Librux, Bruno

Librux was the son of an elementary school teacher. He studied at the school in Tilsit (the royal provincial school of Tilsit ) and Insterburg . He then studied history, theology and philosophy at the University of Königsberg. During his studies, he spent one semester in Munich , where he attended lectures on Thomas Mann and Immanuel Kant . After that, toured Italy.

In July 1933, Librux received a PhD degree, defending himself on the question of the relationship between object and subject in Kantian philosophy. From May 1933 to 1936, Librux was an assistant to Hans Heiss at the University of Königsberg, where he worked as an assistant in an organized scientific camp. In May 1937, he became a member of the Nazi Party, although before that there were contradictions between the National Socialists and the philosopher, he was even deprived of scholarships in 1936. In 1937, he followed his mentor to Gottingen . In 1938, Libruks moved to Berlin, where he earned his living from Latin lessons. There is no information about the reasons for such a sharp turn in your life. Here he wrote a work on the study of differences in the ancient and modern understanding of the reality of consciousness called “The Problem of the Soul from Plato to St. Augustine ”. But then, to please the National Socialists, the name of the topic was changed - the title should have reflected the racial distinction contributing to the strengthening of the state. These ideas were supported in the scientific community, for example, the historian William Weber recognized that "the young philosopher is interested in the anthropological-racial justification of his thoughts." Nevertheless, despite the request of scholars, Librux was denied a scholarship. With the beginning of the war in 1939, he was called up for military service, so work on the interpretation of Plato stopped. Moreover, during the war, Librux completely lost all his scientific documents, including the extensive translations of Plato's dialogues. In 1943, having received three months to defend his doctoral degree, he significantly shortened the original wording of his work and called it “On the problem of the philosophy of the Eleatic in Plato”. The first head of the thesis was Nikolai Hartman , to whom Librux quickly found a good approach. After a serious injury in May 1944, Bruno completed military service. From 1945 to 1950, Libruks taught at Göttingen, since 1950 he is a professor at the University of Cologne. In 1959, he gained a position as a professor of philosophy at the University of Goethe in Frankfurt am Main , where he worked until his retirement. He also led a philosophical seminar. Among his students are the famous Bonn philosopher Joseph Simon and aesthetics specialist Bridget Scheer.

His son Edgar Libruks is a fairly well-known lawyer in Frankfurt am Main.

Engaged in questions of dialectical logic. In his post-war philosophy, he advanced an important methodological method built largely on the ideas of Hegel. His research and interests range from myth to modern analytical philosophy. In his multivolume work Language and Consciousness, he explored the problem of the relationship between language and dialectical logic in a historical aspect. The first volume focuses on the philosophers Herder , Haman , Cassirer , etc. In the following books, Kantian’s “Critics of Practical Reason” and “Critique of Judgment” are discussed and discussed in detail, as well as Hegel’s philosophy. Language is a means of communication of a person with the world, without an intermediary - a language is impossible for a person to clash with reality. Language is, in the opinion of Librux, a dialectic phenomenon that influences the character of a person and even of a whole nation. Mediated access to reality through language means that human knowledge is determined by language.

• Probleme der Subjekt-Objektrelation, (Phil. Diss.). - Königsberg, 1933.
• Platons Entwicklung zur Dialektik. Untersuchungen zum Problem des Eleatismus. - Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann, 1949 (Habil.-Schr., Berlin 1943).
• Sprache und Bewußtsein, Bde. 1 bis 5, 6.1-6.3 u. 7, Akad. Verl.-Ges., Frankfurt (Bände 1-5) und Lang, Bände 6 und 7, 1964 bis 1979.
• Erkenntnis und Dialektik. - Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1972. (Aufsatzsammlung)
• Bruno Liebrucks . // Ludwig Pongratz (Hrsg.) Philosophie in Selbstdarstellungen (3 Bde.). - Bd. 2. - Hamburg: Meiner, 1975-77.
• Irrationaler Logos und rationaler Mythos. - Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1982. (Aufsatzsammlung)

• Bruno Liebrucks: Selbstdarstellung. // Philosophie in Selbstdarstellungen II, hrsg. Von Ludwig Pongratz. - Hamburg: Meiner, 1975. - S. 170-223.
• Heinz Röttges, Brigitte Scheer und Josef Simon (Hrsg.): Sprache und Begriff. Festschrift für Bruno Liebrucks. Meisenheim am Glan: Anton Hain, 1974.
• Brigitte Scheer, Günter Wohlfahrt (Hrsg.): Dimensionen der Sprache in der Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus. Festschrift für Bruno Liebrucks. - Würzuburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1982.
• Christian Tilitzki . Die deutsche Universitätsphilosophie in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich. - B .: Akademie, 2002.

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