Hans Heinz Holz

Hans Heinz Holz ( born February 26, 1927 in Frankfurt am Main, † 11 December, 2011 Sant'Abbondio, Switzerland ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Because of the resistance against the Nazi system came Hans Heinz Holz age of seventeen several months in Gestapo custody. While studying philosophy, he began to write for newspapers and magazines. His first dissertation at the University of Mainz in Otto Friedrich Bollnow was entitled The self-interpretation of Being and failed in 1954, when Bollnow went and Gottfried Martin came. Martin also continued in the following years several times against a wood; the two became bitter political enemies.

His second thesis - with the option of habilitation - Wood wrote at the University of Leipzig under the philosopher Ernst Bloch. Title: master and servant in Leibniz and Hegel. Bloch assessed the work summa cum laude, but could 1956 not issue more doctoral diploma because he had fallen in the GDR leadership in disgrace and was moved into early retirement. Until 1969 Wood was finally his doctorate.

After 1956 he was an editor at the newspaper German week, from 1960 freelance journalist in Switzerland and as editorial director of the West Studios at Hessischer Rundfunk. In 1971 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg, where he taught from 1971 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to the University of Groningen (The Netherlands ) and remained there until his retirement. In 1994 he became a member of the German Communist Party whose new program after the turn he helped significantly.

Wood died at his retirement home Sant'Abbondio in southern Switzerland. His ashes were scattered over the Lago Maggiore.

Work

Wood has published numerous books and articles on the history and taxonomy of the dialectic, the theory of art and artists of our time, as well as problems of the social sciences and politics. He was president and later honorary president of the International Society for dialectical philosophy as well as an elected member of the Leibniz law firm and the World Academy of Letters. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Urbino. He was awarded the honorary medal of the Association of German Engineers, the Order of Merit of the International Biographical Centre ( GB) and the Legion of Honor of the American Biographical Institute (USA). In 1991 he founded with his wife Silvia Markun the Fondazione Centro di Studi Filosofici. Wood was the philosophical journal Topos with Domenico Losurdo - out International contributions to dialectical theory. He was one of the editors of Marxist leaves.

Importance

In the 1960s and early 1970s, wood was one of the - few - Communist intellectuals who held against Orthodox inflexibility of the plurality of Marxist thought in consciousness. He pointed years before the boom of the Euro-Communism to the importance of the theories of the Italian Marxism back - Antonio Gramsci and Togliatti which questioned the generality of the Soviet / Russian way to communism in question. He stressed the importance of the then outlawed in Soviet communism philosophers such as Georg Lukács and Ernst Bloch. And he wanted - after the break between the Soviet Union and Mao's China and in contrast against all " isms " and " Dissidenzen " - the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the work of Mao Tse- Tung's " polycentric " as one of the many national roads to socialism understood and legitimized know.

One can, in retrospect wood ' political journalism understand the time as an attempt to halt the impending decay processes of world Communism by a historico-philosophical synthesis, again to unity, just the " diversity in unity " puts together the disparate:

So it was in consequence of his philosophical leitmotif that he was later, when the decay was finally integrated in one of the remaining fragments of the world communist organization, namely the DKP.

Criticism

Contradiction learned Hans Heinz Holz in the attempt to introduce the ontology back into the Marxist philosophical discourse, especially in the use of Leibniz, with whom he wanted to make the resolution of the classical concept of substance in a fruitful relations and structural model. Here you can see some critics the risk of deviating from the consistent materialist standpoint. This will clear in his work-world design and reflection ( 2005). Here was developing timber the category of reflection as a metaphor for an essential structure instead of a sensual and material process. Reflection should model with the wood effect related to the substantive multiplicity as a universal reflection system and establish the specificity of human -in-the -world as a moment of general nature relationship.

Writings (selection )

