1994.

Life

Growing up in Swabia, he studied a. a. in Tübingen. He received his doctorate in 1976 in Cologne on Theodor W. Adorno . Rehfus was Fachleiter of philosophy at Studienseminar Dusseldorf and 1994-2010 school principal at Annette von Droste-Hulshoff-Gymnasium in Dusseldorf. He worked on the curriculum for philosophy classes in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1976 to 1999 and founded the Langenfeld Symposium .

Didactic approach

Rehfus was the founder of the educational theory-identity theory approach in the didactics of philosophy. This approach aims to educate the student through confrontation with the philosophical tradition, i.e. H. with reading classic texts. Rehfus criticized the dialogical-pragmatic approach of Ekkehard Martens as being insufficiently knowledge-oriented.

In terms of educational policy, like Hermann Giesecke , he criticized the high performance standards of the grammar school and the lack of education for the elite . However, he does not want a reorientation to the Christian religion, but to the cultural heritage of the West as a replacement for the unconditional.

In his book Bildungsnot , Rehfus suggests “to fall back on European tradition as a substitute for the unconditional: on the cultural substance of the past; history understood as the secularized God. The God is then the res gestae , and the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures is then the historia rerum gestarum. "

Publications

• as RD Wulff: Stay up to date, you people. Shorter word work about all kinds of things or you bastard. DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-7701-0587-7
• Theodor W. Adorno: The Reconstruction of Truth from Aesthetics. Dissertation. Cologne 1976
• On the logic of terror. In: Hartmut Pätzold, Wulff D. Rehfus & Albert Bremerich: Political Philosophy. Hirschgraben-Verlag, Frankfurt 1979, ISBN 3-454-87200-6
• Art theories. Philosophical aesthetics and interpretive aesthetics. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-513-54502-9
• with Horst Becker: Enlightenment and me. Image, sound and text material. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-513-54501-0
• Didactics of Philosophy. Basis and Practice. Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-14572-2
• Introduction to the study of philosophy. Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg 1981, ISBN 3-494-02131-7 ; 2nd completely revised edition ibid. 1992, ISBN 3-494-02188-0
• Didactic commentary on "Aspects of Philosophy", art theories. Philosophical aesthetics and interpretive aesthetics. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-513-54582-7
• with Gabriele Lehder: Didactic commentary on "Aspects of Philosophy", Enlightenment and Me. Image, sound and text material. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-513-54581-9
• with Horst Becker: world order and political action. Texts on politics, law, the state and society. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-54503-8
• The philosophy class. Critique of communication didactics and practical teaching guide. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1986, ISBN 3-7728-1150-7
• Methodical doubt and metaphysics. The educational theory-identity theory approach. In: Wulff D. Rehfus & Horst Becker (ed.): Handbook of Philosophy Lessons. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-590-14447-5
• (Ed.): Thinking the Apocalypse. Bukowski, Langenfeld 1989, ISBN 3-9801566-2-1
• Reason eats its children. Zeitgeist and the decay of the modern worldview. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-455-08360-9
• Educational need. Has pedagogy failed? Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91728-4
• The end of education and upbringing? Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-925746-54-4
• (Ed.): Concise dictionary of philosophy. CD-ROM. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-30148-0
• (Ed.): History of Philosophy. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3691-5
  • Volume 1: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. ISBN 978-3-8252-3680-9
  • Volume 2: 16th to 18th centuries. ISBN 978-3-8252-3681-6
  • Volume 3: Nineteenth Century. ISBN 978-3-8252-3682-3
  • Volume 4: 20th Century. ISBN 978-3-8252-3683-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Wulff D. Rehfus in the catalog of the German National Library
• School forum (CH) Education policy lecture in Enge 2000 (PDF; 119 kB)
• Interview with school principal Wulf Rehfus: "The greatest freedom is to control yourself" by Sema Kouschkerian in the Westdeutsche Zeitung , January 20, 2010
• Rehfus via digits on youtube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wulff Rehfus obituaries
2. ↑ Benrath: Former Annette headmaster Wulff Rehfus died , rp-online.de, August 5, 2015