Ernst Tugendhat

Ernst Tugendhat ( born March 8, 1930 in Brno ) is a German philosopher and former professor at the Free University of Berlin. In his early works he showed mainly influenced by Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl. Later Tugendhat became one of the most important representatives of analytical philosophy in Germany. He currently lives in Tübingen.

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Life and work

Ernst Tugendhat was the son of Jewish parents (Fritz and Grete Tugendhat ) born. In 1938 his family emigrated ( major textile manufacturer, had the Villa Tugendhat in Brno built for the Mies van der Rohe ), first in Switzerland, before they relocated in 1941 to Venezuela.

At 15, he became interested in philosophy and to read the self-study, among others, Being and Time, Heidegger, which it had a lasting influence. At age 16, he moved to the U.S. to study at Stanford University classics, although he had already made the goal at this time to study with Heidegger in Freiburg philosophy, as soon as the political situation would allow it. At Stanford, he was concerned by the way go to philosophy - even with the far -east. In the winter semester 1949 Tugendhat then began in Freiburg with Wilhelm Szilasi, but switched to Eugen Fink and then Karl Ulmer later. He also took part in the seminars Heidegger, which he kept in the years 1951-1952. He dealt with early on Pindar, trying to keep as far as possible free from Heidegger jargon and prove his skepticism about the widespread in Germany notion of a special concept of truth among the Greeks.

1956 was followed by his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of the term ti kata Tinos ( " something from something " statements ) in Aristotle, and then three semesters in Münster, where he came into contact with the circle of Joachim Ritter. Ulmer, who taught at that time in Tubingen, made ​​him his assistant. 1966 Tugendhat habilitated in Tübingen with his work on the concept of truth in Husserl and Heidegger.

Early 1965 Tugendhat spent a semester at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he has been revolutionized by the analytic philosophy in his " way of thinking ". From 1966 to 1975 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. During this time he became one of the leading language- analytic philosophers in Germany.

Because of the student movement, he decided to retire for a few years of the teaching - initially to familiarize themselves social philosophy and political science. He then followed in 1975, however, a range of Jürgen Habermas for a position at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg, where he spent five years. From 1980 to 1992 he was professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. During this time one of his work focuses was in the area of ​​ethics. Since 2000 Tugendhat then turned to anthropology - a turn that was taken up by colleagues with great skepticism. " So a significant analyst a helpless and amateurish acting Strategists " ( Bernhardswald rock)

His sister is the art historian Daniela Hammer - Tugendhat, who has taught for a long time in Vienna.

Awards

Ernst Tugendhat had many guest professorships at home and abroad held (Santiago de Chile, Konstanz, Prague, Goiania (Brazil ) and Porto Alegre). In 1999 he was appointed by the University of Tübingen as Honorary Professor. 2002 he is a Fellow of the College Friedrich Nietzsche. On 9 May 2005 Ernst Tugendhat was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2008 and the University of Zurich. 2005 Tugendhat was awarded the prize of 50,000 euros Meister Eckhart Prize, which he donated to the school, " Talitha Kumi " in Beit Jala (Palestine).

Social commitment

Ernst Tugendhat is also active peace policy and as a human rights activist. He was since 1982 a member of the board of Berlin's " working group nuclear weapons free Europe " and is a long standing patron of the Society for Threatened Peoples.

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