Hans Friedrich Fulda (2 August 1930 – 24 August 2023) was a German philosopher and university lecturer.
Life and work From 1950, Fulda studied at the Heidelberg University and Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his doctorate on Hegel's Science of Logic, and the Phenomenology of Spirit as its introduction. After completing his doctorate in Heidelberg in February 1961, he was a research assistant in Berlin from 1960 and in Heidelberg from 1965. After his habilitation in Heidelberg in July 1969, he became a full professor at Bielefeld University in September 1974. In October 1981, he became chair of philosophy (Ordinarius) in Heidelberg, thereby succeeding Michael Theunissen, and thus Hans-Georg Gadamer as well. He became emeritus in September 1995.
His research areas were German Idealism (Kant, Hegel), Metaphysics and practical philosophy. The Heidelberg index of his digital texts, lists more than one hundred books and essays.
From 1987 to 1996 he was President of the Internationale Hegel-Vereinigung, succeeding Dieter Henrich, who had in turn succeeded the Vereinigung's founder, Hans-Georg Gadamer. During his presidency of the Vereinigung, the prestigious Hegel Prize of the City of Stuttgart was awarded to Niklas Luhmann, Donald Davidson and Jacques Le Goff.
Views He argued with Michael Theunissen about Hegel's logic as a universal theory of communication, meticulously engaging with his opponents, he rejected the ‘inversion’ of Hegel by Marxism, he reconstructed Friedrich Jacobi's critique of materialist enlightenment.
Selected writings
mit Rolf-Peter Horstmann und Michael Theunissen: Kritische Darstellung der Metaphysik. Eine Diskussion über Hegels Logik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-07915-8.
Spekulative Logik als "die eigentliche Metaphysik". Zu Hegels Verwandlung des neuzeitlichen Metaphysikverständnisses (1991). Begriff und Begründung der Menschenrechte. Im Ausgang von Kant, hrsg. von Brigitte Falkenburg. Klostermann, Frankfurt 2024, .
Literature on Fulda
Jürgen Kaube: Spekulative Nüchternheit - Ein Leben mit der Philosophie Hegels: Zum Tod des Heidelberger Philosophen Hans Friedrich Fulda. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine 29 August 2023
References
External links
Prof. Dr. Hans Friedrich Fulda Nearly all of the writings of Hans Friedrich Fulda are available at the homepage of the Heidelberg University Library: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/view/schriftenreihen/sr-5.html