Biography:Ernst Tugendhat

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Short description: Czech-born German philosopher (1930–2023)
Ernst Tugendhat
Born(1930-03-08)8 March 1930
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died13 March 2023(2023-03-13) (aged 93)
Freiburg, Germany
Education
AwardsMeister Eckhart Prize
Institutions
ThesisThe concept of truth in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (1966)
Main interests
Philosophy of language

Ernst Tugendhat (8 March 1930 – 13 March 2023) was a Czechoslovakian-born German philosopher. He was a scion of the wealthy and influential Jewish Tugendhat family. They lived in Venezuela during the Nazi regime, and he studied first in Stanford University, then in Freiburg. He taught internationally in Europa and South America, with a focus on language analysis.[1]

Life and career

Villa Tugendhat, where Ernst Tugendhat grew up

Tugendhat was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to Fritz and Greta (Löw-Beer) Tugendhat,[2] a wealthy Jewish family that had commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design of the Villa Tugendhat in Brno.[3] In 1938 the family escaped the Nazi regime,[4] first to St. Gallen, Switzerland, and later to settle in Caracas, Venezuela.[5]

Tugendhat studied classics at Stanford University from 1944 to 1949, and went on to do graduate work in philosophy and classics at the University of Freiburg.[4] He achieved his doctorate there with a thesis on Aristotle in 1956.[5] During the years 1956 to 1958 he performed post-doctoral research at the University of Münster. From then until 1964 he was an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Tübingen, where, after spending 1965 lecturing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he gained his habilitation in 1966 analyzing the concept of truth in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.[5][6]

Tugendhat was professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1966 to 1975. During the 1960s and 1970s, Heidelberg developed into one of the main scenes of the left-wing student protests in Germany.[7] Because of the student movement and as a protest against the situation at German universities in the 1970s, Tugendhat gave up his position and relocated to Starnberg, where Jürgen Habermas worked at the time.[1] In 1980 he moved to Berlin, becoming, like his friend Michael Theunissen (de), a professor of philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.[1]

Tugendhat retired in 1992, but was a visiting professor in philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (1992–1996),[4] a researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (1996), and visiting professor at Charles University in Prague (1997–1998).[1][8]

Tugendhat died in Freiburg on 12 March 2023 at age 93.[1][4]

Awards

Tugendhat became a honorary professor of the Tübingen University in 1999,[8] and in 2002 a fellow of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche (de).[9] He received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2005, and from the University of Zürich in 2009. In 2005 he was awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize;[10] he donated the prize money to a school, "Talitha Kumi", in Beit Jala, Palestine.[11]

Bibliography

Publications by Tugendhat, many of them published by Suhrkamp,[12] are held by the German National Library, including:[13]

  • 1958: Ti kata tinos. Karl Alber, Freiburg. ISBN:3-495-48080-3
  • 1967: Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Heidegger. de Gruyter, Berlin. ISBN:978-3-11-010289-5
  • 1970: "The Meaning of 'Bedeutung' in Frege" (Analysis 30, pp 177–189)
  • 1975: Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN:3-518-27645-X, In English: Traditional and analytical philosophy. Lectures on the philosophy of language. Transl. by P.A. Gorner. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982.
  • 1979: Selbstbewußtsein und Selbstbestimmung. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt. ISBN:3-518-27821-5, In English: Self-consciousness and self-determination. Transl. by Paul Stern. Cambridge, Mass./ London: MIT Press, 1986. (= Studies in contemporary German social thought.)
  • 1984: Probleme der Ethik. Reclam, Stuttgart. ISBN:3-15-008250-1
  • 1992: Philosophische Aufsätze. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt. ISBN:3-518-28617-X
  • 1992: Ethics and Politics
  • 1993: Vorlesungen über Ethik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt. ISBN:3-518-28700-1
  • 1995: "The Moral Dilemma in the Rescue of Refugees" (Social Research 62:1)
  • 2000: "Zeit und Sein in Heideggers Sein und Zeit" (Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy 1.1)
  • 2003: Egozentrizität und Mystik. Eine anthropologische Studie. C. H. Beck. ISBN:978-3-406-51049-6
  • 2007: Anthropologie statt Metaphysik. C. H. Beck. ISBN:978-3-406-55678-4

