Ernst Tugendhat (8 March 1930 – 13 March 2023) was a Czechoslovak-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 Europe and South America, with a focus on language analysis. a wealthy Jewish family who had commissioned Mies van der Rohe to design the Villa Tugendhat in Brno. The last two children were born after the family migrated to Venezuela. 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. 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; he donated the prize money to a school, "Talitha Kumi", in Beit Jala, Palestine.

Bibliography

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

  • 1958: Ti kata tinos. Karl Alber, Freiburg.
  • 1967: Der Wahrheitsbegriff bei Husserl und Heidegger. de Gruyter, Berlin.
  • 1970: "The Meaning of 'Bedeutung' in Frege" (Analysis 30, pp 177–189)
  • 1975: Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main. , 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. , 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.
  • 1992: Philosophische Aufsätze. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt.
  • 1992: Ethics and Politics
  • 1993: Vorlesungen über Ethik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt.
  • 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. (Translated to English as )
  • 2007: Anthropologie statt Metaphysik. C. H. Beck.

References

Further reading

  • Bowie, Andrew. "Ernst Tugendhat, Philosophische Aufsätze" (European Journal of Philosophy 2/3 (1994), pp 345–351)
  • Photograph of Ernst Tugendhat Kölner Stadtanzeiger
  • "The time for philosophising is over" (interview) Sign and Sight 20 August 2007
  • Interview with Santiago Zabala, author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat Columbia University Press, archived 10 June 2010