Ernst Tugendhat

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Ernst Tugendhat (b. March 8, 1930) is a Czech-born German philosopher.

Tugendhat was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia to a wealthy Jewish family. In 1938 they emigrated from Czechoslovakia to St. Gallen , Switzerland, and in 1941 travelled on to settle in Caracas, Venezuela.

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, receiving his doctorate in 1956. From 1956 to 1958 he did 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.

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 moved to Chile, and later to Berlin, becoming an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . He was invited to give the 1988–89 John Locke lectures at the University 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 the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (1996), and visiting professor at the University of Prague, Czech Republic (1997–1998).

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• 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)

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• 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. Filosofare con Ernst Tugendhat. Il carattere ermeneutico della filosofia analitica. This book contains a foreword by Gianni Vattimo and a dialogue with Ernst Tugendhat. Milan: Franco Angeli Editore, 2004. (Forthcoming in English and Spanish)

[edit] External links

• Prof. Dr Ernst Tugendhat — brief biography and bibliography from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (in Portuguese)