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brumlik, Micha (13 March 2023). "Nachruf auf Ernst Tugendhat: Sprachanalyse und Mystik" (in de). taz. https://taz.de/Nachruf-auf-Ernst-Tugendhat/!5918852/. 
  2. ↑ Plüm, Kerstin (31 March 2014). Mies van der Rohe im Diskurs: Innovationen - Haltungen - Werke. Aktuelle Positionen. transcript Verlag. pp. 161–193. ISBN 9783839423059. https://books.google.com/books?id=7srJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163. 
  3. ↑ Gauger, Hans-Martin (5 March 2020). "Der Freiburger Philosoph Ernst Tugendhat wird 90 Jahre alt" (in de). Badische Zeitung. https://www.badische-zeitung.de/der-freiburger-philosoph-ernst-tugendhat-wird-90-jahre-alt. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Mit 93 Jahren: Philosoph Ernst Tugendhat gestorben" (in de). 13 March 2023. https://www.mz.de/kultur/philosoph-ernst-tugendhat-gestorben-3565881. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Geyer-Hindemith, Christian (8 March 2020). "Ernst Tugendhat wird 90: Was meint "ich"?" (in de). FAZ. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/der-philosoph-ernst-tugendhat-wird-neunzig-jahre-alt-16667135.html. 
  6. ↑ Hesse, Michael (13 March 2023). "Philosoph Ernst Tugendhat: Der Solitär" (in de). Frankfurter Rundschau. https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/philosoph-ernst-tugendhat-der-solitaer-92143082.html. 
  7. ↑ "Student protests at Heidelberg". Ruprecht online – University of Heidelberg Homepage. http://mathphys.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/ruprecht2.html.  from Ruprecht, issue 37, 12.07.95
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Raack, Jochen (November 2006). "Das Alter – Die Herausforderung der Frustrationen" (in de). Aufklärung und Kritik: p. 77. http://www.gkpn.de/Tugendhat_Alter.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "Distinguished Fellows: Distinguished Fellows im Überblick". Klassik Stiftung Weimar. https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/forschung/forschungsaktivitaeten/kolleg-friedrich-nietzsche/fellowships/distinguished-fellows/. 
  10. ↑ "Meister Eckhart Preis". https://identity-foundation.de/meister-eckhart-preis/. 
  11. ↑ "Über west-östliche Mystik und höhere Traurigkeit" (in de). 13 January 2006. https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!490139. 
  12. ↑ "Ernst Tugendhat" (in de). Suhrkamp Verlag. https://www.suhrkamp.de/person/ernst-tugendhat-p-5012. 
  13. ↑ "Publications by Ernst Tugendhat". German National Library. https://portal.dnb.de/opac/simpleSearch?reset=true&cqlMode=true&query=auRef%3D118624504&selectedCategory=any. 

Further reading

  • Barth, Hans-Martin (2004). "Egozentrizität, Mystik und christlicher Glaube: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Ernst Tugendhat" (in de). Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie (Walter de Gruyter GmbH) 46 (4): 467–482. doi:10.1515/nzst.2004.46.4.467. ISSN 0028-3517. 
  • Bowie, Andrew. "Ernst Tugendhat, Philosophische Aufsätze" (European Journal of Philosophy 2/3 (1994), pp 345–351)
  • Brito, Adriano Naves de (8 January 2008). "The Role of Reasons and Sentiments in Tugendhat's Moral Philosophy". Crítica (México D. F. En línea) (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) 40 (119): 29–43. doi:10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2008.1009. ISSN 1870-4905. 
  • Zabala, Santiago (2008). The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy : a study of Ernst Tugendhat. New York. ISBN 978-0-231-51297-8. OCLC 647929752. 

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