Wolfgang Müller-Lauter

Wolfgang Müller- Lauter, born Wolfgang Siegfried Müller ( born August 31, 1924 in Weimar, † 9 August 2001 in Berlin) was a German philosopher. He has especially gained through his Nietzsche interpretations awareness.

• 4.1 bibliographies
• 4.2 Literature on the work and the person

Life

Wolfgang Müller- Lauter attended the Friedrich- Schiller -Gymnasium in Weimar. He studied philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, was there towards the end of his studies, a research assistant to Wilhelm Weischedel received his doctorate with him in 1959 with a dissertation on possibility and reality of Martin Heidegger (published in 1960). Since the winter semester of 1961-1962 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Theological Seminary of Berlin and in the years 1974 to 1976 rector. In 1991 he became Professor Emeritus. Since 1993 he was a professor emeritus at Humboldt University in Berlin, as the Theological College was transferred to the Faculty of Theology. He was a founding and advisory board member of the Nietzsche Society in Naumburg. 1996 Müller- Lauter was awarded the first prize with Friedrich Nietzsche Prize of Saxony- Anhalt. After a long illness, he died on 9 August 2001. Scientific His estate is located since 2012 in the Nietzsche Documentation Center Naumburg

Philosophy

Müller- Lauter is known today primarily for his interpretations of Nietzsche. At the young Müller- Lauter of propaganda used by the Nazis Nietzsche had however " repugnant ". Important to him was the first Jean Paul Sartre, and whose main work Being and Nothingness led him to Heidegger's Being and Time, to whom he dedicated his dissertation. Then he turned to the topic of nihilism. This basic theme runs from that point on his clash with such diverse thinkers as Weischedel, Heidegger, Albert Camus and Sartre, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Fyodor M. Dostoewskij and Friedrich Nietzsche. To systematically oriented work includes in particular its critical engagement with Weischedel essay Philosophical Theology in the shadow of nihilism (1962). In the summer term of 1963 Müller- Lauter begins his research on the early history of Nihilismusbegriffs, especially to Jacobi and Fichte. Even the title of his confrontation with Weischedel, " Zarathustra's shadow has long legs ... " (1962), points to Nietzsche. The interest in Nietzsche thus arises in the thematic context of nihilism, as well as the title announced in the winter semester 1962/1963 lecture shows: " Nietzsche and the consequences. On the problem of nihilism. " 1971 Müller- Lauter appears most famous book, Nietzsche. His philosophy of contradictions and the contradictions of his philosophy. Keep in mind here was mainly the Heidegger - critique. Heidegger sees Nietzsche the perfecter of metaphysics; whose attempt to overcome it, is bound to fail last. At Müller - Lauter, Nietzsche reaches further contrast, in the end even beyond Heidegger. Even Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche is - as Müller- Lauter - determined by the interpretation of the will to power as the original simplicity and metaphysical unity. But the singular will to power is deceptive: Müller- Lauter is working on " the multiplicity of will to power as the according to Nietzsche, last given" out a multiplicity of quantum ', " which can not be attributed to the one of a metaphysical reasons ends ". They are also no atoms or monads, but processes, plural processes. The 'doctrine' of the will to power is thus not Nietzsche's metaphysics; the 'doctrine' itself, according to interpret the will to power, has perspective, interpretative character. Together with Mazzino Montinari and Heinz Wenzel founded Müller- Lauter 1972, the magazine " Nietzsche-Studien. International Yearbook for Nietzsche research " and the series of monographs and texts on Nietzsche research (both from the publisher Walter de Gruyter) and was until 1996 whose co-editor. After Mazzino Montinari death in the fall of 1986 he took over the co-editor of the Critical Edition of the Works of Friedrich Nietzsche ( KGW ). Since 1990 he gave along with Karl Pestalozzi also Supplementa Nietzscheana out ( also the publisher Walter de Gruyter).

Works

Monographs

• Possibility and reality of Martin Heidegger. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1960.
• Nietzsche. His philosophy of contradictions and the contradictions of his philosophy. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1971, ISBN 3-11-003577-4.
• Dostoevsky Ideendialektik. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1974, ISBN 3-11-005731- X.
• About becoming and will to power. Nietzsche interpretations I. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1999, ISBN 3-11-013451-9.
• About freedom and chaos. Nietzsche interpretations II de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1999, ISBN 3-11-013452-7.
• Heidegger and Nietzsche. Nietzsche interpretations III. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016791-3.
• Philosophical problems of idealism and modern nihilism, published v. Elke Axmacher, Berlin ( privately printed [ Frank & Timme ] ), undated.

Papers

• Zarathustra's shadow has long legs .... In: Evangelical Theology 23, 1963, 113-131.
• Kant's refutation of idealism materials. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy 46 1964, 60-82.
• Nihilism as a consequence of idealism. In: Thinking in the shadow of nihilism. Festschrift for Wilhelm Weischedel. hg. by Alexander Schwan, Darmstadt, 1975, 113-163.
• Nietzsche's doctrine of the will to power. In: Nietzsche Studies 3 (1974 ), 1-60.
• The organism as an internal struggle. The influence of Wilhelm Roux on Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche-Studien 7 1978, 189-235.
• The volitional beings and the superman. A contribution to Heidegger's Nietzsche interpretation. In: Nietzsche-Studien 10/11, 1981/1982, 132-192.
• On Nietzsche's solution to the problem of free will. In: Nietzsche today. The reception of his work after 1968. 15th Amherst Colloquium on German Literature, ed. by Sigrid Bauschinger, Susan L. Cocalis, Sara Lennox Bern / Stuttgart, 1988, 23-73.
• Constant challenge. About Mazzino Montinari relation to Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche-Studien 18 (1989 ), 32-82.
• The will to power as a book of the ' crisis ' of philosophical interpretation of Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche-Studien 24, 1995, 223-260.
• About ' Nietzsche consequences ' and Nietzsche. In: Nietzsche Research 4 1998, 21-40.