Klaus Held – Wikipedia

Klaus Held (born the first ^is February 1936 in Düsseldorf) is a German philosopher. His research focuses on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, ancient philosophy and political philosophy.

Held continued studies of philosophy and classical philology at the universities of Munich, Friborg, Bonn and Cologne (1956-1962). He supported his doctoral thesis at the University of Cologne, under the direction of Ludwig Landgrebe, of which he was the assistant from 1962 to 1970, the year of his authorization. He first taught in Aix-la-Chapelle then, from 1974 and until 2002, the year of his retirement, at the University of Wuppertal.

Professor of renowned, he was invited to teach, among others, in Japan (Hiroshima, Kyoto), in Korea (Seoul), China (Hong Kong), in the United States (Stony Brook). Many researchers and doctoral students around the world attended their seminars at Wuppertal University.

He managed the German Society for Phenomenological Research ( German Society for Phenomenological Research ) and founded, with Bernhard Waldenfels, the doctoral college “phenomenology and hermeneutics” of the universities of Bochum and Wuppertal.

Klaus Held’s work is a continuation of phenomenology founded by Edmund Husserl. Phenomenology is for Held “phenomenology of the world”, which must take up philosophy as it was founded by the Greeks. Held’s research is based on both the Husserlian concept of “World of Life” and on the “phenomenology of the inaphalented” developed by Heidegger.

The “phenomenology of the world” is divided into two distinct branches. On the one hand, a “phenomenology of the political world” which must give a historical-systematic foundation of political philosophy, in connection with Hannah Arendt. This perspective includes an interrogation concerning ethics and religion at technical age. On the other hand, a “phenomenology of the natural world of life”; This tries to found a philosophical ecology by rethinking certain key concepts of the world of life (“elements”, “earth”, etc.).

At the age of “globalized” development of humanity, each of the two branches of the phenomenology of the world must resume the problem of the relationships that this “global” humanity maintains on the one hand, on the other hand the diversity of cultures . In this context, a decisive role goes to European culture and its ability to create an agreement with other cultures.

• Lively present. The question of the for example of the transcendental I at Edmund Husserl, developed in the guideline of the time problem , Phaenomenologica Bd. 23, La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1966.
• Heraklit, Parmenides and the beginning of philosophy and science. A phenomenological reflection , Berlin/New York, 1980.
• Introduction to Husserl’s phenomenology , in Edmund Husserl, The phenomenological method And Phenomenology of the living environment , ed. by Klaus Held, Stuttgart, Reklam, 3rd ed. 1998 and 2000.
• Meeting point Plato. Philosophical travel guide through the countries of the Mediterranean , Stuttgart, 1990, 3E éd. 2001, Poche, 2009.
• Phenomenology of the political world , Francort, Peter Lang, 2010.
• Phenomenology of the natural living environment , Francort, Peter Lang, 2012.
• Contemporary considerations , Francfort, Klostermann, 2017.
• The biblical faith. Phenomenology of his origin and future , Francfort, Klostermann, 2018.

• “Heidesgger et le Prince of Pheenomenologie» plays. fr. R. Regvald, in Heidegger and the idea of ​​phenomenology , Phaenomenologica Bd. 108, La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1988.
• «HUSSERLA et LES GREECS», STRAM. fr. R. Célis, in E. escuoubas, M. Richir (you.), Husserl , Grenoble, Millon, 1989.
• “The native world, the foreign world, the world one”, trad. Fr. R. Célis, in S. Ijsseling (dir.), Husserl edition and Husserl research , Phaenomenologica Bd. 115, Dordrecht, Boston, London, Kluwer, 1990.
• “Humanity and political world”, Philosophy Notebooks (Univ. Little III), Vol. 15/16, 1992-1993.
• “Fundamental emotional provision of time in Heidegger”, in R. Brisart, R. Célis (dir.), The evidence of the world. Method and empiria of phenomenology , Brussels, 1994.
• “Inclusion and fulfillment of existence”, trad. Fr. R. Célis, in D. Janicaud (dir.), The intentionality in question , Paris, Vrin, 1995
• “The finitude of the world. Phenomenology in the passage from Husserl to Heidegger ”, trad. Fr. F. Dastur, Alter. Revue of phenomenology , vol. 6, 1998.
• Go to Plato’s. Travel to the land of philosophers , Brepols, 1996.
• “Heidegger’s path to” things very “”, trad. Fr. A. Schnell, in E. Escoubas, B. Waldenfels (dir.), French phenomenology and German phenomenology , Paris, 2001.
• “Phenomenology of” authentic time “in Husserl and Heidegger”, trad. Fr. O. Depré, Phenomenological studies , vol. 37/38, 2004.

• H. Hüni & P. ​​Trawny (Dir.), The world appearing. Commemorative publication for Klaus Held , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2002.
• T. Staehler (dir.), « Klaus Held : Reflections on Time, Mood, and Phenomenological Method », International Journal of Philosophical Studies , flight. 15, No. 3, 2007.