- Ernst Tugendhat
__NOTOC__Ernst Tugendhat (born
March 8 1930 ) is a Czech-born Germanphilosopher . He was born inBrno ,Czechoslovakia , to a wealthyJew ish family that commissionedMies van der Rohe with theVilla Tugendhat in Brno. In 1938 the family emigrated from Czechoslovakia toSt. Gallen ,Switzerland , and in 1941 travelled on to settle inCaracas ,Venezuela .Tugendhat studied classics at
Stanford from 1944 to 1949, and went on to do graduate work in philosophy and classics at theUniversity of Freiburg , receiving his doctorate in 1956. During the years 1956−1958 he did post-doctoral research at theUniversity of Münster . From then until 1964 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at theUniversity of Tübingen , where, after spending 1965 lecturing at theUniversity of Michigan inAnn Arbor , he gained hisHabilitation in 1966.Tugendhat became a professor at the University of Heidelberg (1966−1975), but as a protest against the situation at German universities in the 1970s he gave up his position and relocated to
Chile . Subsequently he moved toBerlin , however, becoming an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at theFree University of Berlin . He was invited to give the 1988–89John Locke lectures at theUniversity of Oxford , but had to withdraw because of ill health.Tugendhat retired in 1992, but was a visiting professor in philosophy at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Santiago (1992−1996), a researcher at theInstitute for Human Sciences ,Vienna (1996), and visiting professor atCharles University in Prague,Czech Republic (1997−1998).Bibliography
By Tugendhat
*1958: "Ti kata tinos". Alber Karl. ISBN 3-495-48080-3
*1970: "The Meaning of 'Bedeutung' in Frege" ("Analysis" 30, pp 177–189)
*1975: "Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie". Suhrkamp Verlag KG. ISBN 3-518-27645-X, In English: Traditional and analytical philosophy. Lectures on the philosophy of language. Transl. by P.A. Gorner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
*1979: "Selbstbewußtsein und Selbstbestimmung". Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. 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 Philipp Jun. ISBN 3-15-008250-1
*1992: "Philosophische Aufsätze". Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 3-518-28617-X
*1992: "Ethics and Politics"
*1993: "Vorlesungen über Ethik". Suhrkamp Verlag. 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 978-3-406-55678-4About Tugendhat
*Barth, Hans-Martin. "Egozentrizität, Mystik und christlicher Glaube: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Ernst Tugendhat" ("Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie" 46:4 (2004), pp 467–482)
*Bowie, Andrew. "Ernst Tugendhat, Philosophische Aufsätze" ("European Journal of Philosophy" 2/3 (1994), pp 345–351)
* Zabala, Santiago, [http://www.santiagozabala.com] "The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy. A Study of Ernst Tugendhat", New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.External links
* [http://www.ksta.de/ks/images/mdsBild/1109243487491l.jpgpicture of Ernst Tugendhat at ksta.de (Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Newspaper in Cologne)]
* [http://www.signandsight.com/features/1487.html 2007 interview in Sign and Sight]
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