Werner Marx

Werner Marx ( born September 19, 1910 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † 21 November 1994 Bollschweil ) was a German philosopher.

Life

Marx laid in 1929 at the National Gymnasium in Mülheim an der Ruhr High School and studied afterwards at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Bonn, philosophy and law. He received his doctorate in law in 1933 and began his legal clerkship at the District Court in Wesel. In the same year he was forced to retire as a Jew for "racial reasons " his internship.

He left Germany and came to Brussels, London to Palestine. In 1938 he moved to the USA on his doctorate with Karl Lowith on Aristotle and taught from 1949 at the New School for Social Research in New York.

In 1958 he returned to Germany and in 1964 successor in the chair of Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University. From 1964 he was also director of the Husserl - Archives.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The Meaning of Aristotle's " Ontology ", The Hague 1954
  • Heidegger and the tradition. A problem- historical introduction to the basic rules of being, Stuttgart, 1961 ( several editions, including English: 1971 )
  • The determination of Philosophy in German Idealism, Stuttgart, 1964 ( inaugural lecture on May 11, 1964 in Freiburg )
  • Absolute reflection and language, Frankfurt am Main 1967
  • Understanding and interpreting, Freiburg 1967
  • The game. Reality and method, Freiburg 1967
  • Reason and the world. Between tradition and other things beginning, The Hague, 1970 (also in English: The Hague 1971)
  • Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Stuttgart, 1971 ( several editions, also English: Hegel 's Phenomenology of Spirit, Chicago 1975)
  • Introduction to Aristotle's theory of being, Freiburg 1972
  • Schelling: History, System, Freedom, Freiburg 1977 ( also in English: The Philosophy of FWJ Schelling: History, System, and Freedom, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1984)
  • As Eds.: Heidegger. University of Freiburg lectures in his memory. HG Gadamer, W. Marx, CF von Weizsäcker, Freiburg / Munich 1977
  • Is there a measure on earth? Basic provisions of a non-metaphysical ethics, Hamburg 1983 ( also English: Is there a measure on earth Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics, Chicago 1987? )
  • Ethos and life. Can compassion as a measure, Hamburg 1986
  • The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl - An Introduction, Munich 1987 ( several editions )
  • Towards a Phenomenological Ethics, New York 1992
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