Ernst Tugendhat's 80th birthday

On the occasion of Ernst Tugendhat's 80th birthday March 8, 2010, a new revised edition of his latest book is coming out:

Anthropologie statt Metaphysik
(New edition, C.H.Beck Verlag, 2010)

In a recent interview Ernst Tugendhat stated that "the time for philosophising is over" and that his new book was going to be his last.

Ernst Tugendhat was professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg from 1966 to 1975 and professor of philology at the Free University of Berlin from 1980 to 1992. In the late 1970's he worked with Jürgen Habermas at the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg. Among his books are "Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie" (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1976; English translation 1982), "Selbstbewußtsein und Selbstbestimmung" (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1979; English translation 1986), and "Vorlesungen über Ethik" (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1993). He now lives in Tübingen, Germany.

The new edition contains:

1. Nietzsche und die philosophische Anthropologie [preview]
2. Anthropologie als "erste Philosophie"
3. Willensfreiheit und Determinismus
4. Retraktationen zur intellektuellen Redlichkeit
5. Das Problem einer autonomen Moral
6. Der Ursprung der Gleichheit in Recht und Moral
7. Unsere Angst vor dem Tod
8. Über Mystik
9. Über Religion
10. Nazismus und Universalismus
11. Noch einmal über normative Gleichheit

Review of Tugendhat's book:
- Uwe Justus Wenzel (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 6, 2010)
- Cord Riechelmann (Die Tageszeitung, March 6, 2010)

See also the interview with Santiago Zabalaon (Johns Hopkins University) on Ernest Tugendhat and the importance of his work. Santiago Zabalaon is the author of "Hermeneutic Nature of Analytical Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat" (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Selected works by Ernst Tugendhat, available online:
- Comments on some Methodological Aspects of John Rawls' "Theory of Justice" (1979)
- Die Kontroverse um die Menschenrechte (1993)
- Moralbegründung und Gerechtigkeit (1997) [Lecture and colloquium]
- Es gibt keine Gene für die Moral (1999) [on Sloterdijk]
- Interview on ethics (2006)
- Über west-östliche Mystik und höhere Traurigkeit (2006)
- Interview on religion (2007)