  • Jean -Paul Sartre. Presentation and criticism of his philosophy. Western culture Verlag, Meisenheim / Glan 1951, 140 pages.
  • Language and the world. Problems of the philosophy of language. Frankfurt / M.: Schulte- Bulmke 1953, 144 pp.
  • Leibniz. Stuttgart: Kohl Hammer 1958, 164 pp.
  • Power and powerlessness of language. Studies on language comprehension and style of Heinrich von Kleist. Frankfurt / M.: Atheneum 1962, 180 p.
  • HH Wood, Leo Kofler, Wolfgang Abendroth: Discussions with Georg Lukács.Herausgegeben by Theo Pinkus. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1967, 136 p.
  • Utopia and anarchism. For a critical theory of Herbert Marcuse. Cologne: Pahl - Rugenstein 1968, 136 pp.
  • Contradiction in China. Political- philosophical explanation of Mao Tse-tung. Hanser, series Hanser, Munich, 1970, 124 pp.
  • From the work of art becomes a commodity. Studies on the function of the aesthetic object in late capitalism. Luchterhand, collection Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1972, 218 p.
  • Trends and tendencies in neo-Marxism. The Hague: Mouton 1972, 120 p.
  • Tendensen in het europese marxisme. Het polycentrisme en de dialektiek van en praktijk theory. Nijmegen: SUN, 1975, 93 pp.
  • Spermatikos logos. Ernst Bloch's philosophy of the unfinished world. Darmstadt / Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1975, 250 p.
  • Klaus Peters, Wolfgang Schmidt, HH Wood: gaining knowledge and deduction. To construct the philosophic systems. Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz. Luchterhand, Neuwied, 1975, 178 p.
  • The adventurous rebellion. Civil protest movements in philosophy. Stirner, Nietzsche, Sartre, Marcuse, New Left. Darmstadt / Neuwied: Luchterhand 1976, 290 p.
  • Wood, Hans Heinz / sand cooler, Hans Jörg (ed.): Subject: Gramsci - Philosophy and revolutionary politics in Italy. With a bibliography of editions of her work, the German Gramsci literature and selected bibliography of French and English literature. Cologne: Verlag Pahl - Rugenstein 1980, 320 pages
  • Strutture della Visualità. Corpo, Superficie, Movimento, Luce. Milano / Varese: Feltrinelli 1984, 208 pages.
  • Alex Sadkowsky. Zurich: ABC Publishing House, 1986, 184 pages.
  • Wood, Hans Heinz / Bartels, J. / Lensink, J. / Paetzold, D.: Dialectiek as open systeem. Groningen: Konstapel 1985, 191 pp.
  • Dialectic as an open system. Cologne: Pahl - Rugenstein, 1986, 202 pages ( with J. Bartels, D. and J. Paetzold Lensink ).
  • Wood, Hans Heinz / sand cooler, Hans Jörg (ed.): Encyclopedia and emancipation - know the whole. Cologne: Pahl - Rugenstein 1988, 373 pp.
  • Defeat and the future of socialism. Food: New Impulse Verlag 1991, 120 pp.
  • Wood, Hans Heinz / sand cooler, Hans Jörg (ed.): Historical knowledge - theory to type " Marx ". Hamburg: In my 1991, 171 pp.
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Frankfurt am Main: Campus ( 1052 entries ) 1992, 165 pp.
  • Communists today. The party and its ideology. Food: New Impulse Verlag 1995, 160 pp.
  • The aesthetic object. The presence of the real ( = Philosophical Theory of Fine Arts I), Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 1996, 326 pages.
  • Structures of representation. About constants of aesthetic configurations ( = Philosophical Theory of Fine Arts II), Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 1997, 278 pages.
  • The decay of the meanings. For the function of the aesthetic object in late capitalism ( = Philosophical Theory of Fine Arts III), Bielefeld: Aiesthesis Verlag 1997, 318 pages.
  • Riflessioni sulla Filosofia di Hegel, Napoli: La città de sole in 1997, 210 pages.
  • Unity and contradiction. Problem history of the dialectic in modern times, Volume I: The signature of the modern era, Stuttgart / Weimar: JB Metzler 1997, 548 pages.
  • Unity and contradiction. Problem history of the dialectic in modern times, Volume II: plurality and unity, Stuttgart / Weimar: JB Metzler 1997, 442 pages.
  • Unity and contradiction. Problem history of the dialectic in modern times, Volume III: The elaboration of the dialectic, Stuttgart / Weimar: JB Metzler 1997, 532 pages.
  • Socialism instead of barbarism. A contribution to the debate on the future. Food: New Impulse Verlag 1999, 144 pp.
  • Hans Falk. A Life - A work Zurich: World Week ABC Verlag 1999, 238 pages.
  • Being forms. About strict constructivism, Bielefeld: Aisthesis Publisher 2001, 288 pages.
  • Wood, Hans Heinz / Albrecht, Hans Joachim / heir, Walter / Riedl, Peter Anselm: Hans Joachim Albrecht. Sculpture and Drawing 1986-2000. Krefeld Krefeld Cultural Foundation, 2001, 168 pp.
  • The struggle for democracy and peace (Collected essays from 50 years, Vol 1). Food: New Impulse Verlag 2003, 268 pages.
  • German ideology after 1945 (Collected essays from 50 years, vol 2). Food: New Impulse Verlag 2003, 252 pages.
  • World design and reflection. Attempt to lay the foundation of dialectics. Stuttgart / Weimar: JB Metzler 2005, 624 pages.
  • From 1789 to 1917. Two Revolutions ( topos Supplement 2 ), Napoli 2008, 110 pages.
  • Repeal and realization of philosophy Vol 1: The algebra of revolution: from Hegel to Marx. Berlin: Aurora Verlag 2010, 287 pages.
  • Ernst Bloch: System and fragment (together with Silvia Markun ), Halle: Projects -Verlag Cornelius 2010, 206 pages.
  • Dialectic: Problem History from Antiquity to the Present ( Vol. 5 ) Darmstadt: WGB 2010.
  • Repeal and realization of philosophy Vol 2: Theory as material force. The classic of the III. International. Berlin: Aurora Verlag 2011, 272 Seiten.WGB
  • Repeal and realization of philosophy Vol 3: Integral practice. Aurora and the owl of Minerva. Berlin: Aurora Verlag 2011, 351 pages.
  • Power and powerlessness of language. Studies on language comprehension and style of Heinrich von Kleist. Bielefeld: Aisthetis Verlag 2011, 174 pages.

Correspondence

  • Peter Hacks / Hans Heinz Holz: Well I do have helped you to a trouble. Letters. Texts. Memories. Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlag 2007, 160 pp.
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